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"The #NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy."
forbes.com/sites/johndrake/202

PS: By now we've seen many versions of this story. I'm struck by the fact that this one, in Forbes, for the business world, contains this editorial aside: "Public research should serve the national interest. It should be transparent, #OpenAccess and aligned with real societal needs. Not every idea merits federal support. But there are better ways to modernize the research ecosystem — by improving data-sharing, strengthening accountability, developing special programs and expanding capacity — than by gutting trusted institutions and replacing them with opaque, politicized systems."

ForbesThe NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American EconomyThe economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

"Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980."
cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noa

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [#NOAA] announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired,” a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track the cost of extreme weather and #climate events…The disasters database, which will be archived but no longer updated beyond 2024, has allowed taxpayers, media and researchers to track the cost of natural disasters — spanning extreme events from hurricanes to hailstorms — since 1980."

CNN · Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980By Andrew Freedman

Kudos to the Environmental Defense Fund (#EDF, @edf) for using the Freedom of Information Act (#FOIA) to obtain the latest greenhouse gas inventory from the Environment Protection Agency (#EPA), and making it #OpenAccess.
edf.org/freedom-information-ac

"As a party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States is obligated to submit a national greenhouse gas emissions inventory report by April 15 each year. This year, for the first time in nearly three decades, the U.S. failed to meet that obligation and did not publicly release a greenhouse gas inventory."

Here's the OA inventory itself.
library.edf.org/AssetLink/145k

Natural gas storage buildings in an agricultural field
Environmental Defense FundFreedom of Information Act documents for the EPA’s greenhouse gas inventoryThis year, for the first time in almost three decades, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency failed to publicly release its greenhouse gas inventory.

Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database (OS NGD) [UK]
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ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/ <-- shared link to OS NGD overview
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osdatahub.os.uk <-- shared OS data portal
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A Very British Map – and spatial datasets!
“The OS NGD is a single store of all Ordnance Survey’s authoritative data for Great Britain. The OS NGD delivers the richer data you need for better analysis and our download service, OS Select+Build, makes it easier to find, package and analyse the data you need, such as address and building data for emergency planning…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #OSNGD #OrdnanceSurvey #UK #OS #opendata #dataportal #national #database #Britian #England #Scotland #Wales #NorthernIreland

Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence) is very good on how US #data policy declined from #Obama ("Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default") to #Trump. "Huge collections of scientific and statistical data are already gone, while enormous caches of personal data —your finances, health, income, and more— are in the hands of unknown, inexperienced people who have no business getting access to it, based on either laws or common sense."
thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-

The Bulwark · Donald Trump’s Information Warfare Against AmericaBy Jill Lawrence
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@700Sachen
erfaßt und veröffentlicht werden (vielleicht tägl., wöchentlich oder monatlich) und als #OpenData verfügbar sind, daß eins daran schon ablesen könnte, ob und ggf. in welchen Märkten/Wirtschaften die Rezessions-Tendenzen schon meß-/erfaßbar sind. (Ggf. müßte auch überlegt werden, welche Märkte/Wirtschafts-Abgrenzungen denn untersucht werden sollen. Vielleicht i. S. einer ABC-Analyse oder die 10 "wichtigsten" Wirtschaften von xy.)

Interessant wären sicher auch die 1. u. 2. Ableitungen

A new poll from the Association of Science and Technology Centers (#ASTC) finds "that on a weekly basis more than 90% of [Americans] use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information."
npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-53873