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Chris Marcum 📖
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Open Science Advocate and Policy Wonk

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-6143
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Don't panic (yet), but the NIH Office of Science Policy website is down this morning. I suspect this is a contract issue as passthrough to cloudfare (the provider) is where the blockage appears to be located. While they figure it out, you can find grants, public access, and data management and […]
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November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We should probably rethink having single-source providers for our critical national infrastructure:
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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We filed a brief in SCOTUS case Trump v. Slaughter on behalf of a number of scholars and public servants who were unlawfully removed from independent federal boards by President Trump.

This case is about more than individual firings – it's about blocking the president's efforts to seize more power.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-13T21:01:26Z

EXTENDED WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected
Extension to Serial Number: 5148
Valid From: 2025 Nov 11 2230 UTC
Now Valid Until: 2025 Nov 14 1200 UTC
Warning Condition: Persistence
Additional Details Here.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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A wild story about State Department revisionism and the Cold War. Easter-egg for us data nerds: The Washington Post used R to analyze data scraped from Internet Archive to demonstrate how unprecedented this case was […]
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November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I love seeing everybody's photos from the Aurora last night. Sharing two awesome #opendata resources about lights at night:

NASA's human lights earth observation data:
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/topics/human-dimensions/nighttime-lights

NOAA's 30-minute Aurora forecast […]
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November 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The Social Security Administration wants to share your data with the Department of Homeland Security. You might have something to say about that, and if you do, comment here:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/12/2025-19849/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I make my statement in my personal capacity at 4:30. It frightens me that health policy and health systems are not priorities when we told our leaders we need a fighting CR to keep the ACA afloat. #hspr #hpsr #hpss #shutdown
PBS News Hour live episode, Nov. 10, 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD writes about why even the small efforts to protect the environment and combat climate change, even the ones not having an individually measurable impact, actually do matter: "I think about what I will one day say to my kids about this moment in our history. I want them to […]
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November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Incredibly grateful to be participating today in this critical conversation on Federal statistics held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) :
https://www.csis.org/events/federal-statistics-economic-security . Original post bridged here.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'm so "Damm" proud of my sister for returning the Errol General Store into the family after a 50 year hiatus. Damm House Cafe will become Ice House Cafe under her entrepreneurship..

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1MQXNGRejX/ . Original post bridged here.
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If you, like me, read James Butcher 's Journal-ology this week and wanted an open-access version of Haven & Ionnidis's Reproducibility paper here it is in Open Science Framework metarxiv : https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/k5su6_v1
https://osf.io/k5su6_v1 . Original post bridged here.
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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If you, like me, read James Butcher 's Journal-ology this week and wanted an open-access version of Haven & Ionnidis's Reproducibility paper here it is in Open Science Framework metarxiv : https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/k5su6_v1
OSF
osf.io
November 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The Federal Data Funeral is underway this Halloween. How will you memorialize our "Dearly Departed Datasets"?
See the graveyard from Denice Ross and team here: https://essentialdata.us/in-memoriam.html . Original post bridged here.
October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Federal Data Funeral is underway this Halloween. How will you memorialize our "Dearly Departed Datasets"?
See the graveyard from Denice Ross and team here: https://essentialdata.us/in-memoriam.html
October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Did you hear the news from the Dutch election?

Finally, it seems that RW populist Wilders is done. Out of government-building coalition territory. Phew 🥳

It will be a centre left coalition, most likely.

Thank you NL☺️
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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"Open-washing" plagues frontier AI firms who shield themselves from transparent oversight and public accountability with a "private-by-design loophole" - Ilan Strauss and Tim O'Reilly argue it's time to close that loophole using existing SEC authorities in Tech Policy Press […]
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#TBT to last year's Halloween costume: The Ghost of Chevron Deference […]
https://sciences.social/@csmarcum/115463991644354882 . Original post bridged here.
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#TBT to last year's Halloween costume: The Ghost of Chevron Deference […]
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October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The scariest thing this Halloween may be the horrors affecting Federal data:

https://forms.gle/nGFj5Teqg6d7wHa76 . Original post bridged here.
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
An #openaccess book all about #opensource GIS? Yes please! And thank you to Jennifer Moore for living the values of #openscience in this tremendous (and beautiful) resource!

https://wustl.pressbooks.pub/geospatialthinking/ . Original post bridged here.
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A nice summary of the Data Foundation webinar that I participated in last week about data.gov with a link to the recording:
https://datafoundation.org/news/blogs/707/707-Taking-Stock-of-Federal-Open-Data-in- . Original post bridged here.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM