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The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities. Our first tool, the Impact Map , shows the local impact of federal decisions. Given the limited availability of reliable data, the Impact Map will evolve as new data becomes available. Map data are sourced from local and national news reports and crowdsourced testimonials from individuals directly affected. Story locations are approximate, and in many cases, represent the geographic center of the city or county where the impact occurred, which may include an office location or place where work was being done. The Impact Map provides timely data —as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving,so you may find areas that need updating. We are actively seeking peer reviewers to further improve the Map. Please reach out via ...

   Thanks to Joanne deKay for this contribution! The MaineHealth Sustainability Committee is celebrating Earth Month with a calendar of events around MaineHealth. We added a month-long MHIR see/cutting/seedling swap to the calendar, and links on SharePoint and Teams to connect people for sharing items.  Please consider joining the MaineHealth team in the One Healthcare Ecochallenge (see below). Sustainability at MHIR Celebrate Earth Month with the One Healthcare Ecochallenge! Join the MaineHealth team  here .  MHIR Earth Month 2025 2025 Earth Month Swap log One Healthcare Ecochallenge  

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National Academies Committee on Human Rights - this was published over a year ago, but seems very relevant right now... Resources for Researchers and Scholars under Threat in the United States Researchers and scholars have long been targeted in connection with their professional work. In recent years, such attacks have taken on new dimensions , fueled in part by increased use of social media and other digital means of communication .  Recognizing that targeting comes in many forms and from a variety of actors, the Committee on Human Rights of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine has identified an array of resources meant to support researchers and scholars in preventing and responding to targeted attacks. The Committee on Human Rights advocates in support of colleagues subjected to serious human rights abuses worldwide, assists professional colleagues under threat, and raises awareness of issues at the intersectio...

 eLife Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized Vaughn S Coope r Abstract Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response – or the lack of a response – from universities to a growing crisis. The fact that this article contains a disclaimer – that I am writing in a personal capacity and not on behalf of my employer or institution – shows how academics have been left feeling handicapped in our efforts to oppose the Trump administration’s attacks on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and science more broadly. Faced with existential threats to our careers and identities, we must defend alone or in Signal group chats, unlike the muscular, university-sanctioned protests of the past. It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut. We also feel alienated, abandoned, and underinformed because the general counsels of our universities have concluded, from their...

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 Nature News How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science Much of the Trump administration’s agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint.  Nature  read it so you don’t have to. By   Dan Garisto Indiscriminate firings .  Terminated grants .  Cancelled programmes . The barrage of actions by US President Donald Trump has shocked the country’s research community  over the past two months . Yet, much of it was planned out years in advance and laid out publicly. The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think-tank based in Washington DC, released Project 2025,  a policy guidebook and staffing list , in April 2023, as a blueprint for what it hoped would be a second Trump presidency. Trump, however, disavowed the initiative during his 2024 presidential campaign, saying that he had no knowledge of it, after there was public backlash over the publication’s sweeping Republican policy proposals, such as banning aborti...