PANGAEA & their data rescue in Nature:
"Pangaea’s decision to join the cause followed distress calls from members of the science community and from staff members inside NOAA — an agency that monitors Earth’s atmosphere and climate and provides weather-forecasting services."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01309-3
#SafeguardingResearch

Ich hätte ja nie gedacht, dass #safeguardingresearch von so was wie #Prepper profitieren könnte, aber es sieht danach aus: Institutionen taumeln und fallen, Menschen sagen "be prepared" und horten eher als archivieren, was geht.

https://www.404media.co/sales-of-hard-drives-prepper-disk-for-the-end-of-the-world-have-boomed-under-trump/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

A collaboration between @webrecorder and @SafeguardingResearch: a complete archive of covid.gov from April 11th 2025 (before the recent change)
https://app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgov-archive/collections/covid-gov

The whole data to download/seed: https://sciop.net/uploads/d216c004169fd0edba67ef248aff477778cba00ff68bd916525802dd6e99b087

Henrik Schönemann
(@)lavaeolus(@)fedihum.org

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht
https://pangaea.de/
This is the culmination of weeks of work
#SafeguardingResearch

"PANGAEA is actively working to rescue data from the United States."

Kim Possible@kimlockhartga@beige.party

https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114357808368023879

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress:
One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht
(fulltext in reply)

https://pangaea.de/

This is the culmination of weeks of work
#SafeguardingResearch

Es bewegt sich hier auch etwas; auch wenn "hunderte Terabytes" schon sehr naiv ist.
(Es geht um mehrere hundert Petabytes)

Umweltdaten in Gefahr - Deutsche Forscher retten US-Datenbestände

Wegen der Umstrukturierungen in US-Behörden, die zentrale Plattformen für Umwelt- und Klimadaten bereitstellen, sind Datenbestände gefährdet. Deutsche Einrichtungen engagieren sich für ihre Rettung
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/114352419181608789
#SafeguardingResearch

Meine Gedanken dazu:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114352634039062153

While waiting for possible international initiatives, volunteers are acting to save what can be by archiving websites and not-too-large databases. [...]. [@SafeguardingResearch] boasts an active team of about a dozen people, aided by more than 200 members who download and make available a volume of more than 100 terabytes of data using the Torrent protocol, a peer-to-peer communication system."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/04/15/how-trump-s-anti-science-policies-are-impacting-french-research_6740263_10.html

https://sciop.net & https://safeguar.de
#SafeguardingResearch

This thread is going to be a bit of a whiny rant, so if you're not up for that kind of thing, best skip it.
A couple months ago a call went out on the interwebz from a researcher worried that the government data his research depended on, many terabytes, might be taken down. He asked people to help him download it as quickly as possible, after which he said he would set up a new centralized location for them to upload it to for permanent storage.
#SafeguardingResearch #archiving
1/5

Update: Archiving done.

- https://sciop.net/datasets/cve-program (CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/cwe-list (CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/attack-mitre-org (MITRE ATT&CK Framework)
- https://sciop.net/datasets/d3fend-mitre-org (MITRE D3FEND Framework)
- https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/safeguarding (30 mirrored repos from #MITRE)

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#SafeguardingResearch cc @SafeguardingResearch
https://weird.autos/@rootwyrm/114343301792346250
#infosec #cve #cwe

Today marks 3 month of the existence of @SafeguardingResearch (in hindsight)
Quite fittingly, today we added a whole bunch of #trans related material:
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292

For anyone interested in a (short) history:
https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/113958145757864155
#SafeguardingResearch

It's actually very fitting, as today marks 3 months of @SafeguardingResearch
#SafeguardingResearch
https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114341509404502292

For a (very) short history, see https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/113958145757864155

Forgot to ping @academicchatter @academicsunite

re #Cornell and #Northwestern & #SafeguardingResearch
more here: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/114306496055433943

Are there any #Cornell or #Northwestern folks here?
If yes, would you DM me?

It's related to #SafeguardingResearch
cc @SafeguardingResearch

OH "How is this person torrenting with curl?"
#SafeguardingResearch

Updating some slides about data sharing just now and was greeted by this banner at the top of the NDAR (AKA NIMH data archive, NDA, https://nda.nih.gov/) homepage. I don't know when the banner appeared; I last visited the site maybe a month ago.

Many NIH-funded human neuroscience-related projects are required to submit data (behavioral questionnaires, neuroimaging, many others) to NDAR, including some of the largest US fMRI projects (HCP, ABCD).

I consider its Data Dictionary a "least-bad" way to usefully share questionnaire data (it's no help to know that someone answered "5" to item 3 without knowing the question and answer that refers to).

Anyone know anything about the banner or NDAR's future?