petersuber<p>𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱. </p><p>I've been tracking the impact of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> actions on US research, primarily in this Mastodon thread. But the thread is becoming long and unwieldy, and this problem will only get worse.</p><p>I'll continue to track this news but I want to stop doing it primarily in threads. Once I depend less on threads, I'll depend more on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tags</span></a> to help readers find the posts in this collection. </p><p>I already use <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> and will to continue to do so.</p><p>It comes from the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship.<br><a href="https://www.defendresearch.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">defendresearch.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>But I want to supplement it with a more Trump-specific tag. After mulling over a few possibilities — like TrumpAdminOnResearch and ResearchUnderTrump — I've decided to go with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrumpVResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVResearch</span></a>. </p><p>Thanks to Alice Meadows and Suze Kundu for the suggestion. <br><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/</span></a></p><p>I won't add this tag retroactively to (many) past posts. But going forward I'll use both <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TrumpVResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVResearch</span></a> for posts in this collection. </p><p>To follow these topics, consider following these tags.</p><p>I encourage others to use these tags too, in posts on the same topics. It's one way to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/crowdsource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crowdsource</span></a> this tracking project. </p><p>Here's more on this tracking project and the need to crowdsource it.<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114031943643988590" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fediscience.org/@petersuber/11</span><span class="invisible">4031943643988590</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>