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Saloni
@scientificdiscovery.dev

“A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear.”

journalistsresource.orgResearchers rush to preserve federal health databases before they disappear from government websitesJournalists have long relied on federal health data for their reporting. We include several tips that they can use to help researchers preserve the data.

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Tom Scriba
@tomscriba.bsky.social

this is an unbelievable situation. Well done for putting this effort to preserve these critical datasets! Of course, it should never be necessary and the threat to scientific rigour and aiming for truth is extremely concerning. We stand in solidarity with you!

Nintendofan885
@nintendofan885.bsky.social

Links so they're clickable: Wayback Machine: web.archive.org End of Term Web Archive: eotarchive.org Environmental Data and Governance Initiative: envirodatagov.org The Data Liberation Project: www.data-liberation-project.org Maggie Koerth: bsky.app/profile/magg...

Maggie Koerth@maggiek.bsky.social

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.comDownloaded CDC Data And Where To Find ItJournalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...