US President Donald Trump’s cuts to scientific research create anxieties about the accessibility of research data. Scientists worldwide fear websites and data sets hosted in the United States will be deleted or decommissioned. While private initiatives in and outside of the US have emerged to transfer and archive data elsewhere, a more concerted approach is needed to safeguard globally relevant data holdings, especially when our strategic policy is meant to be data-driven. The Trump administration has been repurposing US scientific research to help maintain the US’s economic, military and technological advantage. Trump’s team is relentlessly focusing on critical and emerging technologies to boost US defence, including AI, quantum information science, biotech, semiconductors and nuclear technology.
Trump’s science cuts threaten public research data | The Strategist
