The UNESCO Chair on Open Science expresses its full support for the academic community in the United States, currently facing censorship, funding cuts, scholarship losses, job insecurity, and broader threats to academic freedom.
We reaffirm our commitment to the principles of open science and to providing a safe, inclusive space for academics to share their knowledge freely. We stand ready to support any U.S.-based researchers who may be seeking such a space. We are also steadfast in our support for international equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) programs and initiatives, and we stand in solidarity with ongoing movements of resistance against efforts to undermine scientific integrity, academic expression, and education at large.
This page features a non-exhaustive list of current initiatives aligned with these values. Among them are efforts to document events unfolding at a rapid pace, and the essential work of archivists and librarians who are striving to preserve materials and content being removed or suppressed by U.S. government authorities. We also maintain an updated list of media and scholarly publications by members of the UNESCO Chair on Open Science related to these urgent issues.
Resistance movements
- #Defend research
- Stand up for science
- Stand up for science / France
- Harvard won’t comply with demands from Trump administration
- Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 —Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky.social), Sara Rouhi (@RouhiRoo.bsky.social), and Peter Suber (@petersuber@fediscience.org).
Tracking initiatives
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"This is a list of public statements supporting research and higher education against threats from the Trump administration. It includes a list of projects that track or monitor Trump administration actions on the same topics."
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- The impact project
Silencing science tracker - Data rescue project
- Academic freedom index
- Peter Suber — The trump administration on open access to research
- NIH Grant Terminations in 2025
- Early republic tracker
- Kozlov, M., & Ryan, C. (2025, April 10). How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01099-8
Articles
- Shokida, N. S., Pradier, C., Marteau, É., Kozlowski, D., Céspedes, L., & Larivière, V. (2025, April 18). Keyword Newspeak: Trump’s Orwellian Censorship of DEI in Science. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wkvs5_v1
Medias
- Goudreaul, Z. (2025). "Le grand effacement" de la science par Trump au coeur d'une conférence à l'UQAM. Le Devoir, 25 avril 2025.
- Grammond, S. (2025). Trump et le règle de l'obscurantisme. La Presse, 21 mars 2025.
- Larivière, V. (2025). Les conséquences scientifiques du démantèlement de l'État américain. Le Devoir, 10 mars 2025.
- Soffer, V. (2025) Le Québec touché par les coupes dans la recherche scientifique américaine Le Devoir, 10 mars 2025.
- Beaulieu-Lépine, M. (février 2025). Coupures américaines en recherche : une onde de choc jusqu'au Québec. Science Presse, 27 février 2025.
Conferences
- Larivière, V. (2025, 04). "Le grand effacement" de la science par Trump — Au cœur des sciences, Amphithéâtre pavillon Sherbrooke, UQAM.
Feel free to contact us for more information, to contribute to this page, or if you need support regarding the defense of academic freedom and open science.
United, we stand strong!
This content has been updated on February 17 2026 at 12 h 21 min.