Take Action

Support instances of resistance to U.S. government censorship 

• Use this toolkit to contact your elected officials, with a script and background information to help you make your case.

• Sign and share these petitions and open statements

  • • Political scientists’ statement on recent events 

    • Save Science, Save Lives, from the Union of Concerned Scientists.  

    • Science at Risk: Protecting NOAA, from the Union of Concerned Scientists. 

    • Space Science is for Everyone: An Open Letter

    • Tell Congress Today: Reject Budget Resolution that Will Harm the Nation’s Health, from the American Psychological Association. 

    • Defend Scientific Freedom and Integrity Against Political Suppression, from Change.org.

• Contact the many organizations and communities who are resisting to see where help is needed: 

• BMJ call for resistance; 

• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology message of condemnation; 

• American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) rejection of censorship;

• Society for the Study of Evolution public letter of concern; 

• Union of Concerned Scientists call for opposition

Promote venues for scholars to share, safeguard, and preserve their work, beyond the reach of censorship. 

• Support efforts such as the Data Rescue Project effort to safeguard research data

• Deposit your author's manuscripts and other research outputs into Zenodo, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Knowledge Commons and other disciplinary repositories, or institutional repositories at universities. 

• Use the WayBack Machine to archive publications, web pages, and other resources you feel are at risk.

Support efforts to track and record instances of U.S. government censorship and harms from funding & staff cuts

• Service for anonymous, encrypted reporting of government censorship and takedowns. From the Data Foundation.

• Data Rescue Tracker from the Data Rescue Project.

• List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump. Wikipedia.

• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions. From JustSecurity.

• Project 2025 Tracker. Showing which Project 2025 objectives are completed, in progress, or not started. Lets you view objectives by agency.

• Silencing Science Tracker. From the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law (at Columbia Law School) and the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.

Share this Declaration broadly and encourage individuals and organizations in your communities to sign and support it. Tag with #DefendResearch ... then take another action! 

• Tiny URL to Form: https://tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f 

• Tiny URL to Declaration: https://tinyurl.com/2dyadwzr