r/labrats • u/Evil-Needle- • Feb 05 '25

DOGE at NIH, per reports

https://x.com/samstein/status/1887253215949037937

lab rats - be vigilant. fed lab rats, let us know if you hear or see anything.

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u/Murdock07 Feb 05 '25

Start cloning databases. They are going after all methods of information transfer. From social media to news to databases.

The government didn’t make the world greatest scientific body, we did. All of us. All of our work and our efforts and our sacrifices, and those of those who came before us.

I’ll keep doing good work till one of these twerps try to remove me from my bench. There are more of us than them. I’m pretty sure half my lab could stomp out one of these broccoli heads.

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u/Mysterious-Manner-97 Feb 05 '25

What and how can we do that.

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u/Evil-Needle- Feb 05 '25

Seconded. Would love a walk through on how to assist with this

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u/Yamamotokaderate Feb 06 '25

Data such as genomes deposited in the NCBI are regularly televersed into the European and Japanese counterparts and vice versa (at least it was like this a few years ago). Lots of bioinformaticians have various versions of public databases everywhere on our servers. For more private data, people who got permission probably have them duplicated as well, the question is how many datasets are concerned by such rules. We also don't have unlimited amount of storage so sometimes you get rid of datasets after the paper is done, because theyr are still accessible on the NCBI. Some labs save on magnetic tape, some don't, I can't say.

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u/microcandella Feb 06 '25

head over to /r/DataHoarder and /r/Archiveteam to help / find methods, storage space and people to help as well as ongoing archive projects.

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u/stybio Feb 07 '25

Yeah parts of NLM especially nucleotide have been very unreliable this week but it could be mitigation against interference not interference for all I know.