The archival records [at the National Human Genome Research Institute, which is one of the 27 agencies comprising the NIH] … are under threat due to efforts by the Trump administration.
Since 2012, my colleagues and I [Zahary Utz] have managed a digital archive containing these records. We’ve made them available to a countless number of scholars, students, journalists, and scientifically curious members of the general public. We’ve scanned and cataloged more than a half-million pages of paper materials and countless other born-digital and multimedia materials from the HGP. … All of that work, like so much else at NIH, is currently being dismantled.
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This should be alarming not just for the scientific community but for the wider public. NIH and HHS leadership seems to have little regard to or awareness of the damage being done by the wholesale elimination of entire communications offices across campus.
