I am a reserved and ultimately shy individual, dealing with his own life is a way that best suits me. Recently, however, I have found a way, however small, to provide my own resistance with my skillset and resources.

SciOp is a movement to backup government datasets and sights as they are targeted and removed for not toeing the party line. Since I have plenty of open space on my NAS, I’m dedicating a few terabytes to the effort.

So far I’ve backed up transgender protection and support resources, NOAA and climate change datasets, and some NIH datasets.

SciOp also provides a set of feeds that allows your backup to be automated to targeted and “endangered” datasets that we know are actively being removed, not just under threat, to ensure greater success in preservation.

If you have the tech setup for it I recommend checking it out.