Pith Number

pith:NJVLYDXE

pith:2025:NJVLYDXEP4HB2QLZ4HAMT74773

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"

John M. Herbert

arxiv:2505.18196 v1 · 2025-05-21 · cs.DL · physics.chem-ph · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NJVLYDXEP4HB2QLZ4HAMT74773}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:08:42.626205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a6abc0ee47f0e1d4179e1c0c9ff9ffeec2c56e269e041059f0c6bca4e773a48

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.18196 · arxiv_version: 2505.18196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.18196 · pith_short_12: NJVLYDXEP4HB · pith_short_16: NJVLYDXEP4HB2QLZ · pith_short_8: NJVLYDXE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NJVLYDXEP4HB2QLZ4HAMT74773 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 6a6abc0ee47f0e1d4179e1c0c9ff9ffeec2c56e269e041059f0c6bca4e773a48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "255639fa89a8420dd18b716450ed0ed63e80bf8edf2ad9ba3c193331fd820e5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.chem-ph",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-21T02:13:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a8b6dd4af8fbdb88da2cd2f111f66eb9142d8b6a991ae5f0f5bb552519776fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.18196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}