Rainer Moy-Huwyler

I've seen enough, open the pit

Mine was Italian Cinema in my freshman year. 3 hours every Wednesday evening. It consisted of a short lecture followed by watching that week's movie, then a discussion about its representation of Italian history and cultural influence.

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Thank you for putting this together! Would you mind adding me?

Cuts kill & that's the existential equation we're here to solve for together.

Thx @faineg.bsky.social for sharing this life/death angle of how killing agencies like #FEMA #NOAA et al comes with fails.

Resist here
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#SummerFightForScience

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

They keep getting written because news outlets love the engagement and outrage farming that these articles produce. The whole point is to piss people off enough to share it even if only to talk about how dumb it is, thus driving more clicks to the site for ad revenue.

Tinsel the calico glares at you with a furrowed brow

“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds .

“Convergent evidence” doesn’t sound any less jargon-y though, & in any case I don’t think the problem is a lack of public understanding of what a consensus is, it’s that many refuse to trust science that challenges their worldview regardless of the evidence.

Everyone stop your doomscrolling and read this cool paper published by my friend @etspencer.bsky.social about how great hammerhead sharks search for prey 🔨🦈, balancing encounter rates with the energetic cost of transport between day and night!

Washington Post has just defined 1900 top scientists as "several."

How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil li...

Disturbing, dangerous, and fundamentally against the ideals of expression and intellectual freedom that these institutions claim to support.

How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound

Scientists Record First Known Shark Sounds 🦑🧪🐟🦈 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

A really cool and fun perk of working with live animals in the lab is that they'll take every opportunity to behave in the dumbest way possible to try and confound your results in novel ways...

These fish must think my PhD has been too easy on me 🥲

benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

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More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

“The recent employee departures have already affected NOAA’s operations in many realms:

predicting hurricanes and tornadoes, overseeing fisheries and endangered species,

monitoring the changes that humans are bringing about to Earth’s climate and ecosystems. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/c...

You nailed the feeling - I always thought there was something noble in a life of environmental service. It seems now that America is hellbent on punishing people for doing the right things and trying to make the world a better place for all of us.

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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency.

A draft-dodging coward and his foreign billionaire handler have deemed veterans’ care to be “wasteful”, while vet suicides continue to trend upwards.

But I guess Republicans sleep easy knowing they’re sacrificing America’s sons and daughters to cut taxes for the wealthy.

apnews.com/article/vete...

"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Swimming smarter, not harder: fishes exploit habitat heterogeneity to increase locomotor performance Summary: Fishes actively exploit complex environments to enhance locomotor efficiency, revealing sophisticated strategies to navigate diverse hydrodynamic landscapes and highlighting the need for habi...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

Fishes don’t just swim harder—they swim smarter. 🐟⚡ In our latest paper in @jexpbiol.bsky.social, Elsa Goerig and I show how fishes use habitat complexity to reduce the energetic cost of swimming. 🧵 🧪
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

The NSF REU program changed my life. Without that program, I could have never afforded to build the experience and professional connections I leveraged to begin my career in science. To think of that door closing for so many other young kids interested in research is utterly tragic.

Science Communication as a Moral Imperative We need to do a much better job of encouraging scientists to be stronger communicators, and share the wonders of science, and the important…

We need to see science as a social compact where it serves the larger world, not our own interests.

As a first step, scientists must communicate to the larger world much better.

I wrote an essay about this in 2016, which still holds today.

globalecoguy.org/science-comm...

I’m sure IACUC can make an exception for cuteness

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Seasonal distribution and environmental predictors of the movement of male blacktip sharks Carcharhinus limbatus off the US East Coast. 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.int-res.com/articles/mep...

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone.

My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.