fishguydave.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I support this Big Bill (RIP).

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

These vessel emergency training programs save lives. Period, full-stop. But hey, gotta get those tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy, amirite?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Undoing this fuckery will require a full "root and branch" approach, with none of these OPM directors in particular ever being able to work in the federal government again. To the Dem party consultant class: not a dime to any candidate who says "we should look forward, not backward." Read the room.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Ignoring a fact doesn't make it any less real, FFS.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Quote Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

FFS, what new fresh AI hell is this?!?! I just went to my profile on the Academic.edu website and found no way at all to opt out of these bullshit thefts of my lab's work. Other than completely deleting my profile there, any suggestions would be appreciated.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

On Memorial Day, we honor the brave service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of our nation. We owe these heroes and their loved ones everything, and we will always remember what they have done to protect our freedom.

submitted 9 days ago • 291 comments

A reminder of when US society (and politicians) valued knowledge for the sake of knowledge, knowing it was creating a highly capable, domestic potential scientific workforce if needed. “Strategic Reserves” can include scientific expertise — a lesson completely lost on today’s (mal)Administration.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 17 days ago • 164 comments

A good article, but based on the assumption that DOGE really was a good-faith effort. So far, the effects seem to point to the whole intent instead as (a) a data-grab of sensitive taxpayer info, and (b) a near-neutering of regulatory agencies affecting Musk’s companies.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Busy last 12 hours: MIA --> UIO --> GYE --> GPS

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In addition to sharing beautiful images from her science, the Harvard scientist Trump jailed, Kseniia Petrova, has this to say about doing science in Russia and the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

News editors are actively aiding the destruction of our democracy; the infotainment of just a single day in this “Administration” would last for weeks if of anyone else. Payments, laziness, or access, or a combination of all three, but they should know what fascism does to journalists eventually.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

submitted 23 days ago • 874 comments

…

submitted 25 days ago • 730 comments

Not to be dire on a Friday afternoon, but ending habeas corpus is one of the last endgame steps in ending our democracy. It’s also one of the clearest indications yet that we won’t have (normal) elections in 2026 or after, since any Dem President could send this whole Admin in GITMO in Jan 2029.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Where do you go when you want to see the weather forecast? The Weather Channel? Local news? An app? Virtually all of these sources get their data from NOAA. And huge cuts to NOAA mean all of us are going to be affected. www.cbsnews.com/news/former-...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Every academic department chair’s and dean’s dream position.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

More of this ridicule, please. I mean, I proofread my emails before sending. These are not smart or serious people.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Weather reporting is almost completely based on NWS/NOAA public data; replicating that sensor and reporting network — including the manpower behind it — would be prohibitively expensive for private industry (which is why no-one's done so).

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I would love to see a Democratic Party free of this “legacy consultant class.” If your “advice” loses two sequential elections, then find another profession, FFS.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Among the many benefits of public television & radio is early exposure to STEM education for kids. Check out #Philly's own science communicator, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social, who was featured on #SesameStreet last year to teach kids (& Elmo) what it means to be a marine biologist.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

FFS. When one party advocates for defunding and discrediting science, you can be sure that this scientist, teaching college-level science courses, will indeed discuss the implications of that partisan choice with my students. Fire-fighting isn't a "political issue" when your house is burning down.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

My office overlooks Port Everglades, just south of Fort Lauderdale. I’ve seen the decrease in commercial shipping traffic, including fewer containers per ship. No, it’s not at all hypothetical.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"...under a 1974 law [Impoundment Control Act], NSF must give Congress ... notice of the grant halt, which would otherwise be unlawful." Yes, withholding appropriated funds is illegal, but by the time the courts agree, labs will forever be destroyed. Hard to think that wasn't the intended end-game.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments