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hm0rin.bsky.social
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I was on a call this morning with two non-news media people. And neither of them--despite being NYC-based and politically left-leaning--had heard about the ongoing political attacks on higher ed. It was both shocking and a good reminder of how easy it is for folks to miss what's going on.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

I am looking to hire postdocs at Stanford. Can I in good faith tell a non-US citizen that it is good to come to the US to do research? Can I in good faith tell a US citizen that is is good to stay in the US to do research? If I don't try to do research here, am a capitulating in advance?

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

The question is no longer if EVs are going to dominate the future. That’s fairly obvious. The question is now if the US is going to have any role in that market. Right now, it’s not looking promising. heatmap.news/electric-veh...

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 3 days ago • 622 comments

@autoschmidt.bsky.social: "VW Group appear to be one of the main benefactors of Tesla's misfortune across Europe, with our latest European Electric Car Study published this week identifying Volkswagen Group commanding 22.5% of the W European new BEV passenger car market on a 12-month trailing basis"

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

If you care about our Wisconsin Universities, you should be very alarmed by what's going on in Washington. UW-Madison has already instituted a hiring freeze on any positions supported by federal research funds. UW-Milwaukee has instituted a campus-wide spending freeze.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 6 days ago • 750 comments

PhDs are 5-10 year talent development pipelines (many go in to do post docs). Disrupting PhD admittance cycles sets us up for detrimental consequences that are long term and not quick to recover from.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Science protest poster ideas: #StandUpForScience - If you've been waiting for a sine to protest this is it -Why are billionaire tax cuts more important than [insert anything here]? e.g. curing disease - Science is For Everyone - We want good data not bad drama - UGH Where Do I Even Start

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

submitted 15 days ago • 880 comments

Talking with hard science colleagues at UT who have NIH and NSF grants which are now in limbo & have to fire graduate students. They said five decades of practices of scientific inquiry thrown out the window. The uncertainty upends how we will live. Crown jewels of higher education being destroyed.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

If you are in academia, please talk to your (PhD) students about the potential federal funding cuts (via EO Feb 26 2025) and how they can help by calling congress and sharing (discipline) research that benefited the U.S. Losing funding will be worse if there is no warning or opportunity to advocate

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

EV sales in Europe: up 38% Tesla sales in Europe: down 45.2% Breathe it in folks, breathe it innnnnnnnnnnnn www.reuters.com/business/aut...

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

Futureposting: Egg Information Administration just dropped this year's Annual Egg Outlook and the Reference case forecasts* an abundance of egg *it's a projeggtion not a forecast

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

NEMA unveils a standard for bidirectional EV charging, defining the technical parameters to allow EV owners to transfer power back to the grid. electrek.co/2025/02/21/n... 🔌🚗 🔌💡

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 29 days ago • 114 comments

Questions to ask tomorrow: So who is running USDS (DOGE)? If he’s a SGE in the White House Office (WHO) who does he report to? CoS? Anita Dunn was listed in the annual report to Congress on WHO personnel. Was she an SGE? (Doubtful) Anita Dunn filed a public financial disclosure (OGE278e). Musk?

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports

submitted 36 days ago • 1453 comments

The State Departments.'s armored cyber truck purchase plan is idiotic. The cyber truck has had SEVEN recalls (5.1 million cars) including a recall for the accelerator pedal dislodging and causing uncontrollable acceleration. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02... www.cnet.com/roadshow/new...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I, and I’m sure several others, am losing my mind that all these Dems talk about govt inefficiency. The post office is inefficient! And, that’s why people in rural areas can get mail. No one talks about the military as inefficient, just things that help people. STOP LEGITIMIZING THEIR NARRATIVE.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

Claw back the pause with penalties and interest and build this

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Rescinding already allocated EV charger funds in NEVI is just going to make the U.S. less competitive globally. The question for car companies has been for years not if we electrify vehicles but when and whether it will occur soon enough to outcompete chinese competitors

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments