Notices by Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social)

@melanie @dalias @blogdiva Yes, the silence of Bill Gates is a statement that he doesn’t care enough about helping people to risk getting attacked by the Trump Administration and hordes of MAGA supporters, who already suspected that he was involved in engineering the COVID-19 pandemic.

@blogdiva I have not seen Bill Gates making any statements about the #NIH destruction or the closing of #USAID that was supporting health care and food supplies in Africa that used to be one of his favorite topics.

@Infoseepage Looks like that soccer ball has been in there for a long time.

@wendynather The line about having 100 GB of RAM is now easy. My latest work MacBook has 96 GB. A lot of the other stuff is lost in the past.

NASA JPL ARIA project analysis of data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 radar images measured the slip on the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar. Quick preliminary map. More details later. Fault ruptured about 500 km (300 miles) in the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on 28 March 2025. Red is northward movement and blue is southward movement. This is pixel offset tracking or optical image correlation measurements of horizontal displacements.

Valerie Costa opinion piece in The Guardian: Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That proves our movement is working #ValerieCosta #TeslaTakedown https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/elon-musk-tesla-takedown-protest

@ShiitakeToast @GottaLaff There are some federal grants that are specifically for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and many to study climate change. I don't know what is going to happen with this federal grant "pause". The collateral damage to scientific research (not to mention grants for more social work) might not be a key part of the plan, but it seems they are not worried about it either. As a recipient of federal funding for my job, I am likely to be affected.

@blogdiva My employer requires us to use Microsoft M365 for many things, but they at least they allow us to use macOS and we can install FLOSS products on our computers.

@FizzyWhiskey I think it also includes grants to state, local, and tribal governments.

@jaztrophysicist Thanks. I think the funds that I have in advance are enough to last about 4 months.

The Trump Office of Management and Budget has instructed all USA Federal agencies to stop funding all external activities, including science grants to universities and research institutes. There were people reporting NSF review panels on Monday being postponed, which was surprising, but this is everything. Archive link to Washington Post article below. #USA_politics

@peterroopnarine @michael_w_busch I am sorry to hear now that this is a new instruction for all federal agencies, including NASA that supports my work.

https://archive.ph/qeptT

@JosephAndriano @technodad @ai6yr @ingalls So YOU are the person warding off shakers for your state! Should have known😊. About 10:36 am EST

@michael_w_busch Wow, I did not hear about NSF cancelling panels. Last week, it was NIH instructed to cancel all activities with grants. NSF is supposed to be an independent agency!

@mattblaze What is going on with that pylon that seems to be bent near the bottom of the photo?

@futurebird @sbourne I did not find the baby owl photo yet, but here is an adult burrowing owl.

Guardian article: #shrew #mammals #california
The framing of the shrew: California students photograph mammal never caught on film https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/mount-lyell-shrew-california-photograph

@michael_w_busch @tillmanreuter @sundogplanets It is important to remember that the Tesla car is still attached to the whole second stage of the Falcon Heavy. That is why it is large enough to see easily. The second stage must have a relatively low mass for its size because they burned all the fuel, so it probably behaves somewhat differently from a rocky asteroid of the same size.

@sundogplanets I am still not sure if this is satire.

@lauren @strange_new_words I did not hesitate to vote for Harris, and I understand why she did not talk much about Gaza. It was a lose-lose situation for her to talk about it.