elisecutts.bsky.social
Science journalist in Austria writing for Quanta, New Scientist, Scientific American, Science, and others. Signal: emc.7243623. Get my newsletter about the forces that shape how research is done, shared, believed, and acted upon: www.reviewertoo.com
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@elisecutts.bsky.social"Loss of control is the price of reach." !!
Show PostIn the absence of protected bike lanes, the way to get motorists to respect your space is to have a cute dog with you.
Show PostNEW: On Oct 20, Japan will launch its most audacious space mission. It’s hoping to fly to Mars, land twice (!) on Phobos (“fear”), steal pieces of that alien moon, and bring ‘em home. That’s right: to pull of this heist, Japan must confront fear itself. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Show PostI'm an ecologist, so natural sciences. I'm not too familiar with the social sciences in Germany, as I'm also not from here (that also being among the reasons I never considered the German habilitation, it doesn't exist as such in the Netherlands, where I'm from).
Show PostNEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
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