If you need clip-by-clip adjustments of the X position (i.e. if different clips require different X position to fit properly in the vertical frame), use "Scene Edit Detection" to automagically find the cuts in the edited video... then you can adjust each clip individually if needed.
You can create a new sequence at your required output res (say 1080x1920), then drag the desired horizontal clips into the sequence and adjust "Motion" parameters in the Effect Controls panel -- first Scale (to fit the clips in the frame), then Position (X) to shift side-to-side as needed
Just called my GOP Rep. and my Senator, Sen. Fetterman. I don't know if it will do any good. The tl/dr: DO SOMETHING. PLEASE, WE ARE ALL BEGGING YOU. ANYTHING. NO WAR CRIMES IN MY NAME, PLEASE.
7yo just now: “Is Neil deGrasse Tyson a boxer or a wrestler?”
Let your senators know he's unqualified to lead the NSF, and his record raises concerns about political interference, misinformation, and conflicts of interest.
Easily email your senators at: tr.ee/NoToONeill
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#JimONeill
#NSF #NoToONeill
#NationalScienceFoundation #StandUpForScience
Update #2: Seek thinks it's a Black Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus), native to Europe and a common introduced pest in N. America. This looks plausible... so I'm thinking these guys probably came in from outside (before it was snowing, which it is now), not from my luggage from Costa Rica 😅
Update: Just found another one.
Picture shows a small, dark beetle with lighter golden flecks on its abdomen, climbing on a white wall.
OK, entomology friends! I just found this weevil on my wall. I’m in Central Pennsylvania. We’ve had a few warm days recently, but I also just returned from a family trip to Costa Rica, and I unpacked my bags a few hours ago. What do you think? Is this a stowaway? @alexwild.bsky.social
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
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Introducing: OCEAN EMPIRE, my new column about U.S ocean policy and foreign affairs for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social.
We are a brand new online magazine housed at Georgetown University. I'm thrilled to bring in-depth news analysis about what's happening to 70% of our planet.
i refuse to cede the em dash to ai. absolutely not you can pry that long thin line from my cold dead hands
Haha, fantastic. Of all the times to escape PA and visit Miami, I've gotta choose a weekend when it's frigid there 😅
Are you heading down there? I'll be there Sunday through Wednesday for a conference!
This is so cool. What an amazing resource. Can't imagine all the work that went into this!
I guess my question was between two alternatives: temporary or permanent reduction in grant numbers. B/c It seems like if funding rates remain constant (big "if," of course), then the accounting should "catch up" after a few years and the # of grants should increase to prev. levels...
Is this expected to cause a temporary or permanent reduction in the number of grants issued per year, assuming the total agency funding remains constant?
(Yes, I can see how even a temporary reduction can be highly disruptive! But trying to wrap my head around long-term consequences...)
I've always wanted to go... unreal biodiversity / endemism!
tl/dr ... It seems like the top line numbers are good, but the admin still has a LOT of leeway to foist their backwards agenda onto the scientific enterprise. And that's assuming they actually spend the money that Congress appropriates.
For example, even under the current budget, isn't the administration still planning to drastically cut BIO within NSF? And aren't they adding a bunch of new NSF grant programs aimed at sending more NSF funds into private industry for AI, quantum computing, etc.?
I've seen a lot of celebration about this and YES it is good news... but if I understand the situation correctly, there's still a LOT of internal f*ckery happening with these agencies' funding priorities...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Really wish the asshole Europeans would understand that this isn’t the U.S. starting an imperial expansion.
This is an eviscerated shell of a U.S. government being used as a weapon by *international* tech oligarchs to end traditional, democratic nations and replace them with a tech-run dystopia.
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Some of my favorite artwork of yours in this piece!
I see what you did there.
This thread is one of the most insightful (and concise) distillations of the right-wing media ecosystems I've seen:
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
Sheesh, this is depressing. Like, what's even the point?
Cute and terribly important. May all of your arguments henceforth be shaped like Kirby.
Heck yeah @jameststroud.bsky.social !
CAN YOU GUESS THIS ONE?? 👀
(Thanks to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for letting me share their video!)
