Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
@humbertoortiz.bsky.social
Programmer-Archaeologist
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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My new story is a rare crossover of my research & author lives: starring a cranky Puerto Rican #datacenter technician (👴🏿) in a near-future Philly where 'Generative Reality' (GR 👓) apps run on nuclear power, "Subsidence" is the 🔮A.I. killjoy scifi you've been looking for
issues.org/futuretensef...
issues.org/futuretensef...
Subsidence | Future Tense Fiction
E. G. Condé’s story examines the environmental toll of data centers and the human labor that supports them.
issues.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
My new story is a rare crossover of my research & author lives: starring a cranky Puerto Rican #datacenter technician (👴🏿) in a near-future Philly where 'Generative Reality' (GR 👓) apps run on nuclear power, "Subsidence" is the 🔮A.I. killjoy scifi you've been looking for
issues.org/futuretensef...
issues.org/futuretensef...
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TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TIL about Faculty First Responders, a group that offers "peer-to-peer counseling and advice to academic workers experiencing media attacks, campaigns of harassment, doxing, or other threats to their academic freedom and free speech."
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
facultyfirstresponders.com
Thanks @hormiga.bsky.social !
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It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re
I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people
I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people
MNT Research GmbH
MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.
mnt.re
October 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It's going to be absolutely critical that we be able to hack on and trust the hardware we use. I think the hardware from MNT is the best bet we have for a computing future we still have a say in mnt.re
I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people
I hope the MNT Reform Next is going to make MNT's stuff more accessible to more people
Pobreza, calor, hambre. Pero vamos a prohibir los telefonos en las escuelas.
on stuff that feels novel, new, emerging, scary, rather than the hard and boring old problems that are like "if we fixed the temperature in this school kids would be healthier and learn better," and "if we got them more food they would learn better." No, the answer is always cell phones 🙄
August 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Pobreza, calor, hambre. Pero vamos a prohibir los telefonos en las escuelas.
I wonder how long before they start denaturalizing us Puerto Ricans?
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".
Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.
substack.com/redirect/169...
June 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I wonder how long before they start denaturalizing us Puerto Ricans?
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They Asked Me To Cut My 6-Year-Old Son's Hair. I Taught Them About Native Cultural Erasure.
In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
1/22
In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
1/22
June 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
They Asked Me To Cut My 6-Year-Old Son's Hair. I Taught Them About Native Cultural Erasure.
In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
1/22
In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North Carolina — and our world stopped.
1/22
Happy go skateboarding day to all who celebrate!
I've been skating for 50 years. I've never been good at it, but I can still do a 360°, and learned to Coleman slide a couple.of years ago.
Skatebarding keeps me young.
I've been skating for 50 years. I've never been good at it, but I can still do a 360°, and learned to Coleman slide a couple.of years ago.
Skatebarding keeps me young.
June 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy go skateboarding day to all who celebrate!
I've been skating for 50 years. I've never been good at it, but I can still do a 360°, and learned to Coleman slide a couple.of years ago.
Skatebarding keeps me young.
I've been skating for 50 years. I've never been good at it, but I can still do a 360°, and learned to Coleman slide a couple.of years ago.
Skatebarding keeps me young.
The cuts to training and education will do incalculable damage to biomedical research and health.
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The cuts to training and education will do incalculable damage to biomedical research and health.
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(10/11)
75 years of scientific discovery—now on the chopping block.
Trump’s 2025 budget proposes a 56% cut to the NSF. Over 1,000 grants terminated. 37 divisions abolished. Funding frozen.
This isn’t just reckless—it’s a war on knowledge, a war on progress.
75 years of scientific discovery—now on the chopping block.
Trump’s 2025 budget proposes a 56% cut to the NSF. Over 1,000 grants terminated. 37 divisions abolished. Funding frozen.
This isn’t just reckless—it’s a war on knowledge, a war on progress.
May 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
(10/11)
75 years of scientific discovery—now on the chopping block.
Trump’s 2025 budget proposes a 56% cut to the NSF. Over 1,000 grants terminated. 37 divisions abolished. Funding frozen.
This isn’t just reckless—it’s a war on knowledge, a war on progress.
75 years of scientific discovery—now on the chopping block.
Trump’s 2025 budget proposes a 56% cut to the NSF. Over 1,000 grants terminated. 37 divisions abolished. Funding frozen.
This isn’t just reckless—it’s a war on knowledge, a war on progress.
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The right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.
And then I wrote an article about it.
And then I wrote an article about it.
Attacks on Higher Ed and the New Illiberal Electorate
The right-wing destruction of American higher education institutions is a strategic move. Liberals need to answer with a strategy of their own.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.
And then I wrote an article about it.
And then I wrote an article about it.
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FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
Meeting the Moment Together
We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
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(🧵) Honored to receive the Best Investigative #Climate Storytelling Award from @climatetracker.bsky.social for my three-part series “Inefectiva la protección costera.” #Journalists from across the #Caribbean competed — this is my 3rd award with @cpipr.bsky.social and my first international one.
May 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
(🧵) Honored to receive the Best Investigative #Climate Storytelling Award from @climatetracker.bsky.social for my three-part series “Inefectiva la protección costera.” #Journalists from across the #Caribbean competed — this is my 3rd award with @cpipr.bsky.social and my first international one.
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You know what I wish the more human-centered tech conferences would do right now?
Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now.
Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now.
April 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You know what I wish the more human-centered tech conferences would do right now?
Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now.
Open up special tickets and speaking slots for scientists whose work is getting axed and whose fields are being obliterated right now.
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Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform to share my NSF experience & some thoughts on the recent cuts to misinformation research. Publicly funded research & accurate information is vital to our democracy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/i-oversaw-...
I oversaw rigorous review of NSF-funded research on misinformation: Now the Trump administration is cancelling it
Politicians, not scientists, are the ones engaged in censorship
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform to share my NSF experience & some thoughts on the recent cuts to misinformation research. Publicly funded research & accurate information is vital to our democracy. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/i-oversaw-...
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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
I was listening to mountaintown.fm this morning and they played Viva Puerto Rico Libre by Ghetto Brothers. I don't think I ever heard them before. The album first released in 1978.
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...
Mountain Town Radio
mountaintown.fm
April 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I was listening to mountaintown.fm this morning and they played Viva Puerto Rico Libre by Ghetto Brothers. I don't think I ever heard them before. The album first released in 1978.
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...
youtu.be/c0SaAJzm4oo?...
Las playas son del pueblo.
From #PuertoRico to #Jamaica, coastal communities are uniting to reclaim their right to beach access as rising seas and private developments threaten their shores. Explore this shared struggle to protect these vital spaces in my latest for Climate Tracker: climatetrackercaribbean.org/climate-just...
From Borikén to Jamrock: A common fight for beach access & the changing coastline - Climate Tracker
From Puerto Rico to Jamaica, coastal communities are fighting for their right to beach access as rising seas and private developments threaten their shores. Explore the shared struggle to protect thes...
climatetrackercaribbean.org
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Las playas son del pueblo.
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Tienes una cuenta en Mastodon?
Recientemente un compañero boricua creo una instancia de mastodon para boricuas:
boriken.social/about
Gracias
@afreytes.bsky.social
Recientemente un compañero boricua creo una instancia de mastodon para boricuas:
boriken.social/about
Gracias
@afreytes.bsky.social
Borikén Social
Boriken.social is a Mastodon instance for the Puerto Rican crowd both home and abroad.
Boriken.social es una instancia de Mastodon para la comunidad boricua en el archipiélago y en la diáspora.
boriken.social
April 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Tienes una cuenta en Mastodon?
Recientemente un compañero boricua creo una instancia de mastodon para boricuas:
boriken.social/about
Gracias
@afreytes.bsky.social
Recientemente un compañero boricua creo una instancia de mastodon para boricuas:
boriken.social/about
Gracias
@afreytes.bsky.social
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Segundo diálogo de temas económicos y formas diferentes de organización y gestión colectiva con @bgraulau . Espero les guste! 💪🏿💚🌲🌲🇵🇷
El Problema de Puerto Rico: ¿Corrupción o Explotación Colonial? youtu.be/dkhvZcb8zrg?si… vía @YouTube
El Problema de Puerto Rico: ¿Corrupción o Explotación Colonial? youtu.be/dkhvZcb8zrg?si… vía @YouTube
El Problema de Puerto Rico: ¿Corrupción o Explotación Colonial?
YouTube video by Bianca Graulau Español
https://youtu.be/dkhvZcb8zrg?si…
April 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Segundo diálogo de temas económicos y formas diferentes de organización y gestión colectiva con @bgraulau . Espero les guste! 💪🏿💚🌲🌲🇵🇷
El Problema de Puerto Rico: ¿Corrupción o Explotación Colonial? youtu.be/dkhvZcb8zrg?si… vía @YouTube
El Problema de Puerto Rico: ¿Corrupción o Explotación Colonial? youtu.be/dkhvZcb8zrg?si… vía @YouTube
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A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program
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Hate billionaires? Love supporting small publishers and making sure authors are compensated fairly? Try the World SF Storybundle! 10 books, $20, and supporting charity partner Locus in the process! storybundle.com/scifi Re-posts much appreciated!
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Hate billionaires? Love supporting small publishers and making sure authors are compensated fairly? Try the World SF Storybundle! 10 books, $20, and supporting charity partner Locus in the process! storybundle.com/scifi Re-posts much appreciated!
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V•G1GANTE is fully funded! Don't miss out on this La Borinqueña spin-off. A portion of the sales from these comic books support their La Borinqueña Grant Awards.
zoop.gg/c/vg1gante
#comics #comicbooks #indiecomics
zoop.gg/c/vg1gante
#comics #comicbooks #indiecomics
March 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
V•G1GANTE is fully funded! Don't miss out on this La Borinqueña spin-off. A portion of the sales from these comic books support their La Borinqueña Grant Awards.
zoop.gg/c/vg1gante
#comics #comicbooks #indiecomics
zoop.gg/c/vg1gante
#comics #comicbooks #indiecomics
Pong on the Sears Video Arcade, a rebranded Atari 2600
March 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Pong on the Sears Video Arcade, a rebranded Atari 2600