Devlin Moyer
@devmoy.bsky.social
Recent grad from Boston University bioinformatics PhD program, where I studied genome-scale metabolic models. Former member of Boston University Graduate Workers Union 🏳️🌈 he/him
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Breaking: people with “struggle unless they are interested” disorder do well once they can work in an area that interests them
An increase in ADHD after No Child Left Behind is not evidence — it's correlational and diagnoses have been rising for decades.
"Kids don't like school!" also isn't evidence. Kids have always disliked school. Without a comparison to previous cohorts this is meaningless.
"Kids don't like school!" also isn't evidence. Kids have always disliked school. Without a comparison to previous cohorts this is meaningless.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Breaking: people with “struggle unless they are interested” disorder do well once they can work in an area that interests them
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So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
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Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
September 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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September 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Excited to share this collaborative review with @dsegre.bsky.social and @devmoy.bsky.social. We discuss common issues with context-specific genome-scale metabolic network models and provide recommendation for future model development.
Just published @cp-trendsbiotech: Flux sampling and context-specific genome-scale metabolic models for biotechnological applications: www.cell.com/trends/biote... by @devmoy, with @fuxmanlab
Flux sampling and context-specific genome-scale metabolic models for biotechnological applications
Genome-scale metabolic models are used in fields ranging from metabolic engineering
to drug discovery and microbiome design. Although these models are often used to predict
putatively optimal states, ...
www.cell.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Excited to share this collaborative review with @dsegre.bsky.social and @devmoy.bsky.social. We discuss common issues with context-specific genome-scale metabolic network models and provide recommendation for future model development.
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So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
Jim Jordan: "If there's an able-bodied adult out there now who is in our welfare system, guess what -- that person is going to have to work ... that is far from immoral."
July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
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Truly staggering numbers, per www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
July 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Truly staggering numbers, per www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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FUCK HIM UP
June 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
FUCK HIM UP
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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The worst measles outbreak in 30 years is happening right now - in unvaccinated children - and the people who are in charge of all of our public health are pretending they’re the real marginalized victims because they got everything wrong during the pandemic and people told them they were wrong
June 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The worst measles outbreak in 30 years is happening right now - in unvaccinated children - and the people who are in charge of all of our public health are pretending they’re the real marginalized victims because they got everything wrong during the pandemic and people told them they were wrong
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The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!
June 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!
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Happy Pride, all! And especially to @anarchygoose.bsky.social !
Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"
Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"
June 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Happy Pride, all! And especially to @anarchygoose.bsky.social !
Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"
Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"
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These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution
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I think that a major driver of adherents to the COVID19 lab leak theory is that they cannot handle the simple truth that we are not in control of pandemics. The idea that novel pathogens emerge naturally is too frightening for them to handle. Yet that is how pandemics have begun throughout history.
May 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I think that a major driver of adherents to the COVID19 lab leak theory is that they cannot handle the simple truth that we are not in control of pandemics. The idea that novel pathogens emerge naturally is too frightening for them to handle. Yet that is how pandemics have begun throughout history.
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The resurrection of this guy as some sort of scientific martyr is unbearably bleak. He was wrong about COVID and recommended policies that would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths! Why is his marginalization anything other than a societal good?
I don’t get how the Free Press doesn’t feel the smallest modicum of embarrassment acting as if Bhattacharya was “”censored by the government”” when a literal SCOTUS decision found that there was no evidence to justify him having any standing to bring the case at all. No govt official mentioned him!
May 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The resurrection of this guy as some sort of scientific martyr is unbearably bleak. He was wrong about COVID and recommended policies that would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths! Why is his marginalization anything other than a societal good?
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this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
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NEW: Trump's war on government is killing a generation of scientists, researchers, and policy experts. As I note in a recent issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this will cost the US far more than the phony savings Elon Musk and DOGE claim.
link.motherjones.com/public/39805...
link.motherjones.com/public/39805...
May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW: Trump's war on government is killing a generation of scientists, researchers, and policy experts. As I note in a recent issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this will cost the US far more than the phony savings Elon Musk and DOGE claim.
link.motherjones.com/public/39805...
link.motherjones.com/public/39805...
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Ever since I started my graduate school career, I've known I want to work in science policy for the federal government, but right now that possibility is looking less and less likely each day. Thanks so much to @vivianla.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job telling this story!
“I've trained for 10 years to get to this point, and all of a sudden this election has entirely derailed everything that I've ever wanted to do,” a Boston University student said.
Under Trump, job prospects look 'bleak' for Mass. grads in environmental science
In recent months, the Trump administration has clawed back funding for research, slashed scientific agencies and reshaped climate policy. The moves are complicating opportunities for environmental sci...
www.wbur.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Ever since I started my graduate school career, I've known I want to work in science policy for the federal government, but right now that possibility is looking less and less likely each day. Thanks so much to @vivianla.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job telling this story!
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"STOP BEING MEAN TO US AS WE TEAR FAMILIES APART AND SELL PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY IN EL SALVADOR!"
genuinely bizarre CBP ad in the Columbia Heights metro station
May 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"STOP BEING MEAN TO US AS WE TEAR FAMILIES APART AND SELL PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY IN EL SALVADOR!"
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The problem we have about health is that it’s marketed as this personal thing & conceptualised as the result of what you do to yourself or what individually happens to you -your bad luck-
But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.
But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.
May 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The problem we have about health is that it’s marketed as this personal thing & conceptualised as the result of what you do to yourself or what individually happens to you -your bad luck-
But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.
But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.
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About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
May 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...