Mike Feigin 🥯
@mikefeigin.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies. GPCRs and gene regulation in pancreatic cancer. Posts are mine.
New "guidance" on animal studies for NCI grants. This is, uh, interesting. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
Guidance on Studies with Animal Models
Read NCI Director Anthony Letai’s guidance on grant applications using animal models, including what applicants should address in abstracts.
cancer.gov
Notice of Award! 🚨 🧬 The DNA Observatory will be the next step in our vision of transforming every classroom in the US into a genome sequencing center—ensuring that students everywhere have firsthand opportunities to conduct their own research and become leaders in biotechnology.
Proud to announce that I was just named “PI of the Month” by my lab for the 108th time in a row!
If you care—this “concept” was launched by Joni Ernst yesterday when she described scientists cramming mice full of aborted baby parts and cruelly calling it a BLT, as in bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, for laffs. IN FACT, BLT mice are an irreplaceable model of the human immune system…1/
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"
Why not square sided hot dogs that don’t roll on the grill?
When I started my faculty position I had the great idea of creating an Excel file with every conference I attended. It’s nine years later and I’ve just remembered it exists. Sorry, young Mike!
Fauci should have brought Rand’s neighbor to sit with him. What a fucking asshole.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Rand Paul loses it when Fauci's attorney tries to say something, and he eventually directs security to kick him out of the hearing room
My colleague’s sneeze just set off the excessive volume sensor on my watch from three doors down. I’m more amazed than anything else.
Things I will continue doing and you literally cannot stop me: 1. Adding semicolons to every document I review 2. Never listening to voicemails 3. Signing every email “Mike” regardless of who I’m writing to 4. Keeping a mini fridge full of Diet Cokes in my office at all times
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · last wk.Things I will continue doing and you literally cannot stop me: 1. Removing extra commas from every document I review 2. Leaving voicemails (totally agree with the OP) 3. Signing every email with "Best, Dr. Kat" 4. Keeping a fully stocked snack drawer at all times
Someone smarter than me could write a dissertation on the obnoxious use of autotune on The Strokes new album.
Ah, so this is the perfectly spherical bird they kept talking about in Physics 101.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w agoEverything is on fire, but I just saw one of these drinking from the pond. We cannot let the fascists destroy our world.
K2 is passed out in the backseat and we are parked at Frank Gourmet Hot Dogs. Think they deliver to the lot??
There is a “viral” bagel spot in Buffalo but it’s women only! (It’s a home baker, so I get it.) Now, to convince my wife to pick up bagels for me at an undisclosed location…
Upon rewatching, Wet Hot American Summer is probably not appropriate for K1. 😳😳
K2 and I are home alone all weekend! Please drop some very manly things we can do while the ladies are away.
I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary overall. It’s not often that a molecular biologist is the good guy.
Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · 2w agoOh my god I got to the centrifuge scene. This movie needs a trigger warning.
I’m so glad these same people think the private sector can replace the NIH. Money for “mammoths” but not real science.
chasingmicrobes@chasingmicrobes.bsky.social · 2w ago"Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation"
Oh my god I got to the centrifuge scene. This movie needs a trigger warning.
Mike Feigin 🥯@mikefeigin.bsky.social · 2w agoRyan Gosling running his hands through his hair while wearing latex gloves has already taken me out of Project Hail Mary. Such an easy detail to not overlook!
Ryan Gosling running his hands through his hair while wearing latex gloves has already taken me out of Project Hail Mary. Such an easy detail to not overlook!
I wonder if Green Acres could be made today. I doubt it, since most of the actors are dead.
