Jason Rasgon
@vectorgen.bsky.social
Mosquitoes, watches and whatever. Huck Chair of Disease Epidemiology and Biotechnology at Penn State. My opinions do not reflect those of my employer (they want nothing to do with them whatsoever) rasgonlab.wordpress.com
As a general matter, what we are seeing is the growing divergence btwn those who remain "all in" as if there is never going to be any accountability ever & those who see a likely future restoration of rule of law.
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
UHF: Weird Al's Mr. Butterfingers Scene
ALT: UHF: Weird Al's Mr. Butterfingers Scene
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Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 2d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4
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If you have an NIH or NSF program officer, post a comment!
I-270, Exit 1@i270exit1.bsky.social · 3d ago🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4
It always did this? You have to manually curate your profile to make it accurate
Roope Kaaronen@roopekaaronen.net · 3d agoAnyone else's Google Scholar gone entirely bonkers? It's started adding random acknowledgements and copyright statements ("Copyright© 2021 by the author (s). Published here under license by the...") as my research articles. And deleted my most cited article. Maybe not great to rely on Google here.
RasgonLab alumnus Renuka Joseph talking about her postdoctoral work at NIH
Yale should look to Columbia to see how appeasement goes...
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d agoNeed to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/
there goes the presumption of regularity (finally) DOJ has not provided a scintilla of evidence that justifies the true bill (indictment) issued by the GJ the error here is DOJ’s and no one else’s keep this in mind when we hear equally specious accusations of voter fraud this fall
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
If ita a crime to lie to congress, why are congresspersons allowed to lie with no repercussions?
I love the reaction from former trainees when they're budgeting their first big independent grant and realize how much of the budget goes simply to pay people, as opposed to lab supplies etc... Suddenly all the things I bitch about make sense to them
Fred Flintstone: The Math Ain't Mathin'
ALT: Fred Flintstone: The Math Ain't Mathin'
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An interesting paper analyzing the research trends of Wolbachia-Aedes aegypti studies over the last 2 decades www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23...
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Did a trans person kill JK Rowling's dog or something? What the fuck is wrong with her?
Hey 🧪! I was just reminiscing with a friend about the time a very senior academic called a mid-career guy's work "completely meaningless" at a meeting and now I want to hear your best (public, academic) disses
I'm sorry. Avocados do what now?
Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fauci has “saved more lives, created more amazing infrastructures for developing research opportunities, cured more people, provided health care to more people both in the United States and abroad, probably, than any single scientist in his lifetime” - Larry Corey @fredhutch.org
Jo Hofmann@birdcmp.bsky.social · last wk.Tomorrow’s hearing will be extremely painful. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
I want to go back to the traditional politics of our founding fathers. When Senators were beaten on the floor of the Senate
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
People don't seem to realize that regulations exist not because liberals like living in a nanny state, but rather because corporations, given a choice, will feed us LITERAL poison to save a buck. They did this. Until literally forced to stop
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoThe decimation of our federal agencies has upended the lives of thousands of workers. These are the people who oversee food safety, public health, and much more. The squalor of this moment is bringing us back to basics — and reminding us of what our priorities should be. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
When you have secret police, things like this happen. Which is why democratic societies don't have secret police. www.oregonlive.com/clackamascou...
Armed men posing as ICE agents detained, assaulted woman after fake traffic stop, police say
Oregon State Police officials are seeking information after a woman was detained and assault by three men posing as federal agents.
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If you want an example of why having political appointees deeply involved in grantmaking... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):
I went out and got an MMR booster the day after RFK was confirmed. I didn't need to be a psychic to anticipate what was going to happen
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd…there we are. Reported in other outlets, but now official CDC site confirming this is the worst measles year since 1991. 5 months still to go, including the high-risk return to school and holiday times 😳 2,318 cases 151 hospitalized ($$$; suffering) No deaths- yet MAHA🤦🏻♂️
