Jase Gehring
@skyjase.bsky.social
scientist at UC Berkeley inventing advanced genomic technologies
lover of molecules, user of computers
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=63ZRebIAAAAJ&hl=en
lover of molecules, user of computers
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=63ZRebIAAAAJ&hl=en
gotten to the point where i can look at a startup and spot a Thiel fellow founder with high accuracy. it's a very specific ideological project, attractive to very specific kinds of people
January 19, 2026 at 5:39 PM
gotten to the point where i can look at a startup and spot a Thiel fellow founder with high accuracy. it's a very specific ideological project, attractive to very specific kinds of people
Never have I wanted to knit but this is rad and I kinda wanna try to make one
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Never have I wanted to knit but this is rad and I kinda wanna try to make one
It’s too early to talk about reconciling with Trumpists less than one year into his term. They just put him back in office. We have no idea where the country will go in the next three years or even the next ten months before the midterms
January 18, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It’s too early to talk about reconciling with Trumpists less than one year into his term. They just put him back in office. We have no idea where the country will go in the next three years or even the next ten months before the midterms
gee I wonder what he thinks about grok violating explicit federal law
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
gee I wonder what he thinks about grok violating explicit federal law
not hiring young people because of AI is so weird to me. if you can't figure out how to utilize the cheapest, hungriest workers, what are you doing as a manager? figure out how to empower these people. it's the expensive oldies riding on accumulated knowledge who should be worried
GS: Unemployment Among Young Tech Workers Has Mostly Normalized
January 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM
not hiring young people because of AI is so weird to me. if you can't figure out how to utilize the cheapest, hungriest workers, what are you doing as a manager? figure out how to empower these people. it's the expensive oldies riding on accumulated knowledge who should be worried
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
there is a real story here. the biggest story in the world. the president is insane and dragging the country down with him. but instead we get this clickbaity bullshit
What is the point of writing a story, a headline and a subhead like this? The Nobel committee publicly stated prizes are non transferable. Like a week ago. For this exact reason. Just completely asleep at the wheel
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump in a meeting at the White House.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
there is a real story here. the biggest story in the world. the president is insane and dragging the country down with him. but instead we get this clickbaity bullshit
stuff like this is why i don't think spatial omics has a future in the clinic. spatial assays are incredible, necessary research tool, but in the clinic we're going to reach for simple, rapid, validated tests. i think the commercial spatial market is way, way overcrowded and over-invested
Foundation models can predict breast cancer recurrence from H&E slides, matching genomic assays. MAKO benchmarking shows models like CONCH stratify risk, offering a scalable and interpretable precision oncology tool.
#MedSky #MedAI
#MedSky #MedAI
Towards interpretable prediction of recurrence risk in breast cancer using pathology foundation models - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Towards interpretable prediction of recurrence risk in breast cancer using pathology foundation models
www.nature.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:26 PM
stuff like this is why i don't think spatial omics has a future in the clinic. spatial assays are incredible, necessary research tool, but in the clinic we're going to reach for simple, rapid, validated tests. i think the commercial spatial market is way, way overcrowded and over-invested
What is the point of writing a story, a headline and a subhead like this? The Nobel committee publicly stated prizes are non transferable. Like a week ago. For this exact reason. Just completely asleep at the wheel
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado gifted her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump in a meeting at the White House.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
Here’s what to know about whether a Nobel Prize can be regifted.
Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. Can it be regifted?
President Trump described the move as a “wonderful gesture of mutual respect.” The Nobel Committee said the medal can change hands, but “the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot.”
wapo.st
January 16, 2026 at 1:34 PM
What is the point of writing a story, a headline and a subhead like this? The Nobel committee publicly stated prizes are non transferable. Like a week ago. For this exact reason. Just completely asleep at the wheel
Labmate did this recently. handed a series of Jupyter analysis notebooks with varying types and quality of analysis. Claude gave him an installable python package. huge jump in quality, modularity, and reproducibility of the analysis
Threw an unfinished TCR analysis library and bunch of notebooks with patient-specific functionality into Claude Code and...it generalized the new features perfectly into a very reasonably structured tool. Had a few nitpicks, now they're fixed.
Uh, hard to go back.
Uh, hard to go back.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Labmate did this recently. handed a series of Jupyter analysis notebooks with varying types and quality of analysis. Claude gave him an installable python package. huge jump in quality, modularity, and reproducibility of the analysis
“We have zero tolerance for [this material]”
Evidence suggests otherwise!
Evidence suggests otherwise!
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 AM
“We have zero tolerance for [this material]”
Evidence suggests otherwise!
Evidence suggests otherwise!
A friend said that the reason Apple and Google don’t remove X from app stores is they don’t want to set a precedent that businesses are responsible for their AI outputs
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 AM
A friend said that the reason Apple and Google don’t remove X from app stores is they don’t want to set a precedent that businesses are responsible for their AI outputs
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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility. In this week’s editorial we argue that when things go wrong & a retraction is needed, if it is clear who among the authors is responsible they should be named in the retraction note. COPE agrees
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 15, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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someone get my man a bigger amp
Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii
January 14, 2026 at 4:36 AM
someone get my man a bigger amp
you know it smell crazy in there
Inside this rare enchidro-quartz crystal is actual water and sand that’s been trapped for millions of years. #History
January 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
you know it smell crazy in there
preprinting is objectively better for the progress of science. we shouldn't be afraid to say so. artificially embargoing your work so you think you have a better shot at publishing in Nature is not only incorrect, it's a detriment to the enterprise
Well, yes. That is exactly what it is (re: preprinting)
And I do not disregard that concern, as to many, *where* they publish is unfortunately key for their careers, and if someone *feels* that can be affected, I'm ok with them doing what they think is right for them.
And I do not disregard that concern, as to many, *where* they publish is unfortunately key for their careers, and if someone *feels* that can be affected, I'm ok with them doing what they think is right for them.
The reticence in some cases seems less to do with scooping per se and more to do with the worry they might not get into a certain level of journal. I talk about this a bit here 3/n t.co/Of6saC5iZN
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
preprinting is objectively better for the progress of science. we shouldn't be afraid to say so. artificially embargoing your work so you think you have a better shot at publishing in Nature is not only incorrect, it's a detriment to the enterprise
Reposted by Jase Gehring
Reposted by Jase Gehring
Great news! @mariaingaramo.bsky.social 's company (Nonfiction Labs) made a remote-controlled antibody.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Great news! @mariaingaramo.bsky.social 's company (Nonfiction Labs) made a remote-controlled antibody.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
Its binding turns on and off with a magnet.
This is a HUGE step towards our dream of magnetically controlled drugs. Imagine a cancer drug that ONLY attacks the tumor, not the rest of your body.
i see this all the time with no mention of structural suppression:
- Electoral College winner-take-all
- working day elections
- voter registration burden
turnout in battleground states is fairly high. people aren't lazy. they are responding to disincentivization and disenfranchisement.
- Electoral College winner-take-all
- working day elections
- voter registration burden
turnout in battleground states is fairly high. people aren't lazy. they are responding to disincentivization and disenfranchisement.
Close to 90 million people did NOT vote in the 2024 election.
90 million.
It bears repeating over and over and over.
90 million.
It bears repeating over and over and over.
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
i see this all the time with no mention of structural suppression:
- Electoral College winner-take-all
- working day elections
- voter registration burden
turnout in battleground states is fairly high. people aren't lazy. they are responding to disincentivization and disenfranchisement.
- Electoral College winner-take-all
- working day elections
- voter registration burden
turnout in battleground states is fairly high. people aren't lazy. they are responding to disincentivization and disenfranchisement.
Reposted by Jase Gehring
It makes me sad to see a paper in a fancy journal that I didn't see on bioRxiv before 😢
January 12, 2026 at 2:48 PM
It makes me sad to see a paper in a fancy journal that I didn't see on bioRxiv before 😢
push-back to Jamelle, a fantastic commentator, isn't because people don't understand what he's saying. it's because a growing number see our system as beyond the breaking point. the impossibility of a reckoning within the current framework has destroyed any confidence in the framework at all.
anyway as i have said many times — and literally just wrote on saturday — i think we should abolish ICE as well as unravel DHS and i welcome elected officials who embrace both outright but i am also aware that any senate majority will contain moderate and conservative democrats who need an on-ramp.
January 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
push-back to Jamelle, a fantastic commentator, isn't because people don't understand what he's saying. it's because a growing number see our system as beyond the breaking point. the impossibility of a reckoning within the current framework has destroyed any confidence in the framework at all.
the 2026 midterms must be a nationwide referendum on impeachment. run on it. get elected on it. and follow through
WELKER: Has the president crossed the line of impeachment?
CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.
CHRIS MURPHY: I have common sense. I know this president has committed 10 times more impeachable offenses in his second term as he did in his first. He's stealing from the American people.
January 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
the 2026 midterms must be a nationwide referendum on impeachment. run on it. get elected on it. and follow through
the economically radical position is to let people get as rich as possible, exercise global tax and regulatory arbitrage, and use their money to influence culture and politics. an extremist, destructive worldview
This person analyzes american politics for a living
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
January 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
the economically radical position is to let people get as rich as possible, exercise global tax and regulatory arbitrage, and use their money to influence culture and politics. an extremist, destructive worldview
fact check: no
State and local law enforcement know the communities they serve. They’ve built the trust and know how to keep us safe.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
As Minnesotans express their first amendment rights, I encourage you to remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind: your safety.
January 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
fact check: no