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
rasgonlab.wordpress.com
Paying my dog the cheese tax and she thinks its a salary
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Paying my dog the cheese tax and she thinks its a salary
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I am begging people to *please* stop using these tools to make a point or make fun of them. We do not need to further refine them or kill the planet to make a point. We should stop using them to make them irrelevant.
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I am begging people to *please* stop using these tools to make a point or make fun of them. We do not need to further refine them or kill the planet to make a point. We should stop using them to make them irrelevant.
My response to the recruiter from Florida who just cold-called me
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My response to the recruiter from Florida who just cold-called me
For fucks sake
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For fucks sake
My grants that did not get reviewed in October due to the shutdown will now be reviewed at the end of January. I think this means they'll miss the January 2026 Council - anyone have any insights into how this will be dealt with? Lumped into May Council? That's going to screw us
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My grants that did not get reviewed in October due to the shutdown will now be reviewed at the end of January. I think this means they'll miss the January 2026 Council - anyone have any insights into how this will be dealt with? Lumped into May Council? That's going to screw us
It's Glühwein time!
Mit Schuss
Mit Schuss
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's Glühwein time!
Mit Schuss
Mit Schuss
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somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day
Damn straight. I don't want healing and closure. I want tribunals.
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Damn straight. I don't want healing and closure. I want tribunals.
Yep. The issue isn't the movement away from strict paylines. The issue is who will be making programmatic decisions
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/i...
In which I fruitlessly beg NIH grant-seeking folks to focus on what is actually important.
A new webpage on the NIH site called “Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions” is causing a small kerfuffle on the socials. As per us…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yep. The issue isn't the movement away from strict paylines. The issue is who will be making programmatic decisions
WAT
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
WAT
Are the repubs really certain they want to press the "execution for traitors" button?
a man with a beard is asking " have you thought that through "
ALT: a man with a beard is asking " have you thought that through "
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Are the repubs really certain they want to press the "execution for traitors" button?
A funding RFA just came across my desk with a 9 day turn-around
a picture of a baby yoda with the words i can do this behind him
ALT: a picture of a baby yoda with the words i can do this behind him
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A funding RFA just came across my desk with a 9 day turn-around
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
About to submit a paper that's going to piss of a lot of folk
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
About to submit a paper that's going to piss of a lot of folk
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Forgot I made this. IYKYK. 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Forgot I made this. IYKYK. 🧪
Getting ready to submit a paper this week where i justifiably thank my cat for his participation in the research
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Getting ready to submit a paper this week where i justifiably thank my cat for his participation in the research
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Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I've heard horror stories from friends and colleagues in the Humanities about this. Thankfully it was never a thing in STEM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I've heard horror stories from friends and colleagues in the Humanities about this. Thankfully it was never a thing in STEM
My dog is a criminal who lied and got second dinner
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My dog is a criminal who lied and got second dinner
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Notes on NIH matters as the government opens up again drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/n...
Notes on NIH matters as the government opens up again
A tweet from someone apparently positioned to know claimed the damage totals from the government shutdown amounted to 379 study sections postponed, within which 24,380 NIH grant applications were s…
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Notes on NIH matters as the government opens up again drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/n...
Is the Sazerac the perfect cocktail?
I think it might be
I think it might be
November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Is the Sazerac the perfect cocktail?
I think it might be
I think it might be
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...