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Jason Rasgon
Профиль VivelyMosquitoes, 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
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'static.klipy.comAn interesting paper analyzing the research trends of Wolbachia-Aedes aegypti studies over the last 2 decades www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23...
www.mdpi.comWhat do you think they were originally bred for?
Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/hisMy brain has just imploded. Guinea pigs as food? drove.com/.2PXj
I'm sorry. Avocados do what now?
Jeff GrohAvocados 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/...
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 ReichThe 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]
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, MSAnd…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🤦🏻♂️
NIH grants $2.8M to develop tools for study of mosquito-microbe interactions | Penn State UniversityPenn State researchers will use $2.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to develop new tools to investigate the genetics underpinni...www.psu.edu
Philip J Fry's Shocked ReactionALT: Philip J Fry's Shocked Reactionstatic.klipy.comScott HortonMark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...