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Patrick Jackson

@pehjackson.bsky.social
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Infectious Diseases at UVA: HIV virology, clinical trials at Joint Emerging Diseases Initiative, medical education, stewardship. Skeets are my opinion alone, unless they’re bad. He/him

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stupid thing is broken
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For $1 million, I will finally tell the world the truth about microbiome research
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/09/2026
Gift link, and some reactions herein. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Opinion | Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I. (Gift Article)
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Virology friends: come work with me at UVA! Now hiring a professor of virology (open rank): apply.interfolio.com/191946
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yall are sleeping on the curative properties of feldspar and olivine
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The price of wheat is unsustainable? Whatever losers, I only buy bread!
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Worst Butlerian Jihad ever
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is an interesting take on what advanced mathematics as a practice is about. I’m not sure I buy that AI solving math is bad. Perhaps mathematicians just need to change the incentive structure from prioritizing solutions to prioritizing explanations.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My deeply uninformed opinion is that finding an edge case where a set of equations gives an incorrect result seems like something a computer should be better at than a human
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I would like to report that Claude Code is actually very helpful for someone (me) who is bad at R but has Ideas
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ah, well, nevertheless
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of my optimistic views about AI is that some proportion of the population will fully retreat into synthetic reality. I think this will be net beneficial in a utilitarian sense.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Doctors say that measles can kill young children. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and drives around with dead bear cubs in his car says they'll be fine as long as they eat enough beef tallow. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
sorry the only science you can claim academic freedom over is race science
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If the first issue that moves you as an academic to sign an open letter is a personnel action regarding a post-doc at an obscure Belgian university, man I dunno
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As much as UVA and the city may try to encourage us to collectively forget those days, A11/12 is often near the top of my mind. I’m forever grateful for and inspired by the people who sacrificed so much 9 years ago. Move love to you all.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Jokes on Trump - I’m just gonna protect patients from infections with vaccines even harder
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don’t know about Dr. Fauci, but I certainly have contempt for this Congress.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
SARS-CoV-2 *could* have come from a lab, there’s just no reason to believe that it *did*
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Contrary to the prevailing narrative, universities enjoy far more public trust than Congress or this administration. We should be going them instruction rather than the other way around.
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Henrietta Lacks was #BOTD in 1920, and died in 1951 of cervical cancer. The cell line from her cancer contains HPV 18 integrated into her genome. Today we have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer - #OncSky + #MedSky. nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...
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Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine | National Museum of African American History and Culture
"Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31. During an examination, cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent by a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospit...
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Huh. Just like my birthmark.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The right really wants to validate the COVID lab leak conspiracy theory because some version of it can serve to undermine public health as an institution, government, and of course, Fauci. But it’s bullshit and these endless hearings and innuendo are a disgrace to our nation. No justice. Wasted $
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The people exerting accountability over Fauci would have killed vastly more Americans if their policies were pursued
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I said from the beginning that the obsession with the (almost certainly natural) origin of SARS-CoV-2 was a harmful distraction from preparing for the next pandemic, and I regret to inform you that I’m entirely correct.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dr. Anothony 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” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
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The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
He built an empire. It did not last.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Okay, but what you fail to consider is that this is a problem that can be solved by my idiosyncratic policy preference!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
The sleight of hand here is in portraying the obsessions of editors at elite publications and some think tanks as “the public,” especially considering the fact that, despite *decades* of anti-intellectual propaganda, the vast majority of students and parents *demand* access to higher education.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Las Malvinas, actually
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One or more of the following must be true: A. AI is massively overhyped. B. I am very bad at using AI. C. I am using very bad AI models. Will address C first and see if that helps.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The real lesson of history is that liberals like myself can either stand alongside the left to fight reactionaries, or we can get shot next to them after the reactionaries have won
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Otto von Bismarck with a speech bubble
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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m not one to ask for performative mea culpas. But a host of pundits + many profs have claimed for years that DEI, social justice views, etc., are censorship. That’s the basis of the “universities are anti-free speech” story. Courts continue to find they’re actually forms of *protected speech.* 1/2
Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law .... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those disfavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if thegovernment pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry—classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing-personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nitazoxanide is a drug perpetually in search of an indication
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
You know what. Don't look on my works. Fuck you. You don't deserve them. Despairing ass.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵
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Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Groceries for our Immigrant Neighbors
Help Sin Barreras Without Barriers Inc. reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.
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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Join us after the People's Activist session on Monday, June 29 - for an online community forum on Food Insecurity among local immigrant families. On-the-ground service providers will share stories and perspectives on the real life consequences of this regime's policies.
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Immigrant Food Insecurity Forum — Indivisible Charlottesville
Many immigrant families are food in-secure due to federal detentions, deportations, and acts of intimidation. Join us online to hear from on-the-ground service providers about the severe challenges a...
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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Strait of Hormuz is simultaneously open and closed until you send an oil tanker through and the waveform collapses into one state or the other.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Musk's gutting of USAID killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions. He has used his net worth to stoke hatred against people he dislikes and to fuel white supremacy. So no, I don't think he is uplifting humanity.
Mr. Musk’s allies said his net worth was justified by his impact, providing an example and incentive for those who want to build successful companies. Mr. Diamandis, the head of the XPrize Foundation, an organization that holds contests to encourage scientific breakthroughs, said Tesla and SpaceX were “raising the floor.”

“The fruits of his labor are making him into a trillionaire, and they’re uplifting humanity,” Mr. Diamandis said.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2026
Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week theonion.com/mom-casually-mentions-…
Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week
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