Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For $1 million, I will finally tell the world the truth about microbiome research 150
Reposted by Patrick JacksonEmily Moin @emilymoin.com · 25/09/2026Gift link, and some reactions herein. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I. (Gift Article)I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts. 16330
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Virology friends: come work with me at UVA! Now hiring a professor of virology (open rank): apply.interfolio.com/191946apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 131
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yall are sleeping on the curative properties of feldspar and olivine 061
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The price of wheat is unsustainable? Whatever losers, I only buy bread! 064
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This 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. 020
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My 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 120
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I would like to report that Claude Code is actually very helpful for someone (me) who is bad at R but has Ideas 150
Reposted by Patrick JacksonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy. 592603829
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026One 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. 091
Reposted by Patrick JacksonNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Doctors 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. 141598343
Reposted by Patrick Jacksonmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026sorry the only science you can claim academic freedom over is race science 151435253
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026If 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 1160
Reposted by Patrick JacksonMatthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As 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. 17016
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Jokes on Trump - I’m just gonna protect patients from infections with vaccines even harder 1221
Reposted by Patrick JacksonThe American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 10/08/2026A statement from AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s executive order on U.S. childhood vaccines: www.aap.org/en/news-room... 8408245
Reposted by Patrick Jacksonlaura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.” 10869271510
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I don’t know about Dr. Fauci, but I certainly have contempt for this Congress. 0140
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026SARS-CoV-2 *could* have come from a lab, there’s just no reason to believe that it *did* 020
Reposted by Patrick JacksonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026If 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. 1135329862
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Contrary 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. 040
Reposted by Patrick JacksonKevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Henrietta 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...nmaahc.si.eduHenrietta 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... 15123
Reposted by Patrick JacksonWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The 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 $ 210618
Reposted by Patrick JacksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The people exerting accountability over Fauci would have killed vastly more Americans if their policies were pursued 2938161
Reposted by Patrick JacksonMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Agree 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... 232995994
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I 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. 160
Reposted by Patrick JacksonTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Dr. 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/...theatlantic.comThe Unmaking of Anthony FauciHe built an empire. It did not last. 1279
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Okay, but what you fail to consider is that this is a problem that can be solved by my idiosyncratic policy preference! 150
Reposted by Patrick JacksonMark 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. 17461148
Reposted by Patrick JacksonI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026The 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. 228970
Reposted by Patrick JacksonMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026This 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. 10706503120327
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026One 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. 120
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The 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 1113
Reposted by Patrick JacksonBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I’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 43212
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Nitazoxanide is a drug perpetually in search of an indication 120
Reposted by Patrick Jacksonkrat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 24/06/2026You know what. Don't look on my works. Fuck you. You don't deserve them. Despairing ass. 2759
Reposted by Patrick JacksonMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026NIH 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. 🧵nature.comInside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grantsMandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo. 9541384
Reposted by Patrick JacksonIndivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Interested in taking action? Contribute here:paypal.comGroceries for our Immigrant NeighborsHelp Sin Barreras Without Barriers Inc. reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends. 043
Reposted by Patrick JacksonIndivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Join 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.indivisiblecharlottesville.orgImmigrant Food Insecurity Forum — Indivisible CharlottesvilleMany 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... 186
Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The 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. 090
Reposted by Patrick Jacksonthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time 419200953536
Reposted by Patrick JacksonDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Musk'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. 421578480
Reposted by Patrick JacksonThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/06/2026Mom Casually Mentions Her Bunco Group Threw Molotov Cocktails At ICE Last Week theonion.com/mom-casually-mentions-… 515639729