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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 10h

The hilarious (sob) thing is when you ask AI about these things it backs up the experts EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 22h

Is there anything more MAGA than the smug arrogance of someone who’s dead wrong but doesn’t realize it yet?

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 11h

I am going to be buried with all my data, like the Pharaohs of old

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I bet he used ChatGPT to research this

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The wrong fucking people have imposter syndrome

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We have a reverse translates already. Nanopore protein sequencer hooked up to a DNA synthesis machine. Where's my prize money?

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All American grant proposals from the last two years are in at least one of those things.... 🙃 (Probably Grok.)

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bought some Ibérico de Bellota today and fed some to my dog while a dood watched me in horror. So I gave her another piece. She deserves it

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, are we posting Bad Faculty Job Interview stories again? Here's my contribution bsky.app/profile/vect...

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The worst part about going bald is that now I get mosquito bites on the top of my head

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

why is this happening 🤦‍♀️

The Love Hypothesis follows the main character graduate student Olive at Stanford University as she pretends to date biology professor Adam Carlsen to convince her friend Anh that her dating life is going well. While trying to convince everyone around them that they are in love, Olive and Adam forget that their feelings are supposed to be fake. 31
~ Characters
• Olive Smith - A third-year biology PhD student at Stanford University who researches pancreatic cancer, the disease her mother died from. She fakes a relationship with Dr. Adam Carlsen to convince her friend Anh she is over her ex-boyfriend, Jeremy. She is based on Rey.
Olive is 26 in the story.
• Dr. Adam Carlsen - A young professor who is described by his students as harsh and hypercritical. The university froze his research funds because they are worried that he is thinking of leaving to a different university.
Adam agreed to fake a relationship with Olive to make the science department believe he plans to stay at Stanford. He is based on Ben Solo and named after his actor, Adam Driver. Adam is 34 in the story.

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Becky Johnson @entomososwin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm very excited to announce that I'll be joining the Entomology Department at Penn State University and starting a lab in the summer of 2027!!! The lab will focus on mosquito biology/physiology and mosquito-host interactions and how these impact viral transmission dynamics. More to come soon! 🎉🦟🔬

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Collins issues statement on rumors of Executive Order taking control of NIH funding - please keep pressure on. There can be no trust here but it is also the case that she should hear that this statement will be welcomed if it is accompanied by action www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/majorit...

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Sen. Collins: OMB Should Not Be Involved in Agency Decisions on Grant Awards | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Certain Bluesky post are so inane the poster shouldn't be allowed to delete them. They should be forced to remain as a testament to idiocy

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Academia: Where someone sends you a work email to your work email address at 7:30 pm on a Saturday and then follows up with a call to your personal cell phone at 9:02 am on Monday morning to ask you to please respond. 🫠

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is exactly it...and it's the Left's kryptonite. This is ESPECIALLY true of scientists who have been taught to think in the grey zone! I know it is uncomfortable, but we all need to fight that urge. Trump is bad. His team is bad. Everything they do is bad. THERE IS NO BABY IN THE BATHWATER.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

5. STAY ON MESSAGE. The message is simple: Trump and his cronies want to destroy the publicly funded scientific ecosystem so they can take the spoils for themselves and their Tech Bros. It’s that simple. None of them are good. You don’t need a nuanced take. You can just say NO!

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Cat Smacks Other Cat in Playful Swat

ALT: Cat Smacks Other Cat in Playful Swat

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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ʙɪɴᴅᴄʀᴀꜰᴛ2 is out, and we're not waiting for the paper. The full code drops today, free for academic and industry use. We're releasing it early so you can start designing right now, and bring its full power to the current Adaptyv competition. github.com/PacesaLab/Bi...

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Until they make a robot that can fuck up a PCR as well as I can i think my job is safe

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PSU does post-tenure review every 5 yrs. Usually just meeting w Dept head. But now University decided to formalize & I have to write a fucking narrative statement Why? Look at my CV. If they think I don't deserve tenure just say that and we'll see how that goes for them... I need a raise anyway

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Split suppression gene drives reveal a design tradeoff between inheritance and reproductive load in Aedes aegypti www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I stop buying food, and fuel, and paying my bills, i'll actually save thousands

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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👀"Germany: Third #malaria death linked to Frankfurt Airport - Two new malaria cases have been registered this week near Frankfurt airport, two months after cases first emerged" 🛬🦟 www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

Screenshot reading "A person living near the Schwanheim district of Frankfurt died of malaria, local authorities said on Thursday. The incident is the third such death after a recent cluster of malaria cases linked to Frankfurt Airport emerged.

Two airport workers died of the disease in July and August.

Malaria is a life-threatening disease transmitted by mosquitoes and causes hundreds of thousands of deaths per year, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is not common in Germany.

Schwanheim district, which borders the airport, registered two new malaria cases on Tuesday this week. Neither of the two infected individuals, both living in different households, had previously visited a malaria-endemic area and they did not work at Frankfurt airport.

Frankfurt health authorities extended their condolences to the relatives of the latest victims and said the two latest cases in the Schwanheim district were linked to an infected Anopheles mosquito that arrived in Germany by plane.

Germany's public health institute, the Robert Koch Institute, said malaria mosquitoes can fly between 5 and 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles). The registered infections occurred some 5 kilometers away from the airport. "

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So, last week my flight back from Europe got canceled, I got stranded in Charlotte, and ended up driving 10 hours back to State College. American Airlines just refunded my canceled flights - CLT to PHL, and PHL to SCE. $45.25. Are you fucking kidding me?? Fucking crooks. All of them.

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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This ...person...(ahem) is the head of Health and Human Services in the USA. Are you wondering why scientists, physicians and citizens are aghast at what is happening to science in USA?

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wait until everyone sees the next preprint we have dropping in the next couple of weeks...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there one (1) conspiracy theory this man does not believe? Like, is Bobby also looking for the lizard king's castle at the heart of Hollow Earth?!?!

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now as i'm getting ready to submit this for formal peer review i'm of course finding and fixing all the typos that I missed before I submitted it to bioRxiv (even though I went through it like 10 times)

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When Calls The Heart: Inevitable

ALT: When Calls The Heart: Inevitable

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This could be a game changer for folks working on arthropods other than Drosophila

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If my virology laboratory must follow federal biosafety guidelines to conduct our research, AI companies should have to do the same.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump inherited the world’s safest asset, the world’s reserve currency, and deepest, best-regulated capital markets — and is destroying all three.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Banger of a new RasgonLab study by Drs. Najmeh Nejat and Travis van Warmerdam on a new arthropod germline CRISPR delivery system. Knock-out AND knock-in by ORAL delivery! No more injections! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction (GEValT)

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's a reason I got an MMR booster the day after RFKjr was confirmed. Any idiot could see this was going to happen

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous". Indeed it is. Given 4 _reported_ deaths from measles and given a 0.1% - 0.3% CFR, the true number of cases - currently reported at 731 - is likely a couple/few thousand. That is big - and 100% vaccine preventable. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

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Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous

The two latest deaths suggest that the true number of infections is much larger than reported.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So nice that facilities is drilling into concrete right outside my office window

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Andy Dunlop Make It Stop

ALT: Andy Dunlop Make It Stop

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026

Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba

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Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.

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