Jason Rasgon

I think it'll be 7-2 or 6-3 against Trump. Thomas and Alito definitely gonna vote to eliminate

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The Simpsons already did this.

this is raw Lysenkoism — using one’s status as a government official to create a false equivalence between scientific facts and nonscientific feelings pushed by grifters

Blower died :(

Annd... due to parts, it's not going to be fixed until Monday. Space heaters for the weekend it is

Can I get the FIFA Literature prize for shitposting?

Hi everyone, I wanted to share some sad news about the future of the Verena program. As you know, in September, NSF delayed our annual payment indefinitely, and asked us to keep spending closer and closer to zero until they could “justify” another payment. We began to run out of funds at some universities this month, and will be fully spent out by late spring, so the goal was to get paid in December. We’ve been working with our program officer to make this happen, but sadly, we’ve learned we’re not getting an increment again, and there’s no clarity on when or how much we will be paid in the remainder of the grant (through September 1, 2027). Because of this, the Executive Committee has made the difficult decision to essentially shut the BII down until / unless something changes. What that means is an indefinite end to all programs (e.g., seminar), training activities (integration workshops, trainee corner), and evaluation. On research, what’s able to continue will have to be navigated by each investigator; our goal is to work together to push out all the impactful science we’ve spent three years collecting and analyzing data for, but we also know that priorities may shift around to keep people employed. If we’re lucky, Congress will pass a budget that lets us continue doing something like what we planned, and we’ll pick that back up when Zoe and Collin are back in April. Until then, Verena will continue to exist as a community where we can collaborate (and give and receive support!), and we’re working to find funding sources that can pick up from where the BII left off. On a personal note: it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work with all of you, and an unbelievably lucky thing to get to run an NSF center in my 20s. I’ve loved this project, and I hope it’s made as much of a difference in your lives as it has in mine. In case I don’t see you later: happy holidays, be well, and so long and thanks for all the viruses. Best, Colin

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

Characterization of Anopheles gambiae immune cells through genetic and functional immunophenotyping - Nature Communications Classification of mosquito hemocytes into subtypes has thus far relied on morphological properties. Here, the authors develop new genetic resources that facilitate the visualization and analysis of he...

Our latest work involving the development of genetic markers for mosquito hemocytes and their characterization using spectral imaging flow cytometry. The result is an advanced characterization of mosquito immune cells and the foundation for building genetic tools. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Boom!

Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Many of us need to keep writing federal grants (both for political reasons and as a Hail Mary to keep people employed) despite the feeling it's a waste of time, so... if you got an NSF or NIH grant funded this year, would you mind bragging about it in the replies, so it feels like the odds are >0%?

I bet this will be the opening of the dam and >$500k direct will be increasingly common. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Jamie presenting on Culex tarsalis virome profiling. 🦟

Yay my heater is broken

Social media is bad for nuance

Are you asking me? I don't think that at all.

Lol

Yep. But I don't get paid enough to worry about someone else's job :)

Just do what DS tells you to do and don't waste any more bandwidth on it. If they're "cheating", it's institution-sanctioned cheating and thus not my business

Explains why the gym was so much work this morning

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Feeling kind of shitty and wondering if i'm getting sick, then remembered I had insomnia last night and i've been awake for 36 hours

Yep. Just have the office send me the letter outlining what I need to do. I don't need, nor do I want, any more information than that

From a brutally mercenary viewpoint, I don't get paid to care

People complicate this stuff. If a student has an issue, and they go to the disability office, and get a letter outlining what accomidations they require, its not for me to argue or question it. Its seriously none of my business.

Follow protocol and do your job. Let the students do theirs

My former institution used to tax my direct costs even with >60% overhead. I used to make a big stink about it every time

Yeah. My first 8 years were soft money

No longer

Back when I had hair

Ugh

Yup