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Jason Rasgon

@vectorgen.bsky.social

Mosquitoes, 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

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Is Kristi Noem's Mara-Lago face reversible or is that shit permanent?

05.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin

05.03.2026 20:01 — 👍 2566    🔁 402    💬 63    📌 25

This is one thing I do not understand. MAHA/MAGA thinks if they live healthy they won't get sick.

Have you seen these utter pork chops at any trump rally? I'm amazed they don't collapse from heart failure right then and there

05.03.2026 12:26 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Merchant Marine, then airplane mechanic

04.03.2026 23:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just me, filing a patent, as one does.

04.03.2026 21:58 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am going to get this fucking paper submitted by end of week.

Hold me to this.

04.03.2026 21:54 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When all this nonsense started a year or so ago I had many colleagues who said they weren't going to waste their time writing grants.

I doubled and tripled up.

One of these strategies is a guaranteed loser. The other is just a crapshoot, same as it ever was.

04.03.2026 13:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly, while everyone's fixated on Texas, the most promising news for Democratic chances in the Senate is what happened in North Carolina, where Democrat Roy Cooper got 758,808 votes compared to the 625,667 votes for all Republican candidates combined.

04.03.2026 13:04 — 👍 122    🔁 37    💬 6    📌 2

total bloodbath.

every dem who is trying to be or appear more moderate bc they think it will help them win should take notes. the right is irrelevant do not appeal to them.

04.03.2026 05:59 — 👍 83    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 2

Maybe. I'm not surprised by anything anymore

03.03.2026 23:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quacks on the section is a different issue than sections being evaluated and potentially changed

03.03.2026 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to try new things " ALT: a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words " maybe it 's time to try new things "
03.03.2026 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This happens all the time no? The 2 sections I submitted to were both evaluated in 2022. Both eliminated. One was replaced with a reasonable new section, the other one was not replaced and is gone forever

03.03.2026 20:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Lololol

02.03.2026 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Decision pending

02.03.2026 20:37 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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And my other senator is fucking Dave McCormick. What an asshole

01.03.2026 23:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Too bad my Democratic representative is fucking @fetterman.senate.gov. What an asshole

01.03.2026 23:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am fully aware of how everyone talks all the time about how their particular kind of research, their particular kind of researcher, their topic of interest, their job type etc etc is under specific threat. and how downturns in NIH success will surely kill their fav thing of interest.

27.02.2026 21:56 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ongoing review of what NIH funds via Reporter, year in and year out, fails to support the catastrophic predictions we have heard from all constituencies for at least the past 30 years.

It's not just my opinion.

27.02.2026 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Are you not doing this already?

26.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

25.02.2026 01:59 — 👍 8302    🔁 1771    💬 93    📌 90

Lots of publishing tips in that list

26.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/vect...

26.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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26.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Same I was a first year

26.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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26.02.2026 13:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a little girl in a red and purple dress is saying stop it !! ALT: a little girl in a red and purple dress is saying stop it !!
26.02.2026 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right? I saw MIB in the theater and...wait.

Shit.

26.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Matrix is a recent movie. Why, I saw it in the theater just a...few...years ago....

Shit.

26.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

everyone in this fucking administration spends their days sitting around trying to think of new ways to kill more americans

25.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 392    🔁 62    💬 15    📌 0