New accepted manuscript (preprint) on the evolution, phylogenetic types, expression, and fxns of a male-killing gene from a phage in a common endosymbiont of animals. Credit to many lab coauthors and led by Dr. Emilie Lefoulon. Lots of fun and insights in this one. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Lol

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

I'm currently teaching a class for new graduate students. We were talking about vaccines & pandemics today. One of the students mentioned that when COVID started they were a junior in high school. I thought "that can't right, you're a grad student!" Then I did the math and died a little inside

The damage is done

For no particular reason... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"We are currently clean on OPSEC"

Spent the afternoon writing my lecture for tomorrows class. Fell down a rabbit hole and now we'll be talking about something completely different than what I was originally planning on talking about

the biggest lesson of the last seventy-five years of politics is that the democrats should have done a lot more ratfucking

$3.87 billion SO FAR....

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Hiawatha paddle boat

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Key finding #5: Potential for dengue virus strain selection following Wolbachia interventions, with selection for few strains with a high average relative dissemination 📈

Key finding #4: Differential Wolbachia inhibition results in increased probability of dengue virus reemergence, particularly in high transmission intensity settings 💻

Key finding #3: Differential inhibition of the four dengue virus serotypes, with the least inhibition of many DENV-3 isolates in both Wolbachia strains 🧬

📢New preprint on the impact of dengue virus genetic diversity on inhibition by Wolbachia 🦟🦠🧬 Project led by Afeez Sodeinde, @emiliefinch.bsky.social, and @keli5734.bsky.social! ✨ Key findings in thread below 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Goddammit Fetterman

*Laughs in Penn State*

So can I ask for all reviewers who don't like my papers to be fired? Or nah?

Brandy Sazarac FTW

Confusion on the six-application limit at NIH drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/c...

Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. They’ll issue their own vaccine recommendations & coordinate public health efforts. Photo: @luckytran.com 🧪 www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...

My faculty career is old enough to drink

New preprint from @pearg.bsky.social showing that heat hardening can enhance heat tolerance in mosquitoes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Discoveries like this prove that there are always exciting finds in nature, and they can be found right on your doorstep,"

It's grant writing time again. Let's get cracking!

again this one incident is an abuse of power that would have been impeachable and grounds for removal from office for any other POTUS

The Trump Administration on Epstein: A Timeline 1) Release the list 2) The list is on our desk 3) There is no list 4) The list was fabricated by Democrats 5) Only Jeffrey Epstein is on the list

🦟 New study from @vectorgen.bsky.social and colleagues: Natural populations of Culex tarsalis (West Nile virus vector) show clear links between host genetics, geography & microbiome structure. 🌍 Microbiota clusters may help explain variation in disease transmission. 🔗Read more:

I have a submitted manuscript that's been sitting with the editor for almost a month. I'm about to pull it...

I'm writing up final report for the NSF EDGE ReMOT grant. ReMOT control (& related techniques DIPA and SYNCAS) have been successfully used in over 30 species across the tree of life (half still unpublished). Ovary targeting ligands have been developed for another 19 species! Its been an insane 10yrs

OPEN INVITATION to the One Health Microbiome Symposium, May 13-14, 2026!! This is not your typical siloed topic conference. It unifies diverse research fields in microbiome science across Ag, Envtl, and Human Health. 1/n www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-one-h...

JFC

A huge shoutout to all the dedicated grants management specialists at the NIH who are working around the clock to push grants out before the Sep 30 deadline. And also to the POs responding to frantic emails. Not an easy job under the best of circumstances and right now it's the pits. Thank you!

Drinking grog for my nightly cocktail. This stuff is dangerous

ReMOT Control reagents are now available on @addgene.bsky.social! Go git 'em! www.addgene.org/Jason_Rasgon

When you support Free Speech but only for your self what you're for is your own untrammeled power.

my friend Darren said all AI sounds like Crow’s Rutherford B. Hayes report; he’s right

Life in academia according to autobiographies of Nobel laureates

A bluetorial on NIH funding and out year commitments: A historical perspective

Looking for pawpaws

Here me out but I think the problem is guns

I think Foundation is one of the best science fiction shows in the last 20 years. Yes, if you expect it to follow the books you;re going to be upset. But if you look at it as an independent work with shared themes to Asimov's story it's phenomenal. Looking forward to season 4!

So. The shooter was a Nick Fuentes, stan. Colour me shocked. 🙄

This is the shit they’re defunding. Scientists can make your teeth see so you can get back to balling and they want to take that away from you forever

DAPI staining is for cowards