Michelle Franc Ragsac, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸
@mragsac.com
👩🏽💻 #FilipinoAmerican Postdoc 🧪 @ https://amariutalab.org studying #PediatricAsthma • #Bioinformatics PhD, PI: Emma Farley 💻🧬 & #Bioengineering BS, PI: Terry Gaasterland from @ucsandiego.bsky.social ☀️ • #InvisibleDisability 🌻 • She/Hers
Personal Account! ✨
Personal Account! ✨
Thanks!! ❤️
It’s a little scary but also super cool 😭 I’ve watched a few surgery videos for this procedure to see how it works and whatnot … and it’s amazing what modern medicine has to offer!! 🙌🏽 🏥
It’s a little scary but also super cool 😭 I’ve watched a few surgery videos for this procedure to see how it works and whatnot … and it’s amazing what modern medicine has to offer!! 🙌🏽 🏥
January 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Thanks!! ❤️
It’s a little scary but also super cool 😭 I’ve watched a few surgery videos for this procedure to see how it works and whatnot … and it’s amazing what modern medicine has to offer!! 🙌🏽 🏥
It’s a little scary but also super cool 😭 I’ve watched a few surgery videos for this procedure to see how it works and whatnot … and it’s amazing what modern medicine has to offer!! 🙌🏽 🏥
Finished my appointment! It went well and my provider was able to address a lot of the concerns I had 🥹❤️
I have to do another diagnostic ultrasound to determine how the laparoscopy will be performed—like if they need to use the surgical robot—but after that, I’ll (hopefully) have closure! 😭✨
I have to do another diagnostic ultrasound to determine how the laparoscopy will be performed—like if they need to use the surgical robot—but after that, I’ll (hopefully) have closure! 😭✨
January 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Finished my appointment! It went well and my provider was able to address a lot of the concerns I had 🥹❤️
I have to do another diagnostic ultrasound to determine how the laparoscopy will be performed—like if they need to use the surgical robot—but after that, I’ll (hopefully) have closure! 😭✨
I have to do another diagnostic ultrasound to determine how the laparoscopy will be performed—like if they need to use the surgical robot—but after that, I’ll (hopefully) have closure! 😭✨
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Lolll....
"Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"
"Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"
"Seré muy clara: la Isla Epstein es nuestra", ha afirmado la primera ministra danesa esta mañana en una rueda de prensa.
Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dina...
Lee la noticia completa en la web:
www.elmundotoday.com/2026/01/dina...
January 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Lolll....
"Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"
"Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"
Thank you so much from across the internet! 🥹
I hope you’re staying warm where you are and that things are going smoothly for your degree program! 🙌🏽✨
I hope you’re staying warm where you are and that things are going smoothly for your degree program! 🙌🏽✨
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Thank you so much from across the internet! 🥹
I hope you’re staying warm where you are and that things are going smoothly for your degree program! 🙌🏽✨
I hope you’re staying warm where you are and that things are going smoothly for your degree program! 🙌🏽✨
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Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity
January 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity
Thank you for bringing this tool to my feed! I didn’t know about @paper-feed.bsky.social but it’s super cool 🤩✨ I’m looking forward to using it!
Great job to the team! And amazing work! 🎉 ❤️
Great job to the team! And amazing work! 🎉 ❤️
January 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Thank you for bringing this tool to my feed! I didn’t know about @paper-feed.bsky.social but it’s super cool 🤩✨ I’m looking forward to using it!
Great job to the team! And amazing work! 🎉 ❤️
Great job to the team! And amazing work! 🎉 ❤️
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You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.
My appointment with the @ucsdhealth.bsky.social MIGS surgeon is TODAY ✨ 🙌🏽 🏥
Super duper nervous but also excited at the prospect of potentially getting rid of #Endometriosis legions that might be causing me all this chronic pain 🥹
#InvisibleIllness🌻 #WomensHealth ❤️
Super duper nervous but also excited at the prospect of potentially getting rid of #Endometriosis legions that might be causing me all this chronic pain 🥹
#InvisibleIllness🌻 #WomensHealth ❤️
January 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
My appointment with the @ucsdhealth.bsky.social MIGS surgeon is TODAY ✨ 🙌🏽 🏥
Super duper nervous but also excited at the prospect of potentially getting rid of #Endometriosis legions that might be causing me all this chronic pain 🥹
#InvisibleIllness🌻 #WomensHealth ❤️
Super duper nervous but also excited at the prospect of potentially getting rid of #Endometriosis legions that might be causing me all this chronic pain 🥹
#InvisibleIllness🌻 #WomensHealth ❤️
Oh goodness—you know you’re a regular at your local coffee shop if they have your drink ready by the time you get to the cashier 😭 🫣
Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)
Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)
January 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Oh goodness—you know you’re a regular at your local coffee shop if they have your drink ready by the time you get to the cashier 😭 🫣
Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)
Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)
I got an initial appointment for second week of January! 😭 🙌🏽 So excited but also really nervous to meet the surgeon 😵💫
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I got an initial appointment for second week of January! 😭 🙌🏽 So excited but also really nervous to meet the surgeon 😵💫
This is super cool! I made a profile and look forward to using it -- but I am currently having issues with adding information to my profile though ... 😅
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This is super cool! I made a profile and look forward to using it -- but I am currently having issues with adding information to my profile though ... 😅
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
I like to think of the better short-form video content as informative commercials that get me (or my parents) interested in something so that we can look up more details later! ✨
There is good content out there that people invest lots of time in making ... not everything important has to be dull 🥲
There is good content out there that people invest lots of time in making ... not everything important has to be dull 🥲
December 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I like to think of the better short-form video content as informative commercials that get me (or my parents) interested in something so that we can look up more details later! ✨
There is good content out there that people invest lots of time in making ... not everything important has to be dull 🥲
There is good content out there that people invest lots of time in making ... not everything important has to be dull 🥲
For those interested in attending a workshop like this, there's actually another session by @sciline.org coming up this coming Thursday that I'll also be tuning in for! 👀 🧪 ✨ It's also free 💸
🌐 Registration Link: www.sciline.org/learn/scient... 🙌🏽
🌐 Registration Link: www.sciline.org/learn/scient... 🙌🏽
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For those interested in attending a workshop like this, there's actually another session by @sciline.org coming up this coming Thursday that I'll also be tuning in for! 👀 🧪 ✨ It's also free 💸
🌐 Registration Link: www.sciline.org/learn/scient... 🙌🏽
🌐 Registration Link: www.sciline.org/learn/scient... 🙌🏽
Attended this course led by @drtoriespy.bsky.social and it was cool to learn about how to talk about science with journalists 🎙️ 📰 🧪
🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩
🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩
Scientific experts—want to improve your media skills? Register for our no-cost course, Understanding the media, being held on Zoom on 12/16 at 2 p.m. ET. bit.ly/4apr2Mj
@aaas.org
@aaas.org
Understanding the media: A starter guide for scientists - SciLine
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Attended this course led by @drtoriespy.bsky.social and it was cool to learn about how to talk about science with journalists 🎙️ 📰 🧪
🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩
🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩
I hope that things resolve soon and that the inflammation goes down! 😭 🫂
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I hope that things resolve soon and that the inflammation goes down! 😭 🫂
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Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!
Congratulations on finishing the project !! Seeing your post and the admission that Rust 🦀 is HARD is so validating 🥲 😭
Every year I tell myself I'll sit down for a few weeks to "really" learn Rust and every year I'm so intimidated 🫠
Every year I tell myself I'll sit down for a few weeks to "really" learn Rust and every year I'm so intimidated 🫠
December 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Congratulations on finishing the project !! Seeing your post and the admission that Rust 🦀 is HARD is so validating 🥲 😭
Every year I tell myself I'll sit down for a few weeks to "really" learn Rust and every year I'm so intimidated 🫠
Every year I tell myself I'll sit down for a few weeks to "really" learn Rust and every year I'm so intimidated 🫠
Oh gosh, yeah ... I tried Threads briefly and ended up deleting my account because it really did feel like screaming into a void unless I optimized for the algorithm ... 🫠
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oh gosh, yeah ... I tried Threads briefly and ended up deleting my account because it really did feel like screaming into a void unless I optimized for the algorithm ... 🫠
Oh wow this font looks great !! Thank you for sharing 🤩
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Oh wow this font looks great !! Thank you for sharing 🤩
I wasn't able to get in for an initial appointment until next March 2026, but it's progress! 😅
The abdominal pain has been relatively terrible these days to the point of making me light-headed and nauseous 24/7 ... but I've just been pushing through to get analyses 🧪 💻 🧬 done as best I can 🥲 🫠 😭
The abdominal pain has been relatively terrible these days to the point of making me light-headed and nauseous 24/7 ... but I've just been pushing through to get analyses 🧪 💻 🧬 done as best I can 🥲 🫠 😭
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wasn't able to get in for an initial appointment until next March 2026, but it's progress! 😅
The abdominal pain has been relatively terrible these days to the point of making me light-headed and nauseous 24/7 ... but I've just been pushing through to get analyses 🧪 💻 🧬 done as best I can 🥲 🫠 😭
The abdominal pain has been relatively terrible these days to the point of making me light-headed and nauseous 24/7 ... but I've just been pushing through to get analyses 🧪 💻 🧬 done as best I can 🥲 🫠 😭
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All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
December 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
At @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I had to take some art classes! I ended up taking Theater Design then Advanced Costume Design with the amazing Judith Dolan 🤩✨
Learning about fabrics and waves then definitely influences my clothing purchases nowadays, while graphic design helps with figure creation 🧪🥹🎨
Learning about fabrics and waves then definitely influences my clothing purchases nowadays, while graphic design helps with figure creation 🧪🥹🎨
December 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
At @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I had to take some art classes! I ended up taking Theater Design then Advanced Costume Design with the amazing Judith Dolan 🤩✨
Learning about fabrics and waves then definitely influences my clothing purchases nowadays, while graphic design helps with figure creation 🧪🥹🎨
Learning about fabrics and waves then definitely influences my clothing purchases nowadays, while graphic design helps with figure creation 🧪🥹🎨
OMG I was trying to remember the name of this podcast for the longest time 🤯
Thank you so much for sharing this recent episode by @ifbookspod.bsky.social 🥹 I'm looking forward to listening to this one along with several others that people have recommended!
Thank you so much for sharing this recent episode by @ifbookspod.bsky.social 🥹 I'm looking forward to listening to this one along with several others that people have recommended!
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
OMG I was trying to remember the name of this podcast for the longest time 🤯
Thank you so much for sharing this recent episode by @ifbookspod.bsky.social 🥹 I'm looking forward to listening to this one along with several others that people have recommended!
Thank you so much for sharing this recent episode by @ifbookspod.bsky.social 🥹 I'm looking forward to listening to this one along with several others that people have recommended!