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
rasgonlab.wordpress.com
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Mamdani called Trump and chewed him out! Did any other Democrat have the integrity and guts to do that? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/mamdani-trump-venezuela-maduro.html?smid=url-share
Mamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Mamdani called Trump and chewed him out! Did any other Democrat have the integrity and guts to do that? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/mamdani-trump-venezuela-maduro.html?smid=url-share
WTAF
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
WTAF
People underestimate just how large mosquito populations can be...
Wrote something about utterly adorable spiders quietly annihilating disease-spreading mosquitoes.
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #spidersky #wildlife #cities
medium.com/insectsandth...
#bugsky #spidersky #wildlife #cities
Could the world’s cutest spiders aid the fight against a tropical disease?
Brazilian research suggests jumping spiders are more than popular pets — they prey on mosquitoes linked to dengue transmission in cities.
medium.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
People underestimate just how large mosquito populations can be...
If James Cameron had taken 5% of his special effects budget and put it into script and story development he would have had a great movie.
Avatar Fire and Ash: Visually, I give it a 9. As a movie I rate it a solid meh.
Avatar Fire and Ash: Visually, I give it a 9. As a movie I rate it a solid meh.
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If James Cameron had taken 5% of his special effects budget and put it into script and story development he would have had a great movie.
Avatar Fire and Ash: Visually, I give it a 9. As a movie I rate it a solid meh.
Avatar Fire and Ash: Visually, I give it a 9. As a movie I rate it a solid meh.
Crap I have to start putting my lectures together for teaching...
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Crap I have to start putting my lectures together for teaching...
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just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too
“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
just want to remind folks that pushback and public outrage stopped them from closing the CDC library. i bet pushback will stop them here, too
For those telling me that this is just an automated email:
I. DON'T. CARE.
Shut off the automated emails until the holidays are over.
I. DON'T. CARE.
Shut off the automated emails until the holidays are over.
Thinking long and hard about declining a manuscript review because they sent it to me on December 30, and when I didn't respond I got a personal follow up from the editorial staff at...
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
January 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
For those telling me that this is just an automated email:
I. DON'T. CARE.
Shut off the automated emails until the holidays are over.
I. DON'T. CARE.
Shut off the automated emails until the holidays are over.
I'm still here mutherf*kkers...
🧪A few more hours to go…
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM
I'm still here mutherf*kkers...
I can't wait to see what Eldritch horrors await us in this, the year of our lord, 2026
January 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I can't wait to see what Eldritch horrors await us in this, the year of our lord, 2026
Thinking long and hard about declining a manuscript review because they sent it to me on December 30, and when I didn't respond I got a personal follow up from the editorial staff at...
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
January 1, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Thinking long and hard about declining a manuscript review because they sent it to me on December 30, and when I didn't respond I got a personal follow up from the editorial staff at...
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
1:45 am NEW YEARS DAY.
@plos.org , do better for god's sake. I ain't even touching this until January 5.
Been trying various non-alcoholic liquors lately. Non-alcoholic whisky just doesn't work but i;m drinking a NA gin collins right now and if I didn't see it being made with my own eyes I would swear it was standard. I think gin has to be the best liquor to go non-alcoholic with
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Been trying various non-alcoholic liquors lately. Non-alcoholic whisky just doesn't work but i;m drinking a NA gin collins right now and if I didn't see it being made with my own eyes I would swear it was standard. I think gin has to be the best liquor to go non-alcoholic with
Why does the most interesting science stuff happen during the last week of the year when everyone I need to speak with about it is gone?
Deep Breaths Efe Omowale GIF
ALT: Deep Breaths Efe Omowale GIF
media.tenor.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Why does the most interesting science stuff happen during the last week of the year when everyone I need to speak with about it is gone?
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
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The videos show male mosquitoes trying to bite me. My skin was too thick for them to pierce but they sure did try! You'll see in the paper that they can feed successfully under some conditions.
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The videos show male mosquitoes trying to bite me. My skin was too thick for them to pierce but they sure did try! You'll see in the paper that they can feed successfully under some conditions.
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The long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite may not be true after all.
Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite may not be true after all.
Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
This person jas obviously never experienced Altoona-style pizza...
December 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This person jas obviously never experienced Altoona-style pizza...
Never read the comment section...
December 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Never read the comment section...
This is not snow. It's ice.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is not snow. It's ice.
Are you people insane?
Why America’s fastest-growing churches don’t get political
The economics of megachurches
Why America’s fastest-growing churches don’t get political
econ.st
December 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Are you people insane?
I just found out i'm supposed to be able to get a gift from the University catalogue every 5 years of employment
a man in a suit is holding a rosary and says " i am owed "
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a rosary and says " i am owed "
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I just found out i'm supposed to be able to get a gift from the University catalogue every 5 years of employment
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Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄
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Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal
Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other
country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million
more have inadequate access to c...
www.thelancet.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal