Arjun Rustagi
@arustagi.bsky.social
innate immunity * respiratory microbes * virology * transcriptomics * clinical infectious disease
Assistant Professor at UC San Francisco
website: rustagilab.ucsf.edu
views my own
Assistant Professor at UC San Francisco
website: rustagilab.ucsf.edu
views my own
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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This is a distinction without a difference. If there are no council meetings, funding is still being withheld and reviewer time is being wasted.
UPDATE: NIH CSR will soon be able to publish a small set of Federal Register Notices (FRNs) - 50 or so. The lead time between notice and meeting will be reduced back to 30 days (from 35).
ICs might be allowed to resume publishing FRNs next week. An "indefinite hold" on Councils remains.
ICs might be allowed to resume publishing FRNs next week. An "indefinite hold" on Councils remains.
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.
Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is a distinction without a difference. If there are no council meetings, funding is still being withheld and reviewer time is being wasted.
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It’s becoming apparent to me through multiple conversations with people over the last 3 days that NIH funding mechanisms that have not already gone through review and council will be delayed by AT LEAST 6 months.
February 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s becoming apparent to me through multiple conversations with people over the last 3 days that NIH funding mechanisms that have not already gone through review and council will be delayed by AT LEAST 6 months.
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Reposted by Arjun Rustagi
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Friendly neighborhood political scientist here to remind you that everything is political, including and sometimes especially science. In fact, claiming your vocation is apolitical is itself a political claim with a political goal.
In the wake of the U.S. election, Natl Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt has authored a spot-on editorial in Science, stressing the apolitical nature of science and how it remains vital to informing a lot of public policy. Best read all week!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#scipol 🧪
#scipol 🧪
November 16, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Friendly neighborhood political scientist here to remind you that everything is political, including and sometimes especially science. In fact, claiming your vocation is apolitical is itself a political claim with a political goal.
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When RFK Jr. appeared in Retraction Watch
Salon retracts 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. piece on alleged autism-vaccine link
Salon today retracted a controversial 2005 story by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about an alleged link between autism and thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative formerly used in vaccines. As Salon ex…
retractionwatch.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:47 AM
When RFK Jr. appeared in Retraction Watch
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UPDATE: Nature.com has issued a correction: “Correction 14 November 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that AlphaFold3 is now ‘open source’. This is not the case, as weights for the model can only be accessed upon request, and the code can only be used for non-commercial applications.”
AI protein-prediction tool AlphaFold3 is now more open
The code underlying the Nobel-prize-winning tool for modelling protein structures can now be downloaded by academics.
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:29 PM
UPDATE: Nature.com has issued a correction: “Correction 14 November 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that AlphaFold3 is now ‘open source’. This is not the case, as weights for the model can only be accessed upon request, and the code can only be used for non-commercial applications.”
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November 11, 2024 at 7:18 AM
🦋 New to BlueSky?
🧪 Interested in science?
👀 Wanna find posts by scientists in specific fields?
📃 Here’s a list of +220 science-related feeds and their associated hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🧪 Interested in science?
👀 Wanna find posts by scientists in specific fields?
📃 Here’s a list of +220 science-related feeds and their associated hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky