@grumpyoldscientist.bsky.social
Recovering federal regulator, molecular biologist, serious dog person
Brendan Loper, New Yorker.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Brendan Loper, New Yorker.
Maybe she played/watched too much Tomb Raider?
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Maybe she played/watched too much Tomb Raider?
Too much TV? Too many video games? Or is he just nuts?
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Too much TV? Too many video games? Or is he just nuts?
This
October 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This
Seen in DC
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Seen in DC
Given the “unscheduled disassembly “ currently going on at the White House, I offer a quote from the Roosevelt memorial in DC.
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Given the “unscheduled disassembly “ currently going on at the White House, I offer a quote from the Roosevelt memorial in DC.
All those arrows should be two sided. I used to say God is 3 in 1, like the oil.
October 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
All those arrows should be two sided. I used to say God is 3 in 1, like the oil.
FDA is planning on Tuskegee style clinical trials, so this modification of practice of medicine must be next.
October 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
FDA is planning on Tuskegee style clinical trials, so this modification of practice of medicine must be next.
And biggest joy: traumatizing federal workers. Second biggest: reducing the administrative state to ashes without a backup plan.
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
And biggest joy: traumatizing federal workers. Second biggest: reducing the administrative state to ashes without a backup plan.
Ambitious discussion about what it would take to bring manufacturing of finished drugs and APIs in the US. Good ideas, resource intensive. While in the background Vought talks about mass firings. ( furrows brow)
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Ambitious discussion about what it would take to bring manufacturing of finished drugs and APIs in the US. Good ideas, resource intensive. While in the background Vought talks about mass firings. ( furrows brow)
Takes one to know one, I guess.
August 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Takes one to know one, I guess.
We must find the wokeness where ever it may be. There is no enterprise that should not have our scrutiny. And, like his vendetta against colleges, it is not specific, all enterprises must shudder before his might. Even Cracker Barrel.
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
We must find the wokeness where ever it may be. There is no enterprise that should not have our scrutiny. And, like his vendetta against colleges, it is not specific, all enterprises must shudder before his might. Even Cracker Barrel.
Category 5 hurricanes. 43 in last 100 years, 11 since 2016. Not normally distributed.
Whatever can be causing this?
Whatever can be causing this?
August 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Category 5 hurricanes. 43 in last 100 years, 11 since 2016. Not normally distributed.
Whatever can be causing this?
Whatever can be causing this?
We may be losing the war on fascism, but have the more clever memes.
August 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We may be losing the war on fascism, but have the more clever memes.
New DC flag
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
New DC flag
Cartoon by Dwayne Booth aka Mr. Fish
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Cartoon by Dwayne Booth aka Mr. Fish
Guess we just stopped discussing.
August 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Guess we just stopped discussing.
I watched the whole WS. 1) the FDA stuff was from pre Trump RRR/alternate model stuff, and their new initiative is only for mAb. 2) the NIH person seems to be an evangelist for removing animals 3) model organisms seem to be included in NAMs. See below. 4) messaging has been egregiously bad.
July 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I watched the whole WS. 1) the FDA stuff was from pre Trump RRR/alternate model stuff, and their new initiative is only for mAb. 2) the NIH person seems to be an evangelist for removing animals 3) model organisms seem to be included in NAMs. See below. 4) messaging has been egregiously bad.
Someone should add this.
July 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Someone should add this.
Well, some of the stuff one finds about it is funny. Not much admittedly.
July 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Well, some of the stuff one finds about it is funny. Not much admittedly.
The sweet spot of dystopia. If we are not there yet, we are approaching rapidly.
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The sweet spot of dystopia. If we are not there yet, we are approaching rapidly.