Rogan Grant
@rogangrant.bsky.social
Schmidt Science Fellow in the Chandel laboratory at Northwestern University studying the intersection of mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation. Brain tissue studying brain tissue.
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It would be great to find out if Patel is still sending new agents to the Holocaust Museum as part of their training. We went in the first week and after seeing the museum had a discussion about complicity and law enforcement that was led by someone from the ADL. This was started in 2001 by Freeh.
Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice
October 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It would be great to find out if Patel is still sending new agents to the Holocaust Museum as part of their training. We went in the first week and after seeing the museum had a discussion about complicity and law enforcement that was led by someone from the ADL. This was started in 2001 by Freeh.
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Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures!
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures!
🧵
August 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures!
🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures!
🧵
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Absolutely nothing could every justify this. DHS revokes status for CURRENT foreign exchange students, blocks future enrollment www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct | Homeland Security
Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
www.dhs.gov
May 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Absolutely nothing could every justify this. DHS revokes status for CURRENT foreign exchange students, blocks future enrollment www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...
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NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
May 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
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Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
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Co-sign (as a cis het white man whose father went to college.)
The broad classes of science and scholars lumped under “DEI” has been some of the most productive and insightful we have seen in medicine with huge benefits throughout the system
The broad classes of science and scholars lumped under “DEI” has been some of the most productive and insightful we have seen in medicine with huge benefits throughout the system
There’s a lot of talk about how philanthropists could help keep science afloat and rebuild trust as The Regime tears it apart. If any of these people were listening to me, and I have no idea why they would, but I’ll try nonetheless:
Start with DEI. Protect scholars who do this work.
Start with DEI. Protect scholars who do this work.
May 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Co-sign (as a cis het white man whose father went to college.)
The broad classes of science and scholars lumped under “DEI” has been some of the most productive and insightful we have seen in medicine with huge benefits throughout the system
The broad classes of science and scholars lumped under “DEI” has been some of the most productive and insightful we have seen in medicine with huge benefits throughout the system
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"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Having a hard time processing this. HHMI is pausing all competitions. Very demoralizing for early career scientists like me @hhmi.org
May 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"
Meanwhile, private foundations:
Meanwhile, private foundations:
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i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'
April 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
i'm just a senior postdoc, standing in front of a career that i have worked really hard for, asking higher education in the united states to not completely implode in front of my eyes before i even get a chance to say the words 'my lab studies'
Low-level processing of spatial transcriptomics data has me re-learning geometry and linear algebra and I am not terribly happy about it
April 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Low-level processing of spatial transcriptomics data has me re-learning geometry and linear algebra and I am not terribly happy about it
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Absolutely brutal and hilarious takedown of Bill Maher from the one and only Larry David.
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Absolutely brutal and hilarious takedown of Bill Maher from the one and only Larry David.
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Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
April 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side
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Very thankful to Haverford for standing up, considering their only superdonor is a prominent member of the administration. Do better, UW.
Good to see Rutgers and Georgetown supporting this effort.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
Lots of liberal arts colleges and Catholic universities.
Ivies remain AWOL. Embarrassing.
April 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Very thankful to Haverford for standing up, considering their only superdonor is a prominent member of the administration. Do better, UW.
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Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
April 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Excited to share our preprint on the molecular architecture of heterochromatin in human cells 🧬🔬w/ @jpkreysing.bsky.social, @johannesbetz.bsky.social,
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
@marinalusic.bsky.social, Turoňová lab, @hummerlab.bsky.social @becklab.bsky.social @mpibp.bsky.social
🔗 Preprint here tinyurl.com/3a74uanv
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
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Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov
April 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?
Trumpism has turned out to be DEI for people with immense privilege who failed entirely on their own merits and punishment for those with a modicum of success
April 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Trumpism has turned out to be DEI for people with immense privilege who failed entirely on their own merits and punishment for those with a modicum of success
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We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
Is it possible to short an index fund?
April 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Is it possible to short an index fund?
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We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...
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The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers
https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK
https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
go.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The massive changes in US research brought about by the new administration of President Donald Trump are causing many scientists in the country to rethink their lives and careers
https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK
https://go.nature.com/41OhAgK
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White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.