2025 America is just gross. Take the many things that made this country an amazing place and just take a shit all over them.

Public health workers being fired for promoting the life-saving power of vaccines.

That’s where we are in 2025.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr is a hack that’s sucking the marrow out of the scientific enterprise and will end up hurting, if not killing, thousands.

Coming back from ASV and trying to settle into normal life like…

Don’t forget to stretch before dancing to avoid serious injuries.

The US is now against gain of function research, loss of function research, or pretty much any functional research.

Time to chase the ivermectin with a shot of bleach.

Remember, it’s always darkest before it goes pitch black.

www.science.org/content/arti... ‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels | Science | AAAS

At some point in everyone’s life you have to make a hard decision: should I go to one more talk or just take a break and chill. #ASV2025

For the ol’ timers here, the award for least good food at an #ASV goes to Montana in 2010. The wraps were all tortilla and not much else (not shown are the string cheese breakfasts).

For those of you wondering about alternative careers in science while the federal government sorts out the funding bit, I know of faculty that have supplemented their income by installing flat screen TVs as a side gig.

One more, for all of you hosers out there, The Tragically Hip are to Canada what IFN is to virology: its ubiquitous and everyone claims to understand it but nobody really does. #ASV2025

I am told poutine is available during some poster sessions at #ASV2025, though this may be only from U Wisconsin posters.

Did anyone else get some Canadian Fentanyl with their #ASV2025 swag or just drink tickets?

What’s up #ASV2025!? My French n’est pas bon, but I know the Quebequois like to thrown tabernac around!