Eric Lofgren

“COVID can’t be that serious, it’s not like there are bodies in the street.”

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

I love the rotation system we have here at WSU, but between that and admissions, it's always sort of a funny time of year for planning.

"Roll a d3 for the number of graduate students in your lab next semester."

I feel like y'all have a fundraising opportunity...

Honestly this video is horrifying *before* you think about how these creators have the gall to spout this nonsense and then claim to have a Ghibli aesthetic.

But after you realize that, it’s downright repulsive.

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

Thanks Fer

The best dog in the world napping on a teal dog bed.

2025 continues to be the worst fucking year. Everyone hug your pets and give them an extra treat for me please.

On at least one project I've been on, partners were *very* wary of relying on stuff from Chan-Zuckerberg.

Looks like they were right in retrospect.

Microsoft apparently got jealous of all the press Amazon was getting.

Truly the universal phrase of the field

DARPA: “We designed a decentralized communications platform resistant to attacks at a single point of failure.”

Amazon: “Hold my triple hop microbrew IPA.”

As a moderator in a very gamer-heavy online space, this is so very, very true.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

Please stop making rural hospitals political pawns. Treating rural hospitals as political currency sends a message that rural communities do not matter, hardens already large divides, and punishes populations that are far more diverse than most on social media would like to acknowledge.

The veterinary field gives us a preview of how this will play out— with no major federal funding for companion animal medicine, potential return on investment dictates what is or is not researched and developed. It’s one of the reasons we have far fewer drugs licensed for cats than dogs.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Nina and I are currently working on a retrospective on this

Covid has killed ~5-6x the number of people this year as those who died in 9-11. Both are heartbreaking, ❤️‍🩹 but only one is grieved publicly. The other is barely noticed & declared over

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

But...
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I cannot imagine someone who would be more opposed to this than Orson Welles.

A graph of Nate Silver being very wrong about COVID-19 and how public health professionals are overreacting.

Oh Nate...

I once explained to someone that if any study I ran had results like this, it would be the highlight of my career.

Carlpocalypse Now?

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

🧵There's a lot of talk today to the effect that "public health shouldn't be political," & with respect:

The notion that government has a responsibility to guide & support the health of every last resident, regardless of background, status, & to some extent even citizenship, is PROFOUNDLY political.

I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you.

Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.

We’re with you.

You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.

Just call Congress. I am asking you to do that for the women in your life, if not for public health. You don't even need to find a script or write down what you're going to say before you call. Hell, you don't even need to shave your nasty little beard before you take a video and post it on Bluesky.