If you're working on home lesson plans for your kids -- or just stuck at home watching bowling re-runs -- here's a link to all the content from our #MOOC on epidemics: .On Coursera: On Youtube:

Hey @DaveMcCormickPA -- Trump's announcement of 15% indirects on NIH grants reneges on $1.22b in contracts with PA universities and businesses. That's money not going into salaries for Pennsylvanians. You might consider pushing back on that.

Hey @CongressmanGT -- Trumps announcement of 15% indirect rate on NIH grants reneges on $122 million in contracts with Penn State . the largest employer in your district. That seems like something you might want to push back on.

Hey @SenFettermanPA and @CongressmanGT USAID supports Pennsylvanians. If you support Pennsylvanians, you should support USAID. image credit: @jsplaceholder.bsky.social

Dear @CongressmanGT .Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district received $89m in funding from NSF in 2024. That $ paid for salaries, state income tax, rents, property taxes, and sales taxes. Federal shut downs hurt PA communities and cost PA jobs.

This paper is finally out!!.

NIH RePORTER gives a higher number: $2.8b.

Dear @CongressmanGT, .The Commonwealth receives $2.8b in NIH funding. PA-15 receives $122m. That pays salaries, state income taxes, rents, property taxes, sales taxes in your district. Please stand up for Pennsylvanians.

Hey, @SenFettermanPA @DaveMcCormickPA .Pennsylvania receives $2.23b in NIH funding that pays salaries, state income taxes, rents, property taxes and sales taxes in the Commonwealth.

If Lucy can do it, so can you

Coming to Penn State v. Ohio State with a bunch of red hats . yeah, that makes sense.

this place has officially become Icanhascheezburger.

It's time again to have that harm reduction conversation.

Fall weekends in PA are deeply underrated.

Whether in industry, academia, or government, "leadership" has become a title to defend rather than an activity to be carried out. We all suffer the consequences through stagnation, at best, and exploitation, at worst.

I’m just going to let them lie

After a very stimulating visit to ⁦@ciddpsu⁩ seminar to hear Dr. Liliana Salvador talk about bovine TB, Lucy is taking a well deserved nap.

talking with a colleague this AM and we described academia as a nearly insurmountable obstacle course full of barriers that we put in front of ourselves.

I mean, I can see a more permanent solution: "The PNAS Editorial Board to ask for your [temporary] assistance . The Editorial Board occasionally seeks experts outside of the NAS to serve as editors . when there is not adequate representation within the Academy.".

When there’s only one really good sunbeam, we put aside petty differences.

Is Halloween still on the 31st, or did someone move it up a couple of weeks?.