Brian Wasik
brianrwasik.bsky.social
Brian Wasik
@brianrwasik.bsky.social
Virologist. Evolutionary biologist.
Ohhhhhh
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Ohhhhh
He don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life a-gain
Ohhhhh
Whispering hands, gently lead him away
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I still think SWORD OF DOOM will remain my favorite: to play a lead so immoral and cold, yet of such compelling humanity that you invest in each beat.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai.
Every performance was a real gift. So many that I will return to again and again. From leads in RAN and HARA KIRI, to key supporting roles in HIGH AND LOW, and SEVEN SAMURAI.
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Trump take EV car

EVs were on track to take >25% of the market share in 2025.

Animus as policy could well kill the US Auto Industry.
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Gonna keep tapping the 'nostalgia is a toxic drug' sign
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I encourage you to read the whole speech.

Lincoln is wonderfully funny and insightful.

#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here is the key point to #NoKings.

If the Declaration and this noble pluralistic experiment were to be narrowed and abandoned under a white nationalist lie... than having shed a British crown by the Revolution, 'we should not at once be saddled with a King and Lords of our own.'

Never.
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If the Declaration was only meant to free former British subjects from the crown (#NoKings) in meaning of 'all created equal', than it was an absurd farce that ignored and continues to ignore great swaths of Americans.

Lincoln is incensed on behalf of all Americans before, and all to come:
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Lincoln is replying to a recent speech by IL Sen Stephen Douglas on a number of issues. #NoKings

Near the close of the speech you can read that Lincoln has particular issue with Douglas' characterization and diminution of the Declaration. He remarks:
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Defiance is the only true American religion

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Have had a great week-long remote work residency at Virginia Tech with my collaborator team in CS.

Nothing can replace the energy of meeting in person (over a walk, a coffee, a meal) to clarify a project and energize a research team.
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Someone send this woman grass clippings
October 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Its surreal.
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you appoint an incompetent panel of political hacks, you get what you paid for. Good on CDC staff. I expect an absurd blowup from merchant of Death, Bobby.
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A reminder of what is a Kavanaugh Stop

From Kavanaugh concurring in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
October 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
What will shake your conscience? What will rise you from your slumber?
October 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A classic Kavanaugh Stop

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It fall
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
*exclusions apply
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM