Allison 🧬⚾️

@petitephd.bsky.social

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Science policy professional. Geneticist. I write about the Mets for @amazinavenue.bsky.social and podcast about them on @apodoftheirown.bsky.social. Women's soccer enjoyer (USWNT & Washington Spirit). Opinions Mine. She/Her

Elevate and Empower Agency Program Officers. The effectiveness of Federal R&D funding depends heavily on agencies’ ability to recruit exceptional program officers and give them genuine discretion to define technical problems, build a research portfolio, and manage toward ambitious outcomes. Agencies should consider approaches for recruiting top scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists into time-limited public service and raising their prestige, visibility, and authority. Agencies should also assess options for reducing barriers to hiring program officers from non-traditional backgrounds, expanding rotational mechanisms such as the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, and developing competitive compensation and career pathways that make program management a career enhancing opportunity for top scientific talent. Agencies should also develop or enforce mechanisms to ensure that conflict of interest policies are strictly followed for all employees involved in funding recommendations and decisions.
A hardcover copy of Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee laying on a grey couch cushion.
The big scoreboard at Citi Field depicting Gotham FC’s crest on the left and Washington Spirit’s crest on the right (disrespectfully missing the Spirit’s star, you may notice). The Mets logo on the Home Run Apple below has been replaced with Gotham FC’s crest.
A hardcover copy of How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley laying on a grey herringbone pattern quilt.
A screen shot from a video of the three jerseys for the New York Heights Women’s Pro Baseball League team all hanging on protective netting on hangers with a baseball field in the background. On the upper left is an away navy blue jersey with light blue numbers and accents with “NEW YORK” across the front in white block letters. On the bottom is a home white jersey with navy pinstripes, navy lettering, and light blue outlines with “HEIGHTS” across the front. On the upper right is a light blue on top/navy blue on the bottom ombré jersey with the New York Heights logo on the left chest.
Me holding a water bottle to symbolize the high temperature with the Spirit/Dash game at Audi Field as the backdrop.
A headline in The Atlantic: “There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists” by Jonathan Chait. Below it is an image of a wilting rose.
A photo of the Canada Day pregame ceremony at Rogers Centre with both teams on the field and a large Canadian flag unfurled in the outfield.
Results of a 2020s political axis quiz: Your results 83% woke, 17% chud 36% tech bro, 64% neo-luddite 42% hopepilled, 58% doomer 75% Davos, 25% Dubai Your closest match: Zohran Mamdani
Text from my dad: Movin’ to the country. Gonna eat me a lot of peaches.
Text exchange between myself and my dad: Dad: You know who I feel bad for, Chelsea Janes. She’s new to the job and she has to find new and interesting things to say every day about the dumpster fire that is the New York Mets. Me: I have to podcast about the Mets tonight and find something new to say about them feel bad for me I’m not even being paid. Dad: Your walk-off win should be that you managed not to commit suicide watching the Mets this week. Me: [thumbs up emoji react]
A screen shot of a snapchat I sent to my friends depicting a crocheted empanada keychain with a smile on its face. The caption reads, “The food truck at the brewery is serving empanadas and they gifted me this adorable crocheted one. 😭”
A blue and orange bagel on a white plate
A snippet of an opinion piece by AAMC president and CEO David J. Skorton in STAT News: "In my more than 40 years in higher education and research, I have watched the American approach to research weather budget fights, ideological storms, and presidential transitions. Working across administrations, I have seen firsthand how American science survives changes in politics because of the guardrails Congress and the executive branch have historically left in place. I have never seen a threat to those guardrails like the one now sitting on the table at the Office of Management and Budget."
A text exchange between my dad (who is at today’s Mets game) and I: Dad: They mocked Wemby during the mascot race. Me: Let me guess: they had the Bronx giraffe wear a Wemby mask and had him lose in some humiliating way. Dad: They had the giraffe mocking the other runners saying he was in their heads. The pizza won after trailing by 29 strides. Me: Oh that’s excellent.
A video of patrons at Bar Bao in Arlington, VA reacting to the OG Anunoby tip-in that put the Knicks in front with 1.2 seconds remaining in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, completing a 29-point comeback.
A Bluesky post by @austinlouisray saying “OH MY BAD THERE IT IS” quote posting is own previous post that said “WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW KNICKS FANS”
A hardcover copy of Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A.M. Gittlitz sitting on a grey couch cushion.
A Reddit comment by u/JohnnyCharisma54, donning New York Yankees flair that says "Baseball mascots are so important, man."
Donald Trump looking on as Carlos BeltrĂĄn takes strike 3 to end the 2006 NLCS.
A text message I sent on Wednesday night after seeing yet another shitty Craig Kimbrel outing, this time live in front of my eyes, “I pray I have seen Craig Kimbrel’s last outing for the Mets”
A hardcover copy of The Mutual Friend by Carter Bays on a grey couch cushion.
A screen shot of a Discord message I wrote on April 16 that says "There is definitely gonna be a Dicky Lovelady revenge game in DC with Michael and I present"
A Bluesky post by Hunter Walker that reads: Ross Barkan’s plagiarism mini scandal has barely been discussed on Bluesky. We should be taking note of it. Especially since, now that he has responded on Twitter, his explanations are ridiculous.
A tweet by plagiarizing writer Ross Barkan that reads: The Mets fan base doesn't really send its best, so I'll explain my point as plainly as I can: of course, there are NY native Mets fans. Many, many. But if you are a gentrifier laptop class individual, pure transplant, the odds are you are a Mets fan.
A hardcover copy of Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid laying on a grey couch cushion.
A photo of a woman with her infant with the headline “Why Two Big Companies Just Cut Paid Family Leave” by Sasha Arutyunova of the New York Times
Alyssa Rose, the daughter of Mets radio broadcaster Howie Rose, quote tweeting a tweet from Codify that reads “Should at least one MLB franchise take a chance on Trevor Bauer here?” with the following shit take: “A Cy Young Award Winner who was falsely accused and proven innocent of all charges in a court of law can’t get a contract but Marcel Ozuna can choke his wife with a cast then immediately get a DUI and play anywhere. Make it make sense.”
A group of four books arranged in a grid/square on a grey couch cushion. Top left: Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee (hardcover) Top right: How Retrosheet saved Baseball History by Jay Wrigley (paperback) Bottom left: Everything in Color by Stephanie Stacey (hardcover) Bottom right: Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People’s Team by A.M. Gittlitz
A hardcover copy of People Like Us by Jason Mott laying on a grey couch cushion.
A meme where Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory is looking at a photograph of Sofia Cantore, forward for the Washington Spirit, taped to the inside of a locker subtitled "stunt on these hoes."
A paperback copy of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett laying on an olive green striped bedsheet.
Luke Weaver looking skyward on the mound after the Mets won to snap a 12-game losing streak as fire shoots out of the center field wall at Citi Field
A screen shot of a tweet by Fox News that reads: MAMDANI CURSE? It's still early in the 2026 MLB season, but things are looking bleak for the New York Mets, especially after a recent visit from the city's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Mets started the season 7-4. Now, they're in the middle of an 11-game losing streak. Critics online say it's all Mamdani's fault, dubbing the historic downfall since his visit the "Mamdani Curse."
A screen shot of a Reddit post detailing an exchange between HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and Rep. Hoyer during the House Appropriations Committee hearing. Secretary: “We are now at 72,000 and we’re hiring 12,000 new employees. We will have made up all the employees that we lost and we’ve replaced them with a better group of people who are actually going to address chronic health.” Rep. Hoyer: “Your judgment is that the the other uh 20,000 that were reduced not were not capable, were not motivated?” Secretary: “It’s not my judgment. It’s the record. They presided over the biggest decline in health in the history of the world. We now have the sickest generation in history. We have the sickest population on the face of the earth. That is a failure of government. They weren’t looking at chronic disease. They were focused on other things and they did nothing to prevent the food dyes, the bad food, all of the things that are making us sick. It was their job to protect us and they did not do it. They failed at their jobs and if this was private industry, they would have all been fired. Oh, we did what we had to do to change the culture at these agencies. So, they’re now doing what they can do to pretend that they’re what they were hired to do, which is to protect the health of our country and restore us once again to the healthiest country in the world.”
My friend and I posing in front of the Washington Monument post-race.
A screen shot of a City Connect Orioles hat available on the team shop that is dark green with an orange brim and the script orange O logo with a realistic oriole bird peeking through the O.
A picture of a fawn colored mixed breed dog and an orange tabby napping on a grey couch with paws outstretched and almost touching. In the background the TV is showing the Mets/Diamondbacks game.
A screen shot of a tweet by Bryan Hoch. Aaron Judge said friends and family told him about the criticism that Team USA wasn't having as much fun as other WBC teams. “Everybody’s different. Every culture is different,” he said. “I loved everything that Mexico was doing, Great Britain, the D.R. How they celebrate the game, it was amazing. If they’re going to say we don’t have the passion – my passion is grinding in this [batting] cage when nobody’s watching. “You know, grinding as a 6-year-old in the backyard with my dad. That’s where our passion came from as kids. If I don’t show it outwardly like that, it doesn’t mean I don’t love the game.”
A screen shot of a YouTube video “Every angle of Francisco Lindor’s NLDS grand slam during Mets-Phillies Game 4”
A mug with the famous Howie Rose call “He did it! He did it!” of Pete Alonso’s ninth inning home run in Game 3 of the 2024 Wild Card series between the Mets and Brewers. The mug also has the score bug depicting the moment: the tip of the ninth with 1 out and a 3-1 count. Below it is the box score: zeros for both teams until the 7th with two runs for Milwaukee and then four runs for the Mets in the top of the ninth. Final tallies for the Mets: 4 runs, 5 hits, 0 errors. Final tallies for the Brewers: 2 runs, 7 hits, 0 errors American Family Field, 3 October 2024.
A paperback copy of A Table for Two by Amor Towles laying on a grey couch cushion.