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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

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Climate change: shifting boundaries of fungal disease in Europe and beyond New review in Thorax by @mbottery.bsky.social Sarah Sedik @germhuntermd.bsky.social @martinhoenigl.bsky.social @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social thorax.bmj.com/content/thor... #MedSky #IDSky #PulmSky #ClimateSky #MedMycoSky

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

From NPR-- RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, 3% of Americans had chronic disease-- today it's 60%." Actually, 2 out of 3 in the US were caused by chronic diseases in the 1960s: heart disease, cancer and stroke. Life expectancy was 8 years shorter than it is now. www.wesa.fm/2025-06-08/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

👋 Kent State grad here with 26+ years in the Guard and Reserve.

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ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Check out the latest review article from #TeamKhanna superstars Eduardo Bernier and recent alumni Dr. Eric Bartnicki. Macrophages: sentinels, warriors, and healers Free Link: academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-... @khannakm.bsky.social

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We’ve lionized “disruptors” for too long rather than celebrating people who put their heads down and do hard but necessary work. Becoming an expert in your field and working out how to make iterative/evolutionary gains over the course of your career isn’t splashy but it’s how progress is made.

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No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations Does repeated vaccination cause "immune exhaustion"? No, the immune system can handle multiple hits from similar or different stimuli. It evolved to do so! www.nature.com/artic... 1/5

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Why do current diagnostics struggle to detect Lyme disease? Our new preprint reveals highly localized immune responses: tissue and vascular responses dominate, while peripheral activation is minimal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #LymeDisease #Multiomics #Immunology A thread ⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I can't overemphasize how bizarre and embarrassing this is for the head of our FDA to be repeating podcaster talking points about seed oils and flagrantly demonstrating that he doesn't know anything about evidence analysis or human nutrient requirements.

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

🚨”Besides outright canceling projects, NIH failed to distribute annual payments to more than 1,000 grants… In some cases, scientists have cut staff, paused hiring, trimmed back supplies or delayed experiments. Health officials have not explained which projects have been held up, why or for how long”

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A good thread warning of mycoplasma in cell culture...

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TB & climate change: @who.int report out now, building on an analytical framework we developed to explore the intersections and implications for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease www.who.int/publications...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The OIST Graduate School has opened a Special PhD Admissions Portal for students currently enrolled in, or accepted to, universities in the U.S. #PhDProgram www.oist.jp/admissions/s...

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“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

On the latest History of Vaccines blog, we take a look at the 1889 "Russian Flu" pandemic and its possible ties to a coronavirus more than a flu virus. Regardless of what caused it, it was the first global pandemic in the industrialized age. historyofvaccines.org/blog/first-p...

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ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

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Tuberculosis (TB) was once a leading killer in rich countries, but it’s now rare in those places. But TB still kills almost 1.3 million people every year, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

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RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.

submitted 10 days ago • 914 comments

Nevaeh Kingbird, who disappeared from Bemidji in 2021, received an honorary diploma from Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School. Her mom just graduated from a law enforcement program to help find her.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

In five years after removing fluoride from the water, 8% more U.S. children ages 0-19 would get cavities, affecting 25.4 million additional teeth and costing the country around $9.8 billion. www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

"This is a self-defeating and self-destructive strategy, if you call it a strategy. These students fill our labs and perform the research. They’re some of the smartest, most talented scientists in America. I have no idea how labs are going to operate without them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Time is running out to recognize your peers’ contributions to the advancement of the microbial sciences in the areas of research, education and leadership. Submit an ASM Award nomination today. Deadline is July 1! asm.social/2ra

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Not one, not two .... but FIVE recent papers highlighting a role for RORgt+ antigen-presenting cells in the gut in establishing tolerance to food antigens #oraltolerance #immunosky #foodallergy

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 10 days ago • 463 comments

Thank you @joshuasweitz.bsky.social for making this visually effective set of plots that puts into perspective the scale of the announced cuts to NIH, NSF and NASA

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I finally had a read of the MAHA report today, and aside from the obvious use of generative AI and false citations, what strikes me is how remarkably unprofessional and amateurish the document is. It's just wild garbage 1/n

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Reading this Bloomberg story really makes it clear, at least to me, for the first time what the Trump global tariff fight is about. It's about finding revenue Trump needs to deliver his promised tax cuts.(free link) The whole thing implodes without this revenue www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 10 days ago • 17 comments

Dr Craig Montell reviews the #sensory #arsenal #mosquitoes use to find us. #Olfaction #Vision #Taste #Thermosensation #Infrared @ucsb.bsky.social‬ @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social‬ www.cell.com/trends/paras...

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How RFKjr decimated the pipeline of new Covid and flu vaccines to reward his crony Matt Memoli.

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Gold standard or appalling? HHS’s $500 million vaccine bet on inactivated viruses puzzles field: Department selected universal flu vaccine work by NIH leaders without “transparency,” some scientists say | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Attenuation of virulence in Yersinia pestis across three plague pandemics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This was my plan for last spring. It's still my plan for this spring, mostly focused on the things I planned to get done last spring but didn't.

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14 months later i think next week i will really be able to turn a corner on my to-do list

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