jung-gt.bsky.social
Retired Biology faculty from Georgia Tech. Headed up the MS Bioinformatics program until 2022. PULSE Fellow, promoting student-centered pedagogies and departmental transformation in undergrad life science ed. Ballroom dancer, bicyclist, avid reader.
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US Air Force F-22s and F-35s are now en route to the Middle East. (The Aviationist)
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12 US military tankers now moving eastwards across Europe.
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The study was published in the journal @cp-cellreports.bsky.social‬: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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when people get upset at the administration and the ways in which it stokes and teases violence against its perceived enemies, this is why. the norms undergirding the legal system are vital and so quickly broken and snowball very quickly. we are so far down the dark path already.
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We have crossed the line into full blown fascism. ICE agents are not acting like trained law enforcement.
They are using violence all across our society.
This video of LA police shooting an innocent girl is not getting enough attention.
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The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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yes indeed!
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Their true vision is to make piles of money, by bamboozling everyone into thinking they need whatever this is to stay competitive.
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Essentially, given current data, this paper from 2008 was right.... and we should probably wait for something to change before throwing more postdoc and (especially!) PhD student time at it... journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Learnings: Disinformation = quick to make up but hard to disprove and even immunologists and experts can have seeds of doubt sown by bad actors. Vulnerable populations need research to address their concerns. Negative data studies are impt but hard to sell (see reviews of the paper!). 14/n
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Measuring 1 marker (eg PD1) and making wild inferences is cheap & quick but measuring T cell function and analyzing complex data is slow & expensive. Indeed we had a team of people working very hard in a clinical trials quality immune testing lab and an analysis team to generate these data. 13/n
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So why do so many people make such rash statements on whether a T cell is doing it's thing (PD-1 = activation) vs crashing out (PD-1 =exhausted)? Above I said this disinformation began circulating in 2021 - we've been working on this story since then 12/n
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Pity the lead author, PhD student @jennabenoit.bsky.social Her committee would grill her 'why are you doing this- we all know vaccines don't cause exhaustion!' She held strong "Because policymakers & the public need us to PROVE this in THESE people"-She was strong, thorough & committed. 11/n
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Thanks so much for highlighting our work - this was a tremendous effort but we thought it was impt to have data to back up what we immunologists believe (vaccines, even multiple, frequent doses are not problematic) to counter fear-mongering about scary sounding immunology terms like 'exhaustion'.