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OMG! I can finally share my joy to see my SFTSV work published in @natcomms.nature.com! This adventure started by the award of my MSCA grant and my move to the Kohl and @brennanlab.bsky.social at @cvrinfo.bsky.social. Let's chat about how we discovered novel tick anti-viral effectors!

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It's always wonderful to see the grad students shine. This year was exceptional! Congrats to all of our students - especially Samantha Clark for representing the Christofferson Lab with her work on Batai virus in Culex mosquitoes.

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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

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Read our June issue! Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Buckle up buttercups...

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A great interview with @gregkoblentz.bsky.social on the critical work of enhancing biosafety/biosecurity, but also the new EO and what it means. A functional policy requires engagement with a range of experts, balancing safety and innovation, and tackling big implementation hurdles.

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So our turtle shells are now in our mouths?! Super cool.

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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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🆕 Today, UKHSA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes collected in the UK. There is currently no evidence of wider circulation in birds or mosquitoes, and the risk to the public remains very low. 📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

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This paper was a long labor but I met new people and made new colleagues and friends. #COVID19 We synthesized what was available re: long term shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised patients. TL;DR - it can be a long, long time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Humble brag: I went through and matched all the orphaned socks today

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📢 Deadline today - Apply now 🦋 We're looking for 3 new Editors-in-Chiefs to cover medical, veterinary & forensic entomology, committed to building the profile of the journal & handling manuscripts with integrity. 📅 Deadline: 11 May Apply 🔽 buff.ly/ENZ4PTy @MedVet_Ent #RESMedVetEnt

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After the Trump regime pulled funding from Cornell University, one of the programs that was halted was decades long research on the development of a heart pump for babies and children with heart defects, which was at the point to begin testing on sheep. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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Paper accepted!

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Happy Mother’s Day! youtu.be/RO6JiFztJdg?...

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Just a spring Saturday in Louisiana

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Pope Leo

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Been a huge day for everyone passionate about reminding people that gulls nest on urban roofs

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OPINION by @stevebenen.com: “This is a Senate-confirmed position. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that her confirmation hearings will inevitably be the most contentious of any surgeon general nominee ever.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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I am very excited to participate in a keynote lecture by Ray Huey, one of the fathers of thermal and physiological ecology, today during Evo Day here at Cornell. His work is the foundation of our work, and it is awesome to see it presented live today 😊.

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🕷️" #Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever ( #CCHF): Seven dead, 53 infected with #CCHF across #Iraq 🇮🇶" via @rudawmedia.bsky.social www.rudaw.net/english/midd...

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The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations. There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our millions scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.

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🎶It’s that time of year

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NIH ends so-called foreign subawards. "I’m struggling to convey the enormous consequences of what this would mean, including the inability to work meaningfully on some of the world’s biggest killers." www.science.org/content/arti...

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Recently published - Oropouche in humans in Colombia further back than previously thought. While we only show three new cases, it's still important to understand the sporadic distribution of pathogens to understand when patterns deviate from norm. ajtmh.org/view/journal...

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May the 4th be with you!

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Took a lab field trip for science and found skeeball.

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Every time I post about LLMs and higher ed, I see disgruntled tech people/AI pushers whine. I honestly don't care, watching students imbibe the idea that they don't have to learn to read, think, write or imagine anything because the "AI will do it for them" has been the scariest thing.

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"Aborted foetal material" is usually an anti-vaccination code for a much simpler reality. Cells. Mostly, cell lines WI-38 and MRC-5 were derived from aborted foetal material that would otherwise have been discarded. Why use this when you could use animal cell lines?

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Find happiness where you can ;)

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There’s a measles outbreak in the Canadian province of Ontario that’s twice the size of the one in Texas. Over 1000 people are sick. Why isn’t this getting more media attention? People need to be informed of the risk & how to protect themselves. Vaccinate, wear a respirator, isolate when sick.

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The Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to undo President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, even as a small group of Republicans joined Democrats in delivering a rebuke to a trade policy that many lawmakers fear is causing economic harm.

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I will be participating in a webinar discussing the state of #chikungunya and vaccines on May 7th. Virtual and all are welcome - see y'all there! vaccinesbeat.org/webinar-chik...

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buy American, they said

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Interesting initiative. May be the public alternative for vaccine information and recomendations if RFK jr meddles with the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...

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Scottish textile artist Jo Avery, aka joaverystitch on Insta #WomensArt

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This top line--"nearly 800 NIH grants"--was made possible by every scientist who reported their terminated grant to us. 🙏 Small acts add up, and the country is finally learning the full scope RFK's vandalism. And don't stop now! Report your terminated NIH grant here: forms.gle/FnGLkUtK3M58...

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Solidarity love and ever-present hope, people ❤️

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One of the things I’ve learned at the World Vaccine Congress is that the international community remains committed to finding solutions for diseases affecting the rich and poor alike. Despite the BS happening in the US, there are beacons of light. Science and empathy will prevail.

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OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org

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In advance of our 5th anniversary issue published in May, here's our latest editorial. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Happy St George’s Day!

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I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries

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My husband and I got to see the Pope in 2017 and it’s still a favorite memory 💔

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