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Bacterial geneticist 🧫 🦠 🧬 focusing on #Shigella, #enteric #pathogens & #phage. Using host signals & #organoids to study #pathogenesis. Assist Prof at USUHS. Views my own. https://medschool.usuhs.edu/profile/christina-faherty-phd
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A must watch video clip www.c-span.org/clip/state-l...

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Pending probationary DoD cuts will have a big impact, including in STEM fields www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists. “science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“ www.unitedsciencealliance.org

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Hello all. Finally made my way to 🦋. Looking for my people in host defense, innate immunology, bacterial pathogenesis and lung biology! Please help me find you!

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#Neisseria gonorrhoeae evades immunity by altering its surface structures. @maierlab.bsky.social &co show that this process also modulates bacterial interactions, driving microcolony diversification, aggregation, colony morphology & #antibiotic tolerance 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4aN1zdO

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Call Senator Cassidy today! DC phone number 202-224-5824 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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🚨If your senator is below, call them “No on RFK Jr” (202) 224-3121 • Booker (D-NJ) • Cortez Masto (D-NV) • Whitehouse (D-RI) • Murkowski (R-AK) • Ernst (R-IA) • McConnell (R-KY) • Cassidy (R-LA) • Collins (R-ME) • Tillis (R-NC) • Lankford (R-OK) • Cornyn (R-TX) • Curtis (R-UT) • Moore Capito (R-WV)

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Aha! I interpreted Cassidy’s questions —and tone—-in the hearing this morning as being pretty far from an enthusiastic “yes”. Call him, Louisiana folks!

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I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

submitted 25 days ago • 84 comments

Rhode Island folks: please light up the lines to tell Whitehouse this is not what you voted for, and that Kennedy would be a terrible choice.

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@whitehouse.senate.gov you are one of our best Senators on climate change and oversight but you must forcefully denounce RFK Jr as nominee for HHS. This is much greater than any potential friendship. This is the lives and health of the nation.

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The RFK Jr. confirmation hearing has been scheduled for 1/29/25. The nomination is on shaky ground. Here's the call to action: Reach Out To Your Senators and Urge Them To Oppose RFK Jr's nomination to be HHS Secretary Here's how to do that, step-by-step:

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I'm running a graduate student journal club this Spring where we discuss and review preprints. If you have a recent preprint on anything bacterial and would be interested in having us review your paper, DM or email me.

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Antimicrobial resistant Shigella spp. continue to transmit internationally. Our commentary in Lancet Microbe explores combining patient demographics and bacterial genomics to inform antimicrobial treatment. 🛟🧪🧬🖥️🦠💉🧫😷https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00294-5/fulltext

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There is still no date for RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing. Keep dialing up the pressure.

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A wonderful opportunity for #WomeninSTEM focusing on #GIresearch. Thank you @edelblumlab.bsky.social and the organizing committee for starting this initiative!

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Want to share your views on the importance of the Secretary of HHS nomination?? Your posts on 🦋 mean little if the key decision makers don’t see them. The Senate Finance Committee membership is now updated. Contact info via the link. www.senate.gov/senators/ind...

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Looks interesting #Vibrio, #intestinal colonization, and #biofilms 🦠 🧫 #MicroSky

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Congrats Kate and team, excellent work! 🧫 🦠 #Shigella #AMR #MicoSky #IDSky

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60% drop in #global mortality, but we still have a long way to go as #diarrheal diseases remain a leading killer in #children and #elderly 🦠 🧫 #Microsky #IDsky

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Recently finished your PhD or plan to in early 2025 and love #Tcell biology, particularly #gdTcells? We're recruiting a #NIDDK-funded #postdoc @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social! We'd love to have an #immunologist with expertise in #GIsky or #IBDsky join our team. bit.ly/4izpZLj #Immunosky

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RFK has meetings scheduled Dec 16-19th, including the Senate #HELP committee on 19th that includes Senators Cassidy, Collins, and Murkowski. See DC Phone numbers in quote🧵 below to #call & voice your concerns over the #HHS nomination

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RFK has meetings scheduled Dec 16-19th, including the Senate #HELP committee on 19th that includes Senators Cassidy, Collins, and Murkowski. See DC Phone numbers in quote🧵 below to #call & voice your concerns over the #HHS nomination

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RFK meeting with Senators next week! #Call! 1. Ranking R Mike Crapo, #ID, (202) 224-6142 2. John Thune, #SD & new majority leader, (202) 224-2321 3. Chuck Grassley, #IA (202) 224-3744 4. John Cornyn, #TX, 202-224-2934 5. Tim Scott, #SC, (202) 224-6121 6. Bill Cassidy, #LA, (202) 224-5824 (also a MD)

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RFK meeting with Senators next week! #Call! 1. Ranking R Mike Crapo, #ID, (202) 224-6142 2. John Thune, #SD & new majority leader, (202) 224-2321 3. Chuck Grassley, #IA (202) 224-3744 4. John Cornyn, #TX, 202-224-2934 5. Tim Scott, #SC, (202) 224-6121 6. Bill Cassidy, #LA, (202) 224-5824 (also a MD)

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I’m very excited to share our latest Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) Annual Report on Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates for the United States, 2022: #EpiSky #IDSky #PublicHealth #FoodSky 🧪

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We’re excited to bring the Center for Microbial Medicine to Bluesky! This center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is dedicated to finding cures and improving pediatric health through the lens of the microbiome. For more info check back here often! www.research.chop.edu/center-for-m...

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2025 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms Nov. 9-13, 2025, Portland, Oregon Pre-conference Early Career Scientist Symposium (Nov. 9) asm.org/Events/ASM-B...

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If anyone is looking for inspiration, look no further than @pedlungdoc.bsky.social Dr Christy Sadreameli!! www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/article...

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Novel strain of extensively drug-resistant #Shigella identified in Los Angeles

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Innovation Academy HS after hours DNA Club group extracting DNA from salamander body swabs.

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