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Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Attention Pennsylvania friends👇🏼

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The attacks and uncertainty are not just crushing progress for human health, forfeiting the US leadership role in biomedical science, curtaining economic gain, and threatening many livelihoods...but breaking a pipeline of training that will be very hard to rebuild and which will haunt industry too

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Check out our web tool for searching for interactors of your favorite cell surface protein, developed by undergrad Pinyu Liao and postdoc postdoc Brendan Floyd @stanford-chemh.bsky.social cellsurfacemap.org

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“Science is the goose that lays golden eggs.” Well said. #MedSky #IdSky #lungs

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HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’ Story by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...

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"Childhood vaccinations save millions of lives worldwide each year. Many people have questions about routine vaccinations... Our public health experts answer your top questions with evidence-based information." m.yale.edu/cyy8 via @yalesph.bsky.social

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New #kuleuven study: indoor air sampling to monitor respiratory infections in childcare settings. 🧒🏽🏫 Key findings: 🔬 Sensitive pathogen detection 🌬️ Correlation with CO2 & infection rates 📈 Early outbreak warnings 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #RespiratoryInfections

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Watkins, @ellenfoxman.bsky.social et al. reveal that high burden of viruses and bacterial pathobionts drives heightened nasal innate immunity in children. https://buff.ly/4jRFC18 📘 Host–Microbe Interactions 👉 https://buff.ly/40XMv8r

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Great to see lots of people at the @50501movement.bsky.social protest at Philadelphia City Hall today!

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Same in Seattle despite the rain!

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

Hearing from multiple folks - mass layoffs at ASPR happening now. Emails going out on a Saturday evening to inform staff they’re being exited, nearly all probationary staff gone.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

submitted 11 days ago • 581 comments

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

Yes, and this is super-important. People don’t know what’s happening. Most of the country has no idea that American science — cancer cures — are being shredded. They really don’t know! The job of all scientists 🧪 in this moment should be to get the word out.

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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

submitted 11 days ago • 92 comments

Half of EIS, the CDC's renowned "disease detectives," gone. These folks respond to emergencies in the US and around the globe, and are now in tatters.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

I’m gutted. OPM fired about 25% of my office today. I can’t even describe what I witnessed today. So much cruelty from above, but so much love and support inside the office. It makes no sense. We aren’t even paid out of appropriations funds. We work on “soft money” reimbursable agreements.

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If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

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Lawrence Tabak, longtime principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, has abruptly resigned—surprising even his own lab staff and the broader community. scim.ag/4hR40OE

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Indirect costs support our entire research infrastructure. Without indirect costs, we wouldn’t have been able to develop this vaccine against H5N1 bird flu. If indirect costs are cut, we won’t be able to prepare and respond to our next pandemic threat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

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Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

submitted 18 days ago • 53 comments

Another assault on US competitiveness at a time when biomedicine is roaring with innovation, an own-goal in a high-stakes international tournament. Of course the real losers are American people needing medicines and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 18 days ago • 60 comments

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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“Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, said in a statement late Friday that the move could “dismantle the biomedical research system… Just because Elon Musk doesn’t understand indirect costs doesn’t mean Americans should have to pay the price with their lives”

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1/ Super excited to see this work from Dr. Kei Haniuda in my lab come together - check it out! Kei was curious about how rotavirus-specific IgA responses are generated in the gut. He found that anti-RV specific plasma cells appear in the MLN and Peyer's Patches very quickly - faster than IgGs

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In case you need these as well #IDSky

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Summary of RFK hearings by Infectious Diseases Society of America & info for contacting elected representatives #IDSky #MedSky @idsainfo.bsky.social www.idsociety.org/news--public...

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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

submitted 28 days ago • 79 comments

We have two postdoc positions in the lab: We are looking for neuroscientist with expertise in circuits, and for molecular virologist. If you are excited to apply your expertise to questions in neuroimmunology, please reach out for details. Please retweet.

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Variability in Vaccine Response and Trajectory in Early Childhood and Association with Demographic Variables, Antibiotic Exposure and Infection Proneness ✅ Just Accepted #IDSky

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If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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This is crucial. #NIH #episky #medsky

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#NIH funding is vital and the returns are superb, as noted by critical translational breakthroughs relevant to chronic fatigue, Parkinson's, prior diseases, cataracts, and hearing loss made with NIH funding in 2024 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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Because who doesn't love a good simulation of measles vaccination and herd immunity? www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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A huge barred owl flew down a Virginia family’s chimney, knocked over the star on top of their Christmas tree, and perched himself on top www.wusa9.com/article/life...

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submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Reminds me of something…. #MedSky #Lungs

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@jexpmed.bsky.social is now on BlueSky! Thank you for highlighting our paper on pediatric mucosal immunity in the “Best of 2024” collection! #medsky #IDSky #lungs #immunosky

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#InterferonPower! #NotAllIFNsAreEqual! Casanova, Zhang, Al Qureshah &co show @jexpmed.bsky.social that a common (in China) autosomal dominant IFNAR1 variant impairs -not abolishes- IFN-alpha & -omega (not -beta!) responses making patients susceptible to some -not all- viruses doi.org/10.1084/jem....

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Our annual "Best of JEM" series highlights some of the most exciting studies from the last 12 months. We present you with research in basic #immunology, #immunotherapy and tumor immunology, inborn errors of immunity, #neurodegeneration, & #inflammation: https://buff.ly/4iwWcCJ

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Ever wonder how cells in our epithelia fight for space? 🤔 Let's dive into the fascinating world of mechanical cell competition! #EpithelialMechanics Hello, I am @akshar21.bsky.social and I'll be your guide through this thread on mechanical #CellCompetition

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