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As part of our 2025 “Rising Stars in #Vaccinology and #Immunity to #Microbes” online seminar series, we are talking with postdocs about their research. Check out our podcast with Dr. Hanover Matz who uses comparative immunology of vaccine induced B cell responses. cvimp.podbean.com/e/episode-8-...

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Now at 90 cases, TX DSHS is promoting vaccination for measles. I had to read this several times to be sure I wasn’t imagining this. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

When in doubt, tear it all down, see what breaks, assume you can repair it—maybe with AI? It’s the federal government; how hard can it be? This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s the certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Hope there is an #StandUpforScience event in #STL

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Dear scientists at US universities: Trump/Musk continue to freeze your grants. NIH is not reviewing grants nor funding them in council. This is a backhanded, legal method to effectively stop NIH grants. See thread and linked article. Are we going to “keep our heads down” about this?

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

A truly depressing article in #Nature listing of all the damage done to #science in the US by the Trump administration in just one month 💔 for so many friends and colleagues there #solidarityforscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 12 days ago • 249 comments

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 17 days ago • 413 comments

Good read from a former NIH head! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Garrett Graff is a former editor of Politico. Take note, scientists 🧪, he is deeply informed about politics. “American institutions [including science institutions] continue to underreact” to what is happening. Keeping our heads down won’t work. 1/

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

Standing up for science as an individual is possible but scientific institutions as a whole have been absolutely mute on these issues so far.....supposedly waiting for a bigger battle over the budget in March.....

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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 24 days ago • 1524 comments

NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more. Thanks to NIH, we have: 💉 Cancer immunotherapy ❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins 🩸 Insulin for diabetes Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.

submitted 24 days ago • 240 comments

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...

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 164 comments

this is a good time to note that the proposed candidate for NIH director has never run a lab, cared for patients, led a major research and healthcare institution, or been a principal investigator on an NIH grant

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Will universities finally speak up now? Or are they still "working behind the scenes" Texted with many academic colleagues last night, the consensus is, if these cuts hold, many of us can no longer have a career in academia. This will spur mass exodus. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

Yes, this is the world that RFK Jr promises—he has made that perfectly clear, over and over, for decades

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As part of our 2025 “Rising Stars in #Vaccinology and #Immunity to #Microbes” online seminar series, we are talking with investigators about their research. Check out our podcast with Dr. Seth Zost who studies #antibody responses to respiratory #viruses. cvimp.podbean.com/e/episode-7-...

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As part of the #WashU #CVIMP 2024 #vaccine symposium, we interviewed several speakers studying vaccines and immunity to microbial pathogens. Check them out! cvimp.podbean.com

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Unsurprising (to me). H5N1 causes variable disease severity, for a combination of reasons we don’t fully understand. Pathogenesis is never one size fits all. If there are many human cases, some will be severe. Hence we need to stop human cases altogether. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 111 days ago • 6 comments

Amazing #people and #research at #WashU #CVIMP 2024 vaccine symposium! Thanks to all our speakers and honored guests!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

With #ASV2024 only 2 days away, check out interviews with several of ASV Global Scholar award recipients who will be presenting in the 'Virology in a Global Society' satellite meeting on Monday, June 24th! lmtv.podbean.com/page/2/

submitted 255 days ago • 4 comments

Check out our review highlighting potential avenues for the rapid development of vaccines against emerging flaviviruses doi.org/10.1093/infd...

submitted 500 days ago • 0 comments

Check out the partial solar eclipse in St Louis! Sun viewing glasses and telescopes! mcss.wustl.edu/events/solar...

submitted 516 days ago • 1 comment

How do first and second COVID-19 infections compare? To address this question, we looked at viral kinetics in sequential infections--see the latest in our analysis of NBA data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 516 days ago • 2 comments

Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin, stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 516 days ago • 3 comments

Nice list of science feeds to follow!

submitted 516 days ago • 1 comment

this is a fun little class of nAbs: they bind at the NTD-SD1 interface & lock all RBDs on the prefusion trimer in the down configuration: www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

submitted 522 days ago • 0 comments

American politics today: The government shuts down in two days unless Congress acts. The House is spending time today deciding whether to impeach Joe Biden over Hunter's dick pics. The Senate just passed a dress code for its members because Fetterman wore shorts on the floor.

submitted 523 days ago • 10 comments

Reposting some of my greatest hits here to try to promote that retro, when-sci-twitter-was-good vibe. We can do this. "I think part of being a good PI is knowing when not to ask questions."

submitted 523 days ago • 12 comments

Curious about #virologists and what inspires them to do what they do? Check out my podcast 'Let's Meet the Virologists' to hear from more than 100 virologists at different stages in their career! lmtv.podbean.com

submitted 528 days ago • 1 comment