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BREAKING: The FDA has approved a twice-yearly injection that provided a near-perfect shield against H.I.V. infection in clinical trials. But the Trump administration has gutted the programs that might have paid for it in low-income countries (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

submitted 15 hours ago • 22 comments

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism. I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Uniting against enteric invaders: IgA meets its microbial ally Preview by @romanagerner1.bsky.social‬ highlighting work of @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social‬ combining oral vaccination wniche-competing strain to selectively eliminate Salmonella spp. & related E. coli. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Good warning. I had a dude try VERY hard to get me to sign this. Was deceptive about the topic and cagey about who was behind it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you for the very well-written preview @romanagerner1.bsky.social !! Much appreciated. In other good news, the paper is finally available open access: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Jay Bhattacharya lacks integrity, seems to have no moral compass at all, & is classless, clueless, out of his depth, a right wing ideologue, & a MAGA/MAHA bro. His censorship of, & political interference in, US science to push Trump's extreme right wing agenda are grotesque, damaging, & dangerous.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

A major problem in both the UK and the US is that our media have very effectively indoctrinated the general public into believing protest is bad, when it is an absolutely essential pillar of democracy.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

RFK Jr fired the entire vaccine advisory committee. Their job is to ensure vaccine recommendations follow the best available science. He also says the June meeting will happen. So, don't be surprised when his next step is to appoint unqualified grifters. RFK Jr is anti-vax and anti-public health.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

submitted 9 days ago • 86 comments

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣 Good to know. (you know what to do!) 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮

submitted 20 days ago • 2378 comments

The latest work from my lab, Phage Disco, a method @ellie-rand.bsky.social developed for targeted discovery of bacteriophages based on the bacterial receptor, defense system, or other component they interact with, is now live in mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Phage DisCo! Our targeted phage discovery method in press today: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Perfectly timed with our four summer undergrad's first successful phage hunt... disco lights in the lab to mark the occasion 🕺

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

submitted 23 days ago • 36 comments

Damn More of this please

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Andrew Neil admits that he slept for over three years while Boris Johnson was in government.

submitted 26 days ago • 144 comments

Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Scientists--Share your story! We need the nation to know what is at stake if the NIH is gutted. It's therapeutic and takes just a few minutes

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Loving this live webcam of puffins from the Farne Islands @nationaltrust.org.uk Via @oohgpwales.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

Also: many professors have tenure & will pivot to teaching more. But cutting research funding will lead to loss of jobs for almost everyone else - animal caretakers, facility support staff, lab techs, admin staff & research scientists -- all of whom are much closer to blue collar than ivory tower.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

submitted 32 days ago • 71 comments

First they came for the transes, and you said "Fuck the transes, they're weird"... Remember, until a few years ago it was almost unheard-of for a woman to be charged with procuring an abortion. Now they have "new national guidance" on how to hunt them down. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

Team „Superbugs“ completed the 113 km (with 2600m of climbing) of the #SOLA2025 in 11 hours 18 mins and 45 seconds AND we weren‘t last 🤩 Very proud of the ETH/Oxford Mucosal Immunology group!! Real team spirit 😎

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Nope, the Trump administration hasn't given up on trying to ban abortion. Just this week, RFK Jr. pushed a fake report about the abortion medication mifepristone. He's peddling misinformation so he can lay the groundwork for restricting abortion access no matter where you live.

submitted 32 days ago • 84 comments

As a former @hhmi.org Gilliam fellow, I’m deeply disappointed to see HHMI cancel the Hanna Gray this year and pause all competitions. @leslievosshall.bsky.social, Erin O’Shea — this was a moment to lead with vision, not retreat.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard: Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead “It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war" www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0. That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary. You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.

submitted 38 days ago • 39 comments

This will be a fantastic meeting 👇🏻 A little bird tells me that the abstract deadline has been extended so go for it! There will be plenty of opportunities for ECRs to present 🧫🧬🔬🧪

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 42 days ago • 92 comments

At a time when some leaders are dismantling health equity work, I applaud the @who.int for this important report! World Report on Social Determinants of Health Equity, 2025 www.who.int/teams/social...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

An anti-vax administration just put one of its loudest defenders in charge of U.S. vaccine oversight. Vinay Prasad is poised to run the FDA’s vaccine division —while his allies steer $500M toward a fringe vaccine project they helped design. (Story by me + @walkerbragman.bsky.social)

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 53 comments

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

submitted 44 days ago • 1982 comments

🎯A real-time truth commission!

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

🚨🚨 An "inverse" #brexitbenefit: British scientists are “over the moon” to be back in the EU’s flagship science research programme Horizon after a three-year #Brexit lockout, with new data revealing they have been awarded about £500m in grants since re-entry. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 44 days ago • 13 comments

Haigh is correct, Labour needs to pick battles with Farage & do so consistently across this Parliament. We know Starmer doesn’t like politics & dislikes conflict but to defeat populism Labour has to adopt some of its rhetorical weapons. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 45 days ago • 10 comments

The myth of "vaccines are not tested, no placebo used", etc is constantly brought up. It is false.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

Europe’s choice is clear. To put science at the heart of its economy. To become the home of scientific freedom and collaboration. And to welcome talent from all over the world. I’m glad to present the first elements of our Choose Europe Initiative. → europa.eu/!TTbWbJ

submitted 45 days ago • 127 comments

This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

The measles vaccine is proven to work. It has saved millions of lives. That’s an undeniable fact, no matter what anyone says. The ‘treatments’ repeatedly touted by RFK Jr—budesonide, clarithromycin, and cod liver oil—do not. No matter what anyone like him says. 🧵

submitted 47 days ago • 22 comments