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smitaiyer.bsky.social
Immunologist, Associate Prof @ Pitt_Path Website: smitaiyerlab.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-7005
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1 billion and strong - Amazing what a little blood cult and pest management can do for your brand.🧪 #CatHistory #ScienceSkeet #coolscience www.science.org/content/arti...

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🧪a thing of beauty—CD28 and CD95 separating T cells. if only all markers were this well behaved. #GatingGoals #FlowCytometry #Immunology

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"See, pushing back can help..

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This turnout is incredible and yet invisible on NYT and WaPo. Evidently you need a major disruption associated with the demonstrations or a tragedy to break through. Infuriating and incentivizing the wrong things

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"For a child who is not vaccinated against measles — one of the world’s most infectious viruses — no classroom, school bus or grocery store is safe" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 9 days ago • 10978 comments

An article that meets the moment. Check out this thoughtful piece 🔗 “We must share the joy of discovery that motivated us to become and remain scientists as broadly and sincerely as we can.” elifesciences.org/articles/106... #Science #JoyOfDiscovery

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

#vaccines work 💉👇🏻

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Control Your Own Universe 🪐

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submitted 21 days ago • 160 comments

In today’s episode, we speak with a former director of the NIH about the institutes’ future in the face of government cuts. Listen here 🎧: pod.link/73329284/epi...

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

submitted 24 days ago • 1292 comments

I have written to Sen McCormick about my concerns on the defunding of US science. I finally received a response! He is supportive of research & thinks the F&A rates should be returned to previously negotiated rates! Thanks to @audreydrotos.bsky.social & @laurenkreeger.bsky.social for talking to him!

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

I illustrated this feature of Dr. Zach Labe's story. He was recently fired from #NOAA because of the #EOs. This is the life-saving science being destroyed. More stories at: silencedsciencestories.com #scicomm #sciart #theycantfirescience #silencedsciencestories #academicsky #zachlabe

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Totally forgot about this until I found it on my lab coat in the back of my car. Last week at #StandUpForScience in DC, a woman took my picture and gave me her button when I complimented it. #resistance

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"A virus is a piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat." – Peter Medawar Measles wipes B & T cells, causing immune amnesia -erasing past defenses. This explains why the measles vaccine sharply reduces all-cause mortality. #Immunology #Measles #VaccinesWork www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w...

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This is a clear and useful explanation of who might need a measles vaccine booster & why. A must-read for people born in the U.S. between 1957 and 1989 🧪 slate.com/technology/2... on @slate.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

"In God we trust. All others must bring data." — W. Edwards Deming Science diplomacy is more critical than ever as the world faces global challenges. A new @Nature editorial explores what’s at stake. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00726-8 #ScienceDiplomacy #Policy #ResearchIntegrity

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