what is happening ???????????

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

This seems …. Not good

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

ICE tried to deport an Indigenous woman: Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of Arizona's Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix. She was pulled over for a traffic violation and her license was suspended and so that night ICE was preparing to deport her. (1/2)

@zteirstein.bsky.social ! Just saw this. Easy to miss stuff while on sabbatical. Great job, so in depth and def has your voice. #valleyfever #arizona #publichealth #climate #scienceoutreach grist.org/health/valle...

It’s been a while. Everything has been ALOT and I’ve been focusing on banging out work for the first part of my sabbatical in Brazil

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

🎙️ Just published a new #Communicable episode: Communicab... Hosted by Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social Josh Nosanchuk @josh-nosanchuk.bsky.social with invited guest: Arturo Casadevall @acasadevall1.bsky.social (Johns Hopkins University) Listen here: #IDSky #Clinmicro #MedSky

I skated this in my genetics class. Love this design. Perfection.

Great article I encourage everyone to read. This phenomenon happens everywhere. Let me tell you about the time I crowdfunded some research, and paid for publication fees and various bits and bobs out of my own pocket. And one thing I'm paying for myself now....which I'll talk about later

The world is crumbling but at least there’s tea

Awesome to be with family today ❤️

www.science.org/content/arti... what do you even say? One of a thousand cuts.

🌵In this study, we evaluated how different methods affect the success of biocrust restoration in arid environments, and potential of cultivated biocrusts as a sustainable tool for restoring degraded drylands—especially in the face of climate change and increasing #Coccidioides #valleyfever.

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

Great start to #ISHAM2025 in foz do iguaçu @marcusteixeira talking about hybrids and fungal evolution

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

Ironic, as I was supposed to be talking at JHopkins today about Valley fever and climate change. My flight through DFW yesterday was canceled, so we had to reschedule. Expecting this to be the norm going forward...

I’m glad the pictures were good 😆 keep speaking, it’s important.

Great #ASM AZ/NV branch meeting today at #NAU Great science and lots of trainees giving talks 🥳 🙌

Are you interested in TB, genomics, and transmission? We're looking for a postdoc to join our lab, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/181... @utah-idd.bsky.social @tbjournalclub.bsky.social @epijobs.bsky.social

Pushing out of my comfort zone! #sej2025

So we’re arresting judges now, for *checks notes* supporting due process? What the ever living f@(&

Keep VEuPathDB open-access to all by subscribing today! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

so they're mycoblogging

Oz, the Cruel and Powerful, takes over Medicaid and Medicare with a page right out of the fascist playbook vajenda.substack.com/p/oz-the-cru...

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Land of the flee: Winnipeg-born physician Dr. Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights, by @jenzoratti.bsky.social www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... via @winnipegfreepress.com @drjengunter.bsky.social #infodemic #abortion #ReproRights

Declaring emergencies to circumvent legal protections, in this case to justify logging national forests. "The memo has the effect of declaring nearly 60% of all national forestlands to be in a state of emergency, thereby lifting the usual requirements for public comment and environmental review..."

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH | WIRED www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Really proud of the NIH funded work we are doing to improve ability to detect past exposure to the fungus that causes #valleyfever #tcell #diagnostics academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

Such a tragedy. In spite of being an endemic region, Texas has low disease awareness among clinicians and this resulted in devastation for this family. #valleyfever #thinkfungus elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/v...

Move fast and break things is not a strategy, it’s a patriarchal masculinity problem. The end game is power and f$@k everything else including the future www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

Important work in battling Mucormycosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - CotH is an interesting spore coat gene which has a bacterial origin in these and several other ZZ fungi. In Mucor it is important for their blood vessel invasion.

The @msgerc.bsky.social webinar mentioned in the episode is available online! Check this out to enhance your Cocci knowledge! funguseducationhub.org/coccidioidom... #IDSky

Deadly #fungi are becoming drug-resistant. A new compound could beat them | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:

New IDSA 2025 Guideline Update on the Treatment of Asymptomatic Histoplasma Pulmonary Nodules (Histoplasmomas) and Mild or Moderate Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis in Adults, Children, and Pregnant People Led by @fungaldoc.bsky.social & Sandra Arnold www.idsociety.org/practice-gui... #IDSky #MedSky

As a direct result of these targeted actions, my promised assistant professor job at Columbia University, and entire academic career, are both now in limbo... 22/

Check out the new episode of @febrilepodcast.bsky.social “Dust to Diagnosis” Great experience working with @grthompsonmd.bsky.social, @natebahrid.bsky.social, & @msgerc.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/61sB... #IDSky #Fungi

So, so good open.substack.com/pub/celestem...

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

This is beyond disturbing.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Excellent PLoS pearl from colleagues #mycosky #sporothrix #IDsky journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

And it’s sad because many women I know have similar lists. Death by a 1000 cuts

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.” ― Bette Davis Happy International Women's Day