MORE OF THIS 👇🏻 New York City’s public hospital system announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Palantir as controversy mounts in the UK over the data analytics and AI firm’s government contract

A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Now this is the future of TB research 👏 39 Keystone Symposia & @gatesfoundation.bsky.social scholarship awardees at #KSTB26. With ~1.5M TB deaths each year, these early-career scientists are driving progress through collaboration and new ideas. @maxgg.bsky.social @breealdridge.bsky.social

Day 1 of Keystone Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales. On #WorldTBDay #WTBD. So much good science, from immunology to host and pathogen genomics to antibiotic discovery and lung-on-chip organoid models #KSTB26

Global tuberculosis response off track: urgent priorities to end the world's top infectious killer - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Are you a UK-based writer from an underrepresented group? The Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards are now open for applications: www.londonwriterscentre.org.uk/project/well...

Great opportunity for UK-based clinicians looking to continue their research career

This is an Orwellian use of Palentir by Streeting. Using the NHS in this way is unacceptable and totalitarian and will result in people being sent back to work who are too ill to do the job.

A potential late sequelae of measles after normal recovery. Occurs in ~ 2/10,000. Fatal. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org today

NEW PREPRINT! We systematically reviewed molecular epidemiology studies looking at strain discordance in pairs of people with TB disease and history of household contact We found 30 studies from 18 countries. Excluding 4 studies at high risk of bias, we had data on 1544 household case pairs [1/n]

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

I am thrilled to share that the work from @maxgg.bsky.social team @crick.ac.uk engineering a lung-on-chip from human iPSC is published in #ScienceAdvances @science.org in the new year.

New funding for pre-PhD clinical researchers in respiratory medicine

Reminds me of this english.masirahtv.net/post/35834/

Very sad. More and more people are dying while experiencing homelessness in the UK, especially in England museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Exciting PhD opportunity for clinicians interesting in gram negative and Mycobacterial drug discovery (and ready to get stuck into the lab!) www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

The global academic boycott of Israel’s complicit institutions is taking effect sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...

Amid a genocide, Starmer is sending diplomats to discuss a new trade deal with Israel. Britain is telling this genocidal government ‘one of the reasons to come to Israel is to demonstrate very strong support from the UK’ It’s revolting. We need sanctions not more trade. 1/2

Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free". Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors

Glad someone is systematically assessing this

Genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

After a great review process with @naturecomms.bsky.social, I'm so happy to share our work identifying inactive RING E3 #ubiquitin #pseudoligases in the TRIM protein family!! rdcu.be/ehlGW 🥳 🍾 🙌 @katmcphie.bsky.social @diegoesposito.bsky.social @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

I too have been dismissed from NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors along with 3 other women and a non-white man

New preprint on how a minimal Salmonella kinase needs a host kinase to activate it. Work led by @timeshpillay.bsky.social and another great collaboration with @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

During my PhD at @crick.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, I explored the molecular interaction between host and pathogen. My question: How have pathogenic bacteria evolved to manipulate their host environment during infection? 🦠https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640964v1 1/11