Our lab's first paper is out! Led by Jordan Ort, we developed NextClade datasets that enable rapid H5 clade assignment via NextClade. We deployed these during the start of the H5 cattle outbreak, and we finally published the paper in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

Cow B3.13 vs EA-2020-C: 🔺 replication in cow mammary gland cells, 🔺 viral polymerase activity + 🔺 interferon antagonism in cow cells. Many IAVs able to replicated in bovine cells, particularly mammary gland. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW: Don't ask too many questions, but... NIH may not re-terminate the 900ish grants at issue in the main NIH lawsuits after all. To the PIs of reinstated grants, SPEND NOW! 🧵 Here's what NIH is probably thinking. Bear with me:

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Current and former members of the NIH community have valuable personal perspectives to share about the devastation that is happening to US biomedical research, our federal agencies, and our democracy. This starter pack is a great way to hear what they have to say and what you can do about it. 🧪🧬🧠🥼🇺🇸

New York Times story with profiles of researchers whose grants were terminated. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

THE QUACK HAS GOT TO GO! In September we will hand delivery the petition and signatures to key members of Congress. WE NEED EVERYONE TO HELP! ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼SIGN AND SHARE!✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 #firebobby #impeachthequack #31daysofaction @standupforscience.bsky.social

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

Preprint on tandem split-GFP influenza viruses is now up! We strung 7 copies of GFP11 together to make a bright virus with minimal fitness defects. Fluorescence requires GFP1-10 from cells, so we made a few that are relevant for flu. See this fluorescent love story: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Ireland said “I hear there’s an opening for world leader in research and we’re here to report. Also, we like Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and we’ve put it in line 2.”

Hearing rumors from multiple sources that NIH COO Eric Schnabel was terminated yesterday for allegedly trying to award a large contract to his wife (who sometimes uses her maiden name) for "public outreach" associated with the autism data science initiative. #EndlessGrift

*Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach." Gift link 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

This is going to get messy…Council members do important work and having appropriate expertise is important. In the past, there was no concern about political alignments.

22 papers across two issues document the impact of #AvianInfluenza and assess effectiveness of management responses. They show the unprecedented scale of the outbreak, decimating populations across Europe, Africa, North and South America to the South Atlantic. 📚 bit.ly/bird-study-h... #Ornithology

Oh.My.God. This is unconscionable. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

STAT story about the ruling www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n... 1/n

6/14/25💪 #Missoula #MT 🇺🇸

Ended #nokings with a community production of As You Like It at MSU by Montana Shakespeare In the Parks. More happiness and great community here in Bozeman.

Bozeman Montana showed up today. 7+ blocks packed with peaceful protestors. My heart is so full. #nokings

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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This is sort of the best version of social media, where you have two smart people share their knowledge in a reasonable and insightful way. Both threads are worth your time.

How do different bird species repspond to HPAI (2004 strain)? Differential gene expression across different species, and IFIT5 and OAS potentially markers for HPAI susceptibility. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Measles likely came from cows (via rinderpest) around the 6th century BCE. For 2,500 years, we didn’t evolve superhuman resistance—children just died. Real protection only came in the 1960s, with vaccines. Our superpower isn’t evolving into superhumans. It’s outthinking pathogens.

My research career was built mostly through DEB (89.6% cut requested) and IOS (92%)

Have seen a lot of Harvard commencements. Usually the Harvard prez is greeted by brief pro-forma applause. Or nothing. Or in my era, waves of protests and boos. Never heard of *anything* like the sustained standing ovation Alan Garber got today. Deserved. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiT0...

Great opportunity to work on influenza virus-host factor interactions in a brand new lab at Imperial (led by a friend and collaborator, Carol Sheppard) www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

🧪 Basic science boosts the economy: "The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger? The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."

Women PIs held 34% of total active grants but 58% of the grants cancelled. The percentage of Hispanic or disabled PIs who lost grants was roughly twice their presence in the active grant pool. Black PIs held 17% of the canceled grants though only 4% of total grants. www.science.org/content/arti...

Wonderfully good video about the beauty of science and humanitarian motivation working together to defeat diseases and save people. youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ... 🧪 #NIH #CDC #WHO #BMGF #NIAID

Why Public Health has an image problem in the general public

@science.org 🧫🧬❄️🔬 Molecular basis of influenza ribonucleoprotein complex assembly and processive RNA synthesis | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @yiweichang.bsky.social www.yiweichanglab.org @jiwasa.bsky.social #virology #Influenza #Cryo-EM #StructuralBiology #RNA #polymerase

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

To my colleagues at Harvard with recently terminated NIH and NSF grants, please, please report them below. We’re told of at least 200 NSF grants and widespread NIH terminations. NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... And please spread the word 🙏

A thread: NIH Fellows United is committed to showing up, even when leadership won’t. 🧪

Every generation has its defining test. This is ours. Don’t burn out – pace yourself, live your life, and keep pushing. We’re the torchbearers now. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/keep-your-...

🧪 ICYMI: $25,000 bridge funding for terminated NSF grants. Major props for to the Spencer, Sloan, W. T. Grant, and Kapor Foundations for their swift action, even though we (and they) know this is a band-aid fix. Due May 30. Applications are brief: a 2-3 page memo of 6-month plans & other docs.

vandalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Powerful graphic. In a single day on April 25, a DOGE-fueled NSF canceled 340,226 future days of research. Or 932 years. [And that’s just one of three rounds of terminations so far.]

Webinar tomorrow night 🔹 Dr Tiggy Grillo (Wildlife Health Australia) 🔹 Dr Michelle Wille (WHOCCRI) 🔹 Wouter Langhout (BirdLife Europe and Central Asia) 📅 7 May 2025 | 🕘 09:00 GMT | 19:00 AEST 👉 Register here: lnkd.in/eVfWcbq3

A/Michigan/90/2024(H5N1) from dairy worker in Michigan: airborne transmission with moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality in ferrets. 👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...