Today, I assume my new role as Editor-in-Chief of #mSphere published by @asm.org. In this editorial , I discuss where the journal is today and where it is going. mSphere’s journey and future: a message from the new editor in chief | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

This is a catastrophe in the making gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-says-...

"Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards."

This is so sad! www.who.int/news/item/11...

NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

For the first time, researchers have used the #CRISPR gene editor to repair a flawed gene in the human body. scim.ag/3RdMzMT

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

Good summary on microplastics and our health risks nymag.com/intelligence...

Just got this passed on to us, about the damage at NIH's home campus -- the largest biomedical research institute in the world. "The articles on cuts and damage assessments are largely grants focused. The grants program is a bit easier to characterize because it’s visible outside the NIH..." 🧪 1/

PASS IT ON “The 24 hour Economic Blackout" - Posted by Jon Stewart WHEN: Friday February 28th from 12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M. Do not make any purchases Do not shop online, or in-store: No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy…Nowhere! Do not spend money on Food & Gas; Do not use cards

Mosquito Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.639765v1

OpEd by @scripps.edu Pres. Pete Shultz: "the consequences would extend beyond Scripps Research, threatening the broader San Diego life sciences ecosystem, which contributes over $27 billion to the regional economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs." www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/02/25/o...

Our research community has been under attack. We know how important the research we do is – without it, jobs will be lost, clinical trials will be canceled, and life-saving discoveries will never be made.  Please spread the word and sign the letter docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

Congrats to all elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology asm.org/Press-Releas...

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where *everyone* cared about their job and serving others.

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

“Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”

15%. In 2018, 10% was tried, but it was blocked by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/u... www.science.org/content/arti...

The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.

The dismantling of USAID could disrupt many clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn.

A round of applause 👏 for the Keystone Symposia award recipients at our joint conference on RNA Mediated Regulation of Immunity / Non-Coding RNA Biology! Thanks to National Human Genome Research Institute,@bwfund.bsky.social, & the @niaidnews.bsky.social. #KeystoneSymposia #keystoneconferences

The chaos triggered by President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning federal funding for diversity and other topics continues to shake the National Institutes of Health and other health agencies. scim.ag/3EjJGag

🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

#Communiqué 🗞️ La Guinée célèbre aujourd’hui l’élimination de la maladie du sommeil (aussi appelée trypanosomiase humaine africaine – #THA) comme problème de #santé publique. #WorldNTDDay ℹ️ www.ird.fr/loms-valide-... @dndi.org @who.int @pasteur.fr

Register! womeninmalaria.es/wim-conferen...

Register! womeninmalaria.es/wim-conferen...

Ready for it! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

The MPM XXXVI page is now live. Sept 14th to Sept 18th. More updates will be coming soon. Check it out on the parasitesrule.com website. Organized this year by Richarch McCulloch @rmc9z.bsky.social, Photini Sinnis, Marc-Jan Gubbels, Deepali Ravel & Omar Harb @omarharb.bsky.social

I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy. To learn more: asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...

Preprint of our honey bee paper out in ELIfe elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Wow — there are now more than 29 MILLION users on Bluesky! Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

My first post on this platform! As a scientist who love science, this EO is hard to comprehend! www.science.org/content/arti...

Delighted to share our first manuscript on @bsky.app on a novel SUN1-ALLAN complex in Plasmodium MTOC and NE organization. Many thanks @zeeshanm.bsky.social; @eelcotromer.bsky.social; @ryanase.bsky.social ; Tony; Sarah; David F; Karine; Igor; Cyrille; Declan. Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The best way to start 2025: our latest work is out in #PLOSPathogens. It discusses ApiAP2 transcription factors and daughter cell assembly in T. gondii. A work spearheaded by @be-maanasa.bsky.social with the contribution of @mudiyamv.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Delighted to share our study on a major Toxoplasma virulence factor that prevents lytic host cell death. Many thanks to @parafrap.bsky.social for support, constructive reviews and all labs involved: Melissa Lodoen, Hiba El Hajj, @gissotlab.bsky.social, Karine Le Roch Link : rdcu.be/d6m3G

Remember learning that ribosomes are made of 1 large subunit RNA + 1 small subunit RNA? Well, some cells defy this rule, and the most extreme case is Toxoplasma which makes its mitoribosome from >50 RNA pieces! Wanna know how? Read below