Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

“agencies may consider an applicant’s history of questionable practices based on publicly available and verifiable information.” Potential perma bans for any University which ever supported any type of DEI activity.

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

It’s #MucosalMonday - hear more about what SMI can do for you and you can serve SMI from Rodney Newbeery. Plus learn about silicosis from @benjmarsland.bsky.social : www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

High level overview of some of the things that have happened at NIH over the past 16 months from @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4iY... Worth the 15 minutes if you want a clear insider's perspective.

Powerful essay, please read. "Children will die from this. Not metaphorically. Not eventually." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

Excellent blog & fact check of Jay Bhattacharya on status of grants awards & ability to spend FY2026 funding from @27unihted.bsky.social. A great thing to read as Jay goes before the Senate next week. substack.com/@27unihted/n...

Scoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

📢 Calling all AAI Members! The RESTORE Grants Program is officially accepting applications on a rolling basis. If your research has been impacted by federal funding disruptions unrelated to scientific merit, we want to hear from you. Learn more and apply now: https://ow.ly/ABtJ50YZxGC.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

This #DayofImmunology, we celebrate the "Guardians of Immune Balance"—Regulatory T Cells! 🛡️ Did you know a cornerstone of the 2025 Nobel Prize-winning research on Tregs was published in The Journal of Immunology? 📖 https://ow.ly/QSEC50YRPHV#DayofImmunology

Celebrate the IUIS Day of Immunology by joining a global conversation! AAI is proud to support the IUIS and EFIS webinar: "Regulatory T Cells: Guardians of Immune Balance." Today, April 29, at 9:00 AM EST. 🔗 https://ow.ly/8TcK50YRGb5 #DayofImmunology

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

The rules of immunity are different in early life! Lead author Dr. Yue Xing finds that early life DCs sense allergens and trigger inflammation directly in skin. This in-situ activation state emerges from a developing HPA and low glucocorticoids. #Naiklab @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MucosalMonday means a new podcast episode with @societymucosalimm.bsky.social! Join @marionbrunck.bsky.social @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social @kknoop.bsky.social for discussions, mysteries, and the latest research at MI! www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

This is a second of a 2-part episode on allergy. I discuss anaphylaxis at the skin and intestinal barriers with two incredible powerhouses - Steph Eisenbarth and Caroline Sokol.

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

Who is loving (the wasted hours) reformatting their Biosketch in sciENcv?! 🙋‍♂️ The formatting is atrocious. Anyone identify hacks to make it more palatable?

This episode was so much fun to produce! First up, I chat with Ashley Moseman about his recent work on nasal destruction during viral infections, followed by an in-depth discussion with Chrys Brown and Cathy Nagler on oral tolerance and food allergy.

Listen here -> bit.ly/4lxNC7F #MucosalImmunology #Immunology

Give this month’s Mucosal Immunology podcast a listen! I had a blast chatting with @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social and @cathynagler.bsky.social about food allergy and tolerance. Also I chat with Ian Lewkowich about the #AIC2025 conference, and Ashley Moseman about nasal epithelium.

It’s #MucosalMonday and time for the latest @societymucosalimm.bsky.social podcast episode! This episode features gamma delta T cell work in MI from @edelblumlab.bsky.social; and an interview with @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social on microbial dysbiosis during #MutlipleSchlerosis

At the microbiome session for #AIC2025, leaning some great mucosal immunology!

New initial publication In @elife.bsky.social: Cataloguing the postnatal small intestinal transcriptome during the first postnatal month doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Early introduction of peanut butter reduces risk of peanut allergies- publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

The Congress shall have Power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. Article 1 section 8 of the US constitution.

So pleased I work at a place and in a state that recommends and provides COVID vaccines. I got mine (and my flu shot) today! newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/m...

Immune Booster 17: From unvaccinated to vaccine advocacy with Liz Marnik👇👇👇

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )

It’s #MucosalMonday and time for a new podcast episode! This month, @lakmalisilva.bsky.social discusses the oral mucosa with @marionbrunck.bsky.social. Plus medical mysteries with @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social and how RSV can impact the microbiota with @kknoop.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

We are reopening this search - apply now! viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...

All set for tomorrow! Happy to be joining Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, @gilbertjacka.bsky.social, David A. Mills, Thomas Sharpton & others for the Microbiome Virtual International Forum. Registration is 🌟free🌟 for everyone, everywhere - join us!

Miss any of our podcasts episodes? You can find them all on our MI site: www.mucosalimmunology.org/multimedia/a...

✨September Issue✨| More than a leaky gut: how gut priming shapes arthritis The authors discuss how gut alterations are linked to the development of arthritis and challenge the concept of the ‘leaky gut’ hypothesis @kristikuhn.bsky.social @kknoop.bsky.social bit.ly/468w78U #Rheumsky #Medsky

⏰ Timing is everything 🦠 as you will appreciate listening in! 🤓Keep abreast of the literature as @kknoop.bsky.social gives a round up summary of the review that inspired the latest @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social cover and guess the disease/pathogen with @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social ‘s Med Mystery 🎧

Time for the August episode of the #MucosalMonday MI Podcast featuring a discussion with @michael-silverman.bsky.social, @marionbrunck.bsky.social, and Agnes Garcias Lopez; Medical mystery from @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social; and MI research with @kknoop.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/0Q4Ve1x...

Out today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... From @kknoop.bsky.social & myself on early life immune development & the beautiful publication from Megan Koch & M Shenoy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Take home message: timing of early life exposures, milk IgG here, is critical for immune development.

@michael-silverman.bsky.social and I discuss how new findings from Megan Koch’s lab highlight the importance of maternal guidance during early life helps prepare offspring for a life of immune health. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote a perspective on new work out in @aga-cmgh.bsky.social on sex differences in goblet cells and mucus: www.cmghjournal.org/article/S235...

New content online:

Happy to have compiled this review on the role of the intestinal mucosa in RA and SpA with my friends @kknoop.bsky.social‬, Joyce, Mario, and Kentaro. We challenge the "leaky gut" hypothesis and why we shouldn't use that term that oversimplifies how our microbiome shapes immunity.

Looking beyond “leaky gut” for causes of chronic inflammation, check out this review @kristikuhn.bsky.social wrote with others! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Of course, I like to think that my post yesterday was the final nail in the coffin. After all, I posted it yesterday and today Vinay Prasad is out. Obviously, correlation equals causation. 😂 sciencebasedmedicine.org/covid-19-con...

Looking forward to our 2nd annual AMA for #WorldBreastfeedingWeek! Join us this Friday Aug 1 and 🌟Ask Us Anything🌟

Listen to the latest #MucosalMonday Podcast with Melody Zeng on how the microbiota influences intestinal health throughout life. On all podcast platforms: open.spotify.com/show/0Q4Ve1x... @societymucosalimm.bsky.social @marionbrunck.bsky.social @kknoop.bsky.social @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14 This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

It’s #MucosalMonday and the June episode of the Mucosal Immunology Podcast is out with @rauchlab.bsky.social @marionbrunck.bsky.social, @ashu-mangalam.bsky.social, @kknoop.bsky.social and more! Subscribe and follow on your favorite podcast platform. open.spotify.com/episode/5H1k...