We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

Chimeric MHC class I and II-restricted non-self epitopes broaden anti-tumor T cell reactions. New study from Rongsheng Zhang, Tasuku Honjo, Kenji Chamoto and colleagues @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social: rupress.org/jem/article/... #TumorImmunology

Review: Reaching maturity: Thymic γδ T cell differentiation in mice and humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @sciimmunology.bsky.social @bsilvasantos.bsky.social

Urs Mörbe, William Agace et al. characterize and spatially map the fibroblast landscape within human large and small intestinal gut-associated lymphoid tissues, including Peyer’s patches and isolated lymphoid follicles, during homeostasis and #Crohns disease. rupress.org/jem/article/... #IBD

Always worth repeating: Every new medicine begins in an academic lab, and this publicly funded research is one of the strongest economic engines a state can support, making the proposed EBRI a win-win for everyone, so sign and share >>> c.org/nDnRNSsVcq

All my top music is from grant writing 😱

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me [email protected]. Thanks!

Wondering why you should ✍ our petition? c.org/nDnRNSsVcq In @aai.org, founder @drshrutinaik.bsky.social reveals why the coalition was formed, why NY needs a state-backed research institute, and how scientists should organize for systemic support — here and nationwide. news.aai.org/2025/11/20/n...

David Baltimore obituary: virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Key points on the need for continued animal use in scientific research. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Run a lab? Work in a lab? Wondering where your future research funding will come from? New York has an unprecedented opportunity on the table — a bold proposal to supercharge biomedical research and innovation across the state. 👉 Sign the petition & share to help make it happen.: c.org/TDMy2H9JTW

Online now: Human lung CD8+ tissue-resident memory T cell-derived interferon-γ orchestrates subset-specific antiviral programming in airway epithelial cells

Excited to share our new paper in @jem.org! 🎉 We reveal a key mechanism showing how tissue-resident memory CD8⁺ T cells (#Trm) amplify antiviral protection during reinfection. #immuno 🧵👇1/6

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Enjoyed sharing my home brew 'Cyto-hops-ic IE-ale' with everyone at our departmental Oktoberfest. Unfortunately, only my lab and a select few understood the reference.

www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... Science is pretty amazing! The amount of basic science that leads to these clinical breakthroughs is staggering and often not appreciated by the politicians that decide funding levels

I'll take #gdTcells for $500

A key US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Donald Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the US National Science Foundation and NASA. go.nature.com/40H0XST

As NIH budget deliberations continue, prepare to hear Bhattacharya deflect substantial questions about the negative effects of his funding policies with “I’m an economist.” He’s not a very good one if he’s unable to assess the impact of funding decisions at the agency he directs.

Our latest review on macrophages Macrophages: sentinels, warriors, and healers url:https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/hmg/ddaf087/8158008 academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-...

Listen to our newest Immunology faculty @priyadevarajan.bsky.social discussing her new lab @stonybrookmedicine.bsky.social and the benefit of @societymucosalimm.bsky.social mentorship program to her career development!

These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years. It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Metabolic reprogramming of IL-17 producing gd T cells promotes de novo lipogenesis under psoriasis conditions

NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.

Check out this cool new study from a colleague at @stonybrookmedicine.bsky.social. Congrats to Charles and his team! Mtb-reactive CD8a expressing NK cells in humans!

Another great study from the @khannakm.bsky.social lab! Disease tolerance to limit Pathology in mucosal tissues

Check out this fantastic story from @ikinglab.bsky.social group! There's always something cool going on in the mucosa

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

From South America to the global stage! Meet Dr. Eduardo Villablanca and Gustavo Monasterio Ocares as they share how SMI has supported their efforts to increase opportunities for mucosal immunologists in South America. Watch here: www.socmucimm.org/about/smi-or... #MucosalImmunology

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (www.ft.com/content/7568... )

Postdoctoral students, graduate students and other junior scientists in large research groups are more likely to drop out of academia than are their peers in smaller groups, says a study of more than one million early-career researchers. https://go.nature.com/3F8sZyV

2 DAYS until we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! More information on local sites available at www.standupforscience2025.org ☀️ #standupforscience2025

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Reminding people that without the NIH, there's very little for people with rare diseases is an argument to make right now.

Make it make sense!

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Deactivated my Twitter account! I feel so much cleaner...

join us for a beautiful summertime in Basel 🇨🇭 to learn, share and discuss data on #tissue #immunity submit your abstract by end of May - we have plenty of slots for short talks!

Excellent Info Graphic. Share everywhere!

Rodent and monkey facilities could be imperiled by the Trump administration’s plan to slash overhead costs that the National Institutes of Health pays to institutions for medical research. scim.ag/3QvS4GC

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

The attacks and uncertainty are not just crushing progress for human health, forfeiting the US leadership role in biomedical science, curtaining economic gain, and threatening many livelihoods...but breaking a pipeline of training that will be very hard to rebuild and which will haunt industry too

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY IN LA JOLLA 🏝️ My colleague Marygorret Obonyo here at UC San Diego is hiring for a new postdoc position to study the link between Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric cancer — including a novel mouse model and links to interferon pathways (contact below) PLEASE SHARE