The measles website at CDC continues to share updated data. 1514 cases reported in 2025. 3 deaths. CDC scientists working hard but have to manage vaccine attacks from @SecKennedy and his minions. This will be the year that ends US’s measles elimination status. Not one word at #UNGA.

"In a statement, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard disputed suggestions that withdrawing from joint projects would weaken the nation’s pandemic preparedness, writing that “BARDA is prioritizing evidence-based, ethically grounded solutions”." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Drew Weissman responds to questions about mRNA vaccines that were discussed at the ACIP meeting. #LoveVirology #TrustTheFuckingScience www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Dr. El-Deiry just presented at RFK Jr.’s ACIP goat rodeo. I condemned his presentation to the fires of hell, but I was not aware that 75 of his pubs were flagged for data irregularities. This tracks.

ALSOBROOKS: Did you receive a call from the secretary upon reports an active shooter at CDC HQ had shot at employees? MONAREZ: I did not speak to the secretary on the 8th or any successive day A: So are you telling me the HHS secretary failed to even give you a courtesy call? M: He didnt call me

"We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed and struck down laws for moral reasons.We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed,we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest".-The Newsroom

Senator Mullin lied during the hearing today with the former CDC director. He lied. Let me repeat that he lied.

LITERAL GOLD. Thank you for making this, @colbertlateshow.bsky.social.

Resign

STAT: Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations By @aniloza.bsky.social and Megan Molteni bit.ly/41EdFT5

As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...

Damn. This is very, very bad. It is hard to overstate how bad this would be. It's pure anti-vax-ism. Parents would have to bring their kids to the doctor 3-5 times more to get vaccines because of Prasad's junk science?

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

The federal government wants to treat Baltimore like a punchline. 10 toes down, I’m saying it’s not.

Please amplify Sen. Patty Murray's comments. Unless you're cool with all this, and haven't had enough yet. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

I’ll take things that never happened for $500.

The main thing - is it not already clear - RFKr Jr is uniquely unqualified to lead the HHS. All main agencies under his watch - NIH, FDA, CMS - are also headed by incompetent contrarian peddlers of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and pseudoscience. This will, and already does, cost lives.

After the shooting at CDC, Sen. Blumenthal is calling for HHS Secretary Kennedy to fire Dr. Robert Malone — whose Substack posts and other writings are objectively unhinged and tinged with violence — from ACIP and restore the expert panel Kennedy gutted. www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

This is a very good interview. The reporter pushes back and asks very good followup questions about vaccines, funding and government role in science. His mis-informed and dis-informed angle to these topics is laid bare. How do we, as scientists, communicate how wrong these views are?

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Has there been any response from the White House about the domestic terrorism shooting at the CDC on Friday, other than the memo from famously anti-vax RFK Jr? Also what President’s administration funded the COVID19 vax? And who was CDc director then? www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

They spread the lie for years that public health professionals are enemies. Now, a policeman is dead, and the lives of CDC personnel and their kids were at risk. There'll be "deep concern" and thoughts & prayers. But architects of that lie will celebrate privately because this has been the goal.

Something new every day...

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Time’s running out! We’re hiring 1 Scientist + 2 Postdocs at @PasteurCambodia’s #Virology Unit to work on emerging viruses & #zoonoses. If you want to do real-time science that matters—this is your chance. Apply now. Start soon. 🦠🔬🧪🐓💉🦇😷🥼 #academicjobs #OneHealth #Virology

Much appreciated. Give some of these folks a follow go.bsky.app/LQZYUdE

This whole thread is great. I want to run a journal club where we only read these papers!

Oooh! Taught a whole class on trade-offs this past spring. This was a class favorite (maybe because I brought in a bunch of chilies and the students were all game to try them!)

Every year my lecture on evolution includes this slide of tradeoffs with Howler monkey call video and graphs of ball size. I can’t stop myself

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

Characterization of extensive diversity in immunoglobulin light chain variable germline genes across biomedically important mouse strains @immunohorizons.bsky.social academic.oup.com/immunohorizo...

Officially finished out #ASV2025 with the best crew! What a privilege it was to spend 4 full days totally immersed in learning about the incredible research being done across the globe. #lovevirology and #lovemylab

#ASV2025, this is from #ASV2017! Recognize anyone? @amersocvirology.bsky.social

This is getting lots of good traction, so if you are a student looking for a PHD STUDENT POSITION in biology, I would love to add you! Be sure to add your research interests in your bio and/or a pinned post so PIs can find you.

Frieman Lab enjoying night 2 of #ASV2025

Charlie Rice is the only scientist who could get a Nobel Prize for his findings and give a keynote address at #ASV2025 and never mention he won a Nobel Prize! #LoveVirology

This seems...bad. archive.is/2025.05.04-2...

NA imprinting in humans likely influences age-related risk of zoonotic H5N1 and H9N2 based on analysis of available data. Wonder about how age affects exposure relative to susceptibility? 👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

RIP Franklin W. Stahl (1929–2025) here is Frank explaining semiconservative replication of DNA in the marvelous interview from 2020 together with Matt Meselson (youtu.be/7-tnuAqEp9g)

🔬Calling all microbiologists. 🔬 Ever feel like your paper is too small for some journals, but too solid to sit on? #FEMSMicrobes welcomes well-executed microbiology manuscripts, and they put special attention on promoting ECR authors, eg the webinar below. 👇 @femsjournals.bsky.social @femsmicro.org

Dear #TheBear. Please don’t screw this season up. The world is imploding. We all need a season that is crazy but has resolution. If it could please land perfectly at the end, I will be ever grateful. Thanks Matt PS. Never enough Faks

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Are you at #ASM205? Go see Devon Riley, my grad student (with co-mentor Bobby Ernst), present her poster #CIV-P-303 on Saturday about "Optimizing An Avian Influenza Vaccine Using a Novel Bacterial Enzymatic Combinatorial Chemistry (BECC) TLR4 Adjuvant". Its a great story!

Up next at the #ASMicrobe Opening Session: a discussion with Dr. Susan Weiss, recipient of the ASM 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, about her exceptional contributions to the field of microbiology and coronavirus research, moderated by Dr. Brenda Hogue.

Our latest preprint is now available doi.org/10.1101/2025...! Led by my postdoc, Luqiang Guo @luqiang.bsky.social, we determined a ~2.4 A resolution structure of the hantavirus glycoprotein tetramer on the surface of VLPs. Also determined structures of dimers of tetramers and Fab-bound tetramers.

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