A gunman opened fire on the CDC campus in Atlanta this evening, and the shooter and a police officer are dead, according to authorities. The shooter was ill, and blamed their vaccinations for COVID. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

I tried to do the meme but with the Beatles, and um, I must have access to GPT 3008 or something

New paper alert! In depth characterisation of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva: stability, detection and recovery. Important findings for using saliva samples for carriage studies. @microbiologysociety.org @annewyllie.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

We’re growing @arcadiascience.com & are on the lookout for talent to run new pilot projects contributing to our broader goals. Seeking computational + wet lab fluency to iterate independently on new projects. If you’re a creative scientist w/ ambitious ideas, apply! jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien...

“The NZ passport should have English at the top cause in an international context that’s what people understand” Ok racist uncle what’s this then

This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!

Just a few days left to apply for PhD positions in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/research/cen... I am offering two projects (on Clostridioides difficile & metagenomics of wastewater and freshwater).

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!! My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students! We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Is taking a vacation worth the risk? Are you sure you don’t want to do the right thing and die at work?

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

@asm.org our booth at #ASMicrobe is empty because our comms team was fired. We oppose the damage to NIH-funded research and the people who do it. Please show your support by signing the #BethesdaDeclaration. #Microbe #Microbe2025 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

"Grandma how did the 2025 pandemic start"

This is the fate of science and scientists in 2025 in the US. It will take multiple generations at best to recover…🧪

🧪 Scientists are suing the Trump administration over the termination of NIH grants for research on topics including LGBTQ+ health disparities, sexual assault, and vaccine hesitancy. A court hearing is set for June 16 to address the legality of these cancellations. #AcademicSky

Outstanding op-ed from Carole LaBonne Universities and the government: Which needs the other more? College-based research labs are the workhorses of national progress and prosperity. wapo.st/3ZR1vFm 1/n

🧫🦠🔬🧪🌍 The impact of the #microbiome in human health is so oversold... But if the microbiome is so critical, then mismatching it should devastate #Host-microbe interactions. It seems it does. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June. research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

We are still looking for a motivated student to join us in the wonderful world of mosquito microbiome genomies! Funding unfortunately only for UK students for this one. If interested, please send CV & letter of motivation (email in image below) #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪Please share widely😊 1/2

Our problem is not a lack of young people who want a career in science, our problem is a lack of careers in science

82 million fewer years of life thanks to the reckless policies of Jay Bhattacharya’s NIH - which translates to an estimated $8.2 trillion in life value 😢

You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months. Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us. After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent. More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.

If you want to know why young people continually feel left behind, it's because they are, on so many fronts. This chart from today's G&M shows how cuts in the federal service fell in the last year. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Good this study was done but assumes damage wld get addressed. We know many ppl (esp kids) just live w/ bad teeth, normalize discomfort, & the stigma of bad tooth smiles. Plus how many ppl (kids & adults) are thrilled to see a dentist (& have dental ins.)? My pt: many impacts are hard to quantify. 🛟

I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

I am looking for a postdoc with an immunology background interested in joining a Yale neuroscience lab to study how the brain controls immunity. At Yale, we have a wonderful interdisciplinary & collaborative #neuroimmune community. Please reach out or share with anyone who might be interested!

Note that NWU has received zero communication from the administration about this. No explanation, no rationale, no demands. Nothing. They're not even paying on grants that were already awarded and budgeted. It's tyrannical

An easily overlooked consequence of research funding cancellations: completed research these days requires hundreds to several thousand dollars to be published due to publication fees from journals. Without support for these fees many pieces of scientific work will be near invisible.

"to run a contest that you end up not funding as a private organization at this time is… both extremely wasteful of these people’s time, and just devastating in terms of morale." I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT today about HHMI's decision not to fund this round of Hanna Gray applicants.

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

What's this, good news??? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

💯 I've written (or co-written) several grant proposals, including grant proposals to the NIH and NSF. Peer review is *extremely* thorough, and only a fraction of the very best ideas get approved/funded. And there are strict requirements to document how the money is spent.

Reminded of Ed Yong’s response to this question: “If I cover a preprint, I talk to 2-3 experts to get their views before writing the story. That’s exactly what I do if I cover a journal article…”

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

It should be clear by now that "just apply for more grants" cannot be considered good advise much longer. What do other institutions discuss re: how to support pre-tenure (and post-tenure) to meet the grant requirement or, quite frankly, to continue running their labs?

Do people outside of academia realize how absolutely cuckoo crazy for cocoa puffs this is? NIH and NSF are the primary funders of science in the entire U.S. The Trump Administration is coming for scientists and anyone -- like Harvard -- who dares oppose their crazy mandates.

Paper by Harvard and Yale researchers puts scale of NIH cuts at near $2bn, identifies where cuts fall. Worst hit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, losing $500m. Hits not just "coastal elite", but unis "of all stripes across US". www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-usa-...

Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

From @hsph.harvard.edu on Instagram. In FY 25, 46% of the school's budget came from federal grants. Thinking of the many friends I have at Harvard Chan right now who just want to do work that will make the world healthier.

1/ 📣 #JobOffer Postdoctoral Research Associate in Infectious Disease Modelling (two posts) 📣 🧪 Develop data-driven mathematical models for modelling avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain #IDSky #EpiSky ⏳ Application deadline: 12:00 noon BST, 04 July 2025 🔗: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71795

I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.

[taps sign] Cancelling these grants is illegal under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act *and* unconstitutional under Congress' Article I spending authority.

Just checkin’ the till here, @bostonglobe.com, but I think you missed a few thousand. Per my last count, @harvard.edu has 13 affiliated hospitals, 2000+ PhD students and over 5000 postdocs.