SNAP benefits stop today, who knows for how long. Please donate to your local food bank.

I am loving the Moon book. That is all.

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

Amazing scientists doing amazing science!

ASM legacy society journals are all high quality and not based on a profit model. Which, sadly, many “high-impact” journals now are. If more of us publish in our relevant society journals for microbiology, virology, immunology, etc., we can strengthen academic over profit publishers.

Wrote a quick and dirty illustrated explainer on The Department of Education because if I have to hear any more misinformation about it I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

If the NYT cared to check facts instead of peddling again conspiracy theories about what scientists did or did not think (see QT'd thread), they'd realize that what happened in April 2020 was actually a forewarning for what is currently happening -- arbitrary political cancellations of grants. ▫️6/6

Transmissible clamcer. Science rules.

The session State of the Art - Pneumonia at St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference features a pair of presenters and is moderated by Dr. Matthew Kelly (UAMS). #IDSKy

Good crowd here in Pittsburgh for #standupforscience2025

#standupforscience in Pittsburgh from the Cooper Lab and @raplab.bsky.social Personal fave: Dictyostelium over Dictators

Falling debris from a failed test of a SpaceX Starship prototype disrupted flights at several Florida airports.

PIDS member Dr. Natasha Halasa presents the next Frontiers in Pediatric ID - Pediatric Transplant/Immunocompromised Hosts Platform - Influenza Vaccine Optimization Strategies in Immunocompromised Hosts at the 2025 St. Jude/PIDS Conference. #IDSky

Especially with no aim.

I have racing disease. My doctor said I had to let it run its course.

Our February member spotlight is Latania Logan, professor of pediatrics and associate division chief, peds ID @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social and PIDS IDWeek chair. Read more about Dr. Logan's career in peds ID at pids.org/2025/02/19/m...

As an uncle, I'm devastated for the family of this child. As an Infectious Disease physician, I'm angry at people who have spread misinformation about vaccines leading to this outbreak. apnews.com/article/meas...

The truth cannot be too often repeated

This is why research funding is important to me.

The Revolution will be AI-icized

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru... This is not good for national security.

🎉 This is the best news in a month!! Hold the line, America.

A US Senator Joins the Fray. Thank you @murray.senate.gov ! More of this, please! www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

➡️ NIH grants in '23 included $26B of direct costs and $9B of F&A = 26% of total costs or 35% of total direct costs. These are LOW overhead rates for any R&D-intensive industry. Academic biomedical research is an efficient bargain. ➡️ Every $1 of NIH support generates ~$2.50 of economic activity.

Or the 70s! Jim Croce’s “Operator”? Does not compute.

We're pleased to announce the 2025 SUMMERS Research Scholars Award. This program has funded 55 young researchers to date and we're enthusiastic about funding more. Review the application criteria & encourage anyone who may benefit to apply by April 4. #IDSky pidsfoundation.org/summer-resea...