This is the kind of things PhD student Louis can do with @ekatrukha.bsky.social's CurveMorph: following protein movement whithin growing axons in his stunning 80-hour movies

Interested in microbiology, immunology, and host-pathogen interactions? Come work with us! Our department at OHSU is opening a search for a new tenure-track faculty position. See the job advertisement for details. Please share within your networks! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Congratulations to John R. Yates III, Ruedi Aebersold and Matthias Mann, recipients of the 2026 Canada Gairdner International Award. Prof. Yates: www.gairdner.org/winner/john-... Prof. Aebersold: www.gairdner.org/winner/ruedi... Prof. Mann: www.gairdner.org/winner/matth... #2026GairdnerAwards

Sometimes science entails a fight to the death with a 40 year old lyophilizer. It won...

Transferring IgG antibodies from patients with #LongCovid to mice recapitulates many symptoms www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For half a century, researchers suspected treetops on Earth might glow because of thunderstorms. But the phenomenon, an electric outburst called a corona, has only ever been spotted in the lab--until now. Cool story from @hannah-richter.bsky.social for @science.org

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

We introduce #ProxiCapture, an affinity-proteomics platform to map degrader-induced interactions in native cell & tissue lysates. We uncover a context-dependent “glueable” proteome and a scalable route to accelerate molecular glue discovery 🤗 @ibc2-gu.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social

Using fluorescence live imaging and an in vitro implantation model, we show that human embryo attachment begins with direct cell fusion via syncytin-2–MFSD2A interaction. With @hansclevers.bsky.social. Great work by @tnoordzij.bsky.social & @martinacelotti.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Helene was so giving to others about her battle, and went through to make it into maybe the top 1% of survivors of pancreatic cancer, before succumbing Dec 19, 2025 all while losing her father to it. She supported @letswinpc.org and the family asks for you to consider supporting them as well.💔

This is a great story about trying to do ordinary pluralist politics under the lawless rule of an administration that exclusively understands politics in the friend-enemy mode. CO senators try to protect a home state research center which Vought lawlessly seeks to abolish as an enemy institution

“There may be less of a vaccine mismatch than many people initially believed.” More on this very soon from our group...Go get your vaccine if you haven't already! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

I'm incredibly honored to serve as inaugural chair of the Mechanism Discovery Unit of @asm.org! Looking forward to this opportunity to support our microbial sciences community and help it grow.

New lab website to share - take a look at our recent progress and the team in Denver. www.radoshevichlab.com

We recognise that there are many reasons authors might not be able to cover a publication fee. To ensure that it isn't a barrier to publication, we offer a simple way for authors to apply for a fee waiver. Find out more in our author guide: buff.ly/PAVE39b.

They are still essential heroes in my eyes. Thank you to our healthcare workers!

What is Listeria? Here's a guide on how to prevent getting sick or dying from it: https://tinyurl.com/mxheumjx 

Colorado is well on its way to funding universal free school lunches with the passage of propositions LL and MM. K through 12. This country isn't lost. It's ours.

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

If it wasn't clear, this ad is for tenure track Microbiology faculty at the assistant professor level😬

Full cell antibody purification! Clever trick, could also work for IF or FACS

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

✨ Exciting News ✨I am thrilled to share that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology (IDM), at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health!

“‘She uncovered the social experience of women in science’ — the lab assistants who never became managers, the geologists poring over data in government offices while their male peers were doing fieldwork, those who despite their advanced degrees didn’t get hired or promoted, or who were sidelined…”

Come be my boss! We’re looking for a passionate and supportive leader for our Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. Research in MMI spans diverse models and systems of host-pathogen interactions. Come join us in the beautiful Pacific NW! facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/35624/c...

It is impossible to explain to civilians how it feels to finally, FINALLY, land a clearly within-payline NIH grant score and then have it go unfunded because of all this regime bullshit. You all have my sympathies. Unfair doesn’t even begin to describe it.

apnews.com/article/texa... researcher faces deportation after being held for week at San Francisco airport

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Warning of rise in #tularemia incidences in #Minnesota ... | #rabbitfever | #bacteria | #Francisella | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via @cbsnews.com

Resolution from Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Jake Auchincloss (MA-04) recognizing the importance of U.S. leadership in biomedical research and the federal government’s responsibility to protect and expand that leadership. #SaveNIH degette.house.gov/media-center...

Three people have died and more than a dozen others were sickened in an outbreak of listeria linked to premade chicken pasta meals sold at Walmart and Kroger stores, according to the CDC.

A California-based company is recalling its chicken fettuccine alfredo products sold at major retailers following a listeria outbreak that has killed three people and caused the loss of a...

#SeptSRC pathogenesis session continues with Serge “cageman” Mostowy @sergemostowylab.bsky.social presenting compelling new data on septins as a unique cytoskektal system that curtails Shigella infection.

It's hard to believe we're having to defend germ theory over "miasma" and "terrain" theories in the 21st century, but here we are. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

“In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred among children younger than 5, mostly because of preventable infectious diseases. By the end of the century, that number was just 1.4 percent.” #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #ACIP

(Longish thread. Apologies) I have met many inspiring colleagues over the past few months, many of whom are in academic institutions targeted by the current administration, and many others who are about to be (the analogy to the ‘eye of Sauron’ has been invoked many times; gallows humor). 1/

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

Anyone that has been around a lab knows that the trainees really drive the research, while most professors just sort of guide the ship. Most innovation comes from our trainees. Old professors like me will be able to survive these cuts, but our young scientists and our future will be destroyed.

Cutting research investment isn’t fiscally prudent. It’s economically self-defeating. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Sharing the next installment of our fun collaboration with @michaelnadbio.bsky.social at the interface of #ubiquitin and #ADP-ribosylation! Building upon our identification of cellular MARUbylation, we now identify reader/writer E3 ligases that extend K11 polyUb! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term. This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.

New paper alert-outstanding postdoc Mecaila McClune has deeply enriched our understanding of #Lymedisease pathogenesis through live, real-time peptidoglycan #glycotime tracking. Her work draws curious parallels to #LongCovid & infection associated chronic illness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ATS and Advocacy go hand-in-hand Tuesday, 4:30–5:30 PM Room 20, North Building Turning Interest into Action: Building Advocacy Coalitions After, you are invited to join a collective advocacy march! Let’s come together to amplify our voices and drive change. We hope to see you there! #ATS2025

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

Such a treat to host @sunnyshinlab.bsky.social in the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine at National Jewish Health! She even gave two amazing talks (co-hosted with CU-AMC Immunology and Microbiology)!

Shigella-trained pro-inflammatory macrophages protect zebrafish from secondary infection @cgmargarida.bsky.social