BIG BREAKING: Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered a complete pause on infectious diseases testing, which includes rabies, tuberculosis, mumps, and hantavirus. RFK Jr. wants to freely move these infectious diseases among the people. Please spread this message widely.

Time to think about nominations 🧪🦠 #Tuberculosis #WomenInStem

STAT story on the President's NIH budget request www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/t... 1/2

This is really not a way to live.

AAI strongly urges Congress to reject the Administration's proposal to cut the NIH budget by $5.8 billion and continue its longstanding support for lifesaving biomedical research. Read our statement in full: https://ow.ly/cVXj50YCWfK

To be a black woman.

I have a new comment piece out in Nature today. rdcu.be/e7LVS 1/6

If only we had an intervention, like I don't know, a vaccine that works!

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

"We have resigned because: We protest the hypocrisy of an NIH leadership that claims to protect academic freedom while censoring grants and staff communication." The #NIH is the biggest public funder of biomedical and behavioral research in the world. It has always received bipartisan support. Sad.

"NIH leadership turmoil adds to politicization concerns" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨Doubtmongering horror show. "The abrupt change to the entire U.S. childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary and will endanger the health of children..." Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

This is simply criminal.

💥New paper alert!💥 What’s better than starting 2026 with an @annualreviews.bsky.social #Immunology, often a once-in-a-life honor ❤️?! Check it out if you want to know everything about type III interferons #IFN! Thanks to my wonderful team for their amazing work 🤗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I think we all need some good news for global health and infectious diseases!

NEW PREPRINT! We systematically reviewed molecular epidemiology studies looking at strain discordance in pairs of people with TB disease and history of household contact We found 30 studies from 18 countries. Excluding 4 studies at high risk of bias, we had data on 1544 household case pairs [1/n]

Two pieces of fun news: 1. We've launched a new website for our lab: www.brysonlab.org 2. With some new funding, we are recruiting for new postdocs and graduate students. The projects build upon our previous studies of antigen presentation and phagosome biology and go into new exciting dimensions!

The pipeline of scientists is cracked at every level now: recent grads can't get jobs/research experience because we're all conservative about hiring in this climate, fewer grad school spots, killing many fellowship pipelines, and now the early career investigators are disproportionately impacted.

Y'all!

These NIH AIDS cycle due dates though.. Why are there any deadlines for anything first week of Jan? My end of 2025 rant. Thank you for listening to my podcast.

Upon submitting your abstract, you may apply for a Travel Award by 11:59 PM ET, December 16. These awards assist with travel expenses to #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ in Boston, MA, from April 15-19, 2026. https://ow.ly/lbwR50XKocE

Senators should have the same health care as their constituents.

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.

To celebrate today's presentation of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, we present a special collection highlighting important JEM studies by Shimon Sakaguchi on regulatory T (Treg) cells. 👉 rupress.org/jem/collecti...

Good morning 😡

Very disturbing news at work today..

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!

Important and timely read in the New England Journal of Medicine: Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.

Check out our new paper with @nelson-lab.bsky.social. We used scRNAseq to profile the function of Mtb peptide-specific T cells from NHP and human lung granulomas. Beyond IFNγ, Mtb-specific T cells make a bunch of unexpected stuff, and human and NHP cell are really similar.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The antigen-presenting molecule MR1 binds host-generated riboflavin catabolites, say Mohamed Abdelaal, Nicholas Gherardin, Jamie Rossjohn, Wael Awad @waelawad.bsky.social and colleagues @monashuniversity.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social: rupress.org/jem/article/... #InnateImmunity #MAIT

Well this is not good..

It's awful that the world we live in is capable of causing so much suffering.

One of many reasons the department of education is being gutted.

📢 Early-Career TB Researchers: Submit short talk abstracts & scholarship apps by Nov. 24! Join us Mar 23-26, 2026 in Cape Town for cutting-edge TB & global health. 🎥Highlights: youtu.be/YcKVeGWqXSM Submit: keysym.us/KSTB26 @maxgg.bsky.social @breealdridge.bsky.social #KSTB26 #tuberculosis #TB

I have posted about this before, but... Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 1/6

By characterizing abortion as health care, international orgs have pushed back against abortion exceptionalism. The World Health Organization recognizes that “[a]bortion is a simple health care intervention.” Numerous countries have adopted laws and policies to align with WHO recommendations.

Interleukin-17A Mediates Cardiorenal Injury In Oxalate Nephropathy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.687153v1

2025, a timeline… 1) this is gonna be our year 2) fuck 3) Thanksgiving

Graph missing some confidence intervals, but the trend holds. Are we really surprised?

This is so alarming.

This is a very comprehensive review for those of you who are interested in vaccines and the use of mRNA in vaccines.

Today, we start one of the most advanced virus discovery & metagenomics workshop in the world in Stellenbosch. Experts from Australia, America, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Italy, Nederlands, Japan, U.K and Sweden come together to teach participants from 20 countries.

Happy Friday! We're so thrilled to share our review on #trainedimmunity out in @elife.bsky.social today. We had a great time writing this. Honored to be included in the special issue of trained immunity. Always an absolute treat to write with @khannakm.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/108...

Epstein-Barr virus–mediated B cell reprogramming may initiate systemic lupus erythematosus www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social @shady-myounis.bsky.social

I won't talk about NMeth @natmethods.nature.com forever (probably), but I do want to brag a bit about the November focus issue on cell segmentation and tracking, which is many ways is my last hurrah (and final editorial) for the journal. I am so proud of these papers!! www.nature.com/nmeth/volume...

New York magazine: Working at the CDC Is a Living Hell /Gaslighting, surveillance, and layoffs under the RFK Jr. regime bit.ly/3WQhdPh

A great project and potential alternative for our current publishing model, by @maxkrummel.bsky.social and folks at Solving for Science, specially Maureen McGargill and Beiyun Liu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...