New review with @lab-williams.bsky.social out today! One of the most enjoyable things about being a new PI has been making new collaborations and seeing projects advance through the pipeline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

😭 there’s no way this is a good thing

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky

Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?

On this trajectory, science has no future.

🤠Come on, @utaustin.bsky.social Just say NO to Trump’s compact! 👏👏Don’t mess with Texas #HigherEd! #SaveUT

Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨 1/2

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper? You got it: currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

It really cements Charlie Kirk’s reputation as a hero of free speech when his followers threaten, doxx, and get people fired for not “mourning properly.” (Actually, it underlines what a scam that “free speech” routine was in the first place.)

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.

For our scientists. By @ellecordova.bsky.social

From the Black in Immuno board: we’re excited to reconnect and meet new friends here! Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.

I really can’t bring myself to say out loud what this means. It’s horrific.

#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

This entire administration is non-stop waste, fraud and abuse

Big crowd today against the occupation of DC

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

This!! Call Congress and demand that RFK be re-moved--even Trump is getting worried

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

Tell your own Senators and Representatives to stand up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

CDC walkout

Black in Immuno Community, We'd love to reconnect at a town hall event next month. Please share and register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

"Mamdani’s proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods — from transit to child care — that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."

Black in Immuno Community, We'd love to reconnect at a town hall event next month. Please share and register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

More than a little misleading. But Francis Collins is being polite. Say it straight: RFK and Bhattacharya are liars, selected for their ability to mislead the public, like so much of this administration’s picks. Why are so many Trump appointees Fox hosts? For this reason.

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

Another tragedy caused by JFK Jr’s misinformation campaign.

We had actual an actual assassination of a Democratic legislator in Minnesota two months ago & it’s completely disappeared from the National Conversation™️. This happens <all> the time over & over again 👇

We are hiring, spread the word! Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions — join our fantastic Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UTHealth McGovern Med, in the beautiful city of Houston! Applicants from all areas of microbiology are welcome. #microsky careers.uth.tmc.edu/HRzUmB5

Reset before the semester ☑️☑️☑️