Heather Caslin
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Assistant Prof in Exercise Science. Immunometabolism researcher and toddler mom! Views my own.
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First Caslin Lab publication is out this week!! We explore the impacts of innate immune memory to weight loss on infection outcomes. Thanks to Julie Bohannon and Ed Sherwood at Vanderbilt for the help with infection studies.
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Weight loss-induced adipose macrophage memory corresponds... : Shock
immune memory in adipose macrophages that correlates with worsened diabetes risk after weight regain. Here, we investigated the effect of weight gain and loss on adipose macrophage memory and infectio...
https://journals.lww.com/shockjournal/abstract/9900/weight_loss_induced_adipose_macrophage_memory.617.aspx
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Texas Tribune
10 days ago
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a childrenās literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Texas A&M wonāt reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with āgood cause.ā
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
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Yall will be so interested in all of the immunology articles I have open that I swear I will read at a later date⦠š¤£
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
about 2 months ago
Clinical trials are so vital!!! cuts to NIH grants disrupted more than 380 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants!!
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Jen Bendery
about 2 months ago
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epsteinās romantic advice.
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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...
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Mechanisms of Innate Immune Modulation by High-Fat Diet: Implications for Obesity and Asthma - Current Allergy and Asthma Reports
Purpose of the Review The innate immune system plays a critical role in mediating many of the physiological consequences of high-fat diet consumption. Dietary lipids, and specifically saturated fatty ...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11882-025-01232-7#citeas
about 2 months ago
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Melody Schreiber
about 2 months ago
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
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public health is anti-war. guy
2 months ago
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
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Daniel Kim MD, DrPH
2 months ago
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
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Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour
Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01425-4
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Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?
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Angie Rasmussen
2 months ago
On this trajectory, science has no future.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
3 months ago
š¤ Come on,
@utaustin.bsky.social
Just say NO to Trumpās compact! ššDonāt mess with Texas
#HigherEd
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#SaveUT
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Indivisible āš
3 months ago
Facts donāt care about the GOPās feelings ā thereās nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow:
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
#NoKings
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Olivia Messer
3 months ago
In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim youāre all about āthe truthā when youāre only running essays donāt get properly fact-checked ā and donāt hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieTx_P6INQ
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Josh Busby
3 months ago
No way to run a government. Fired. Not fired. Fired again. Not fired. Pants on fire.
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CajunBlue šŗšø šŗš¦
3 months ago
šØšØšØChicago - NOW!šØšØšØ 1/2
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Adrian Liston
3 months ago
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
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Alex Wild
3 months ago
NSF GRFP is out, but theyāve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
3 months ago
āIām emotionally shellshocked right now,ā said one professor in the Texas Tech system. āWhat does it say about academic freedom? It says we donāt have it.ā The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/texas-tech-gender.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brendan Nyhan
3 months ago
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.
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Adrian Liston
4 months ago
For our
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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/...
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https://currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpz1.70206
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Beth Popp Berman
4 months ago
You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
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Charles Johnson
4 months ago
It really cements Charlie Kirkās reputation as a hero of free speech when his followers threaten, doxx, and get people fired for not āmourning properly.ā (Actually, it underlines what a scam that āfree speechā routine was in the first place.)
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Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else
After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/charlie-kirks-allies-warn-americans-mourn-him-properly-or-else-2025-09-13/
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NPR
4 months ago
At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via
@wwno.org
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Southern University, other HBCUs close due to āpotential threatā
Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a āpotential threat.ā
https://www.wwno.org/education/2025-09-11/southern-university-other-hbcus-close-due-to-potential-threat
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
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.
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Mark Copelovitch
4 months ago
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.
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea
4 months ago
For our scientists. By
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From the Black in Immuno board: weāre excited to reconnect and meet new friends here! Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
4 months ago
I really canāt bring myself to say out loud what this means. Itās horrific.
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Gregg Gonsalves
4 months ago
#RFKJr
has now lost the
@nypost.com
. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressureāletās get him out the door.
nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
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RFK Jr.ās Senate ravings prove he wonāt bring sanity back to public health
Health Secretary Robert Kennedyās Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He wonāt be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/opinion/rfk-jr-s-senate-ravings-prove-he-wont-bring-sanity-back-to-public-health/
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Antonia Juhasz
4 months ago
#FreeDC
Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
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Alexander Dent
4 months ago
This entire administration is non-stop waste, fraud and abuse
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Julian Sanchez
4 months ago
Big crowd today against the occupation of DC
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Phil Lewis
4 months ago
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump adminās takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via
@benjalvarez1.bsky.social
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Carl Zimmer
4 months ago
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
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Needhi Bhalla š š½
4 months ago
"Weāre currently at about 54% of last yearās total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that weāre missing 1,809 new R01s."
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
4 months ago
This!! Call Congress and demand that RFK be re-moved--even Trump is getting worried
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The New York Times
4 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
āRobert 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,ā Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.
https://nyti.ms/4mNIxcw
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Gregg Gonsalves
4 months ago
Tell your own Senators and Representatives to stand up.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/bernie-sanders-robert-f-kennedy-jr-resign-hhs.html
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CDC walkout
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Black in Immuno Community, We'd love to reconnect at a town hall event next month. Please share and register here:
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4 months ago
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Timmons Roberts
4 months ago
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...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/climate/brown-university-offshore-wind-marzulla.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g08.cAcd.MyLJWrRWdIhk&smid=url-share
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months ago
"Mamdaniās proposals would make the city more livable for working people while improving public goods ā from transit to child care ā that benefit everyone, including those footing a slightly higher tax bill."
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Tax the Rich. They'll Stay
Mamdaniās plan to tax New Yorkās millionaires has the penthouse crowd aflutter. History and data show they wonāt fly the coop.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/zohran-mamdani-tax-rich-new-york-city-1235414327/
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Carl Zimmer
4 months ago
āWe feel like the lost generation.ā A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard
More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/24/harvard-grad-students-research-cuts/
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Alt NIH Bluesky š§Ŗ
4 months ago
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 administrationās picks. Why are so many Trump appointees Fox hosts? For this reason.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
4 months ago
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as āGoogleā once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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southpaw
5 months ago
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...
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
5 months ago
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
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