The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Esther L. Jones @estherlj.bsky.social on her successful DPhil viva! A great collaborative project between the L. Dustin and Jelena Bezbradica @jelenalab.bsky.social labs. Many thanks to examiners Irina Udalova @udalovalab.bsky.social and Menna Clatworthy.

Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇

Canceling clinical trials for life-saving treatments destroys families. Not autism.

“The best revenge is to refuse their values. To embody the kind of living—free, colorful, open—they want to snuff out. So when they dehumanize, you humanize. When they try to fracture and divide people, you connect… When they try to make you cynical, you double down on hope.” Anand Giridharadas

A therapeutic cancer vaccine! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Disease diagnostics using machine learning of B cell and T cell receptor sequences | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Have you or a loved one been treated for cancer? Ever have a vaccine? Had someone you love revived by chest compressions? If so, then you have benefited from NIH-funded research, which has just been effectively shut down by the cancellation of NIH study sections. No new research allowed.

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NEW: Trump orders federal health agencies to STOP communicating health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites, and to stop making social media posts. I said previously I was worried about the lack of reporting. Here it is. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Chemical Formulas xkcd.com/3040

This is cool!

There's a really interesting new paper out in Science for people who care about immunity to flu (which should be everyone because flu is a VERY big problem): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's my thread explaining this work🧵

Super important thread on why we must continue vaccinating against Polio

Finally, some good news! www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Antibody mimicry of a substrate to block flu neuraminidases!

Good morning and happy thanksgiving from @altyellonatpark.org

A new #Immune dropped! On this episode we discuss a snippet on how olfactory macrophages maintain neurons and a paper on failure to establish long lived plasma cells following mRNA vaccination. youtu.be/niecXH7an_k

Interesting preprint for #interferonlovers #IFN #virosky airway epithelial cells from individuals with Down syndrome have high basal ISGs but have a dysregulated production and response to type III #interferon, causing RSV susceptibility. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.

SARS CoV-2 infection is associated with particular autoantibody profiles. Wondering how many other infectious diseases also induce specific autoantibodies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool study—infection history matters

Academic publishers at Science, Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, OUP - are you going to be using #Bluesky to post and publicise your new content - it’s where we’ll now be looking for stuff