As a cancer survivor, this is infuriating and chilling.

Volunteers are risking their lives to stop Ebola. They aren’t always welcome. Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what could become the worst ever Ebola outbreak. They risk not just infection, but anger of terrified villages www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w... Gift Article

Shortages of widely used generic chemotherapy drugs have sparked talk of drug rationing among the oncologists. Doctors say supplies are low & orders remain unfilled for even generic chemotherapy infusions that are central to a long list of cancers www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/h...

Did Pete Hegseth up the R₀ of the flu when he ditched the flu shot mandate? Remember the obsession w/ Covid's reproduction number—the R₀ or R-naught? If an infected person spreads a virus to more than one (R₀≥1), an outbreak occurs. If R₀ is less than 1.0 (R₀<1), the outbreak dies. So yes, he did 👇

A new charter has been unveiled for the CDC's influential vaccine committee—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The new rules call for the panel to consider "non-vaccine interventions." Public health experts say the new RFKjr rules are political & could resurrect forgotten infections👇

At times like this, it is especially painful to think about how fragile the historical record is.

The lows in my city are going to be in the 80s (27C+) overnight. How is better ventilation going to help?

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Australia - worth not(ify)ing [by me from AUG 2023] virologydownunder.com/respiratory-...

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

What happens with rising authoritarianism, collapse of multilateralism, aid cuts, and erosion of global solidarity? Outbreaks happen and will be harder to prevent or contain journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The pathogenic soilborne and postharvest fungus #Berkeleyomyces basicola is a newly reported pathogen in Serbia. Miljan Grkinić et al. elucidate the pathogenic characteristics of B. basicola causing black root rot of carrot: https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-07-25-1516-SC #plantdisease

Volunteers are risking their lives to stop Ebola. They aren’t always welcome. Congolese workers who conduct safe burials are key to containing what could become the worst ever Ebola outbreak. They risk not just infection, but anger of terrified villages www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w... Gift Article

Shortages of widely used generic chemotherapy drugs have sparked talk of drug rationing among the oncologists. Doctors say supplies are low & orders remain unfilled for even generic chemotherapy infusions that are central to a long list of cancers www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/h...

Did Pete Hegseth up the R₀ of the flu when he ditched the flu shot mandate? Remember the obsession w/ Covid's reproduction number—the R₀ or R-naught? If an infected person spreads a virus to more than one (R₀≥1), an outbreak occurs. If R₀ is less than 1.0 (R₀<1), the outbreak dies. So yes, he did 👇

A new charter has been unveiled for the CDC's influential vaccine committee—the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The new rules call for the panel to consider "non-vaccine interventions." Public health experts say the new RFKjr rules are political & could resurrect forgotten infections👇

Predicting antimicrobial resistance for precision medicine. #ArtificialIntelligence & #MachineLearning can predict #antimicrobialresistance, enabling targeted therapies that curb resistance evolution & protect the #microbiome www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #AI #ML #AMR #MicroSky

Globalisation, rising authoritarianism, declining solidarity, and retreating multilateralism are creating a perfect storm for amplifying the risk of outbreaks In this context, what exactly does solidarity mean? Our new @plosglobalpublichealth.org essay: journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

From the bond market to biomedical researchers NO ONE thinks Russell Vought's mad power-grab to take over all federal grant making is a wise idea. Write, call your members of Congress. Submit a comment on the rule. Write an oped. STOP THIS NONSENSE. www.bondbuyer.com/news/moodys-...

I attended a die-in in Arlington to protest Vought’s schemes to gut federal science & health programs. Vought’s cuts have led to thousands of deaths already, to the ending of clinical trials for cancer, to the gutting of food aid overseas and here in the US. Let people die. That’s the Vought way.

'The United States was once the research engine of the world. Now China may be taking the dominant role, thanks to massive investment and a disruptive year for American universities under the Trump administration.'

Why does this seem to happen regularly with sprouted seeds? www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

“Having all funding for federal grants of any type subject to the political rules and biases of a politicized agency led by a policy czar who has zero real-world knowledge about any of the topics at issue is a recipe for disaster.” -Nancy Krieger on the danger of Russell Vought’s OMB rule proposal

The Ebola outbreak is shrouded in mystery: Where did this virus come from? Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/s...

Hemorrhage may be an infrequent symptom for those infected w/ the Bundibugyo strain of Ebolavirus, a departure from past outbreaks. Ebola has long been known as a hemorrhagic disease. New study shows the bleeding rate for confirmed cases to be no higher than for those w/ only suspected infections👇

This confirms what the CDC leader said before she was fired. Kennedy wanted the science to be cooked until it aligned with his politics.

Global health cannot be truly global if researchers from the global south are denied visas to attend meetings to present the work that they have done. I am reminded of this reality all to frequently. Kudos to the organizers who exhausted all options to try to enable his attendance.

Genome-Based Taxonomy and #Provirus Identification in Halococcus from Hypersaline Environments. #Halococcus genomes reveal diverse defenses, novel proviruses & lysogeny‑linked fitness costs in extreme saline habitats. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #archaea #MicroSky

RFK Jr. travelled to #Samoa to lie about #measles vaccination and lied under oath about why he was in Samoa. #Ivax2protect www.samoaobserver.ws/category/sam...

‼️With flu season in full swing, & less than 24h after becoming HHS Sec, RFK Jr ordered CDC to stop promoting flu vaccine How grotesque That day, CDC reported flu had killed 68 kids—11 that week alone—& 16,000 people overall There had been 29 million reported cases & 370,000 hospitalizations

Doctors who endorsed Trump endorsed Miller too. It was all a package.

This is my lino block print of American botanist, cytogeneticist and 1983 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) with some maize. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔬#histsci McClintock, who received her doctorate in botany from Cornell in 1927, studied the cytogenetics of maize and how their 🧵

I had a ton of fun the other day talking with @nonresidentdesi.bsky.social and @scifri.bsky.social 's Flora Lichtman and Rasha Aridi about murderous microbes and the things that we are trying to learn from them. Happy for the opportunity to bring some new awareness to the world of protists!

Shocking👇

The Ebola outbreak is shrouded in mystery: Where did this virus come from? Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/s...

Hemorrhage may be an infrequent symptom for those infected w/ the Bundibugyo strain of Ebolavirus, a departure from past outbreaks. Ebola has long been known as a hemorrhagic disease. New study shows the bleeding rate for confirmed cases to be no higher than for those w/ only suspected infections👇

Meta-analysis reveals #microbiome signatures for #colorectalcancer that are universal across age groups and sequencing methods www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #OpenAccess #microbiota #cancer #MicroSky #MedSky

The Trump regime is going out of its way to bring back scary 19th century infectious diseases. Now on the rise: lockjaw—also known as tetanus. The infection can be prevented through vaccination. But immunization rates down thanks to RFKjr, so the bacterial disease is making a comeback👇

While broadly neutralizing antibodies were first tested in adults nearly 30 years ago, it has taken until now for scientists to conduct similar studies in babies. For infants, it’s a new approach with the aim of reducing dormant HIV that hides from the immune system & drugs. By Delthia Ricks👇

The #Covid vaccine study that acting CDC director Jayanta Bhattacharya blocked has been published in an outside journal. The findings suggest Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness last fall www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The #Covid vaccine study that acting CDC director Jayanta Bhattacharya blocked has been published in an outside journal. The findings suggest Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness last fall www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo now top 1000. More than a quarter of those affected have died. ~100 have recovered in the outbreak & at least 365 patients are in hospitals or isolation. Outbreak is caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, which has no vaccine or treatment👇

Tennessee pharmacies are selling potent Ivermectin pushed by an anti-vax doctor. State law says you can buy as much as you want prescription-free. Some pharmacies sell the anti-parasitic at 10x to 20x above a standard dose. It's a rightwing cure-all. Now, Joe Rogan's podcast says it cures cancer👇

The Trump regime has gone overboard in efforts to harm children. It has denied 770,000 kids access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program— SNAP—benefits. It reduced the number of vaccines & spreads misinformation about measles. Now, a doctor says the government is deliberately harming kids

Best portrait of Trump I've seen yet.

Two of the most important biomedical breakthroughs came from science of the Gila lizard venom (GLP-1s) and yogurt (CRISPR genome editing). "The system that turned that lizard into a medicine is now being dismantled." gift link nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

So the US National Science Foundation (NSF) is diverting a large amount of public money for basic science into areas of science that already well funded by investors and for profit companies. This will continue to undermine the pipeline of trained scientists and engineers from higher education. 🧪

Here is @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s statement on the new OMB rule that takes scientific funding decisions away from experts and hands them to political appointees. Please have a look to learn more about how you can help.

By coincidence, I was teaching about apparently superluminal jets to undergraduates almost exactly 30 years ago today, so it clearly wasn’t news to anyone even then. Perhaps it’d be good to learn some basic astrophysics before presuming to try to overturn it… 🔭🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1t...

Tumor driver co-mutation patterns are not conclusions—they are hypotheses. Mutual exclusivity/co-occurrence in cancer genomes become biologically meaningful (i.e. informative of epistasis) only when evaluated in the context of mutation-rate heterogeneity. 🧪: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tennessee pharmacies are selling potent Ivermectin pushed by an anti-vax doctor. State law says you can buy as much as you want prescription-free. Some pharmacies sell the anti-parasitic at 10x to 20x above a standard dose. It's a rightwing cure-all. Now, Joe Rogan's podcast says it cures cancer👇