We are hiring an immunologist. This is a hard money position. We have a very robust research infrastructure. Rowan is rapidly growing, with 20,000+ undergrads, two med schools, and a vet school. Contact me for more details. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...

WSJ: Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double. 👉 on.wsj.com/43W1ylj gift link

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

📖 Perfect weekend reading for fungal fans! 😉 Our @mpm-hki.bsky.social colleagues uncover how #CandidaAlbicans manages to invade tissue as hyphae but spread as yeast. Published in @femsjournals.bsky.social. 🧑🏻‍🔬: @jlspragu.bsky.social

2️⃣ Naah, MHV plays stress granules like a pro: show up late, strip out the translation machinery, keep your RNA away, and let these 'empty shells' persist while you replicate freely. Moh covers a #preprint from @profvolkerthiel.bsky.social & team #preLight⬇️ prelights.biologists.com/highlights/s...

Researchers have revealed the characteristics of mRNAs, lncRNAs, and miRNAs in 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑡𝑒𝑠 using transcriptomic methods, setting the stage for future pathogenicity studies and antifungal drug development for the species. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social B lymphocytes that enter the germinal center late preferentially differentiate into memory cells that recognize subdominant epitopes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Love seeing this!

Imagine splitting open a rock and seeing this.

Registration for Halfway to I2K is now OPEN! And workshop submission is still too (for a bit)! Join 20+ presenters and counting, and hundreds of attendees in learning about image analysis, whether you're a complete beginner or a total pro.

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

An extensive analysis of germinal center dynamics in lung-draining lymph nodes from COVID19 autopsies… Cloé Brenna et al. reveal how COVID-19 reshapes follicles in lung LNs & identify pathways controlling antibody responses to viral infection: insight.jci.org/articles/vie...

"Should #phage therapy look like an antibiotic prescription, standardised and mass-produced, or more like personalised cancer treatment, tailored to the individual? The answer is: both." 💬 @deuskamya.bsky.social

Just look at the stats from the most recent #Tuberculosis in Canada report (released Oct 2025, but covering 2023). It notes incidence of 5.5/100,000 & risk of not meeting Canada's 2030 commitment of >1/100,000. Meanwhile among Inuit it's 204.2/100,000... publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.9...

"Screening clinics for #tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Work with actinomycetes or mycobacteria? Dedicated symposia shine the spotlight on these remarkable bacteria at #Microbio26 in Belfast. Explore the full variety of sessions and submit your work today. Abstract submissions close on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts

#C.albicans invades tissues as hyphae but spreads as yeast, How? @jlspragu.bsky.social & coll. show yeast can reach the bloodstream by hitchhiking with invasive hyphae or by switching forms. 🧫 More clues for understanding systemic infections ! 👉 buff.ly/0vklJeb

A spooky fossil for Halloween! The Carboniferous swamps of the north of England were full of creepy crawlies... This is one of them, a spider-like creature called Mesotarbus. 📍 Westhoughton 🏛️ Manchester Museum 📷 GB3D Fossils #FossilFriday

Another superb Derek thread; he is a national treasure

Viral and immune correlates of viral rebound dynamics post-ART were identified in an animal model of pediatric HIV infection @emoryuniversity.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you are looking for ways to help your community, it is a good time to donate to your local food bank if you can. My understanding from those who do this work is that $$ is the most effective donation at the moment, since food banks have existing relationships that can stretch your donation.

Ascidians (Ciona intestinalis)🪸Our distant chordate cousins! 🌊 Simple sea squirts that reveal how vertebrate body plans evolved 🧬 A key model for notochord formation, neural induction, and cell lineage mapping 📸 Video by MBL Embryology 2019 #ModelMonday #DevBio #EvoDevo

Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent [thanks anti-vaxxers] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases The future of HIV research — and of the USA’s scientific leadership — depends on bold, sustained action in defense of discovery, investment, and innovation. www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

another fascinating collaboration with the Turco lab @fmiscience.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Post-COVID-19 immune competence A short reference for those facing arguments of immune damage, exhaustion, lymphopenia or immunodeficiency. open.substack.com/pu...

Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our photoswitchable HaloTag is out in Angewandte Chemie @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! We now also show that this system can be used to control emitter density in SMLM. Congrats to Franzi, Bego, and our amazing collaborators. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Two new Edmontosaurus skeletons with preserved skin just got published by Paul Sereno and collegues. They had a fleshy scaly crest over their back and hoofed feet! I was lucky enough to see the specimens last summer. The publication is open access: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New in JB: Black and Wakeman review the challenges of treating polymicrobial infections in various body sites, a topic near and dear to my heart. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

How can we see the cells that make up a living organism? Membrane-localising tags can drive fluorescent proteins to the cell's outer membrane, making their outlines visible. But the tags don't work well in all organisms. How do you find one for your species of interest? 🧵 Check our latest preprint

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

If you ever used napari in your research, take a moment to read this. Napari, like many other resources in the bioimaging world, is freely available despite the fact that it costs many people much time and efforts to develop and maintain it. Now you get a chance to give back, don't miss it :)

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

The #OME-Zarr RFC-5 proposal allows you to transform multiple images into the same coordinateSystem. Trying this out with napari at github.com/will-moore/n.... Cool that you can offset T-dimension as well as XYZ!

“More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.“

So disgusting. This is beyond contempt.

Fascinating. It's worth noticing nuance and questioning dogma.

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

Applications are being accepted for a Senior Scientist role in my group. Those with #DevBio & mentoring experience are encouraged to apply 🧪 Applications must be submitted using the SJ job portal at the link below. DM/email apps cannot be considered. stjude.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/stjude/job/M...

Transcriptomic Profiling of Bronchial Epithelium Reveals Dysregulated Interferon and Inflammatory Responses to Rhinovirus in Exacerbation-Prone Pediatric Asthma https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.19.683298v1

Chlodronate depletion of phagocytic mosquito hemocytes. star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4210

A day to stand up, and stand together. fallows.substack.com/p/stand-up-s...

We summarize recent advancements that support a revised model of effector T cell metabolism, where strategic nutrient allocation fuels optimal T cell-mediated immunity. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Explore our new guide to immunohistochemistry to learn all about IHC, including workflow basics, advantages of using frozen or fixed tissue, important factors in antibody selection, and the variety of staining options. Check it out here: www.biocompare.com/6605-Guide-t...

The tuberculosis-associated microenvironment promotes HIV-1 persistence by impairing CD8+ T cell-mediated viral control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682453v1

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you! Please shoot me a message,

I’ve not personally had a chance to get out from the city light pollution to try for comet sightings, but you should! I’ve heard it’s visible with binoculars/cameras now, may be naked-eye visible in dark skies this evening or within days (peak: 21 October) www.space.com/stargazing/h...