Nothing beats being greeted by the day with a sky like this especially on a week full of festivities 😍 @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social @ucsdhealth.bsky.social

A heartfelt see you later to Sydney! 🥹

Robert Redford (RIP) survived a childhood bout of polio though bedridden for 2 weeks In 2014, he directed a short film on the architecture and mission of La Jolla's Salk Institute—honoring founder Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine that has saved countless lives, and architect Louis Kahn

public sentiment in favor of an effective vaccine to prevent group a streptoccocal infections (and consequent rheumatic heart disease) seems to be on the rise

ᗰY ᖴᗩᐯOᖇITE TOᑭIᑕ Oᖴ ᒪᗩTE: ᑭᒪᗩTEᒪET-ᗰEᗪIᗩTEᗪ IᗰᗰᑌᑎITY! Platelet Factor 4 (PF4) isn’t just a clotting chemokine—in sepsis models, PF4 boosts endothelial bacterial clearance, curbs immunothrombosis & improves survival Anh Ngo PhD, Gollomp Lab @ UPenn, now on bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🅁 evealing 🄴 vidence, 🅂 parking 🄴 xploration, 🄰 dvancing 🅁 eason, 🄲 reating 🄷 ope @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social

Lab Graduation Party for a wonderful scientist and human being–Dr. Lamar Thomas—who has completed her IRACDA and UCPPFP postdoc and will begin her Asst. Professorship in Biological Sciences at CSU Long Beach! Her future students will get a gem of a mentor! 🇯🇲 🏝️ 🔬 🦠 ☀️ 🇯🇲 Big tings a gwan! 🇯🇲 🏝️ 🔬 🦠 ☀️ 🇯🇲

A true honor to have such great mentors and community! A milestone achieved through the collective support of fantastic scientists and leaders!

Congratulations to @consweeswee.bsky.social for an incredible thesis defense yesterday!! I'm really excited to have Consuelo join the Nizet lab.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Today felt like a huge hug. Humans supporting Humans 🥹

Massive"No Kings" rally in downtown #SanDiego today, 60K+ showed up including me y'all - there is hope for a better and brighter future!

Cuts to Science w/o Congressional approval have affected research on Alzheimer’s, cancer and substance use and many other studies at institutions across the country, including in red states www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A great evening celebrating ARCS San Diego Scientist of the Year, Dr. Knight. Thank you for using your platform to shed light on the critical status of science. Training programs, critical to the upbringing of many great scientists, are at risk impacting the future of knowledge, innovation, & med.

In our first “Postdoc perspectives” essay, @fleabrained.bsky.social and @maribel-patino.bsky.social explain how grassroots organizations led by trainees are stepping up to provide career and mentorship guidance for neuroscience students from marginalized backgrounds. #neuroskyence bit.ly/4csFx0B

My friends and colleagues spanning the gamut from faculty, administration, postdocs, PhD students, undergrads, and professional research staff showing up in big numbers at UC San Diego to organize, educate, support one another, and most of all: #StandUpForScience 🧪 🔬 🦠 🧫 🧬

I’m incredibly disappointed in NASEM. It seems that they’re prepared to forego established science to placate the lawless administration. The membership needs to let their leadership know that they won’t let politics interfere with science and health.

These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today. We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe www.cell.com/cell/current...

The NAACP is creating a list of companies that have reaffirmed their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and another list of companies that have dialed back support. Let’s all put our spending power behind those that support DEI. naacp.org/campaigns/bl...

Microbiologists get it Healthy oceans, forests and grasslands thrive upon mutualistic symbioses among diverse tiny life forms A diversity of beneficial mirobiota in our guts is critical for our growth, metabolism, development, immunity, and neurological function Same can apply to human societies

Hey Guys - I Did a Podcast! Yesterday, talented Harvard undergrad and Broad Institute researcher Shriya Bhat hosted me on “Beyond the Bench” to discuss immune directed strategies we’re pursuing to combat antimicrobial resistance at the host-pathogen interface urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... 🔬 🦠 🎙️

American Bar Assoc 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺

Yes

how the NIH contributes to the economy in my home state — find yours www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... dollars cut is a 2.5x economic return nullified, many good jobs lost, and locally economies and their healthcare weakened no savings to our country, but rather incredible losses

annual new year’s brunch for the lab — lots of great collaborative science and career advancements to celebrate — we miss however those graduates whose new position took them across the country or around the world a nod to our expanding focus on innovative vaccines in this year’s t-shirt [1 of 2]

At the shop with Dad today 😊 Proud to say I learned attention to fine details from him. 🥹

Saying goodbye to The Gonzo Lab 11 yr old instrument & saying hello to the new Star of Mass Spec, the Astral @thermofishersci.bsky.social

Walter Munk, often referred to as the “Einstein of the Oceans,” was one of the most influential oceanographers of the 20th century. Over a career that spanned more than 70 years, Munk fundamentally altered how we think about the oceans. @scrippsocean.bsky.social

Amazing! Congratulations! 🎉

Happy to announce - and honored - to be elected to the British Pharmacological Society Honorary Fellowship - www.bps.ac.uk/news/article...

Morning light 😍

Mid-day break with this amazing view😍

Nothing like a great sunset to close out the evening 🥹

Action to address climate crisis is CRITICAL! Definitely a great step towards getting different institutional leadership to work in unison!

Grateful 🥹🫶🏽

Microbiologists and infectious diseases researchers moving over from Twitter/X to BlueSky #MicroSky #IDSky #ScienceSky