Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026

The neuroendocrine peptide catestatin promotes clearance of cutaneous Staphylococcus aureus through mast cell Mrgpr activation www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Retired NIH Program Officer Requests Grandson Address Weaknesses From Last Year’s Christmas List Before Considering New Submission open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

🆕 #Neuroepithelial landscape of #Enterochromaffin cells varies across #GI location‼️ ✅EC cells rarely make contact with sensory nerves in upper gut but this frequency increases in distal colon👏 🎯 #Neuropods are not a preferential site of contact🔥 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ANMS #ESNM

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Teaching a pathogenic microbiology graduate class this semester. Did I use the pathogens for which the vaccines have been removed from the cdc recommended vaccine schedule as the examples for deep dives? Yes, yes I did. 😁

If we continue to compromise with people whose stated goal is to destroy NIH, then we will not be successful in saving it.

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

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Thrilled for our wonderful postdoc @lizihegarty.bsky.social whose #PhD work on colonic #macrophages and #colitis with @bainlab.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social 🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are private jets being affected by this? Cause we could just cancel all those instead 🤷‍♀️

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are dispensable or detrimental in murine systemic or respiratory viral infections @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to medications. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Immune cell profiling reveals diverse niches of immune residents of the enteric nervous system and potential neuroimmune interactions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to share our new publication. Inhibition of acute lung inflammation by a neuroimmune circuit induced by vagal nerve stimulation | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Putin-loving guy who always looks like he’s on something (but got to bypass his background check & security clearance), who put me on a State Dept “subversives” list, gutted its capacity, and is planning to Wikileaks its anti-propaganda org, has such an interesting personal story. 👀 Uncanny.

Don't forget to register for the 2025 Goyal Award Lectureship as we recognize the outstanding contributions of @gareaulab.bsky.social on Monday, May 12th at 11am EDT! Join us for great talk on #microbiota-#gut-#brain axis in #neonates! #GIresearch #Gastrosky #GIsky @apsphysiology.bsky.social

Amazing view from GIL banquet last night 🤩 #APS2025

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

New to this platform, but not new to asking big questions 🧬 Check out our deep dive: 11 Big Questions in IBD Genetics & Genomics—where a crew of experts tackles the biggest challenges in understanding Crohn’s and colitis at the molecular level. 📖 ibdjournal.org #IBD #Genomics #GIresearch

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Primary all democrats that go along with this bullshit

Anyone else’s submitted grant still not have an application id assigned? Apparently many grants from my university are sitting in this limbo stage. Most seem to be R21s…

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

📢Aujourd'hui l'Institut Pasteur se mobilise pour la science, l'inclusion & l'avenir du savoir avec l'organisation du symposium «Excellence Scientifique : et si l'inclusion était la clé ?» en écho avec la Journée Internationale des Droits des Femme & la participation au mouvement #StandUpForScience !

New Coronavirus, infects human cells? no problem. BSL2(+?) is fine. Perhaps @cellpress.bsky.social should rethink publishing/rewarding this type of work? Especially given the very brief risk assessment section in the manuscript. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

Revision request from Reviewer #2

Hey Canadian scientists, any events planned in major cities in support of science? 🧬 Canada is already being targeted against DEI from American corporations. Don’t wait until it’s too late!

It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

The gut-brain axis on SNL50 🙌 collider.com/snl50-andy-s...

Interested in neuroimmune interactions in the intestine? Our new manuscript describing how Substance P receptor signaling can alter the host response to Citrobacter rodentium is now out in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social You slow things down, you put up a fight. You rally the people. All this “we are powerless” talk is demoralizing. We know who controls Congress, the White House. But if we wanted you to roll over and play dead, we’d get a dog.

I've worked in a congressional office and I'd say the order is right. The only thing that'd rise to the top of all options is visiting the DC office or any of the district offices. Time consuming and not easy, but if you can swing it, please do.

Hi! I'm a political scientist who studies what makes advocacy effective (sent here by my psychologist spouse @tierneylorenz.bsky.social ). A phone call with the staffer dealing with the issue > letter you compose on your own >>>>> a form letter. Key: be unique + courteous + make effort.

In addition to letters, call their office and leave brief messages if no one answers. If someone answers, ask if an aid can call you back. In that case be ready for a brief conversation to make your point

Do you work under HHS? How is your work affected right now? My email is [email protected] and DM me for Signal

I don’t think I ordered the rat from Amazon 😂

When my daughter came out to me, she asked if being gay was “natural.” A classmate suggested otherwise… As a professor of animal behavior, I shared 2k+ examples from the animal kingdom! Those became a book, & today it’s still #1 top release and #3 best seller. #LoveWins #WildPride ❤️🏳️‍🌈 a.co/d/947x66x