Isn't that basically the cover of "Smell The Glove" that the record label rejected?

People are making an "L" shape with their fingers to their foreheads at me when I drive around in my cybertruck, indicating they Love the car

A glimmer of hope. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/s...

Paper published!!! Tremendous work by Gordana Scepanovic, with key contributions by @negberry.bsky.social and @krothphd.bsky.social. We ask why is mTor signalling necessary for rapid wound repair. 🧪 #drosophila #devbio Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kS2e5Sx5g...

Not many celebrity deaths really get to me but Bob Uecker was special. When I was living in Milwaukee for 8 years, Ueck’s announcing could make a terrible baseball game listenable. Many weekend afternoons working outdoors or in the basement were spent listening to his stories. tinyurl.com/bd68pn5f

Great piece by Paul Offit "When Mr. Kennedy says he wants vaccines to be better studied, what he really seems to be saying is he wants studies that confirm his fixed, immutable, science-resistant beliefs. That’s not skepticism."🧪⚕️

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/h... Kudos to Apoorva Mandavilli and @nytimes.com for an article that concisely describes the polio antivaxer problem while reminding older readers (and teaching younger readers) the potential cost of a polio comeback

Make sure not to distribute this cartoon, and the post about it by @anntelnaes.bsky.social, so that it doesn’t become even more widely seen than if the Post had simply published it like a real newspaper would: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

So many sad conversations over the past couple of weeks about the future of diversity in science. If we lose programs to promote diversity, science will be worse off for it.

Repost appreciated: Open #PhDposition in my group! Join us in Umeå, 🇸🇪 to uncover how arboviruses remodel the cellular interior. In situ #cryoET with great #virology and #biophysics collaborators. Customisable project. Application deadline 15 December. More info: www.carlsonlab.se/join/

Lucky to have Bryan Mounce, a great teacher and famed crochet artist, to talk with our grad students about how viruses can teach us cell biology!

It never ceases to amaze me that we are lucky enough to live in a time when we have a VACCINE AGAINST CANCER and it’s controversial!

Sharing recent publications just for fun (part 1). Here, we explored neutralizing epitopes in the porcine deltacoronavirus spike glycoprotein. 🐖 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found that a mAb targeting the N-terminus can trigger partial opening, perhaps mimicking a co-receptor interaction.

To close out the week with another #FluorescentFriday project, I present: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🦠🔬🧪#Virosky 🧵1/4

With all this talk about cutting the NIH, might I remind everyone that the entire NIH budget is less than 5% of the DoD budget. The NIH is so efficient that they already rely upon volunteer labor to do grant review. And they are not even allowed to buy grant reviewers coffee.

Always a pleasure to join @kavehmd.bsky.social, especially when it's to talk shit about lying grifters who are out to destroy public health and add to their already sizable body counts. Also, because my mood is increasingly pessimistic and miserable, I talk about H5N1 and its pandemic potential.

Of course, I remember what Bluesky was like in the old days* * Friday

Viral infection and antiviral immunity in the oral cavity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud of my dad Lynn Enquist .. On #VeteransDay it is important to recognize those who served in the US Public Service Health Service. #USPHS is dedicated to the nation's public health & Science. Most don’t know about USPHS & it’s role in protecting us & that it is one of the uniformed services 🧪🛟

Is there a starter pack of scientific publishers and journals for biomedical sciences already? #MedSkg #ImmunoSky #IDSky

After my observation that limited numbers of HSV and PRV virions transmit from axons, I was lucky enough to start my own lab at Montana State University. As we got going, I became increasingly obsessed with the timing of virion transmission from axons.

Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU

Our short article about a new vaccine candidate for Enterovirus D68; the vaccine “builds itself” in the vaccinated host, providing nice immunity! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Antibody dependent enhancement of enterovirus infections onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Like what are we all going to do in November and December if he wins? Is there a plan? Is it a Midsommar thing? Because yeah we should all do a Midsommar in winter thing

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... So we’re at a place where “poop artist strikes again” is a legit WaPo headline and I’m not crying you’re crying

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Someone in the organization gets it. Sorry Michelle Norris.

Evergreen post

On this day in 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk announces the trial of inactivated polio vaccine was a success - MedSky www.history.com/this-day-in-...

Anybody have experience with ScienceCast? It seems to be connected to BioRxiv and auto-generates an AI-written and performed audio summary of a preprint, which is basically a paraphrasing of the abstract with bad pronouciation. Is this legit? Useful? Worth leaving up? Taking down?

I think these four Beatles movies are going to suck.

I hope in punishment for last night all young people are calling old people and asking how to watch this game on the so-called "Fox Network," which is very hard to find on their phones.

We need to go back to when the Ivy League only accepted exceptional scholars based on pure merit

My postdoc Alagie Jassey and I were asked to write a comprehensive review on Viruses and Autophagy almost exactly 16 months ago. Thank you to the editors (including Ashley York), graphic artists, and reviewers that helped us so much with this final product: rdcu.be/dtIH0

Pretty much convinced that having even a dormant account over at the bird place is a bad idea anymore. However I've seen an argument not to delete my account, because it would allow anyone to grab that account name and be mistaken for me, intentionally or not. Thoughts?

Fantastic to host @szparalab.bsky.social on our campus today!

From the other place:

Today is World Polio Day. With vaccines and global vaccination efforts, so much progress has been made toward the goal of eradicating this awful virus, yet more funding and resources are needed to eliminate it in the remaining countries where wild polio cases still occur. www.cdc.gov/globalhealth...

twitter users stone age in 2023 hunter-gatherers 🤝 mastodon attempt failed, turned to sky worship for sustenance

Congrats to @llinaslab.bsky.social! Very well deserved! www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

This Saturday on the Yale campus Nobel laureate Charlie Rice will lecture in honor of Dr. Brett Lindenbach. A link for seeing the event remotely is below. A chance to celebrate all the wonderful professional and personal connections many of us have with Brett. yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

oh no! i deleted the Bad Place app, and now i have a invite code available for the Good Place. Need a GoogleDoc of virologists who want in....

Our paper, "SIRT-1 is required for release of enveloped enteroviruses," has been published as a Version of Record. It shows the surprising role of a host histone deacetylase in generating and releasing enveloped virions. Congrats to my postdoc Alagie Jassey! elifesciences.org/articles/87993

#microbiology TT Job! Towson University - Assistant Prof in Microbiology or virology. New building, CURE-classrooms, nice research space. Good balance of teaching and research. 🦠🧫 towson.taleo.net/careersectio...

My lab's new paper in mBio is out! This is a fascinating and somewhat puzzling story about how acidic vesicles affect enterovirus D68 development at different time points of infection, including assembly and maintenance of capsids. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

BREAKING: After Extensive Consultation With WHO, Phil Collins Clarifies That It Wasn’t ‘In The Air Tonight’, It Was Actually ‘Only On Hands Tonight’.

Wonderful to celebrate the legacy of Beth Levine yesterday. Dr. Noboru Mizushima, first winner of the Beth Levine M.D. Prize in Autophagy Research, gave a fantastic seminar including amazing drawings of his history with Beth. www.utsouthwestern.edu/research/bet....

Interesting new open access program. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/10/02/t...