Likewise, Congressman Cole from Oklahoma is the chair of the overall House Appropriations committee. If you can, reach out to his office as well. It is noteworthy that OMB is willing to veto a bill over a minor-seeming NIH operational issue. This makes me think this is part of a bigger plan...

🚀 Early-career scientists: ready to share your work? Submit a short talk abstract or apply for a scholarship for the Keystone Symposium on B Cells & Plasma Cells by Jan 14 (11:59 pm MST). Join leaders incl. @kimljacobson.bsky.social & @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social 🔗 keysym.us/KSBCells26 #KSBCells26

Did slashing multiple vaccines from the childhood vaccine schedule bring the US in line with other countries? In a word, no. The US now recommends all kids be protected against fewer diseases than South Korea, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan & many more. www.statnews.com/2026/01/09/c...

I don't think it's true (or helpful) to say that Denmark recommends fewer vaccines because their healthcare system can treat the diseases better. The trend is for countries to move to universal recommendations over time. Some countries do it much earlier than others.

YEAR ONE MAHA

Now the big question is: Can NIH be trusted to review these applications in good faith? The Challenged Directives were extremely vague to begin with — so what's to stop the agency from applying them under the table, especially with more influence from political appointees? bsky.app/profile/maxk...

When I first saw the headline for this op-ed, I was hoping it would tell me that the science and policy are catching up to meet the climate goals. But instead it argues for giving up on the goals themselves and ignores why the goals were set in the first place.

ICYMI: Iowa AG wins $1M from stem cell clinic ipscell.com/2025/12/iowa... Some state AGs are killing it on stem cell oversight & helping consumers, better than FDA #stemcells #stemcell

Aaron Siri Says No One Has Identified Errors in His ACIP Presentation. Here Are Several. Mr. Siri is not looking at the total data and misunderstands or misrepresents much of what he does address. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot... via @jakescottmd.bsky.social

I'm seeing a lot of discussion of this study, and so far everything I have seen goes well beyond what the data of this study allow us to conclude. Let's look at this together. A thread 🧵

AAP on the ball and already out with comments about the ACIP meeting: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

A panel that advises #CDC on vaccine policy votes to do away with the recommendation all babies should be vaccinated against #hepatitisB at birth. "We are doing harm," said panel member Cody Meissner, who voted against this #ACIP recommendation. www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

#ACIP just voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B birth-dose recommendation. There is no new safety signal. No scientific rationale. We are dismantling a 30-year-old, cancer-preventing policy that has nearly eliminated hepatitis B in U.S. children. 1/2

Now read this paper by Senator Bill Cassidy about how he set up hepatitis B vaccination clinics in East Baton Rouge. The man sold his soul to the devil on this one. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9358383/

The babies who will become infected as a result of this vote — and some will die prematurely of liver disease — will overwhelmingly be those born to marginalized, underserved families. This is a profound failure of evidence-based public health and a big step backwards. 2/2

Says the man who elevated RFK Jr to head of HHS, which controls vaccine policy. As if RFK’s long-standing anti-vaccine views were not well known.

If you're reading this, chances are you care a lot about vaccine recommendations, so I'm going to offer this gentle reminder to prioritize your mental health. The major issue with this meeting is that it's a massive platform to disseminate lies about vaccines rather than policy consequences.

12 former @fda.gov commissioners from both parties just went on the record in @nejm.org calling Vinay Prasad’s vaccine framework a threat to public health. They bring more than 3 decades of leadership at the agency, and it is hard to think of a more forceful warning. 🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

3/ W/o intervention, ~85% of infants born to infected mothers become infected, 90% of whom develop chronic HBV (vs <5% of adults). 1 in 4 children with HBV die prematurely from cirrhosis or liver cancer Annual treatment for chronic HBV = $25-$325k Prevention is key www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

4/ The birth dose is recommended w/in 24 hours because early initiation is critically important. Palau: infants vaccinated > 3 days after birth had a 6.7% infection rate. Those vaccinated w/in 3 days had 0.6%. Micronesia: 2.6% vs 0. The birth dose alone reduces transmission by ~75%.

In advance of this week’s ACIP meeting this new preprint modeling the impact of delaying HepB vaccines merits a close read: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Running an agency like he ran his twitter account

One would think that a communication of this magnitude would have been vetted and maybe spell-checked. This reads as a self-indulgent and vindictive missive by a man who couldn't stand up to the level of criticism that most researchers receive from their own colleagues on a daily basis.

We're hiring for tenure-track faculty! Please apply if you have interests in immune responses to microbes and/or cancer, immune regulation, microbial infections (bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi), the microbiota, and/or interests that span these disciplines. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Proud to share our work now out in Cell. We hope what we learned about IgA immune responses to rotavirus can be translated into better vaccines. Congratulations Dr. Kei Haniuda, an amazing PDF. TY @uoftmedicine.bsky.social for covering. temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news

Looking forward to this see you there Deepta!

🧪 Meeting will be in Keystone, CO March 16-20. Come for the skiing and the science! #bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

I’m co-organizing a Keystone conference on B cells and plasma cells with Kim Good-Jacobson and Taras Kreslavsky! Deadlines for abstracts and scholarships is Nov 13. Great lineup of basic, translational, and industry speakers. Please repost! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

The UofA is hiring for a Principal Scientist in cancer immunology! This isn’t a typical academic position—we're looking for a scientist with a great idea but needs time/resources to translate and commercialize. Please repost and apply if interested! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

In our latest vaccine immunology study we tested whether it is possible to simultaneously prime multiple classes of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV using a combination of germline-targeting (GT) immunogens. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @scienceimmuno.bsky.social @lji.org

I love this story 😊

Proud of the IDS, ashamed of my alma mater www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...

Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This captures much of the frustration of today.

But will put in a good word for my BootLander proposal to beat the heathens to the manifest destiny moondust. Piece is me ventriloquizing a savage comment made by a retired NASA official about moon plan, natch. 7/7 have a good weekend, folks www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Wanna know how to tell whoever is running the CDC has no clue what they're talking about? It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Dr. Jake Scott asks why ACIP is asking about the MMRV when there's NO new data to report. "We've known about the seizure risk since 2005 and have been transparently discussing it with parents for nearly 20 years. Highlighting it again seems designed to amplify fear rather than improve safety."

If you read 1 thing today, please make it this: my so-talented colleague @ericboodman.bsky.social explains why babies in the US are vaccinated at birth against hep B — and what the human costs of changing that policy would be. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the CDC was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago — whether Covid vaccines work. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time. PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.