Remarkable how the know-nothings proudly and openly declare that they know nothing. FBI clown debating purified plasmid DNA with a NAS member who’s taught thousands of undergrads mol biol: “I view it as being a risk to human health, the environment and our economy.” www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

Roger taught my molecular biology class my sophomore year—kind man and brilliant scientist who brought distinction to the university. I’m ashamed of my alma mater for not defending him from what is obviously political retribution. www.science.org/content/arti...

Check out our review on plasma cells, led by Colin Fields! How these fascinating cells are formed can influence what they do, where they live, and how long they live to keep you immune. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mxIC3qNrV...

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

The new ACIP charter includes liaison memberships for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Physicians for Informed Consent, and the Independent Medical Alliance. None of these are expert societies and all of them have a history of disseminating antivaccine propaganda.

False balance is not rigor. It isn’t unbiased reporting. If someone tells you it’s raining and someone else says it isn’t, journalists aren’t supposed to say “people disagree about whether or not it’s raining,” they’re supposed to look outside and find out for themselves.

I keep learning new ways maternal antibodies protect infants! The latest from @babiesresearch.bsky.social on protection against E. coli sepsis and new potential vaccine targets.

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The impact is already hitting science agencies hard. The NIH—the world's largest public biomedical research funder—has had to rely on leftover stopgap funds. New grant awards have slowed to a trickle — exacerbating the effects of a record-long shutdown in October. (h/t @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

ICE just gunned down ANOTHER person, beating a man half to death before shooting him at point blank range. What the fuck are we doing? ARREST ICE NOW. PROSECUTE ICE NOW. I will not rest until every single one of these murderers is held accountable to the communities they terrorize.

idk why everyone’s so mad it sounds like tim asked him very nicely to stop murdering us in the street.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

That’s not the thing that’s broken techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/x...

If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.

There’s no point during the detention of a five-year-old that any person with a functioning moral center would not step back to reassess the situation and their place in it. That nobody involved did proves they lack the common interiority required to successfully coexist in ordered society.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

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.