Changed my profile text. We are among you! 👽

You may not "do politics" as a scientist, but politics is doing you. Might as well start fighting now! events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

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#InterferonPower #InflammasomePower! Thrilled for our 💥#NewPaper💥 @natimmunol.nature.com spearheaded by Kautilya Jena showing that our #fungal adjuvant #Mannadjuvant prolongs & potentiates protection of mRNA vaccines via #IL1b & #IFNs, broadening it to new variants & overcoming antigenic imprinting!

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

This was fun, thanks to the organizers of this fantastic forum for making science accessible to everyone!!

Looking forward to our next #globalimmuno talk this Wednesday, May 20th, at 9am PST, noon EST, 4pm GMT by Dr. Isabella Rauch Title: “Consequences of inflammasome activation in the intestinal epithelium” ZOOM LINK: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... LIVE ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/@GLOBALIMMUNOTALKS

Open letter calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. This letter is from leaders of the National Academies Note: This does not refer to the leaders on paper such as presidents of the NAS, NAM, and NAE. www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter... @standupforscience.net

🚨Faculty job search: University of Illinois Chicago Micro & Immuno department is hiring! Open rank and open area within host-pathogen interactions. Apply by May 31 to join us in UI College of Medicine in the heart of Chicago! uic.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

“With access to real names, email addresses and even teacher-student messages, the next wave of phishing will not be generic. It will reference real courses and real conversations, which makes it far more likely to succeed.”

We’re hiring! Our department is recruiting for a tenure-track faculty position. We seek outstanding candidates working broadly in molecular microbiology, immunology, and host–pathogen interactions. Please share widely! @jnpruneda.bsky.social @rauchlab.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Wan’t to be faculty at a collegial host-pathogen focused department in a beautiful bikable city with amazing food? This link is for you: facultycareers-ohsu.icims.com/jobs/39006/a...

Registration has been reopened to fill the last few remaining spots! Last chance to join us in Leiden this June!

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

🚨Preprint alert ! Alexis Gibson, a @hhmi-science.bsky.social Hannah Grey fellow, reports on our fun collaboration with PNNL. We used standard label-free MS to analyze caspase cleavage products in primary intestinal epithelial cells post inflammasome activation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

NIH is not okay. @nytimes.com highlights how grant-making & ability to obligate funding is at risk from staff shortages and time consuming screening processes designed to censor research to align with the administration's political ideology. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s... Some highlights:

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Thank you to Megan Orzalli @virulentmind.bsky.social for giving an exciting and thought provoking talk for our seminar series. The cell and tissue type we study infection in matters!

If you are a scientist or anyone who cares about the future of American science and not yet outraged to your full potential, I highly recommend this thread

If you tried to register today for our incredible upcoming Hormone-Immunity Nexus workshop at MIT on Sunday with shuttle buses from #AAI2026 please try again! We had filled up but we added more spots!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-hormon... @petterbrodin.bsky.social @sixianyou.bsky.social

CALL YOUR HOUSE REP AND TELL THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES. NOW!

$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war. That's... -32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs. -213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service. -119x the $34 paid toward public transit. -253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Minority hate and chronyism lose. Hope is alive. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

"Problem"????

This is so well done. 👌

I've gotten lots of questions about our co-culture systems to study epithelial-immune interactions in viral infections, so wrote a step-by-step guide! I hope this will help anyone looking to adapt these protocols for their research. currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career The loss of Brian Donovan’s grants and job speak volumes about federal funding priorities — and academia www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Eligible applicants must be Portland residents over 18 years old and earn incomes at or below 60% of the area median income.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but HOSTILITY TOWARDS WOMEN." Christian Nationalists and the Taliban have more in common than they realize: www.unwomen.org/en/articles/... www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Just a friendly reminder to check your voter registration regularly. A lot of us have had our voting records sent to The Regime. There is no reason to believe this was a benign action.

"Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available." Polio: 23k paralyzed Measles: 290k deaths Rubella: 41k born w/ congenital rubella syndrome Diphtheria: 138k-1M deaths

Publishing in JEM enables authors funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and other funders an easy pathway to compliance. Learn more: rupress.org/pages/nih-hh...

We removed the barriers and created an accessible space because resistance is for everyone, everywhere. The *official* No Kings Accessible Rally will be a virtual event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. Details: zurl.co/TXWd7 #NoKings #NoKings3 #Democracy #NK3VR

Aspiring science communicators: SCIENCE TALK '26 • Association of Science Communicators is happening in Portland next week! If you don’t have time to attend the conference, but need a Friday evening activity, there will be a fun science cabaret show: www.mcmenamins.com/events/27505...

Just like the US is falling behind other countries by killing off it's research and innovation engine through destroying the NIH/NSF, they are also handing China the EV market on a platter.

The NIH’s budget is less than $50b

As if I could love trains any more!

Are you a married woman who enjoys exercising your constitutional right to vote? This afternoon, Senate Republicans and Trump hope to make it much harder for you. Call your senator and tell them to vote NO on the "SAVE" Act. act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-go...

Our Spring call is now open with over 30+ fully funded positions in the life sciences. Want to know more? Join our Info Session on 26 March, 1600 (CET). Register now: www.vbcphd.at Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Max Perutz Labs Vienna, IMP, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

Russell Vought's OMB is continuing to hold up funds at NIH. www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

OK, fellow immigrant scientists, anyone has a solution to this problem: the lovely new sceincv biosketch form directly prints the “not applicable” part for the State/Province when you enter a foreign university in your degree location….🤦‍♀️

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

What a couple of lovely days !I got invited to give a talk at @cuanschutz.bsky.social by Brian Russo @bcrusso.bsky.social , met lots of amazing scientists, got to hang out with my friend @ruthjeannapier.bsky.social AND attend the Denver @standupforscience.bsky.social rally

Check out the Portland, OR, rally! #Portland #Oregon #StandUpForScience #March7

Exactly. Remember literacy tests? They weren’t administered to all voters. Just black ones. Under SAVE Act, registrars and poll workers will only ask for proof of citizenship from folks they want to disenfranchise…not from everyone. It will be used selectively to weed out Dem-inclined voters.

Please join us for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense this May 11-15 in Suzhou, China! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers. Abstract deadline is March 6. Hope to see you there!

The Take Back our Science Rally just 8 days away! Happening in Washington DC and all across the country! Join a local rally, or start your own pop-up rally! Details at standupforscience.net/march7 #standupforscience #science #March7 (1/2🧵)