🌟 We're hiring! We're looking for enthusiastic and innovative postdoctoral fellows who are passionate about #immunology and #InfectiousDisease to join our collaborative team at UMass Amherst! #AlveolarMacrophages #TB #lung #InnateImmunity Apply now! careers.umass.edu/jobs/post-do...

Post Doctoral Research Associate - Rothchild Lab - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate - Rothchild Lab Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Veterinary & Animal Sciences Work Location: Amh...

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Thrilled to see our story led by graduate student, Linh Pham, out in print! Linh's work reveals how #NRF2 impedes innate-adaptive crosstalk during #TB infection by inhibiting alveolar #macrophage MHC II expression. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

NRF2-mediated inhibition of alveolar macrophage MHC II expression during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Pham et al. show that, during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, NRF2 activation in alveolar macrophages inhibits MHC II but not MHC I, leading to dampening of antigen presentation and CD4+ T cell ...

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What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

We are hiring! Focus is on colleagues interested in protein homeostasis and human disease. Priority reviewing starts mid-June and will continue on a rolling basis. Here is the ad, hit me up if you have questions! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry - Protein Homeostasis Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Work Locati...

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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

NASEM Open Letter to Congress demanding the restoration of the NSB — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NASEM's open letter to Congress by signing your endorsement now!

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#NoKings Amherst, MA

Following @joshuasweitz.bsky.social post and discussions with him and the Vox story, I have estimated R01 success rates for each NIH institute and center with enough awards for this to be meaningful. A long 🧵... 1/25

👏 🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Pamelia Lim (@pamelialim.bsky.social) on her outstanding thesis defense yesterday! Couldn't be more proud as a PI to have our first PhD student in the lab pass this milestone! What a bright future ahead for Dr. Lim! ✨

What we’ve got here is failure to communicate - some macrophages you just can’t reach! Multiple features of granulomas limit effective T cell:MΦ interactions, posing a major barrier for vaccine-mediated protection. Check out our new review! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality, and the development of a new, highly effective vaccine would have a tremendous beneficial impact on global health. Alt....

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Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!

Don't wait to apply! The deadline is coming up soon... Come join us! Western Mass is a fantastic place to do science!

Alissa Rothchild@alissarothchild.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Happy to share our latest publication in collaboration with @mcampomd.bsky.social, Kim Dill-McFarland, and Tom Hawn, where we perform a cross-species analysis of human and murine AM and MDM responses to Mtb! academic.oup.com/immunohorizo... #TBsky #Immunosky (1/5)

Shared and distinct responses of human and murine alveolar macrophages and monocyte-derived macrophages to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Abstract. Macrophages are important sites of bacterial replication and host immune responses during Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection with distinc

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First impressions count in #TB. Andrea Cooper @uniofleicester.bsky.social discusses studies by @wjbranchett.bsky.social et al. (rupress.org/jem/article/...) and @bengern.bsky.social et al. (rupress.org/jem/article/...), in Insights: rupress.org/jem/article/...

Donald Trump is weak. He’s a bully. And when we won’t bow down to kings or to bullies, they start to lose their power. The American people do not bow down.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

🚨Job posting! #UMassAmherst Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is hiring a TT faculty member in #Immunology. Both fundamental and translational areas considered. Please spread the word! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

We are hiring! Please circulate in your networks. Join us in beautiful warm and wonderful KZN to answer some important questions about asymptomatic / subclinical TB. #TBsky #IDsky 🧪

Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)@ahri-news.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 AHRI is #hiring for 2️⃣ key roles for an exciting new study on asymptomatic TB transmission. Successful candidates will join the leadership of the study, working closely with our director for clinical trials Limakatso Lebina & @emilybethwong.bsky.social More ➡️ ahri.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/AHRI1

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Happy to share our new pre-print, led by PhD student Linh Pham! We examine inhibition of MHC II expression by NRF2 during Mtb infection and its impact on innate-adaptive crosstalk. Special thanks to the Behar lab who helped us set up a T cell co-culture system for the project! #TB #immunology

bioRxiv Immunology@biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · last yr.

NRF2 inhibition of alveolar macrophage MHC II expression during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.16.670319v1

Tragically, the NIH is finding any reason it can to cancel grants, including critical research into the nature and function of mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Trump officials halt ‘dangerous’ research, overriding NIH career scientists

The Trump administration’s actions on NIH gain-of-function research have raised concerns among scientists, who argue the move could block experiments that are safe and potentially lead to new treatmen...

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NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

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‼️ Save the date! ‼️ Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales Keystone 2026 on March 23-26 in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Very excited to organise this meeting with Digby, Bree and Margarida Short Talk Abstract Deadline: Nov. 24, 2025 www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

WOW!.. 8500+ supporting cast heroes (that's us!) have already signed our Letter of Support for the brave NIH heroes who laid down their case in the historic #BethesdaDeclaration. Add your name here actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... & stand up to save science & health in America. #StandUpForScience

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Delighted to see this piece with Victor Ambros, @carlbergstrom.com, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and @briannosek.bsky.social in the wild. Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it @standupforscience.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science

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There’s been some “advice” coming from some quarters for scientists not to focus on DEI-related funding cuts. I wholly reject this concept. Cutting programs designed to reduce science and healthcare disparities is as detrimental to science as anything else, both morally and functionally.

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because "We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085." grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Congratulations @payalyokota.bsky.social! Fantastic work!

Payal Yokota@payalyokota.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share our latest study @cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

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

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