Cheri Sirois
@cherisirois.bsky.social
Scientist of mostly invisible things. Senior editor @science.org (speaking only for myself here). 🗣️EN/ES 😷🦠🔬🧪🧬🌈✨ #microsky #virosky #immunosky #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransAdults #longCOVIDawareness
Look! The Volcano World Cup! It's started!
Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez@eruptions.site · 2mo agoThe Volcano World Cup begins! Check out Group A: Mexico, South Africa, South Korea & Czechia. Then vote for the two counties who should advance! eruptions.site/2026/06/11/v... If you need a primer for reading the group pages/bracket: eruptions.site/2026/06/09/h... #VolcanoWorldCup #WorldCup
John Cohen has done a much tidier write up here, also referencing work in progress by the Oxford Vaccine team, Moderna and Serum Institute of India www.science.org/content/arti...
Vaccine experts debate options to combat outbreak of unusual Ebola strain
Small monkey experiments raise some hopes—and many questions
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Charlotte Houldcroft@virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe do not currently have a vaccine for Bundibugyo ebolavirus. BUT! There are vaccine candidates that have ben tested in animals and could go forward more quickly to human trials. Eg VesiculoVax doi.org/10.1093/infd... and another VSV-based vaccine journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):
Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak
Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads
science.org
Reporters—sign up for our FREE Beyond the Basics training on 4/22 (2-3 p.m. ET) to learn how to sort through & weigh conflicting evidence to make sure you’re accurately representing the state of the science on any given topic: bit.ly/4sJYe6l #SciComm @aaas.org
Reminder it's also Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack, a low-$ way to materially celebrate trans folks beyond problematic visibility—search for lots of trans folks you can Venmo a couple $ to—& look for what you can do vs accelerating legal hate while you're at it. (Had my 🍟 last night so I'm good!)
Gwyn Mingham@alsogwenny.blacksky.app · 4mo agohappy trans day of having a nice snack!! @ cis people: buy a trans person a snack today & don't forget: visibility without power is vulnerability
Solidarity and celebration on #TDOV. “I used to wear a pin that I made that said ‘I probably don’t want to talk to you about gender’ because gender is so desperately low on my list of priorities in my own head” substack.com/home/post/p-...
Our Visibility is Somehow a Threat to Power
or: on Trans Day of Visibility
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Free webinar tomorrow with expert advice on how to discuss your research with U.S. state-level leaders: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #microsky
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AAAS LSEN: Sharing Your Research Story with State Lawmakers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Scientists and engineers are often trained to talk about their research in the context of federal funding decisions, but engaging state lawmakers requires a different approach. In this interactive, wo...
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A recognition-building and supplemental funding opportunity for early-career researchers, and your essay could be published in Science 📖: www.science.org/content/page... Deadline June 15, 2026
Moarrr microbiology/microbiome colouring resources! I've finally adapted the colouring book I designed nearly 10 years ago into handy outreach style colouring sheets... #sciart #scicomm #microbiology 🧪
Microbiology Society@microbiologysociety.org · 5mo agoSociety Champion, Eliza_coli has designed Multicoloured Microbes colouring sheets which provide a fun microbiome-themed activity for outreach work. Society members can now access these, alongside a host of other resources: https://microb.io/3N9ESZP
Trends suggest we may be in for a second round of this winter’s COVID-19 wave after the initial peak in early January. Flu levels increased this week, too, likely due to more influenza B spread. Read this week's full COVID-19 trends report: bit.ly/4tgFVqY
I remain a tremendous fan of @cp-cell.bsky.social and @cp-cellreports.bsky.social, where I spent 7+ exciting years reading immunology, vaccine and infectious disease work, and lots of other things. Big thanks for all I learned there and pride for all we accomplished together. 🤓🫶
Cheri Sirois@cherisirois.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’ve joined the editorial team at the journal Science, handling papers in infectious diseases, microbiology, host-microbe interactions, and related topics. I’ll be delighted to hear from you (by email) about exciting research studies. 🦠 #microsky #immunosky #virosky www.science.org/content/page...
I’ve joined the editorial team at the journal Science, handling papers in infectious diseases, microbiology, host-microbe interactions, and related topics. I’ll be delighted to hear from you (by email) about exciting research studies. 🦠 #microsky #immunosky #virosky www.science.org/content/page...
Meet the Editors
Meet the Editors
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#WeAreHiring! New year, new career opportunities at #ECDC! We are looking for: ➡️ Scientific Officer Food-, Water-borne & Zoonotic Diseases ➡️ Principal Expert Vector-borne & Zoonotic Diseases/ Group Leader Scientific Advice & Outbreak Response ➡️ Training Support Specialist ➡️ Data Scientist
🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
CELL MIGRATION LAB
We study cell migration in health and disease
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The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
NPR@npr.org · 8mo agoHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
Traveling for the holidays? Stay well on your way by wearing a high-quality mask like an N95 in crowded indoor spaces like airports and planes. Also wash your hands frequently, cover your cough or sneeze, and avoid traveling if you’re sick. 📲 Learn more: go.cdph.ca.gov/respiratory-viruses
In a @cp-cell.bsky.social Benchmarks article, Masamichi Muramatsu, Sidonia Fagarasan et al tell the story of the discovery of AID in the Honjo lab, solving the decades long mystery of the molecular effector of Ig class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation. #Immunology
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase: The missing piece of many puzzles
Twenty-five years ago, two Cell papers reported the key missing functional piece in three molecular puzzles. The genetic swapping of immunoglobulin constant regions, the mutational fine-tuning of anti...
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I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘 No AI Pays $100 therumpus.submittable.com/submit Pass it on!
If you are a scientist and want media training to learn skills for effectively speaking with journalists, there are some opportunities for that next week: www.sciline.org/services/med...
Media Training - SciLine
You know the science, but conveying it effectively to a print, radio, or television journalist — and ultimately to that journalist’s audience — takes training and practice. SciLine’s team of scientist...
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my five year old had RSV when he was six months old and when we brought him to the pediatrician they were like yeah go directly to the hospital we’re calling ahead scariest few days of our lives from the bottom of my heart: all these people can go to hell
Reuters@reuters.com · 8mo agoExclusive: US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants reut.rs/48JXrL2
Immunotherapy researcher Miriam Merad from Icahn Mount Sinai says the reason that cancer research has slowed is because of funding issues, which is something taxpayers don’t have to accept. “We fight for patients, we fight for science, and we have to fight for progress.” #STATSummit
Taxpayers should not accept cuts in funding for cancer research. Bravo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 @miriammerad.bsky.social 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼Sign up to show New York State law makers that you want your tax dollars to fund life saving research www.nycures.org
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STAT@statnews.com · 10mo agoImmunotherapy researcher Miriam Merad from Icahn Mount Sinai says the reason that cancer research has slowed is because of funding issues, which is something taxpayers don’t have to accept. “We fight for patients, we fight for science, and we have to fight for progress.” #STATSummit
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 8mo agoI'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.
Lab’s first paper is out!! We show the first structures of #Asgard #chromatin by #cryo-EM 🧬❄️ Asgard histones form closed and open hypernucleosomes. Closed are conserved across #Archaea, while open resemble eukaryotic H3–H4 octasomes and are Asgard-specific. More here: www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.
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...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (T/TE)
Establish or continue a successful, extramurally funded research program that will advance knowledge in the broad areas of immunobiology, as defined a...
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