Deepta Bhattacharya (University of Arizona) opened Day 4 of the Advanced Course in Immunology with a lecture on “B Cell Memory,” covering initial B cell activation, interactions with T cells, the formation of memory B cells and long-lived plasma cells, and recall responses. #AAIcourses

Here’s what I actually said. 9/10 web.archive.org/web/20130510...

This is what it looks like when one of the country's most prominent anti-vaxxers takes full control of the CDC. Emails show how CDC staffers like @drdemetre.bsky.social struggled to maintain the agency's duty to protect public health. Shoddy "reports" cited, flu vaccine campaigns pulled & more

with the people in this HR firing room alone rn, we could have a better science section than any newspaper in the country

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

When the NYT published a story questioning Sec. Kennedy's engagement - including the time he spends at #HHS - he angrily retorted that anyone curious about how much time he spends in the office could consult his online calendar. STAT has tried. It is not available. www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/r...

RFK Jr. claims his calendar is publicly available. We've been trying to get it for a year

None of STAT's requests for Kennedy's schedule have been completed, and some haven't even been acknowledged.

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Big progress vs cancer, folks. The kind of event curves from randomized trials that we've not seen before for a couple of the most deadly cancers. Congrats to the oncology research community for getting these trial done.

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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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...

‘Hysteria’ or national security? IU researcher from China to be deported

Youhuang Xiang broke the law by not declaring a shipment of plasmid DNA, but colleagues say the substance is harmless and important for his research.

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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...

After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

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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.

Sing Sing Way@babiesresearch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Another twist to why newborn babies more vulnerable to infection. Beyond immune cell immaturity, layering, active suppression... maternal pathogen-targeted antibodies still protect. Grateful @Nature sharing this hopefully uplifting glass half (99.9%)-full perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41...

😂 😭

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 6mo ago

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

O'Hara refusing to step away from the scene is something to keep an eye on

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6mo ago

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

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.

Governor Tim Walz@governorwalz.mn.gov · 6mo ago

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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 🧵

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026

Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

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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...

X copies Bluesky with a 'Starterpacks' feature that helps you find who to follow | TechCrunch

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the coming weeks.

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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