We are hiring!! The Dept of Micro and Immuno at Dartmouth has an open position for an Assistant Prof. Link here to apply. Feel free to directly reach out to me with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/187637

🚨🧪🧵URGENT INPUT NEEDED: NIH asks input for next strategic plan-including emphasis on non-animal models (NAMs) to replace animals. Per NIH insider, anti-animal responses now outnumber scientists 200-700x. Please please provide input. Deadline: May 26, 11:59 PM ET. grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

To my fellow mucosal immunologists (or those interested in joining the field): the Zhou lab at UMass Chan Medical School is looking for a postdoc! This is a fantastic opportunity to join the lab of an amazing junior PI. I would strongly recommend applying! careers-umms.icims.com/jobs/49293/p...

About UMass Chan Medical School

Our mission is to advance the health and wellness of our diverse communities throughout Massachusetts and across the world by leading and innovating in education, research, health care delivery and pu...

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we are hiring! reach out to me for more info if you are interested! apply.interfolio.com/174605

The NIH wasn't confusing enough, they had to go and make it more confusing... what does no more pay lines even mean? grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Open postdoc positions in my lab! Highly competitive salary/benefits and access to excellent resources! Come join the amazing scientific communities at @umasschan.bsky.social and @hhmi.org ! Located approx 1 hr west of Boston by car or train in beautiful Central Massachusetts :)

Postdoctoral Scientist - Watson Lab

Primary Work Address: 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA, 01605 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. About the Watson Lab The Watson Lab at UMass Chan Medical School...

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Congratulations to my amazing colleagues and collaborators 🎉

UMass Chan Medical School@umasschan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Faculty in the Program in Microbiome Dynamics at UMass Chan Medical School have received $3 million from the Gates Foundation to conduct research aimed at improving pregnancy outcomes and gut health in women: direc.to/nyBt #WomensHealth #MaternalHealth #GutHealth #gut #microbiome #GlobalHealth

Thankful to live and work in a state that recognizes the value of research 👏

Governor Maura Healey@massgovernor.bsky.social · last yr.

BIG NEWS: I’m announcing the DRIVE Initiative – Discovery, Research, and Innovation for a Vibrant Economy. It’s a $400M investment in world-changing research and the tens of thousands of jobs it creates.    Let’s keep Massachusetts the #1 state for innovation.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

Double congratulations for Shika!! Well deserved award 👏👏

The Feminist Scientist@feministscientist.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Salk Assistant Professor, Deepshika Ramanan, who has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. The distinction comes with funding for up to five years to support her research on the mechanism of maternal immunity transmission through breastmilk. 🧪

Delighted to finally see this story out - Congratulations to Shika and the rest of the team! We helped show that gut T cells migrate to the mammary gland during late pregnancy and lactation to help turn it into a mucosal tissue. rdcu.be/eywRz

Mammary intraepithelial lymphocytes and intestinal inputs shape T cell dynamics in lactogenesis

Nature Immunology - Here Ramanan and colleagues provide an analysis of mammary T cells during late pregnancy and lactation. This revealed an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes in the lactating...

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🎉 We’re launching BIOMS! The One Health Microbiome Center just received a $2.6M NIH T32 grant to train the next generation of microbiome scientists across human, environmental, and agricultural microbiome research. Full story 👉 shorturl.at/uKk0P

$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State | Penn State University

The Penn State One Health Microbiome Center received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a training program to provide early career professional development and research support ...

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NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants. 👀 List of impacted opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Our lab is excited to hire a postdoctoral researcher to study the mechanisms that viruses use to ‘hijack’ TAM receptors in viral spread. We are looking for someone who is excited to learn new techniques and work in a highly collaborative team! Please share! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/298...

An exciting talk is waiting for you next Thursday 12pm EST. 🎙️ Speaker @mmr2.bsky.social will be taking about new roles of Treg in health and disease from the Diane Mathis & Christophe Benoist Lab @HarvardMed Registration👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/889479660. hms.harvard.edu/news/regulat...

Regulatory T Cells Found To Safeguard Brain Health, Memory Formation

Research identifies guardian cells dwelling in the protective layers of the brain

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On my way home from a fantastic meeting. Feeling re-energised, with new ideas and ready to keep fighting for science! Congratulations to all the awardees

Keystone Symposia@keystonesymposia.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting developments from Banff, Canada, as we celebrate our award recipients at the joint meeting on Human Microbiome and Host-Microbe Co-Evolution in Human Health. Join us in applauding these exceptional scholarship winners! #KSHumanMicro25 #KSHostMicrobe25 #keystonesymposia

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer

YouTube video by Association of American Universities

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A new issue of Cell is out, featuring the 4 winners of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Their essays bring hope, inspiration and reinforce the importance of equity in science. Do take a moment to check them out: www.cell.com/cell/current @cp-cell.bsky.social

If you're doing innovative research about #microbiota and received an MD &/or PhD in last 10 years don’t miss out on applying for the NOSTER & @science.org Microbiome Prize! Grand Prize: $25K & your essay published in Science Magazine Deadline: Feb 14th Enter: https://buff.ly/4gS29ZH

I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well. Please send leads, please amplify!

The Galvan-Pena lab is hiring a postdoc! If you know of any PhD students who will graduate soon or have recently graduated, and are interested in gut immunology and systemic effects of the microbiome - please send them my way!

New: Lee et al. @harvardmed.bsky.social provide a compendium of early transcriptional responses to major inflammatory #cytokines across all major immunocyte lineages of the mouse, highlighting unappreciated relationships btwn these cytokines and with other cytokine families https://buff.ly/4gn71Fg

1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @immunoeditor.bsky.social

The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis

Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis.

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Congrats to my friend and former colleague @mmr2.bsky.social on publishing his work on Tregs in the meninges.

Seth Thomas Scanlon@immunoeditor.bsky.social · 2y ago

A #Science #Immunology Instant Release: @mmr2.bsky.social, Diane Mathis, & colleagues at @harvard.edu & @institutocajal.bsky.social describe specialized meningeal #Treg subsets that promote #homeostasis of the mouse #brain #meninges & #parenchyma!

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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