Another great collaboration with the Schindler Lab is online at @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: "Non-invasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation as a Potential Treatment for Repetitive Blast Trauma" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @isbscience.org

Non-invasive Vagal Nerve Stimulation as a Potential Treatment for Repetitive Blast Trauma

Background Polytrauma caused by exposure to high explosives (blast) is increasingly common among military personnel and civilians yet treatment for related post-concussive symptoms and chronic behavio...

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Proud to share our single-cell transcriptomics approach for the microbiome by instrument-free split-pool barcoding - metaSPLiT, developed by the incredible @monochamussutor.bsky.social together with @gibbological.bsky.social, @cdiener.com, et al. at @isbscience.org

Dmitry Sutormin@monochamussutor.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚀 Thrilled to share our first metaSPLiT preprint from @annabiosys.bsky.social's lab in collaboration with @gibbological.bsky.social! Explore hidden bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome and discover the concept of "physiological guilds": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

And here's a second NYU postdoc job ad, where I'm looking for a candidate that is interested in working on the gut-brain axis: apply.interfolio.com/189975 please share 🙏

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

🚀 Thrilled to share our first metaSPLiT preprint from @annabiosys.bsky.social's lab in collaboration with @gibbological.bsky.social! Explore hidden bacterial phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome and discover the concept of "physiological guilds": www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome revealed by subspecies-resolution single-cell transcriptomics

Most of our knowledge about bacterial functional roles in microbiomes comes from bulk measurements. Yet microbial communities are complex ecosystems in which functionally distinct bacterial subpopulat...

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RESEARCH | JE AbuSalim, JD Rabinowitz (Princeton Uni, US) Many physiologically important circulating #indole and #phenol #metabolites are derived from #HostMetabolism 🧪

Host metabolism can produce many indoles and phenols independently of the microbiome - Nature Metabolism

This study demonstrates that many physiologically important circulating indole and phenol metabolites are derived from host metabolism.

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Exciting collaboration with @annabiosys.bsky.social's lab just went online. @isbscience.org metaSPLiT: a fast, efficient, and relatively low-cost method for single-cell transcriptomics in the human gut microbiome. 👇

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d ago

Phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome revealed by subspecies-resolution single-cell transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741866v1

If you have an NIH or NSF program officer, post a comment!

I-270, Exit 1@i270exit1.bsky.social · 3d ago

🚨🚨 FEDS and everyone else 🚨🚨 🧵Tomorrow is the last day to comment on the Office of Personnel Management rule, “Promoting Employee Accountability" at www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... This rule eliminates employee protections and rights, and hastens the firing process. Specifically, it... 1/4

Collette is right on target: Fight back and we can win. Write your Senator now to make sure its included in the final bill

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

"f you are hunting for a COVID villain[,] investigate crooks who promoted quack remedies...sources of anti-vaccine disinformation...No mistakes by the scientific community begin to compare with the [right's] brutal indifference to the well-being of Americans" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...?

Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

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RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim

Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show

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Phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome revealed by subspecies-resolution single-cell transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741866v1

Exciting collaboration with @annabiosys.bsky.social's lab just went online. @isbscience.org metaSPLiT: a fast, efficient, and relatively low-cost method for single-cell transcriptomics in the human gut microbiome. 👇

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d ago

Phenotypic heterogeneity in the human gut microbiome revealed by subspecies-resolution single-cell transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.30.741866v1

“The report assiduously ignores that a symbiotic, profitable relationship between the federal government, universities, and private companies already exists. Each federal research dollar generates about $1.50 to $3.00 in long-term economic benefits.“ 🧪

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

'[The authors] hypothesize that researchers who are confident in their work and who broadly embrace open-science practices might be more likely to choose open peer review. As a result, the decision to opt for open peer review could itself serve as an indicator of article quality.'

Papers with open peer-review reports are less likely to be retracted

Researchers say that transparent publishing practices could be associated with research quality, but more evidence is needed.

nature.com

Fauci has “saved more lives, created more amazing infrastructures for developing research opportunities, cured more people, provided health care to more people both in the United States and abroad, probably, than any single scientist in his lifetime” - Larry Corey @fredhutch.org

Jo Hofmann@birdcmp.bsky.social · last wk.

Tomorrow’s hearing will be extremely painful. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

Hong Wang, who proved the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture, has just won the Fields Medal, making her the third woman in the award’s 90-year history to receive math’s highest honor. Read our profile: www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.

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Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.

Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU

Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...

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Huge, important job. Comms and leadership at NIH. Please apply. This is public service. “…responsible for planning, directing, and executing nat’l health and research communication efforts…” Civil service SES position. Please share- this one is important for NIH. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

nytimes.com

you didn't need AI to predict this..... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has sent mixed messages on vaccinations against measles as cases have continued to climb.

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Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

a dorito optimized for fiber on the other hand would be a massively important public health intervention

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

i do not need my doritos to be packed with protein, they are beautiful and perfect the way they are

Remember this. They took food out of people's mouths. There is no bottom with the #GOP.

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gift link. It’s heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Really recommend this from @randomwalker.bsky.social. It’s not just a rehash of his “normal technology” thesis about economic impact, but argues strongly toward the end that evaluation and judgment will be an increasingly important part of intellectual work — and will give us plenty of work to do!

Stuart Gray@sgray.bsky.social · 3w ago

I assume you subscribe to his newsletter (if not, you should), but his latest mailing looks like a write up of this talk (long read ahead): www.normaltech.ai/p/what-will-...

The natural history collections at the University of Texas, holding maybe 5 million specimens, is partly closed down because our buildings are falling apart and UT is doing the bare minimum of life support. We could fix it for 1/5th the price of a vanity purchase of a single dinosaur specimen.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 3w ago

🦖 A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed 'Gus' sells for $50.1 million at Sotheby's in New York, making it the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction after a 10-minute battle between seven bidders u.afp.com/SKv4

Scientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grants

Scientists overwhelmingly against rule change that would give political appointees say over science grants

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science

scientificamerican.com