Huge shoutout to postdoctoral fellow @cmfenero.bsky.social - she is the first author and was truly the driving force behind this work!! If anyone knows of open faculty positions, she would make an incredible colleague!!🎉👏💖 #srbr #circadian #zebrafish

Zebrafish Rock!@zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“These findings demonstrate that the zebrafish circadian system is not assembled through a single synchronized onset of clock gene expression, but through gene-specific regulatory programs that shift across development.” New #zebrafish work from @jkimmey.bsky.social 🐟 ⏰

This is a special one - very excited to finally share our work exploring how microbes affect circadian clocks! Thank you to all our collaborators and the #circadian field for being so welcoming and full of incredible science! Hope to see you all at #SRBR www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

TSA at LAS normal lines not bad, Precheck is available and touchless ID Precheck took 2 minutes to get thru. No ICE seen here so far.

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HHMI@hhmi-science.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

A preclinical study in Nature Microbiology shows that respiratory immunization with an antibiotic-treated bacterial vaccine is a highly effective approach for inducing tissue-resident memory T cells that protect against whooping cough. #medsky 🧪

Respiratory immunization using antibiotic-inactivated Bordetella pertussis confers T cell-mediated protection against nasal infection in mice - Nature Microbiology

In this preclinical study, the authors find that respiratory immunization with an antibiotic-treated bacterial vaccine is a highly effective approach for inducing tissue-resident memory T cells that protect against lung and nasal infection with Bordetella pertussis.

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Still time to apply to work on #symbioses #mosses #cyanobacteria! Join us in #Copenhagen! @voltcenter.bsky.social

Kathrin Rousk@kathrinrousk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ready to explore crazy ideas? Join us for 2 yrs for the @villumfonden.bsky.social experiment: The #terrestrial #nitroplast in #MossCyanobacteria associations! Into #OrganelleEvolution #plants #genomics #cyanobacteria #symbioses? This may be for you! employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

I have been meaning to share this so thank you Ákos for beating me to it! Very proud of the hard work from grad students Devons Mo and Catherine Palmer - they really did a deep dive into Salmonella, Listeria and Pneumo pathogenesis! Enjoy!

Ákos T Kovács@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes FEBS Letters from @jkimmey.bsky.social febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“The loss to state economies would be about 40% greater than the federal savings, as losses ripple through state and local economies. In other words, for every $1 the federal government saves, state and local economies would lose $1.40.” mediarelations.gwu.edu/new-research...

A global perspective on autoinducer-2-mediated cell communication in prokaryotes - in @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

A global perspective on autoinducer-2-mediated cell communication in prokaryotes

Biological sciences; Molecular biology; Microbiology

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🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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My quote of the day Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Annie Besant

New @neal-lab.bsky.social team photo! ❤️ Leaning on each other more than ever during these times & grateful for this resilient, inspiring group. #NealLab

Thrilled that our latest paper showing that DCs undergo either pyroptosis or apoptosis upon bacterial blockade of host translation to restrict Legionella is now online at the @asm.org journal mBio! Congrats to 1st author @vvazquez.bsky.social & co-authors! 🎉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Dendritic cells activate pyroptosis and effector-triggered apoptosis to restrict Legionella infection | mBio

The innate immune system senses bacterial pathogens by employing pattern recognition receptors that detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and guard proteins that monitor pathogen disru...

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Wondering if your grant will be reinstated from Monday's ruling? Check here. Plaintiffs have uploaded a list of 848 (of the ~2400 total terminated) they say are covered because they're to institutions in the states aforementioned or a part of APHA/UAW. The judge must approve the list first.

The Trump administration froze Northwestern’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model

The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

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Some positive news in troubled times: New preprint by Vincent de Bakker, Xue Liu @jonbakerlab.bsky.social Infection-mimicking conditions+transcriptomics/proteomics/'essentialomics'/lipidomics shows many cool things! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multi-omics profiling reveals atypical sugar utilization and identifies a key membrane composition regulator in Streptococcus pneumoniae

The human body comprises many different microenvironments, each with their own challenges for microorganisms to overcome in order to survive, and possibly cause infection. The human pathogen Streptoco...

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2030STEM in partnership with Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is building a new, catalytic resource to advance the careers of early to mid-career STEM researchers and professionals who are motivated to build an inclusive STEM ecosystem. Get more informarion at 2030stem.org/fellowship-1

1,600 names needed toward the next 12,800 target. Support NIH and research

SBGrid Consortium@sbgrid.bsky.social · last yr.

Stand up for science and sign your name in support of NIH staff and The Bethesda Declaration: A Call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

Reminder for when we talk about improving NIH grant review. Huberman brought blind review up with Bhattacharya. “redaction caused applications from White scientists to score worse” elifesciences.org/articles/71368

An experimental test of the effects of redacting grant applicant identifiers on peer review outcomes

Redaction, intended to obscure personal and institutional identity, reduced the gap between Black vs. White applicants in simulated review of real NIH scientific grant applications, thus providing qua...

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New opportunity to help sustain global health research re-fund-global-health.vercel.app

🚨Incredible opportunity alert!! 🚨 #microbiology

Jan-Willem Veening@veeninglab.com · last yr.

New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

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This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

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TBC this freezing of reimbursements to some institutions, like Northwestern, have not been accompanied by ANY terms or requests. They are simply holding this funding hostage illegally

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

JB: Working on resolutions with those paused grants. Hopeful that universities will come to terms with the Administration. Durbin: Disappointed. We have made a big difference together, and you are wiping this out. You are wiping out hope.

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New NIH Notice rescinding the no DEI, no Israeli boycott term and condition added to NIH grants (covers the whole university) This is what Williams refused to sign and declined all federal funding. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... 1/2

NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...

Funding freeze at Northwestern from Emma Mairson at grant-watch.us. Data from USAspending. Normally, ~$70 M per month. Now, bupkis. Northwestern is keeping research moving and must be spending ~$40 M per month. Clearly not sustainable for too long.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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