Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
Joanne Flynn
@joanneflynn19.bsky.social
Mom. Microbiologist and immunologist studying TB. Chair of micro at University of Pittsburgh School of medicine. Volleyball, basketball, hockey fan. Go #Pitt! Oh and now I have a puppy (GSD). Opinions are my own. Not my employer.
We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
Please support! #standupforscience Science saves lives!
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.Here is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration #StandUpForScience #uspol #science
Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives. 🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts - AAI News
AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.
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"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]
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Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!
ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine)@elamprogram.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to the ELAM and ELH Class of 2025 (our 30th cohort of fellows) on graduating! Welcome to the ELUM community!
This seems…shortsighted to say the least
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · last yr.RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’
GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’
Trump's canceled NIH grants and HHS layoffs threaten U.S. biomedical leadership, Collins says, as she calls for funding to be restored.
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The headline "could" be a lot stronger. The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
nytimes.com
Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
A different kind of "overhead" IYKYK: My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...
Overheard: The risks of ‘mirror bacteria’
The molecules that make up life, like DNA and RNA, have “handedness,” just like most people are either right- or left-handed. Over the course of billions of years, all life has evolved standard left-h...
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My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze
America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.
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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
washingtonpost.com
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
washingtonpost.com
2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎
Mahdad Noursadeghi@mnoursad.bsky.social · last yr.We’re hiring! Looking for a laboratory post-doc fellow to help us disentangle protective and pathogenic T cells in TB, so we can stratify disease-risk after infection, and develop more effective vaccines. Interdisciplinary science in the heart of London. What's not to like? More here: bit.ly/4iIEiwu
More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last yr.A second kid just died of measles.
Proulx, Wiggins, Lauffenburger, Sassetti et al. @umasschan.bsky.social identify noncanonical immunity as an important feature of bacterial control during #tuberculosis disease when human-relevant genetic and phenotypic diversity is incorporated into model systems. rupress.org/jem/article/...
This is well written and makes me so sad for the future of science in America. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
theguardian.com
Great article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe
Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.
bostonglobe.com
Ugh.
@drmaligator.medsky.social · last yr.#SouthCarolina #tuberculosis outbreak at Hartsville High School “tested 280 individuals as part of the Hartsville High School" Tuberculosis (TB) investigation." 1 active TB case 56 latent TB cases All individuals have started on months long antibiotic therapy. wpde.com/news/local/h...
