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I am so proud to be apart of @societymucosalimm.bsky.social. Everything I do for the @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social journal and podcast, I do to learn and share all of the amazing science🧪 from the many fantastic researchers 👩🔬 in this community. Thank you 💚 #ICMI2026
I wonder, if at any point during the 10 years of The Odyssey, at any point, did any of the crew ask "Are we there yet?" Keep that in mind when watching the movie #ChristopherNolan #MattDamon #Odyssey ........
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Do you live in Philly? Has your cat been acting crazy? Well, it is likely this craziness is not due to H5N1 infection--but rather the fact that your cat is a cat. In this new preprint with @lhmoncla.bsky.social we find low H5N1 seroprevalence rates in Philly cats. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among owned and feral cats in Philadelphia and surrounding communities
Clade 2.3.4.4b H5NX influenza viruses have spread widely in birds since 2020. In addition to causing disease in birds, these viruses have infected a variety of mammals, including humans. Clade 2.3.4.4...
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I posted this 2 years ago prior to the 2024 election. They really spelled it out, and enough Americans were fine with it to let this horror show proceed. We're over halfway there. What a disaster. #Project2025
#Science #Immunology turns 10 years old this month! We celebrate w/ a Special Issue on immune #memory! Check out our 3 outstanding Reviews by Maziar & Kaufmann; @sjturn.bsky.social, Thiele, & @niclag.bsky.social; & @maurogaya.bsky.social & @kimljacobson.bsky.social out this week! scim.ag/448rEkV
Review @jimmunol.bsky.social @kingofpathogens.bsky.social Getting on your last nerve: IFNs and resistance to infection academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...
There are so many tech companies now named after Lord of the Rings (Palantir, Anduril, Earendil…) Very concerned that in 20 years tech will be disrupted by Hufflepuff Industries
Congrats to the new @bwfund.bsky.social Path awardees! It was an incredibly strong applicant pool, so thanks also to the selection cmte for their thoughtful work and my co-chair @kingofpathogens.bsky.social. Many applicants apply multiple times before being selected so don’t hesitate to reapply!
Burroughs Wellcome Fund@bwfund.bsky.social · 3mo agoBWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath
NIAID employees did not receive any communication about these leadership changes until this afternoon, when the institute sent out an unsigned email.
Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · 3mo agoScoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpath
BWF Announces the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Burroughs Wellcome Fund
DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) awards, recognizing assistant…
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Despite general systemic immune modulation during reproduction, the maternal intestine undergoes remodelling to strengthen innate defense to protect mothers & offspring from pathogens @nature.com @princeton.edu @aiinglim.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It’s still unclear whether Hantavirus is scary enough to guarantee 1,000 publications in Nature
I would like to announce that I was this year's recipient of the Hunter Lab best kept desk award! Award ceremony will be in Stockholm. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize
Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky
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More than thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted to full (tenured) Professor @harvardmed.bsky.social @harvard.edu! This only happened because of the hard work of many people, but I want to dedicate this promotion to my grandmas, Nonna Maria & Nonna Vevè. A #FirstGen thread 🧵 1/x
The latest MI Podcast episode is out - get excited for #ICMI2026 with @kinglabmcgill.bsky.social, learn about IL-36 with @ryanthwaites.bsky.social, and more! www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...
My thoughts on Director Bhattacharya's Fireside Chat at the NAM workshop (a long 🧵) Overall (1) He clarified what he said that NIH is doing with regard to improving replication. While these are concrete steps, they seem either naive or dependent of unproven technology. Time will tell. 1/30
The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for mCOMBRIAX® (mRNA-1083), the Moderna mRNA combination vaccine for immunisation for the prevention of Flu/COVID-19 caused by influenza/SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 50 years of age and older.
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Had a great time talking C. diff on the #MattersMicrobial podcast! Thanks so much to @markowenmartin.bsky.social for being such a fantastic host and for the great conversation!
Mark O. Martin@markowenmartin.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Joe Zackular joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss the wily bacterium Clostridiodes difficile (also known as C. diff) which can cause serious disease in humans. Informative session! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord! youtu.be/9oSR01l-EkY?...
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, and I'm going to be dead within 2 years now that the CDC cancelled funding for the mRNA treatment that might have save my life. But at least now we have Secretary of War who is a Pulp Fiction fan.
Peripheral vaccination-induced brain-resident memory CD8+ T cells durably protect mice against intracranial malignancy @jci.org www.jci.org/articles/vie...
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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today
STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...
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@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social The role of integrins in T cell-mediated resistance to Cryptosporidium parvum www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @i3h-upenn.bsky.social @kingofpathogens.bsky.social
For those interested in T cell trafficking to the gut - maybe LPAM is not so dominant during enteric infection... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences? url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences?
Abstract. We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation,
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Happy to share this study from the lab led by Orlaith Keenan published in mBio! Working with an outstanding collaborative team, Orlaith demonstrated that maintaining the right balance of neutrophils is key to limiting severe disease during C. difficile infection. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Pharmacological reduction of neutrophil infiltration reduces Clostridioides difficile infection severity | mBio
Clostridioides difficile remains a leading cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide and a major healthcare burden. While antibiotics are commonly used to treat CDI, high antibiotic resistance...
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Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11
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Ending the war between the US and Iran will be hard, experts say, due to the difficulty of negotiating with a weak, erratic head of state.