I am so grateful for this honor - grateful to my mentors, lab, and family. Thank you @seanjmorrison.bsky.social for your support. And how great to be elected with some very good friends and two awesome UTSW colleagues, Elizabeth Chen and Joel Elmquist. Feeling very fortunate today.

Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern@cri-utsw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🌟From the desk of @seanjmorrison.bsky.social: It's a great day for CRI, which now has 2 @nasonline.org members. Congratulations to @rjdlab.bsky.social and his laboratory on this recognition for the quality and impact of their work! #relentlessdiscovery 🧪 cri.utsw.edu/deberardinis...

🌟From the desk of @seanjmorrison.bsky.social: It's a great day for CRI, which now has 2 @nasonline.org members. Congratulations to @rjdlab.bsky.social and his laboratory on this recognition for the quality and impact of their work! #relentlessdiscovery 🧪 cri.utsw.edu/deberardinis...

Three UT Southwestern faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today elected three UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists into its membership. Election to the NAS is one of the highest honors in the United States for Amer...

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I think the bucket was good luck. Go Blue!!!

Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern@cri-utsw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Had a #GoBlue moment last week when Omer Yilmaz, Ph.D., came to speak about his #relentlessdiscovery for the CRI Speaker Series. Omer's ice bucket from @seanjmorrison.bsky.social Lab made the move from Ann Arbor to Dallas and is still being used two decades later! 🧪

We can’t wait for you to get here Jean-Laurent!

Casanova Lab@casanovalab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

5/ In this new chapter, we are delighted to join The Center for the Genetics of Host Defense led by Bruce Beutler, the Department of Pediatrics led by Jorde Berezza, the Department of Immunology led by Lora Hooper, and the @cri-utsw.bsky.social led by @seanjmorrison.bsky.social

Worth amplifying one point: Other institutions also have Nobel laureates, but we also have the frozen margarita machine! That really changed the field!

Casanova Lab@casanovalab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

9/ Dallas, the birthplace of the frozen margarita machine, is the 9th largest US city (4th when combined with Fort Worth), has the largest contiguous urban arts district in the US, and boasts more restaurants per capita than NYC (more studies are needed to confirm this claim! 😉).

That’s a wrap on the past 12 months, with even more #relentlessdiscovery to come in 2026. cri.utsw.edu/discoveries/ @seanjmorrison.bsky.social @rjdlab.bsky.social @haozhulab.bsky.social 🧪 #stemcells #regeneration #CancerResearch #metabolism #NYE2025 #NYE2026

There were more lab members who started bowling but not everyone survived to the end. They’re so competitive 🙄.

Torikul Islam, PhD@mtislam.bsky.social · last yr.

The Morrison Lab Bowling Event.

Torikul won again!

Torikul Islam, PhD@mtislam.bsky.social · last yr.

The Morrison Lab Bowling Event.

Kennedy’s comments on the Novavax covid vaccine approval delay aren’t scientifically accurate and don’t conform with FDA law, experts said.

Kennedy’s Comments On Novavax Delay Scientifically, Legally Inaccurate, Experts Say

The HHS Secretary publicly acknowledged the unusual delay of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine licensure, but his justification was neither scientifically accurate nor legally justifiable, experts said.

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Giants in neuroscience and leaders for the entire time I’ve been in science (Yuh-Nung interviewed me for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1995).

Ardem Patapoutian@ardemp.bskyverified.social · last yr.

This was the last @hhmi.org conference Lilly and Yuh-Nung Jan attended as investigators. They're becoming HHMI emeritus but still run a thriving NIH-funded lab. From cloning the first potassium ion channel (Shaker) to decoding neuronal development, the Jans have made a huge impact.

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States: tariffs were not introduced for Russia because it's in the middle of peace negotiations. (By the way, Ukraine is subject to President Trump's tariffs).

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.

STAT@statnews.com · last yr.

#Breaking: HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

Peter Marks from the FDA resigns "it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies." #medsky 🛟😷🧪

@IM_Crit_@imcrit.bsky.social · last yr.

The resignation letter of FDA’s director for the Center for Biological Evaluation & Research #medsky

America will be less healthy & less safe as a result of Peter Marks' forced resignation from FDA. He & FDA protected us from people who enrich themselves selling snake oil: unproven stem cell therapies, vaccine alternatives, other fake treatments. Thank you for all you did for public health Peter.

Kymmenen pistettä ja papukaijamerkki!

Ina Hallström@killedbyproxy.bsky.social · last yr.

For the 8th year in a row, Finland is the happiest country on earth! ❤️🇫🇮🌍 "They’re wealthy, they’re healthy, have social connections, social support, [and] a connection with nature." "They’re not happy, joyful, dancing in the streets type people, but they’re very content with their lives."

Why waste time briefing Elon Musk, when you could just share America's most sensitive military secrets with the Chinese government directly?

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

Another outstanding story of the real-world impact of the short-sighted cuts to NIH and other federal support for the best scientific research infrastructure in the world. www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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Congratulations to Liming Du, now on the faculty @iShandong university, for discovering that increased interferon levels in aging bone marrow remodels the stromal microenvironment around arterioles and contributes to the decline in lymphopoiesis.

Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern@cri-utsw.bsky.social · last yr.

ONLINE in @PNASNews: @seanjmorrison.bsky.social & former postdoc Liming Du, Ph.D., have discovered the periarteriolar environment in the bone marrow becomes inflamed during aging, remodeling stromal cells and reducing the production of lymphocytes ⬇️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #relentlessdiscovery

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose) @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...

Stand Up for Science Rally Sees Mix of Science, Politics and Anxiety

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.

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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

Scathing, and rightly so. www.thefp.com/p/trumps-cry...

Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds

To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

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House cuts to NIH (to fund billionaires) would cut the Cures Act (passed with bipartisan support) by ~$300 million or 70%. Scientific loss includes cancer research, adult stem cell research, brain/dementia research, and a critical data collection project to study rare diseases, among other topics.

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · last yr.

The House Continuing Resolution budget “adjustments” for NIH are drastic. Here are some examples:

Way to go Anna!!

Anna Molofsky Lab@annamolofskylab.bsky.social · last yr.

Agree! An honor to receive the Bowes award together with @kampmann.bsky.social - a testament to the incredible collaborations at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social that make our science possible!

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events

Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

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Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to expand with 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) and 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total) h/t BNO News