Masked men who roam the streets with guns, harassing people with impunity are a dangerous gang. This should not be acceptable in the United States of America.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

This is a powerful statistic in a Boston Globe editorial about the dangers posed by large trucks in cities. There are many possible solutions: Redesigning trucks, limiting them in some areas, and using smaller vehicles such as cargo bikes for last-mile delivery. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/09/o...

The president of the United States is lying.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

"...by limiting the number of international STEM students, instructors and researchers in the U.S., the new rule could cost the nation’s economy as much as $145 billion per year by 2035." GENIUS missouriindependent.com/2026/08/10/r...

With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests • Missouri Independent

Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading ...

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Everyone is impacted by science, and in a world full of division, that can bring us together. Explore the impact of the abrupt changes in government funding for scientific research and the ways we have adapted to continue our work.

The Importance of Science - Part II

In a follow-up to our first Importance of Science video, we sit down with leaders of patient advocacy foundations, one of our board members, Wyss Lumineers (alumni), and a new set of researchers to re...

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Boston devoted more than $240 million in federal pandemic aid to building 6k affordable housing units. @bosbizjournal.bsky.social reports on how this move is now paying off... www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/...

Federal pandemic funds boosted Boston affordable housing. That money ends in 2026. - Boston Business Journal

When Boston got $560 million in federal pandemic aid, it devoted a big chunk to housing affordability: more than $240 million. The decision is paying off, according to a new report.

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More 2026-2027 Validation Projects! The review committee initially selected 16 projects based on their scientific strength, commercial viability, innovativeness, and likelihood of achieving technology validation. Support from Harvard’s OVPR enabled us to fund 7 more highly rated proposals.

The Wyss Institute’s 2026-2027 Validation Projects

Each year, the Wyss Institute’s Validation Project program identifies technologies that are ready to move beyond discovery and into the validation phase. Through dedicated funding, technical resources...

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COMMENTARY: "As our communities become denser and our lives increasingly move indoors, access to nature isn't a luxury — it's essential infrastructure." wbur.fm/4q2ycfe

Boston's park system ranks 12th in the US. We can still do better

Today, 100% of Boston’s residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park — but not all parks in the city serve the surrounding community equally. “This matters because at a time when cities are balancing competing priorities and limited resources, parks represent an investment that delivers multiple benefits,” writes Jodi Valenta of Trust for Public Land.

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AI won't replace scientists, but it can help them ask better questions, design better experiments, and accelerate discovery. Learn how the Wyss Institute is advancing application-driven AI by combining computation with human biology, experimental validation, and translational science.

Accelerating Biomedical Innovation with AI through Collaborative Iteration

By Mariel Schoen Long before ChatGPT brought Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the public spotlight, scientists at the Wyss Institute were using AI-driven computational approaches, including machine l...

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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first mRNA flu vaccine, enabling use of a technology that will make it easier to rapidly target a widely prevalent or particularly virulent strain of the virus.

New kind of flu shot is on the way as the FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA-based flu vaccine - The Boston Globe

The FDA had initially refused to review the Cambridge-based biotech's application for approval, but eventually relented amid public backlash.

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An award from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center will enable us to host a next-generation metabolomics and lipidomics analytical platform, which will allow researchers to creatively pursue new approaches to biomarker and drug discovery across multiple health and environmental challenges.

Wyss Institute receives Massachusetts Life Science Center award to advance metabolomics and lipidomics research across Massachusetts ecosystem

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — The Wyss Institute at Harvard University has received an award from the Massachusetts Life Science Center (MLSC), enabling it to host a next-generation metabolomics and...

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The PMC starts tomorrow! Learn more about Ken Carlson and Jay Culverwell's histories with the PMC, their deeply personal connections to cancer, how they're fighting cancer through their work at the Wyss, and what they'll bring back to the Institute on Monday.

Tackling cancer through riding and research

By Jessica Leff Imagine it’s 5:50 AM on a Saturday morning in August. The sun’s only been out for 20 minutes, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of bicyclists and an equal number of volunteers from gat...

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As the waitlist for donor organs grows, surgeon Leonardo Riella sees animal-to-human kidney transplants getting closer to the clinic. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/xen...

Xenotransplantation Enters a New Era

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This really captures the moment. Dr. Fauci was the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert and public-facing spokesperson. He was the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and on the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Louisa Gag's death while commuting-by-bike in Boston focuses the issue of street safety and how politics needlessly gets in the way of common sense solutions. www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

Traffic-related deaths are a problem in American cities—but politicians are slow to embrace fixes

The recent death of a Boston bike-safety advocate has heightened attention to an issue that many U.S. cities continue to face. Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Justin de Benedictis-Kessner explai...

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American science has never advanced through American talent alone. International students bring expertise, ideas, and perspectives that make the entire scientific community, and economy, much stronger. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Policy changes for international students threaten U.S. competitiveness — Harvard Gazette

Garber offers assessment at D.C. event, saying shifts will discourage the world's best and brightest from coming here for research and study.

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Wyss researchers have advanced a Lymphoid Organ Chip model that captures mRNA vaccination from injection to protective antibody production with unprecedented complexity. This work has unique potential for improving future mRNA vaccine research.

Recapitulating intramuscular vaccination with mRNA vaccines in patient-specific Lymphoid Organ Chips

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — The protective abilities of the Moderna and BioNTech mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 saved millions of lives during the pandemic and put this platform technolo...

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Summary: Former MA Transportation Secretary Tibbits-Nutt was right, but too few in a position of responsibility had the courage to stand up for her. We lost a good one right there IMO. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/26/o...

We have the tools: Political courage is needed to tackle Boston’s traffic nightmare. - The Boston Globe

If you’re driving into the city you’re going to pay. It’s just a question of whether you pay with your time, or your money.

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We're accelerating discovery through the Scientific Instrumentation @ Wyss Collaboratories Program. This collaboration between industry manufacturers and Wyss scientists and engineers is designed to drive progress, spur entrepreneurship, and incubate innovation through concurrent engineering.

The Wyss Instrumentation Program

The Scientific Instrumentation @ Wyss Collaboratories Program (Wyss Instrumentation Program) is a unique collaboration between industry manufacturers and our community of scientists and engineers to a...

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CircaVent is a high-throughput drug screening platform that combines predictive algorithms, preclinical models, and human brain organoids to efficiently identify and test drugs that could treat the underlying causes of bipolar disorder.

CircaVent: A Drug Discovery Platform for Mental Health Conditions

CircaVent is a novel drug discovery platform that combines predictive algorithms, high-throughput preclinical models, and human organoids to identify and test drugs that could treat mental health cond...

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Changes to rules over federal research grants will have real consequences. For decades, merit-based peer review & sustained federal support helps the US lead in science and technology. Giving political appointees influence over individual awards risks this foundation news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

University opposes changes to federal-grant guidelines — Harvard Gazette

Letter argues that overhaul would politicize funding process, hamper health and science advances, damage nation’s security, competitiveness.

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I don’t think @mayorwu.boston.gov, @boston.gov police have learned anything from Louisa Gag’s death. Four cops across the street drinking coffee, laughing at a construction site — refused to have this truck moved from Brookline and Longwood Aves, risking cyclist safety and pinching cars to one lane

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

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Discovery does not stop in difficult times. Stick with us; we won't give up. In this video, learn how abrupt changes in government funding for scientific research in 2025 have affected the trajectory of scientific research and the ways researchers have adapted to continue their high-impact work.

The Importance of Science - Part II

In a follow-up to our first Importance of Science video, we sit down with leaders of patient advocacy foundations, one of our board members, Wyss Lumineers (alumni), and a new set of researchers to re...

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Scientists tend to establish credibility by explaining what they know. Audiences are also asking: Why are you doing this work? Trust depends on demonstrating expertise AND helping people understand a scientist’s motivations, values, and commitment to the public good. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

Scientists’ credibility depends on audience and perceived motives

A new study identifies five audience "classes" based on people's perceptions of scientists’ credibility.

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Scientists developed a better way to test immune responses to mRNA vaccines, potentially transforming mRNA vaccine research. This platform recapitulates immunological responses at the injection site and the adaptive immune responses that arise in lymph nodes. wyss.harvard.edu/news/recapit...

Recapitulating intramuscular vaccination with mRNA vaccines in patient-specific Lymphoid Organ Chips

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — The protective abilities of the Moderna and BioNTech mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 saved millions of lives during the pandemic and put this platform technolo...

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Two Wyss members, Ken Carlson and Jay Culverwell, will be riding the Pan-Mass Challenge this year. Both are avid cyclists with a personal connection to cancer. Learn more about their motivations, the event itself, their work at the Wyss, and what they take from the ride and bring back to the Wyss.

Tackling cancer through riding and research

By Jessica Leff Imagine it’s 5:50 AM on a Saturday morning in August. The sun’s only been out for 20 minutes, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of bicyclists and an equal number of volunteers from gat...

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This is not good behavior to have in a democracy. It corrupt and corrupting.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

WSJ: “.. The CFTC is investigating an instance of a GOP congresswoman tipping off a friend about Trump planning to pick JD Vance as his running mate prior to the president's announcement in 2024. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“The way Mr. Fertitta sees it, giving Italians a glimpse of how the 0.1 percent live helps to make the kind of people-to-people connections that ambassadors are supposed to foster.” What is this logic?!? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/w...

As Trump Scraps With Meloni, His Envoy to Italy Is at Sea

Tilman J. Fertitta, the U.S. ambassador to Rome, is summering on his superyacht as President Trump squabbles with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.

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Wyss-led collaborative research team developed an all-human Organ Chip-based testing platform that recapitulates intramuscular mRNA vaccination and adaptive immune responses.

Recapitulating intramuscular vaccination with mRNA vaccines in patient-specific Lymphoid Organ Chips

By Benjamin Boettner (BOSTON) — The protective abilities of the Moderna and BioNTech mRNA vaccines developed against COVID-19 saved millions of lives during the pandemic and put this platform technolo...

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