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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD
@vvsmider.bsky.social
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Biomedical researcher, antibody investigator (especially cow antibodies 🐮, which are the best), drug discoverer, entrepreneur 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Founder and President at Applied Biomedical Science Institute: https://absinstitute.org
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · Mar 17
I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 1d
Foundational discoveries in a small biotech company led to the Nobel.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 1d
Regulatory T cells, or T regs, make up the basis for a slew of biotech companies working to treat immunological diseases. cen.acs.org/people/nobel... #chemsky 🧪
How Nobel-winning T regs fueled a new class of immunology companies
Nobel Prize–winning technology engineered to treat autoimmune diseases and cancer
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 1d
Calley Means is a wellness grifter who doesn’t know science.

Chimps DO get cancer.
Chimps have different expression of genes like p53, that play a role.

MOSTLY:
Chimps die of other things before they’d get cancer.
Captive chimps that live longer? They sure do.

Watch ⬇️
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Calley Means doesn’t know science
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d
Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 3d
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d
“The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d
Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 2d
The academic brain drain from America accelerates…
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2d
Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d
A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"...

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 4d
Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and possibly deliver drugs to specific areas of the body.
2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment
Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 4d
Congrats, great achievement!
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 4d
Debunkinhg takes hours, misinformation seconds.

Don´t just post. If you didn´t read or understand the paper, don´t post it with conclusions from others. Be very careful with low-impact journals and with predatory journals as well as with pre-prints! If unsure, ask experts, or wait for them.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 4d
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.” Stay tuned for the full story to come! cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#ChemNobel #Chem #Chemistry #chemsky 🧪
The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi win the prize for developing metal–organic frameworks
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 5d
“Somewhere in the wilds of Idaho, one of the world’s newest Nobel laureates was, his company said, “living his best life”. And, no, they told reporters, they had not been able to reach him. “

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Nobel winner had no idea: he was off-grid in the Rockies — The Times and The Sunday Times
Somewhere in the wilds of Idaho, one of the world’s newest Nobel laureates was, his company said, “living his best life”. And, no, they told reporters, they had not been able to reach him. So it was t...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 5d
nice writeup on the medicine Nobel
Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize
Their work revealed a peripheral mechanism that keeps immune system from causing harm.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5d
I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

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and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 6d
Immunity researchers win the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi receive the prize for understanding how the immune system is kept in check. Read more: cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

#chemsky #immunosky 🧪
Immunity researchers win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d
My quote of the day

All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed … to constitute a fund, the interest on which is to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

Alfred Nobel
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 6d
the “preceding year” requirement is kind of interesting.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d
PubMed Update (no pun intended)

Publications with Pub Date

8/1//24 62209
9/1/24 64765
10/1/24 68211

8/1/25 61610
9/1/25 63719

10/1/25 35936 (as of 10/2/25)
10/1/25 38673 (as of 10/6/25, 8:00 AM)

It appears that ~40% of the expected number of publications are missing for 10/1/25

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a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains
ALT: a man in a black vest says no bueno in front of mountains
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6d
Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 7d
Join in the excitement this week 🤩The #NobelPrizes in Physiology or #Medicine, #Physics, and #Chemistry will be announced on Monday (11:30 a.m.), Tuesday (11:45 a.m.), and Wednesday (11:45 a.m. CEST). Live -> www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 7d
Dear #microbiology and #immunology community- I took a break from social media after I deleted my Twitter account, but am back here. Please help me rebuild my community by following me and amplifying this message- I will follow you back. Thank you and I look forward to our many interactions!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d
My quote of the day

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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