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Kevin Bonham
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Assistant Professor at Tufts Medicine studying microbes, brains, and the immune system 🚽🦠🧠

Fermenter, gardener, Zen Buddhist. Ask me about #julialang!

🎙️: https://audiommunity.org
🌎: https://blog.bonham.ch
💻: https://GitHub.com/kescobo
This construction happening right outside of my office for the past few weeks regularly shaking my entire building feels like a metaphor for something, I just don't know what.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I am mad and ugly crying for those poor babies. It’s a terrible way for an infant to suffer. It is 100% preventable. I want to harm the people who caused this.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Document programming in #Typst and #LuaLaTeX: some examples

t.co/wKrWZOS5MW
https://lee-phillips.org/TLexamples/
t.co
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been killing it.
Student Journalists (Again) Showing Us How dept:

—@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social plays latest 'Harvard about to cave' story the way it should. Ie, as another MAGA claim. (Left image)

—Gives "well, actually...." context missing from most MSM reports. (Right)

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I already have too much travel planned for 2026, but wish I could go to this 🧪
Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL.

Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl

Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I had a wonderful time with Kevin and Matt on Audiomunnity talking about my recent brain injury review - we mostly laughed our butts off but managed to talk some immunity as well.
Check it out wherever you get your podcasts! 🧪 🎙️
This title isn't about the HHS secretary!

This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls

audiommunity.org/episodes/epi...
Episode 49 - Scratch that itchy worm in your head
YouTube video by Audiommunity
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November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This was a super fun conversation - quite different from our typical fare on @audiommunity.org!

Among other things, I learned that whales have an anatomical feature called "the junk", that woodpeckers and hummingbirds' tongues *don't* wrap around their skulls, and science snark exists everywhere!🧪
This title isn't about the HHS secretary!

This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls

audiommunity.org/episodes/epi...
Episode 49 - Scratch that itchy worm in your head
YouTube video by Audiommunity
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This title isn't about the HHS secretary!

This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls

audiommunity.org/episodes/epi...
Episode 49 - Scratch that itchy worm in your head
YouTube video by Audiommunity
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
Assistant Professor
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in the biological sciences or related fields.Candidates are expected to document expertise in their specialty by a record of postdoctoral training, peer reviewed publ...
jobs.charlotte.edu
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This video is well worth watching. Excuse me while I go make a donation to the wikimedia foundation
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This should be fun! With @woodrufflab.bsky.social 🧪
Excited to be talking to @nicoleackermans.com today about her work on headbutting in animals throughout the centuries! Do you have burning questions about neuroinflammation in bighorn sheep or the differences between woodpeckers and football players? Let us know!

🧪
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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All of this natural language everything is a kind of attack on formal systems as tools of expertise

it bakes in a layer of imprecision that makes it harder to express things that capital does not want expressed, and harder to notice the ways it constrains and shapes expression
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment.

Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...
The Last Word On Nothing | Why AAAS won’t be using AI to write press releases anytime soon
www.lastwordonnothing.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Healthy microbiome—moving towards functional interpretation
by 🇵🇱Kinga Zielińska

Check out the paper: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

2/3
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Apologies to folks using the RSS, this episode was a bit delayed (because I broke the feed). But it's good, you should listen to it! 🧪
In the latest episode, we're talking neonatal Tregs! What are they? Still don't know! What do they do? Still don't know! Where do they go? Ahh, the right question - it's the skin of course!

With special guest @zackhilt.bsky.social 🧪 #immunology
Episode 48 - The tyranny f the FACS machine
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November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.

Available as book, on kindle and as audio.

I would be really grateful for reposts.

www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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That feeling when you are so mad and sad and frustrated and disappointed and activated that you want to just run for office yourself and then you realize you already are.
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I'm in @thenation.com this morning on the repeated failure of transphobia as political strategy, efforts to scapegoat trans people for Democrats' own failures, and Zohran Mamdani's model of solidarity
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“Practical Julia” is designed to teach scientists how to use the best language for science, with chapters on #physics, #mathematics, #biology, #statistics, and more.

amzn.to/3Jn1QdR

A review: lwn.net/Articles/966...

#julialang
Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds
Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds: 9781718502765: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com
amzn.to
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Like deciding to rob a corner store at gun-point because you saw someone snag a couple of pennies from the give-a-penny/take-a-penny tray that they didn't actually need
Elon musk is finna be a trillionaire after he destroyed the Federal government and murdered people. But you want me to be mad that 3% of people who get SNAP are getting it fraudulently.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Am dad, can confirm
incredible pun work in the replies. bluesky, the official social network for dads
logging back on to discover the jury did not return a verdict in the sandwich guy case. what the fuck lol
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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incredible pun work in the replies. bluesky, the official social network for dads
logging back on to discover the jury did not return a verdict in the sandwich guy case. what the fuck lol
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Man doesn't believe in germ theory, but thinks heart attacks might be contagious?
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!
📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM