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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · Sep 7

“David Baltimore, a biologist who in 1975 won a Nobel Prize for a startling discovery that seemed to rock the foundations of the fledgling field of molecular biology, died on Saturday at his home in Woods Hole, Mass. He was 87.”🧪🩺

www.nytimes.com

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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · Jun 25

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Jul 19

Another fantastic ASV! So much fun to hang out with brilliant people and talk science.

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · Jul 5

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

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Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · Jun 11

“In 1900, 30 percent of all deaths in the United States occurred among children younger than 5, mostly because of preventable infectious diseases. By the end of the century, that number was just 1.4 percent.” #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #ACIP

Jeremy Kamil @macroliter.bsky.social · Jun 11

🧪 🎁 🔗 💉 🤡 😞 🤦🏻‍♂️ 📰 wapo.st/4jKcZlh

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s purge is about reducing access to vaccines

He says he wants to restore the public’s “confidence” in vaccines. Don’t fall for it.

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · May 23

I particularly love the beautiful pathology, produced by Dr. Kerry Goldin, and the contrast in cytokines and chemokines, work that was led by Dr. Sarah van Tol.

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · May 23

The first manuscript by my lab has been published🥳🎉

We investigated disease progression in B6 mice inoculated with bovine H5N1 or VN1203 via aerosols. Interestingly, although virus replication in the lung was similar, we observed drastic differences in neuroinvasion and pathology.

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Enhanced neurotropism of bovine H5N1 compared to the Vietnam H5N1 isolate in C57BL/6J mice

npj Viruses - Enhanced neurotropism of bovine H5N1 compared to the Vietnam H5N1 isolate in C57BL/6J mice

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨Job alert 🚨

I am looking for an enthusiastic & talented postdoctoral researcher to join our research team in Hamilton, MT, USA.

If you are interested in
🦠 emerging respiratory viruses (BSL2-4),
🔬mucosal immunology, and
🐁 in vivo studies,

Check out:
www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdpmire...

www.training.nih.gov

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 20

I really relate to this 😂😁😳☹️

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 20

Maybe people are using more complex stats, or alternatives like the Mann Whitney?

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 17

As usual, Edward does an excellent job summarizing complex and persistent inaccuracies.

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Apr 16

There is so much about this screenshot that incenses me

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The autism epidemic has now reached a scale unprecedented in human history because it affects the young. The risks and costs of this crisis are a thousand times more threatening to our country than COVID-19. Autism is preventable and it is unforgivable that we have not yet…
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At today’s HHS press conference, @SecKennedy presented new data showing that in the U.S. autism prevalence numbers have increased from 1 in 36 children to 1 in 31, according to @CDCgov latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network survey published Tuesday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 12

Project focuses on intranasal vs. intramuscular vaccination, utilizing flow cytometry, multiplex imaging, & possibly single-cell RNA-seq. Start date: late summer 2025.

www.training.nih.gov

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Apr 12

I am hiring a talented, motivated postbac to join our lab studying mucosal immunology & respiratory viruses. Learn more about the NIH Postbac Program here: www.training.nih.gov/research-tra... Reach out if interested or know someone who might be!

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Mar 19

74 other poultry farms?? 😳

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Mar 13

In reality, the risks of side effects from a measles-mumps-rubella vaccination are vanishingly small, especially compared to the devastating effects of measles. 2 dosages provide 99% protection to disease.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hearing from a source:

"A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged."

This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Mar 8

The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.

--- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Mar 7

“Because of public skepticism, it is not settled science.”

The former editor needs an editor.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · Mar 7

According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism.

What mistakes does he make?

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Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is sick

Neeltje van Doremalen @neeltje.bsky.social · Feb 22

You should try worLdle as well.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Feb 15

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Feb 10

The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution.

Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Feb 8

Trump tried to lower NIH indirect rates in his 2017 budget and that failed to pass. This is a reminder that everything he tried to do through legal means in the first term will be attempted again through illegal means. He will only succeed if we let him.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Feb 4

A long post about what’s happening to the science funding agencies in the US and why. As mentioned, this one just kept getting longer even as I kept stripping curse words from it.

www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org

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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · Feb 4

This, from @dereklowe.bsky.social, is a must-read overview of the state of play in US funding agencies www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

www.science.org

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