UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

We are hiring! Please circulate in your networks. Join us in beautiful warm and wonderful KZN to answer some important questions about asymptomatic / subclinical TB.

#TBsky #IDsky 🧪

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

Happy to share our new pre-print, led by PhD student Linh Pham! We examine inhibition of MHC II expression by NRF2 during Mtb infection and its impact on innate-adaptive crosstalk. Special thanks to the Behar lab who helped us set up a T cell co-culture system for the project! #TB #immunology

Congratulations @bengern.bsky.social!

Tragically, the NIH is finding any reason it can to cancel grants, including critical research into the nature and function of mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

‼️ Save the date! ‼️ Tuberculosis: Understanding the Disease Across Scales Keystone 2026 on March 23-26 in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Very excited to organise this meeting with Digby, Bree and Margarida
Short Talk Abstract Deadline: Nov. 24, 2025
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

WOW!.. 8500+ supporting cast heroes (that's us!) have already signed our Letter of Support for the brave NIH heroes who laid down their case in the historic #BethesdaDeclaration.

Add your name here actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... & stand up to save science & health in America.

#StandUpForScience

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

Delighted to see this piece with Victor Ambros, @carlbergstrom.com, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and @briannosek.bsky.social in the wild.

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it

@standupforscience.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s been some “advice” coming from some quarters for scientists not to focus on DEI-related funding cuts.

I wholly reject this concept.

Cutting programs designed to reduce science and healthcare disparities is as detrimental to science as anything else, both morally and functionally.

New NIH Notice "expiring" a large number of funding opportunities because

"We have identified a number of Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) that were not expired or reissued as indicated in the implementation plan outlined in NOT-OD-24-085."

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Congratulations @payalyokota.bsky.social! Fantastic work!

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM

Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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Updated funding curves...

Data downloaded today, but plotted through 4/15 to correct for NIH Reporter lag time).

New and Competitive Renewal Awards first

Awards being made but the rate remains lower than normal

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Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu

I'm taking action following the Trump administration's sudden revocation of international student visas in MA-02.

Their actions are unconstitutional, unconscionable, and unprecedented. We need answers.

Read more: mcgovern.house.gov/news/documen...

An exciting finding for the TB community!

Erwin Schurr & team show people with HIV who are resistant to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis display activated alveolar macrophages and increased numbers of alveolar poly-cytotoxic T cells: buff.ly/xJ42sfP

Cancellation of this TB "moonshot" would be devastating to the #TB research community, further reducing any chance for novel and innovative therapies to contain the global epidemic. On a personal note, I've learned so much from this amazing team. Just heartbreaking. #TBsky #Immunosky

Greenfield, MA #HandsOff #SocialJusticeSingout Standing room only!

"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Inspiring words tonight by Cory Booker. He’s touched on so many critical topics, but I’m so proud that in his final hour he is specifically calling out the importance and power of NIH-funded research.

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here: