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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · Aug 6

💥Personalized C. difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut💥

I'm very excited about this work, driven by Alex Carr & co-supervised by @cdiener.com

@cp-cellsystems.bsky.social @isbscience.org @nitinbaliga.bsky.social

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Personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk prediction and probiotic therapy assessment in the human gut

Carr et al. show how microbial community-scale metabolic models (MCMMs) predict personalized Clostridioides difficile colonization risk and probiotic efficacy. MCMMs reveal key metabolic strategies ex...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Physics World @physicsworld.bsky.social · 3h

We produced this infographic about immigrant physics laureates a few years ago. You can find the article here. physicsworld.com/a/more-than-...

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 23h

Donald Trump really wants us to believe:

There’s not enough money to fix ACA healthcare premiums

There’s not enough money for Air Traffic Controllers

But there’s somehow $20 billion available to bail out Argentina?!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 13h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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ISB @isbscience.org · 14h

Dr. Mary Brunkow is a 2025 Nobel laureate. In today’s @isbscience.org press conference, she shares the FOXP3 story, from a puzzling mouse to a discovery that reshaped immunology.
🎥 Watch the full video: youtu.be/vg61fbycGEk

Mary Brunkow Wins 2025 Nobel Prize | ISB Press Conference (Full)

YouTube video by Institute for Systems Biology

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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geekwire.com @geekwire.com · 19h

How a scrappy biotech startup backed by Microsoft’s co-founders set the stage for Seattle’s Nobel winners https://www.geekwire.com/2025/how-a-scrappy-biotech-backed-by-microsofts-co-founders-set-the-stage-for-seattles-latest-nobel-winners/

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geekwire.com @geekwire.com · 17h

Trending: Seattle scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell win Nobel Prize for immunology research https://www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle-scientist-mary-brunkow-wins-nobel-prize-for-immunology-research/

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 16h

Rubbing shoulders with a @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate! 🤩What a week!

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person: isbscience.org/news/press-r...

@isbscience.org @naehasubramanian.bsky.social @flash-point.bsky.social @annabiosys.bsky.social

Left to right: Sean Gibbons, Naeha Subramanian, Mary Brunkow, Anna Kuchina, and Sid Venkatesh

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 1d

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 20h

Conversion therapies, for both sexual preferences & gender identity, have been associated with increases in suicidality and PTDS. This is why these practices were banned.

This is a form of speech that causes pain, suffering, and death in our LGBTQ+ youth.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 1d

Call your Reps and senators in both parties--so many folks threatened with devastating cost hikes in health insurance--they're wavering

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

The Trump admin has lied about this case from the start — and now it can't get its story straight about next steps for Mr. Abrego Garcia.

This reeks of a political prosecution and the courts must continue to ensure his due process rights are protected.

Judge Poised to Free Abrego Garcia if Officials Can’t Supply Deportation Plans

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 1d

Great to see this! I have Long been a fan of universal base income and I know it would be hard to roll out in the United States, but still! Every economist I’ve ever seen tackle this thinks it’s a great idea and here’s some (more) evidence that it is true

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 2d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

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ISB @isbscience.org · 2d

This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine....

What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues

go.nature.com/48QDdAJ

Medicine Nobel goes to scientists who revealed secrets of immune system ‘regulation’

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

Cartoon from the Nobel Assembly showing the three prize winners, their names, and “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Ram Savan @ramlabuw.bsky.social · 2d

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It also demonstrates the fairness of the prize, as Mary Brunkow is a Senior Program Manager (not a professor) at the @isbscience.org
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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 2d

Congratulations to NAS international member Shimon Sakaguchi on receiving the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine! He is honored alongside Mary E. Brunkow & Fred Ramsdell "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance." Read more: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic... #NASmember

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Science Magazine @science.org · 2d

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

Medicine Nobel goes to three researchers who identified immune system’s security guards

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered regulatory T cells that prevent autoimmune disease

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