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Heather Caslin

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Assistant Prof in Exercise Science. Immunometabolism researcher and toddler mom! Views my own.

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Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · Mar 21

First Caslin Lab publication is out this week!! We explore the impacts of innate immune memory to weight loss on infection outcomes. Thanks to Julie Bohannon and Ed Sherwood at Vanderbilt for the help with infection studies.

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Weight loss-induced adipose macrophage memory corresponds... : Shock

immune memory in adipose macrophages that correlates with worsened diabetes risk after weight regain. Here, we investigated the effect of weight gain and loss on adipose macrophage memory and infectio...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 3d

A small primer on the #NobelPrize awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi today. This prize was for combining two separate fields of immunology research - genetic research on IPEX and immunology research of regulatory T cells (#Tregs), with enormous impact on biology/medicine

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 12d

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

dr℮w @giantmolecular.cloud · 12d

It does seem like they have barred 2nd year graduate students from applying. This is devastating, I've been preparing my applications materials for MONTHS and now they all have to get binned...

This means individuals in the following statuses at the time of application are eligible:

Undergraduate in the final (senior) year of a bachelor’s degree program
Bachelor’s degree-holder with NO enrollment in a graduate degree program (non-degree graduate coursework allowed)
Individual enrolled in a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree program with at least three undergraduate years completed
First-year graduate student in their first graduate degree program with less than one academic year completed in the degree program (according to institution’s academic calendar)
Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor’s-master’s degree programs are considered graduate students. For GRFP, joint bachelor’s-master’s degrees are defined as degrees concurrently pursued and awarded.
Not be a current NSF employee.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 13d

Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

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Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · 15d

Ah, very cool. Dave Wasserman always had the best things to say about Toronto/ UT

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 20d

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 21d

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 21d

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

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Charles Johnson Antifa ID Confirmed @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25d

It really cements Charlie Kirk’s reputation as a hero of free speech when his followers threaten, doxx, and get people fired for not “mourning properly.”

(Actually, it underlines what a scam that “free speech” routine was in the first place.)

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else

After the fatal shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. Republicans have a warning for Americans: Mourn him respectfully or suffer the consequences.

www.reuters.com

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NPR @npr.org · 27d

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

Southern University, other HBCUs close due to ‘potential threat’

Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge will be closed through the weekend after officials called a lockdown Thursday morning due to a “potential threat.”

www.wwno.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 9

It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · Sep 9

John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that
the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Sep 8

For our scientists.

By @ellecordova.bsky.social

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Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · Sep 8

#Immunosky

blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello Bluesky, we’ve finally migrated and look forward to connecting with everyone here!

We’re also having a Town Hall next week. Please register here and share with anyone who may want to reconnect or learn more about our group:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Heather Caslin @heathercaslin.bsky.social · Sep 8

From the Black in Immuno board: we’re excited to reconnect and meet new friends here!

Please follow and share our page with anyone who may be interested in our work.

blackinimmuno.bsky.social @blackinimmuno.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 6

I really can’t bring myself to say out loud what this means. It’s horrific.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 6

It's full steam ahead for NASA, according to Sean Duffy, the agency's acting administrator. During an internal employee town hall, Duffy warned of "letting safety be the enemy of progress" when it comes to winning the space race, according to a recording obtained by NBC News.

Interim NASA head tells agency that it will beat China back to the moon

Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy also told agency employees not to let "safety be the enemy of progress."

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 6

#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...

RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · Sep 6

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

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Alexander Dent @follicular.bsky.social · Sep 6

This entire administration is non-stop waste, fraud and abuse

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 6

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Sep 6

Big crowd today against the occupation of DC

Crowd at Saturday protest against occupation of DC

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 6

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House:

Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Sep 2

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Sep 2

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Sep 2

One month to go for NIH grants in the FY2025 cycle drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/o...

One month to go for NIH grants in the FY2025 cycle

As of today*, the NIH has funded 2,479 new (Type 1) R01 projects for Fiscal Year 2025. This FY expires at the end of the month, so we have four more weeks to go. For reference, NIH funded 4,612 new…

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

This!! Call Congress and demand that RFK be re-moved--even Trump is getting worried

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 1

He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are.

What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 30

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign

The health secretary is endangering the lives of American people now and into the future.

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