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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14h

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 16d

Innate immune molecular landscape following controlled human influenza virus infection @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell-reports... @williamthistle.bsky.social @sindhuvangeti.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · 19d

I love your enthusiasm for science. It makes a refreshing change.

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 19d

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/...

currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing, thank you!!

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · 26d

Excellent talk. Thank you!

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 28d

Watch @maxgg.bsky.social, Group Leader at the Crick, as he explains what happens to cells that are infected with tuberculosis and how his lab is studying our bodies’ response to this infection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCt...

Researching the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease – with Maximiliano Gutierrez

YouTube video by Francis Crick Institute

www.youtube.com

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Aug 1

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships:
Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · Jun 16

‼️ 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/...

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Emily Wong @emilybethwong.bsky.social · May 31

This is a research ethics emergency 🚨 on the scale of those we know from history - the Tuskegee syphilis study, Nazi “scientific”atrocities. The impact on the global clinical research field is immense. Will we (scientists, participants, communities, ethics committees) ever trust funders again?

Nature @nature.com · May 30

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo.

https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care

US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.

go.nature.com

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Daniel L. Barber, PhD @danbarberphd.bsky.social · May 30

We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · May 8

Horrendous. I am so sorry for what she went though. It is unacceptable.

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you Bill Gates. For your generosity and for calling out Musk. Worlds richest man is involved in deaths of world poorest children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bill Gates says his Foundation will close in 2045 and decries Musk for USAID cuts

Microsoft co-founder accuses Trump ally of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ by slashing US aid funding

www.theguardian.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · May 4

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · May 3

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 17

It just gets worse and worse. Insanity.

Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 16

Incomprehensible. Good people doing excellent science are defunded while blue origin is given 2 billion dollars. It belies belief.

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 16

I just can't put this devastation into words. I am so sorry. And absolutely will impact TB incidence in the coming years.

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thanks to EDCTP and NIH for funding

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 16

Very happy to share our latest publication evaluating not 1, but 2 fingerstick blood screening tests for TB: Cepheid 3 gene test and a 3 protein test using lateral flow technology. Coming soon: evaluation in children and household contracts. Stay tuned...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Performance of 2 Finger-Stick Blood Tests to Triage Adults With Symptoms of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Prospective Multisite Diagnostic Accuracy Study

Two finger-stick blood tests to triage people with symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis by measuring 3 host proteins (multibiomarker test) or 3 host RNA tran

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Nature Reviews Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com · Apr 9

New Comment article online by @daltmann.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
#immunosky #medsky

How to respond when biomedical science and global health is under existential threat - Nature Reviews Immunology

US spending in biomedicine has driven pre-eminence in academia, Nobel prizes, scientific training discovery, translation and healthcare. The associated USAID spend on global health programmes has worl...

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is well written and makes me so sad for the future of science in America.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz

If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented

www.theguardian.com

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is so heartbreaking. I cannot believe any of this has to be defended. It's completely insane.

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 8

Vaccines have granted families in wealthy countries the luxury of forgetting what measles, polio, rubella, and other preventable diseases are like.

We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved.

Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/42Aj3Y8

A graph showing reported measles cases in the United States. The line shows that there were regularly 400-600,000 cases each year until 1963, when the measles vaccine was licensed, at which point cases plummet. In 2000, the elimination of measles was declared.

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congratulations!!

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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · Apr 7

Or at least reversal of all NIH funding cancelations...

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