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ASM @asm.org · 17h

In a new opinion piece in @statnews.com ASM member Sarah Stanley, Ph.D., emphasizes that safe gain-of-function research is essential to identifying new treatments for diseases like tuberculosis—yet the NIH has imposed unfounded stops: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

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Mike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 21h

AFD Blog `UF/IFAS Extension: What Backyard Flock Owners Need to Know about Bird Flu (Influenza H5N1)' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/ufif...

UF/IFAS Extension: What Backyard Flock Owners Need to Know about Bird Flu (Influenza H5N1)

Credit CDC #18,899 Due to the government shutdown, we're not getting as timely of updates from the USDA on current poultry outbreaks of H...

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 1d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Fred Ramsdell was parked at a campground in Montana on Monday when his wife suddenly started shouting. He first thought that maybe she had seen a grizzly bear. Instead, she had regained cell service and had seen a flood of text messages with the same news. “You just won the Nobel Prize!” she yelled.

Winning a Nobel Prize Interrupted His Off-the-Grid Vacation

Fred Ramsdell found out about his Nobel Prize nearly 12 hours after it was announced because he was on vacation in the Rockies.

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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the appropriately grim piece. We need to find ways to foster and support service members who might stand up and resist the illegal orders that are sure to be coming.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 1d

Reposting, submit soon!

Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 15d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Heran Darwin, PhD @heran.bsky.social · 1d

We're hiring! Check out our ad and please re-post or forward to interested #Microbiology parties: apply.interfolio.com/174783

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Department of Microbiology, The University of Chicago @uocmicrobiology.bsky.social · 2d

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

Department of Microbiology | The University of Chicago

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 3d

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 2d

Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia

Vaccination is more that protection against the pathogen-caused disease.

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Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia

Nature Medicine - Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

Russia HIV crisis is spiraling due to "reduced state funding, prohibitions on external funding, and crackdowns on the activities of civil society organizations." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Russia spiralling into an HIV crisis

Recent reports on HIV in Russia suggest the country's response to the epidemic continues to spiral to new depths. Reduced state funding, prohibitions on external funding, and crackdowns on the activit...

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 3d

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people www.livescience.com/health/cance...

HPV vaccination drives cervical cancer rates down in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people

Researchers have found that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are highly effective at reducing cervical cancer-causing infections and can offer herd immunity, reinforcing previous research and highl...

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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 3d

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A co-evolutionary perspective on humans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the era of systems biology

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh my God, the number of breast cancer diagnoses went up so much after we invented the mammogram!"

It doesn't mean that mammograms cause breast cancer. It means that before them, women just died.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 5d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

If you're Army and know anything about the plans to deploy the 82nd airborne to Portland, text me securely via Signal at 202-510-1268

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 4d

**Please Repost**

Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 7d

mRNA-based tuberculosis vaccines BNT164a1 and BNT164b1 are immunogenic, well-tolerated and efficacious in rodent models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.30.679428v1

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Adriano Bolondi @adrianobolondi.bsky.social · 6d

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

FRIENDS PLEASE SPREAD and RT

We are building a small expert team within the @bokelab.bsky.social at @crg.eu @prbb.org to investigate fundamental questions in oocyte cell biology, focusing on how proteostasis regulation influences dormancy and fertility.

See below 2 calls👇

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7d

It's simply ending the partnership between government and academia that drove the most successful era of science anywhere ever. There's no eternal rule that required this system, it was a just a specific, creative innovation that worked. It seems wr will learn its value the hard way now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 8d

📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social!

Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬

📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27)
📍 San Sebastian, Spain.
👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...

📢 Open 4-year PhD Position in Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis! | CVPD Research group

The Computer Vision and Pattern Discovery (CVPD) group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position within the recently awarded project TOSBI: Towar...

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Greifflab @victorgreiff.bsky.social · 10d

We’re recruiting a PhD Fellow in Computational Systems Immunology. Work on large-scale immune receptor datasets and develop computational models in close collaboration with experimental labs. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Fellowship in Computational Systems Immunology (286608) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Fellowship in Computational Systems Immunology (286608), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Nadja M. Hümpfer @nadjahuempf.bsky.social · 10d

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 10d

Comparing single-cell #SpatialTranscriptomics methods on FFPE human tumor #TissueMicroArray

CosMx 1k vs MERFISH 500 vs Xenium-UM/-MM 339
93 common genes

lung adenocarcinoma
pleural mesothelioma

Corr. Bulk RNAseq, GeoMx

#NatureComms 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ATS PITB Assembly @ats-pitb.bsky.social · 14d

Great honor to welcome Dr. Charles Dela Cruz, past @ats-pitb.bsky.social Chair, to @tulanemedicine.bsky.social today! He is giving an outstanding talk on COVID-19 and interferons—sharing deep insights into pathogenesis and host responses. #COVID19 #Interferons #ATS

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