Dr. Kyle A. Floyd
@lifeofpili.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the School of Biological Sciences at Illinois State University. Fascinated by all things biofilm and pili! 🏳️🌈👨🔬🧫🧬 #floydlab #greatvibrios #lifeofpili #uISU
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On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.
Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.
We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.
We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
October 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.
Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.
We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.
We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.
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Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
August 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”,
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr.
He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
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Here is the Priorities document (long thread)
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August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Here is the Priorities document (long thread)
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Important note from inside NIH
New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st.
Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.
New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st.
Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.
August 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Important note from inside NIH
New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st.
Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.
New grants policy terms may lead to terminations after October 1st.
Don't panic, but do realize that this is a possibility.
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What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference #ASMBiofilms
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What to expect at the ASM Biofilms Conference #ASMBiofilms
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“Grant review by political appointees will further impede the work of the scientific community to provide solutions and fight public health threats. With strong and responsible oversight, we need to harness—not suppress—all perspectives and approaches in the effort to solve these problems.”
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Grant review by political appointees will further impede the work of the scientific community to provide solutions and fight public health threats. With strong and responsible oversight, we need to harness—not suppress—all perspectives and approaches in the effort to solve these problems.”
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1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
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Public pressure works. The Senate proposed FY26 funding for the NIH that is being voted on today includes a $400 million increase. Keep up the great work everyone, call your house representatives and make sure this passes through the full Senate.
Senator Murray Opening Remarks at Full Committee Mark Up of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
www.appropriations.senate.gov
July 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Public pressure works. The Senate proposed FY26 funding for the NIH that is being voted on today includes a $400 million increase. Keep up the great work everyone, call your house representatives and make sure this passes through the full Senate.
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Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career.
They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.
See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"
They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.
See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"
July 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career.
They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.
See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"
They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.
See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"
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Just a reminder - The abstract submission deadline for the 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms (11/09-13) is August 6! Get yours submitted soon! #ASMBiofilms
ASM Conference on Biofilms
Biofilms have a tremendous impact on industrial, clinical and natural environments. The ASM Conference on Biofilms will provide an interdisciplinary platform to discuss the latest biofilm research.
asm.org
July 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just a reminder - The abstract submission deadline for the 10th ASM Conference on Biofilms (11/09-13) is August 6! Get yours submitted soon! #ASMBiofilms
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These members of the NIH Council of Councils are voicing serious concerns about NIH grant terminations, restructure, and budget cuts
go.nature.com/46Vr8t2
go.nature.com/46Vr8t2
Protect the integrity of the US National Institutes of Health
Letter to the Editor
go.nature.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These members of the NIH Council of Councils are voicing serious concerns about NIH grant terminations, restructure, and budget cuts
go.nature.com/46Vr8t2
go.nature.com/46Vr8t2
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Well, this happened yesterday...
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.
But I am wary about making assumptions...
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www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.
But I am wary about making assumptions...
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NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies - Drug Discovery and Development
Drug Discovery and Development covers strategies and technologies related to pharmaceutical research and development and drug formulation.
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well, this happened yesterday...
www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.
But I am wary about making assumptions...
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www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...
I assume that this pertains only to applications that focus on therapeutic development and not those addressing fundamental biology or mechanism.
But I am wary about making assumptions...
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Starting July 1, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Nature asks experts what researchers need to know about the NIH policy. #Academicsky 🧪
NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know
US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.
go.nature.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Starting July 1, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Nature asks experts what researchers need to know about the NIH policy. #Academicsky 🧪
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
June 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.
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ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Calls on Congress: Reject Drastic Science & Health Cuts
The American Society for Microbiology urges Congress to reject the proposed steep cuts to scientific research and public health in the President’s FY2026 budget.
asm.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
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commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
commemorating pride from the clinical microbiology lab
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Bacterial biofilms are important for disease development. This study develops imaging tech to probe spatiotemporal patterns of #Vibrio cholerae #biofilm gene expression, showing that temporal & spatial patterns are established by QS & c-di-GMP, respectively @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Fga1GX
May 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bacterial biofilms are important for disease development. This study develops imaging tech to probe spatiotemporal patterns of #Vibrio cholerae #biofilm gene expression, showing that temporal & spatial patterns are established by QS & c-di-GMP, respectively @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Fga1GX
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OMG, this. One thing I keep saying, as a department chair with like 10 untenured faculty to support, is that telling people to spend their very limited time applying for grants they have near-zero chance of getting is cruel and suggests a lack of empathy.
Literally, all the early career funding opportunities are going away or being drastically reduced, and people are still saying “apply for more grants” to those whose grants were terminated 🤷🏾♀️
May 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
OMG, this. One thing I keep saying, as a department chair with like 10 untenured faculty to support, is that telling people to spend their very limited time applying for grants they have near-zero chance of getting is cruel and suggests a lack of empathy.
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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.
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.
May 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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.
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.
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Thank you for pushing me consistently, to think, to learn and execute. Everything that I know today is because of you My Guardian Angel, My BOSSS! Thank you for the incredible mentorship. You are the best!!!!
@lifeofpili.bsky.social
@lifeofpili.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Thank you for pushing me consistently, to think, to learn and execute. Everything that I know today is because of you My Guardian Angel, My BOSSS! Thank you for the incredible mentorship. You are the best!!!!
@lifeofpili.bsky.social
@lifeofpili.bsky.social
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Well this is truly insane...
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Well this is truly insane...