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Ada Weinstock

@aweinstock.bsky.social
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Immunologist interested in obesity and its related inflammation, macrophages, immune progenitors and more @UChicagoMed (weinstocklab.owlstown.net)

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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Check out this REALLY important resource for neutrophil research 👀👀
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Payal Yokota @payalyokota.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Happy Friday! We're so thrilled to share our review on #trainedimmunity out in @elife.bsky.social today. We had a great time writing this. Honored to be included in the special issue of trained immunity. Always an absolute treat to write with @khannakm.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/108...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Your immune system remembers skin inflammation long after it resolves because of #interferon alpha! Check out our new paper describing these findings just published at @jimmunol.bsky.social 👇👇👇 It was amazing working on this with my role model @drshrutinaik.bsky.social
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Interferon-sensitized hematopoietic progenitors dynamically alter organismal immunity
Abstract. Inflammation has enduring impacts on organismal immunity. However, the precise mechanisms by which tissue-restricted inflammation conditions syst
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A lot is known about how #obesity influences the #AdiposeTissue. But what happens during weight loss and weight fluctuation is far less known. Check out our new review @atvb, led by 2 fantastic postdocs (not on Bsky 👀) To learn more 👇
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American Heart Association Journals
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants. This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things. This cannot stand.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 07/10/2025
BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
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Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row
Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.
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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 01/10/2025
The latest in a series of Viewpoint articles highlighting women in science by sharing their stories and amplifying their voices rupress.org/jem/article/... @quinascience.bsky.social @aweinstock.bsky.social @osterhoutlab.bsky.social #WomeninSTEM
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
So what are the bottom lines? First, a HUGE thank you to NIH staff (particularly grants management specialists but program officers and others as well) for getting this work done in a compressed period with many other stressors. 29/n
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Mark Kaplan @statfourwork.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day? Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info. Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org #ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
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Home - Immunology Explained
Understand how your immune system works with clear, science-backed insights. We empower you to make informed decisions and feel confident about your health.
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 24/09/2025
Women in STEM becoming independent: Asking for help creates opportunities for connections and kindness. A new Viewpoint from a cross section of #WomeninSTEM, including @quinascience.bsky.social @aweinstock.bsky.social and @osterhoutlab.bsky.social rupress.org/jem/article/...
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Unrelated to anything, just a cool recent paper jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
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IRB Barcelona @irbbarcelona.org · 23/09/2025
🧪 Don't miss this #Viewpoint article on #MitochondrialTransfer, out in @natmetabolism.nature.com, with the collaboration of Dr. @analechugavieco.bsky.social (@mitotherapx-lab.bsky.social, #IRBBarcelona). 📌 doi.org/10.1038/s42255-025-01364-0 #Mitochondria #MitochondrialBiology
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 21/09/2025
ICYMI: How diet affects atherosclerosis in obesity… @aweinstock.bsky.social & team show short-term caloric restriction resolves atherosclerosis inflammation in obese mice, but weight regain accelerates its adverse effects: buff.ly/ieqwQ3O
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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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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Payal Yokota @payalyokota.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Beautiful highlight of 10 brilliant scientists that talk about their journey to independent research careers. Shoutout to @aweinstock.bsky.social and Anushka! #WomeninSTEM
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Thank you @jem.org for the invite to participate in this Viewpoint alongside such inspiring scientists 🤩🤩
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So happy to see the final version of our paper out today @jclinical-invest.bsky.social 🤗
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
💥 #ImmunometabolismPower! Excited to have this officially out @cp-immunity.bsky.social 💥 We show that pathogens induce the host to produce oxidized lipids which rewire the #metabolism of #macrophages, causing #epigenetic modifications which dampen anti-inflammatory IL-10, exacerbating #inflammation!
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Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
Phagocytes initiate immunity to invading microorganisms by detecting pathogen-associated molecular patterns via pattern recognition receptors. Pathoge…
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Ai Ing Lim @aiinglim.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
LIMmunity is growing! 🤰🤱👶 We are looking for curious & driven postdocs to join us at @princetonmolbio.bsky.social & HHMI to explore the fascinating world of maternal-offspring immune partnerships! Come be part of our collaborative team! hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Postdoctoral Scientist- Lim Lab
Primary Work Address: Dept of Molecular Biology, Princeton, NJ, 08544 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Lim Lab at Princeton University is seeking an energetic,...
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Kevin Hall @kevinh-phd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Today in @nytimes.com , @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I share our thoughts on our toxic food environment, what to do about it, & how MAHA leadership is falling short by promoting wellness products & industry cooperation instead of better science, policy & regulation. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
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Opinion | It’s Not You, It’s the Food
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"It's people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price." We're literally defunding our future survival.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Ivan Zanoni @lozanzi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
#InterferonPower! Thrilled for our latest work @cp-cell.bsky.social! With @danielboehmer.bsky.social, we dug into tons of papers & created what we hope will be a go-to resource for immunologists & non-immunologist about type I, II, III (& IV😉) #interferons! Free👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1leKGL7PXu...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/08/2025
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Several people have suggested that I compile my emails to Bhattacharya and I am delighted to do so. Announcing the first cut of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... This contains just the first few exchanges. I will be adding more as time permits.
A cover labeled "Fifty Shades of 'Jay' by Jeremy M Berg
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AiR - Activists in Resistance @air-chicago.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Join Stand Up for Science at the Lincoln Park Library Saturday to learn how spending cuts can affect Lake Michigan. #waterislife
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
How many more people will be killed by our federal public health officials?
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Kakistocracy
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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 15/08/2025
#WomenInSTEM becoming independent: People should feel free to be themselves and do great science. We asked ten women researchers about their science and the process of setting up a lab as an independent researcher: rupress.org/jem/article/...
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Unbelievable! 651 extra grants that could have been funded just this year! Scary to think how many therapies and inventions are not going to be found because of these actions
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My Letter to the Editor in the Washington Post is online [Gift Link] wapo.st/415HpYM 1/4
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Opinion | AMA president: NIH is wrong to pivot from mRNA vaccines
Trump once oversaw historic mRNA vaccine development. Why is he abandoning it?
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I listened to Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast. If you want to know how it went, see the following email that I just sent. 1/13
Dear Dr. Bhattacharya:

I have listened to your performance on the “War Room” podcast with Steve Bannon. The segment begins with a discussion of Secretary Kennedy’s recent cancellation of $500M worth of contracts related to mRNA vaccines.

You say “You can’t have a platform where such a large percentage of the population distrusts the platform as we use it for vaccines and expect it to work.”  Later, you make comments that might explain why a large segment of the percentage distrusts this platform. For example, you say that the vaccine was not protective against contracting COVID and cite your own case on COVID after being vaccinated. However, you fail to cite the evidence for the clinical trials that led to the Emergency Use Authorization.
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Alexander Bartelt @barteltlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New work from our collaboration with @www.helmholtz-munich.de on the transcriptional regulation of adipose tissue thermogenesis 🔥 out now @faseborg.bsky.social ! faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/...
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The TBLR1/TBL1 Co‐Factor Complex Acts as a Transcriptional Checkpoint in the Brown Adipose Tissue Response to Prolonged Cold Exposure
Simultaneous deletion of TBL1 and TBLR1 in brown adipocytes leads to reduced expression of PRDM16 target genes, associated with impaired adaptive thermogenesis and defective BAT remodeling during pro...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress: —cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)] —more than 15 infectious diseases —autoimmune diseases —rare disease for genome editing
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I think that @jeremymberg.bsky.social should always be interviewed with Bhattacharya for real-time fact checking
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).
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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
“The Senate Committee on Appropriations is scheduled to release its proposal for NIH’s 2026 budget later this week…The committee could include language that would prohibit the multiyear funding plan or extend the timeline for the transition.”🧪
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sadly, I feel folks are unaware. I was talking with my students today who had no idea what's going on, except for the administration wanting to slash funding. How do we mobilize quickly to get folks to call their senators and urge the appropriation committee to prevent the multi year funding?!
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Hopium Chronicles @hopiumchronicles.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Tomorrow, 12pm ET - @cdelawalla.bsky.social of @standupforscience.bsky.social returns for an update on the battle to maintain America's global scientific leadership. She'll be joined by @jeremymberg.bsky.social, noted scientist and former high-ranking NIH official. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Countering Trump's War On Science With Colette Delawalla and Dr. Jeremy Berg
Starting Jul 30 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Lydia Lynch @lydialynch.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This was a labor of love requiring lots of teamwork over years, repeating in 3 locations! Thanks to all the lab over the years, giving their time generously to this team project, & our wonderful collaborators. The source of fat matters for anti-tumor immunity 🐄🐖🧈🌴🫒🥥 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The source of dietary fat influences anti-tumour immunity in obese mice - Nature Metabolism
This study shows that animal-based high-fat diets accelerate tumour growth and impair anti-tumour response to melanoma in obese mice, whereas plant-based high-fat diets do not.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Yesterday was tough. It was the 1st time I shared real concerns about the lab financial situation with the group. Although I have incredible people, I still feel bad laying this on them but we have to make painful cuts and decisions so folks have jobs 😔 #newPI
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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/07/2025
✊ Sign your support for all three here⬇️ NASA: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... EPA: act.standupforscience.net/forms/epa-ad... NIH: act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
My first two Bhattacharya email day... This one is coming in hot... 1/n
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Ada Weinstock @aweinstock.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Check out this amazing new paper by @sancholab.bsky.social and colleagues identifying a new gut metabolite driving heat disease 👏👏
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