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Colin Reardon

@creardon.bsky.social
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Believes Neuroimmunogy is the best of both worlds, 3d printing nerd, occasionally does light microscopy.

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Review @jem.org @changsbrain.bsky.social Vagal neuroimmune circuits in inflammation and immunity rupress.org/jem/article/...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Early-life enteric infection is a driver of long-lasting neuroimmune imbalance @pnas.org @gareaulab.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! Join the MAGA Resistance & make your voices heard. Accountability. Is. Coming.
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Jaymze @existential122v2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Toronto could ban ‘surveillance pricing’ for groceries. Here is what that means. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Toronto could ban ‘surveillance pricing’ for groceries. Here is what that means.
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is putting forward a motion to stop the practice of “surveillance pricing” for groceries, which uses algorithms to determine the maximum price online shoppers are willing to ...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Endothelial cell-intrinsic NOD2 signaling regulates the intestinal immune response through the generation of effector and memory T cells @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Super excited to share a project I’ve worked on since my Master’s thesis, what a journey!🚵 Finally out as a Nature Methods Stage 1 Registered Report preprint doi.org/10.6084/m9.f... We benchmark deep learning-based single-image super-resolution methods for microscopy imaging. Interested? Check out 🧵
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Accuracy versus Perception: a Benchmark of Deep Learning Models for Single-Image Super-Resolution in Microscopy
Virtual super-resolution deep learning methods provide a powerful solution to overcome the physical and temporal constraints of microscopy imaging. Yet, assessing and choosing an ideal methodological strategy complicates their use in life sciences and creates a lack of trust in these methods. Here we propose an objective comparison of nine popular single-image super-resolution (SISR) models in a collection of publicly available microscopy datasets, including cell components like microtubules, endoplasmic reticulum, and actin, using confocal microscopy, SEM, SIM, SMLM and STED microscopy modalities for fixed and live-cell microscopy data. The proposed models will be assessed quantitatively with a collection of metrics in microscopy and computer vision, and qualitatively by experts in the field. The proposed models will be made accessible through open, user-friendly, containerised notebooks. This systematic assessment of SISR approaches will provide a more comprehensive understanding of these methods' performance and contribute to standardising SISR methods in microscopy.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Action Item...Action Item...Action Item Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Comments due by May 16, 2026
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NOT-OD-26-047: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2027-2031
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Fis...
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Mucosal Immunology @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The neuroendocrine peptide catestatin promotes clearance of cutaneous Staphylococcus aureus through mast cell Mrgpr activation www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
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Steph @stephy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Retired NIH Program Officer Requests Grandson Address Weaknesses From Last Year’s Christmas List Before Considering New Submission open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Retired NIH Program Officer Requests Grandson Address Weaknesses From Last Year’s Christmas List Before Considering New Submission
BETHESDA, MD—Explaining that he needed to see substantial revision before proceeding, retired NIH program officer Harold Wexler, 74, informed his grandson Sunday that he would need to address weakness...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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ngmjournal.bsky.social @ngmjournal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🆕 #Neuroepithelial landscape of #Enterochromaffin cells varies across #GI location‼️ ✅EC cells rarely make contact with sensory nerves in upper gut but this frequency increases in distal colon👏 🎯 #Neuropods are not a preferential site of contact🔥 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ANMS #ESNM
KEY POINTS
• Enterochromaffin (EC) cells release signaling molecules which can activate nearby sensory nerves.Whether this occurs via a conventional synapse for-mation is unknown.
• EC cells rarely make contact with sensory nerves inthe upper gut but this frequency increases in the distal colon.
• Neurite-like protrusiton on EC cells, named by some as “neuropods” are not a preferential site of contact with nerve fibres.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Action Memo for Senior Bureau Official John Armstrong
FROM:
SUBJECT:
CA/VO - Stuart Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary
(SBU) Revocation of Fl Visa for Rumeysa OZTURK
(SBU) Recommendation 1: That you approve the revocation of the Fl visa,
effective immediately, for
under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(INA). Due to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent;
the Department will not notify the subject. (Approve/Disapprove by
03/21/25)
Decision: [Approved] 
(SBU) Recommendation 2: That you authorize the transmission of the
attached notification to the Department of Homeland Security noting the,
immediate revocation of OZTURK's visa. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25)

Decision: [Approved]

Background 
(SBU} On March 21, 2025, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of DHS/ICE's Homeland Security Investigations referred to CA information regarding Rumeysa OZTURK, a Turkish national, for a possible determination by the Secretary that the alien is deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C). As a nonimmigrant visa holder, such a determination is not necessary for OHS/ICE to pursue removal of OZTURK from the United States, as INA section 237(a}(1)(B) provides that an alien is deportable if their nonimmigrant visa has been revoked under INA section 221(i).(SBU) Under INA section 221(i), the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke a visa.. This authority is delegated to you pursuant to Delegation of Authority 367-4. Department policy reflected in 9 FAM 403.ll~S(B) provides that a visa may be revoked in cases of a suspected ineligibility, when an individual would not meet requirements .for admission, or "in other situations where warranted."

(SBU) OZTURK was issued an F-1 visa on December 14, 2020, valid until December 9, 2025. According to information provided by OHS/ICE/HSI OZTURK is a post doctorate degree candidate in Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University. On March 21, 2025, OHS/ICE/HSI referred information to CA indicating that OZTURK co-authored an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper. In this article, the authors wrote, "Graduate Students for Pal'estine joins Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP), the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire, .and Fletcher Students for Palestine to reject the ,University's response" {to a student government resolution). According to OHS/ICE/HSI, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine was placed\\ on interim suspension 11 after it used images of weapons to promote a protest rally and urged members of the Tufts community to 'join the student intifada." OHS/ICE/HSI referral concluded that "OZTURK's involvement in these activities and associations with these groups may undermine U.S. foreign. policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization."

(SBU) While OZTURK has been involved with the actions protesting Turfts' relationship with Israel, QHS/ICE/HSI has not, however, provided any evidence showing that OZTURK has engaged in any antisemitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally. While the report implies a connection between OZTURK and the now-banned Tufts Student for Justice in Pa…OZTURK was involved in any of the activities which resulted in TJSP being suspended from Tufts.

(SBU) Through a search on March 21, 2025, on available USG interagency databases, CA/VO identified no reporting specific to OZTURK, and interagency vetting partners did not provide any response to OZTURK's 2024 visa application indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism-related information.

(SBU) OHS did not identify any alternative grounds of removability that would be applicable to OZTURK, including the ground of removability for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist activity, and have not indicated whether it plans to consider termination of OZTURK's SEVIS registration. Although information provided by OHS/HSI/ICE does not establish any potential ineligibility for OZTURK, you may, in your discretion and in accordance with Department policy in 9 FAM 403.11-5(8), approve revocation of her F-1 visa effective immediately based on the totality of the circumstances presented indicating that revocation may be warranted.
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Teaching a pathogenic microbiology graduate class this semester. Did I use the pathogens for which the vaccines have been removed from the cdc recommended vaccine schedule as the examples for deep dives? Yes, yes I did. 😁
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If we continue to compromise with people whose stated goal is to destroy NIH, then we will not be successful in saving it.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond
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happybeachvibes.bsky.social @happybeachvibes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Here’s a better version bsky.app/profile/bubb...
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Elaine Emmerson @doctoremmerson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Thrilled for our wonderful postdoc @lizihegarty.bsky.social whose #PhD work on colonic #macrophages and #colitis with @bainlab.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social 🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair
Macrophages are crucial for the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis, are considered key proinflammatory effector cells during intestinal inflammatio…
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Melanie Gareau @gareaulab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Are private jets being affected by this? Cause we could just cancel all those instead 🤷‍♀️
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apache/ @apache.be · 24/10/2025
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology
We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly
defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join
our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell
Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our
department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular,
cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health
and disease. The candidate should have an active research program
that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of-
the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our
expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in
gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected
to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research
for students, trainees, and the community across various life and
professional experiences.
• Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in
physiology or a related field.
• Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or
functional anatomy to professional or graduate students.
• Experience with grant writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, and a demonstrated ability to work
cooperatively and collegially within a diverse
community.Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Sunrise in Davis CA
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are dispensable or detrimental in murine systemic or respiratory viral infections @natimmunol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are dispensable or detrimental in murine systemic or respiratory viral infections - Nature Immunology
Previous research has suggested that pDCs are required for an effective antiviral immune response, but direct experimental evidence to support this is lacking. Here Ngo et al. develop a pDC knockin mouse model and find that pDCs are dispensable for an antiviral immune response to mouse cytomegalovirus and may be detrimental during influenza or SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to medications. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Rheumatoid arthritis kept her captive. This nerve stimulator set her free
A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to drugs.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Immune cell profiling reveals diverse niches of immune residents of the enteric nervous system and potential neuroimmune interactions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Colin Reardon @creardon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Happy to share our new publication. Inhibition of acute lung inflammation by a neuroimmune circuit induced by vagal nerve stimulation | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Inhibition of acute lung inflammation by a neuroimmune circuit induced by vagal nerve stimulation
A lung anti-inflammatory pathway can be activated to block acute lung inflammation.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The Putin-loving guy who always looks like he’s on something (but got to bypass his background check & security clearance), who put me on a State Dept “subversives” list, gutted its capacity, and is planning to Wikileaks its anti-propaganda org, has such an interesting personal story. 👀 Uncanny.
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Edelblum Lab @edelblumlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Don't forget to register for the 2025 Goyal Award Lectureship as we recognize the outstanding contributions of @gareaulab.bsky.social on Monday, May 12th at 11am EDT! Join us for great talk on #microbiota-#gut-#brain axis in #neonates! #GIresearch #Gastrosky #GIsky @apsphysiology.bsky.social
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2025 Goyal Award Lectureship: The Impact of Neonatal Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis Development on Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology
Melanie Gareau, PhD, will discuss the development of the microbiota-gut-brain axis in neonatal life.
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Melanie Gareau @gareaulab.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Amazing view from GIL banquet last night 🤩 #APS2025
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n
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IBDGC Genetics Consortium @ibdgc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New to this platform, but not new to asking big questions 🧬 Check out our deep dive: 11 Big Questions in IBD Genetics & Genomics—where a crew of experts tackles the biggest challenges in understanding Crohn’s and colitis at the molecular level. 📖 ibdjournal.org #IBD #Genomics #GIresearch
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases | Oxford Academic
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases brings the most current information in clinical and basic sciences to physicians caring for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, and investigators performing research in IBD and related fields.
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Primary all democrats that go along with this bullshit
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Colin Reardon @creardon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Anyone else’s submitted grant still not have an application id assigned? Apparently many grants from my university are sitting in this limbo stage. Most seem to be R21s…
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 10/03/2025
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 09/03/2025
the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path
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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
📢Aujourd'hui l'Institut Pasteur se mobilise pour la science, l'inclusion & l'avenir du savoir avec l'organisation du symposium «Excellence Scientifique : et si l'inclusion était la clé ?» en écho avec la Journée Internationale des Droits des Femme & la participation au mouvement #StandUpForScience !
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Colin Reardon @creardon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New Coronavirus, infects human cells? no problem. BSL2(+?) is fine. Perhaps @cellpress.bsky.social should rethink publishing/rewarding this type of work? Especially given the very brief risk assessment section in the manuscript. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...
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Opinion | Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm (Gift Article)
Research with pandemic potential needs the utmost precautions.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Revision request from Reviewer #2
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Melanie Gareau @gareaulab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hey Canadian scientists, any events planned in major cities in support of science? 🧬 Canada is already being targeted against DEI from American corporations. Don’t wait until it’s too late!
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 19/02/2025
A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi
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Trump Tracker: Firings, lawsuits, and U.S. science in chaos
Follow President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A large portion of grants awarded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot be funded for the foreseeable future because of an indefinite hold on submissions to the Federal Register, according to an email reviewed by The Transmitter. By @avaskham.bsky.social bit.ly/3X8ngz8
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Federal Register hold makes ‘end run’ around court pause on NIH funding freeze
NIH-related updates to the Federal Register, which are required for the scheduling of study sections and advisory councils, are on hold indefinitely, according to an email reviewed by <i>The Transmitt...
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.
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Melanie Gareau @gareaulab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The gut-brain axis on SNL50 🙌 collider.com/snl50-andy-s...
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Andy Samberg and His Little '80s Earring Takes Us on an Anxiety-Riddled Retrospective in 'SNL50' Digital Sketch
Andy Samberg donns shoulder pads and takes fans across a retrospective of Saturday Night Live's 50 year history.
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Colin Reardon @creardon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Interested in neuroimmune interactions in the intestine? Our new manuscript describing how Substance P receptor signaling can alter the host response to Citrobacter rodentium is now out in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Substance P receptor signaling contributes to host maladaptive responses during enteric bacterial infection | PNAS
Immune responses in the intestine are intricately balanced to prevent pathogen entry without inducing immunopathology. The nervous system is well e...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @kenmartin.bsky.social You slow things down, you put up a fight. You rally the people. All this “we are powerless” talk is demoralizing. We know who controls Congress, the White House. But if we wanted you to roll over and play dead, we’d get a dog.
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