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Chemists, biologists & computational scientists chasing after the mysteries of infectious diseases. Opinions are those of JSF.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/06/2025
The global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation's capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration.
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WorldPride caps off its first D.C. celebration with a weekend parade
The global LGBTQ+ festival was held for the first time in the nation's capital. Organizers say the current political environment has dampened the excitement surrounding the celebration.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Please tell your friends and family who are still parroting the lie that academic research can be replaced by private industry
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Michal Caspi Tal, PhD @immunofever.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Book research on how names shift science. How do controversial ideas become accepted in medical research and medicine? T-suppressor cells were "debunked" and then rebranded as #Tregs. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome now ME w/ #ChronicLyme to #IACI following #LongCOVID. I want to hear your stories!!
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NPR @npr.org · 01/06/2025
Your state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will.
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Americans are warned as latest DMV phishing scam targets phones
Your state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will.
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Kelsie Wentz @kek-kelsie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Wentz lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining a brand new research group and interested in the synthesis of new functional main-group based heterocyles and polymers can apply at the link below. Please share! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29781
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Wentz Lab
The Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, consists of a well-rounded research community with cutting-edge expertise in a wide variety of modern disciplines i...
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ChemKritzer @chemkritzer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Boston-area pharma/biotech people! Are you considering a future in teaching? Tufts Chemistry has a new part-time Professor of the Practice position focused on mentoring graduate students for a future in research. Please apply, or DM me with your questions! apply.interfolio.com/168150
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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Go work with the amazing @valencekjell.com ! #chemsky
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/05/2025
David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
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Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
@repbonnie.bsky.social : May I humbly submit that this should be required viewing for everyone in Congress. I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...
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Amanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025
David Liu joins the show.
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
@corybooker.com : May I humbly submit that this should be required viewing for everyone in Congress. I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...
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Amanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025
David Liu joins the show.
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Please consider passing around this very informative interview to everyone you know (especially non-scientists). I believe it does an excellent job explaining why taxpayers benefit from the federal government’s support of scientific research. www.pbs.org/video/breakt...
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Amanpour and Company | Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Season 2025
David Liu joins the show.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
HOOSIERS: I'm very excited to be in conversation with Michael Koryta for the Bloomington Book Festival. You can learn more and get tickets here: buskirkchumley.org/events/an-ev...
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An Evening with John Green
BLOOMINGTON, IN — The Bloomington Book Festival, a three-day celebration that connects authors and readers, encourages literacy, and fosters community engagement, is thrilled to present an evening wit...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 22/05/2025
Stay strong @harvard.edu
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Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Stephan Hacker @stephanhacker2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
If you are a PhD or postdoc and want to present your exciting science, make sure to check out the abstract challenge to present a Flash Talk at the Virtual @chembiotalks.bsky.social on September 30th. #ChemBio #ChemSky #DrugDiscovery chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2025
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Opportunity for computational chemist at Vertex (Oxford UK) ref: REQ-24796 | closing: 31-May-2025 #CADD #CompChem #cheminformatics #UKChemJobs #ChemJobs #chemsky 🧪 vrtx.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/Vertex_Caree...
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Senior Computational Chemist/Molecular Modeller
Job Description We seek a highly motivated and experienced Computational Chemist to join our Computational Drug Design group in Oxford. The successful candidate will play a central role in driving dru...
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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.
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Johnson Lab - University of Iowa @campylobacterlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hey y'all! My department is conducting a search for an assistant or associate professor in bacteriology. It's pretty broadly defined. If you know anyone who's looking for a great department that does awesome science - please send them our way! You can DM me with any questions you have 😀
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Nice news (for me, anyway): Everything Is Tuberculosis is on the NYT bestseller list for a SEVENTH consecutive week.
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Bill Gates per today’s NY Times article: “I think there’s a logic to solving tuberculosis. I mean, it’s criminal not to solve TB. It’s criminal not to solve H.I.V. It’s criminal not to eradicate malaria.”
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Congratulations @heran.bsky.social !
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Kat Mayer-Barber,PhD @mayerbarber.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🙌🏼🙌🏼 @heran.bsky.social
Heran Darwin in PAPR PPE working in the BSC- She got inducted into the National Academy of Science today
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Even with the steady stream of outrages, the stupidity and cruelty of these steps make it difficult for me to even type... I can't really imagine what it would be like to have a rare disease or to have a family member with one... /fin
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We are very happy to announce the publication of this work led by Eric Nuermberger and his lab at Hopkins and in collaboration with the Zimmerman and Alland groups. It discusses the further in vivo profiling of our preclinical TB candidate JSF-3285. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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The KasA inhibitor JSF-3285 improves the sterilizing activity of bedaquiline-pretomanid-containing regimens in a mouse model of tuberculosis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health threat with an estimated 10.8 million new cases occurring in 2023 (1). An estimated 400,000 of these new cases involved rifampicin-resistant or multidrug-resistant...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My quote of the day Faith and science can be united in charity if science is put at the service of the men and women of our time, and not distorted to their detriment or even destruction. Pope Francis, June 2024
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Matt Bogyo @mbogyo.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If you are interested in lipids in bacteria, check out this awesome new review written by my talented student Alyssa Carter, super postdoc Emily Woods and me. #chembio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chemical strategies for targeting lipid pathways in bacterial pathogens
Microbial pathogens continue to plague human health and develop resistance to our current frontline treatments. Over the last few decades, there has b…
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/04/2025
Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 18/04/2025
Thank you #MIT
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/04/2025
These Democratic senators need to hear from their constituents right now. Urge them to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill and protect our freedom to vote. KELLY (AZ) WARNOCK (GA) PETERS (MI) SHAHEEN (NH) HASSAN (NH) CORTEZ MASTO (NV) ROSEN (NV) Call your senators: indivisible.org/reso...
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Johns Hopkins University @jhu.edu · 16/04/2025
Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
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Jayne Sutherland @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
DAUPHINE IS MISSING IN JERSEY CITY: last seen at Ogden and Hobson, she's 45 pounds and chipped: 985113003409825. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT DAUPHINE!
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Laura Kiessling @laurakiessling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
These kinds of cuts are taking place when #TB rates are rising, including in the US. They dovetail with USAID cuts to #TB programs.
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Vanni Lab at UNIFR, Switzerland @labvanni.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Our lab is hiring 1 PhD and 1 Postdoc to study the mechanism of lipid transport using computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, AI). Fully funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social for 4 years, with amazing collaborators and excellent life and working conditions. Apply by email. Please share and repost!
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
RUBY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen on Prospect Park West on 6th St running towards Windsor Terrace. She's 17 pounds and chipped: 985141006583714. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT RUBY!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The stethoscope was invited 200 yrs ago After decades of stagnation, it has evolved! Digital stethoscopes which use AI to identify normal vs abnormal heart, lung sounds, etc. A simple, low-cost, non-invasive way of screening for TB, asthma, murmurs, pneumonia, fetal distress? We need research!
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Rock Lab @rocklabtb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social. Absolutely thrilled for you and the department! news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04...
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Dr. Sabine Ehrt Named Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine
As chair, Dr. Ehrt seeks to build on the department’s already robust national and international footprint in tuberculosis research and expand its portfolio in other areas of research and innovation.
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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2025
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands for deep changes
The university refused to make changes it said would "dictate what private universities can teach" and "whom they can admit and hire," among other things.
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · 10/04/2025
Nature Communications is looking to hire an organic chemist – more details in the link below #Chemsky #Chemjobs 🧪
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Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Jersey City, London, New York, Philadelphia or Washington DC - hybrid working...
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The Freundlich Group @freundlichgroup.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Seeing some familiar faces here!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Really important contribution by a large number of TB survivors, advocates & researchers! Communities of people affected by TB are experts in their care pathways, but the TB field continues to fall short of meaningfully engaging communities in TB research journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand: A call to engage communities affected by TB as essential partners in research
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease closely intertwined with stigma, discrimination, and the social determinants of health. Communities of people affected by TB are experts in their care pathwa...
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Jordan Meier @doc-jlmeier.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...
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