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@hostmicrobe.bsky.social
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Scientist working at the intersection of immunology, microbiology and genomics. Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at UPenn.

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ASM @asm.org · 04/09/2025
As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
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Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/08/2025
Motherfucker wrote one sloppy paper in April 2020 and instead of being like oops, shit, my bad, he has kept doubling down until now he's killing most promising medical technology of the past quarter century rather than going to therapy.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This Executive Order is a gross overreach of Presidential power and undermines democracy. It steals from taxpayers, will destroy science and the economy, and ultimately, America. Congress must act now. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Federal Grantmaking Gets a Christofascist Glow-Up
Read my zero star review of the new Executive Order
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 22/07/2025
It’s actually even worse: they show it as a gel, which is pure fluorescence units, but a BioAnalyzes records as the molecules pass a single point sensor and critically _fails to normalize for different molecule speeds_ This results in a near-logarithmic overcounting of large molecules!
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
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Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The pact of the federal govt with universities was not a handout. It was a strategic decision to boost US leadership in technology, defense, and health. And it paid dividends. In tech, internet, in cancer drugs (for example), No other sector has invested in high risk high reward ideas like US govt.
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Slavov Laboratory @slavovlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
An alternative to tSNE & UMAP for more accurate data visualization: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data. The trees are constructed to accurately represent true distances between the objects in the high-dimensional space.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle
After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.
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hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Due to the #trumptarrifs, Illumina announces that they’ll be adding surcharges all consumables (5%), instruments (2-9%) and services (3.5%). A big hit to labs that are already struggling to do genomics work in an environment with severely reduced federal funding prdt.illumina.com/webmail/5510...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This new guidance is yet another step closer towards an isolationist, diminished view of American science. Changing rules on the fly wastes time & effort and undermines the pipeline of discovery and innovation. Unacceptable & inexcusable (again): grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-104: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Updated NIH Policy on Foreign Subawards NOT-OD-25-104. NIH
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
MS practices DEI for losers.
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If anyone had proposed this in an NIH application, they would be denied, flagged, barred from further applications, and likely be stripped of research means from their sponsor extramurral institution.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If I see a single school of public health invite this guy to a single panel when this is all over, I swear to god
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Keep in mind that this is just the beginning. I wouldn't be surprised to see an "official" NIH page saying that vaccines cause autism next. We're far from the bottom. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites
The new page emphatically promotes a theory that many scientists question. Meanwhile, basic information about COVID testing and vaccines has disappeared.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
the reposting by CDC kills me
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
All you need to know about Twitter
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Thrilled to team up with @appc.upenn.edu to host Dr. Peter Hotez at Penn this evening for a public lecture on vaccination in a time of rising anti-science rhetoric and policies
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If anyone has the resources to resist, its HHMI. Ending this program with no notice and literally scrubbing evidence it ever existed from the website is shocking and dosappointing
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
“The recalled product is packaged in two-pound plastic bags with ‘best if used by’ dates of May 21, 2026, and June 23, 2026. The company and Oregon authorities said that consumers who bought the recalled product should throw it away immediately and contact the place of purchase for a refund.”
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is outrageous: “Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines.”
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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.
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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Rwanda’s Marburg response is a masterclass in how to prevent pandemics
Today marks the official end of the outbreak. Swift action saved many lives and helped protect the rest of the world from potential disaster
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Arthur Mortha @theonlylabever.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations? Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria. @cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hey #microbiomesky #microsky #IDsky, check out @centermicrobialmed.bsky.social! We are focused on leveraging the microbiome to improve the lives of sick children. We’re also using genomics to track pathogens and reduce infections in kids. We’re building, growing, hiring, and looking for partners!
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Joe Zackular @joeyzacks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
This exciting new Center of Emphasis at CHOP is co-directed by myself, Paul Planet, Bob Baldassano, and @ahmedmicrobes.bsky.social. Reach out with any questions or if you’re interested/excited about this work! www.research.chop.edu/announcement...
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Center for Microbial Medicine Opens to Support Personalized, Microbiome-based Medicine
The Center for Microbial Medicine was designated a Center of Emphasis beginning July 1, 2024.
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hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨Job alert🚨. The USDA has posted a Research Microbiologist position in their Meat Safety and Quality Research Unit. Job would focus on Salmonella, E. coli/STEC, AMR, genome sequencing, and the interaction of wildlife and environment with livestock production. www.usajobs.gov/job/821489600
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Research Microbiologist
<p>This position is located within the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Plains Area (PA), at the US Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, NE.<br> <br> In this position, you will help to deve...
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Chris Kent @chris.primalscheme.com · 09/12/2024
primalscheme3 is now live at primalscheme.com! Key features - Handle up to 20% target diversity - Create panels for multiple targets - Improved multiplexing, allowing 10x more primer per reaction Preprint to follow
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PrimalScheme3: primer panels for multiplex PCR
primalscheme is a tool for designing primer panels for multiplex PCR. It uses a greedy algorithm to find primers for tiling amplicon generation for multiple reference genomes.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...
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Health and medicine publication STAT News lays off 11 employees - The Boston Globe
The decision to lay off STAT employees comes after years of growth, including a significant expansion during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fraternal Cemetery Pratt City, Jefferson County Alabama, USA Potential typhoid
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Michael Mina MD,PhD @michaelmina.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
We still don’t know whats causing these deaths The lopsided global access to diagnostics, Including disease agnostic metagenomic diagnostics, Is just as terrible /egregious as the skewed access to drugs and vaccines - but gets FAR less attention Diagnostics -> knowledge Knowledge saves lives
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 04/12/2024
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Altmetric adds Bluesky social media as a research attention source
Digital Science is excited to announce that Altmetric, which gauges the online attention of research, has added the social media platform Bluesky as a new attention source for published research.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web. 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com 💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 02/12/2024
Yup. Posted today over on X. x.com/VivekGRamasw...
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 25/11/2024
I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats
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deck.blue @deck.blue · 30/11/2024
quick reminder that you can do this in deck.blue
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Junyue Cao @junyuecao.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Excited to share our work @science.org. led by our incredible @tommyz626.bsky.social at @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social! By profiling 21 million single cells across life stages, we reveal aging as distinct, development-like transitions, with dramatic cell population changes in specific time windows!
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A panoramic view of cell population dynamics in mammalian aging
To elucidate aging-associated cellular population dynamics, we present PanSci, a single-cell transcriptome atlas profiling over 20 million cells from 623 mouse tissues across different life stages, se...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Again: the folks who run Bluesky actually use Bluesky and that makes so much difference
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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
go.bsky.app/VVLoMPx
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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Lastly, we discuss how to calculate gene-gene coevolution, which can be used to help computational screen for gene function via guilt-by-association. We anticipate this manuscript will help in pedagogy and kickstart research faster
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Lindsay Kalan @lkalan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Excited to share our latest study presenting a new skin-derived isolate collection demonstrating extensive antimicrobial activity and uncharacterized BGCs. This was a long-term and huge team effort led by Thy Nguyen, Shelby Sandstrom, and @raufs.bsky.social . #MicroSky #secmet #skinmicrobiome
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 24/11/2024
My new book, out in February, is Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. Ed Yong says it will “leave you agog.” David Quammen says, “from the first page, you know you’re in the hands of a master.” Take it from them! Pre-order here www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724793... 7/8
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Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer: 9780593473597 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousa...
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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Sign of the times, no more bluebird on the biorxiv engagement tab..
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Wow—one of the most impressive bench-to-bedside stories you’re ever going to see out today @Nature Spatial proteomics of potentially fatal toxic epidermal necrolysis/Stevens-Johnson Syndrome drug reactions identifies JAK/STAT pathway inhibition as effective therapy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 23/11/2024
We've long been able to find new phages and figure out what they interact with. But what about the other direction: if you have a gene, like an antibiotic resistance efflux pump, or a phage defense system, and you want to find phages that do or do not interact with it? Now you can!
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hostmicrobe @hostmicrobe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Retracted. Authors could not provide proof of ethics approval for international human subject research www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Retraction Note: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics - Nature Microbiology
Nature Microbiology - Retraction Note: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics
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