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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

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B Haas @belehaa.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-… #StandUpForScience #uspol #science

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 02/06/2025

Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives. 🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs

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Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts - AAI News

AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.

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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This seems…shortsighted to say the least

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The headline "could" be a lot stronger. The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows

Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

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RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Rebekah @rebeccaharkness.swifties.social · 28/04/2025

This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.

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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊

donmoynihan.substack.com

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

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Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

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Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze

America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

No better person, friend, scientist and leader than Sabine! Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social !

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Mahdad Noursadeghi @mnoursad.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 07/04/2025

Proulx, Wiggins, Lauffenburger, Sassetti et al. @umasschan.bsky.social identify noncanonical immunity as an important feature of bacterial control during #tuberculosis disease when human-relevant genetic and phenotypic diversity is incorporated into model systems. rupress.org/jem/article/...

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

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‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe

Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.

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ShepGirl 💯💙🇺🇸 @shepgirl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

What a shot! PITTSBURGH, PA!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Come on #congress. Wake up before it is too late!

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.

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Trump is attacking NIH because politicizing funding can force universities to become conservative thinktanks

It's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States.

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I too have been dismissed from NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors along with 3 other women and a non-white man

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Today is #WorldTBDay Infectious diseases do not go away. They wait for the opportunity and explode. #TB never went away in most countries. Recent events mean that the advances that have been made over the past decade will be and are being reversed. A very sobering #WorldTBDay indeed. 😢

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Rose to Their Highest Levels in More Than a Dozen Years www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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U.S. Tuberculosis Cases Rose to Their Highest Levels in More Than a Dozen Years

Over 10,300 cases were reported last year

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

How about lining up for a vaccine that is safe and effective?

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Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Cutting funds for science and research will save you a penny on the dollar but may one day cost you a life that you love.

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WESA @wesa.fm · 08/03/2025

Pittsburgh researchers, doctors, and supporters filled Schenley Plaza Friday to speak out against government research funding cuts. Similar demonstrations were held across the country as part of a nationwide “Stand up for Science” movement.

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Pittsburgh scientists, doctors fill Schenley Plaza to protest federal research funding cuts

Hundreds of people gathered at Schenley Plaza near the University of Pittsburgh Friday to protest federal spending cuts that could impact medical research.

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WHO @who.int · 06/03/2025

Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services. Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

Funding cuts impact access to tuberculosis (TB) services for millions.

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Brendon Slotterback @bslotterback.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Pittsburgh is not a steel town, it is a medical research, education, and health care town. NIH cuts "would be as big as making cuts to U.S. Steel in its heyday". This is what Trump, Musk, and Republican enablers want to do to the regional economy www.axios.com/local/pittsb... @ryandeto.bsky.social

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NIH cuts could cost Pittsburgh billions

Pittsburgh's economy runs on health care and research — but proposed NIH cuts could take billions out of the region.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Free speech y'all!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’ll be in Pittsburgh at the Stand Up For Science March at Schenley Park. 11AM Friday March 7! Come on people! Support the good people who do research to improve and save lives!!

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Rubella is a major cause of birth abnormalities if a pregnant woman gets exposed. That’s why we vaccinate against it. What about all those worries for unborn babies now???

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What could go wrong? More transmission, more drug resistance, more sick people and more people dying. Going backwards. And microbes don’t stay in one place. So expect more here too. This is a crime. These are real people including kids.

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thanks for speaking out @vscooper.micropopbio.org The damage to our community will be immense.

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