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Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham.com
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Assistant Professor at Tufts Medicine studying microbes, brains, and the immune system 🚽🦠🧠 Fermenter, gardener, Zen Buddhist. Ask me about #julialang! 🎙️: audiommunity.org 🌎: bonhamlab.bio 💻: GitHub.com/kescobo

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 13h
Come join us! This is a great department! 🧪🧪🧪
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Auntie Smithbrainz @smithbrainz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DAMN. I want whatever McSweeny's is having. 10/10, no notes.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h
I am an SI hater
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Julia Frunzke @frunzkelab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Proudly present our fantastic collaborative effort within SFB 1535 "Microbial networking" @mibinet.bsky.social now out in The ISME Journal. "Context-dependent siderophore exploitability shapes microbial community structure" academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... @hhu.de @fz-juelich.de @dfg.de
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 23h
Well, this is horrifying
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GomahuAzarashi @gomahuazarashi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#JuliaLang jev client
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🧪🌏🧬🦠😡👇🗳️
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 17/09/2026
Honestly, it was scary to think about being named. As I sat with the opportunity more, I thought that there aren’t a ton of moments to act and set up a better future for science. We’ve all been through a lot. Even though I’m at a vulnerable stage of my career, I also have relative privilege…
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 06/09/2026
Another banger from @ellecordova.bsky.social - this person doesn't seem to know how to put out a bad piece of content youtube.com/shorts/kdvUJ...
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Data centers
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 03/09/2026
My alma mater - I used to go to lectures barefoot with my wetsuit and board, and then head down to the beach. And also there's great science there 🏄
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Patrick Roath @patrickroath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s Primary Day! If you’re a registered Democrat or unenrolled in MA-08, get out there and cast your ballot between 7 am and 8 pm. Details here: voteinma.com Join our coalition — let’s win this thing!
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 01/09/2026
Can't make this shit up - deleting or changing data for political reasons is no longer a violation of scientific integrity 🧪
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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means Princess Bride
ALT: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means Princess Bride
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 31/08/2026
I think I've been watching too many reaction videos...
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 31/08/2026
Incredibly cold take - "White Woman's Instagram" from Inside isn't (just) an indictment of said women, it's an indictment of all of us and what we give attention to -- the bridge is a tender depiction of a woman grieving her mother, but it gets zero discussion, we all just laugh at the dunks
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 24/08/2026
Yet another example of management pushing reverse centaurs @doctorow.pluralistic.net Has @aaup.org taken a stance on this kind of thing? And is @aaup.org the union for adjuncts and instructors etc as well, or only tenure track folks?
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Jonathan Pruneda @jnpruneda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
WE'RE HIRING! Thanks to some recent successes with NIH funding, we're seeking two new postdoctoral scholars to join our team. See below for details. Please share widely and feel free to reach out with any questions!
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 20/08/2026
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 19/08/2026
On the latest episode of @audiommunity.org, @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I once again spend the whole time on the federal government's ingenious strategy to light our nation's scientific dominance on fire 🧪 audiommunity.substack.com/p/episode-58...
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Episode 58 - Proverbial boiling frog pot
The US just dropped to below the global average in academic freedom, but some say we’re entering a new golden age of scientific discovery. We’re not... we’re not entering a new golden age.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Vaccines. The GOATs of medicine.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 13/08/2026
Seen at #juliacon - entirely possible I misunderstood, but is this getting us closer to Asimov 's psychohistory? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundat... 🧪
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Foundation universe - Wikipedia
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 06/08/2026
Can't *really* say this shocks me. But it is shocking. 🧪 ourworldindata.org/grapher/acad...
graph showing academic freedom rankings from Our World in Data, 2014-present. All countries in Europe have slight declines starting in 2020, but the US has fallen from ~0.9 in 2020 down to 0.4 in 2026
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Idea: during summer break we invert the system and have an ‘actually in the office auto reply’
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 29/07/2026
"The irony of the AI era is that as AI reduces the importance of writing code, the more vital the deeper habits of mind fostered by computer science become." #academia #ai www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The End of the “Learn to Code” Era (opinion)
It’s no wonder students are walking away from computer science: We told them the wrong story. Here’s the right one.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/07/2026
Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 27/07/2026
This + the OMB rule, if implemented, will be the end of American dominance in scientific discovery and will cripple academic research for a generation or more. The latter is the point, and they are willing to endure the former to accomplish it 🧪
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 27/07/2026
While I agree with basically all of this in principle, the productivity will never come if the present administration succeeds in its efforts to dismantle biomedical research altogether 🧪
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Lee Phillips @badphysicist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“Practical Julia” is designed to teach scientists how to use the best language for science, with chapters on #physics, #mathematics, #biology, #statistics, and more. amzn.to/3Jn1QdR A review: lwn.net/Articles/966... #julialang
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Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds: 9781718502765: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com
Practical Julia: A Hands-On Introduction for Scientific Minds: 9781718502765: Computer Science Books @ Amazon.com
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 25/07/2026
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/07/2026
28. To everyone who should know better but is still saying "actually, I agree with this one point in the report" or "to be fair Kratsios is right about this" — I give you Derek Lowe's reponse.
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
THIS. SO MUCH THIS. I hate the nationalism argument for science funding. Science is global, and so is science funding. We need it everywhere. If the US stops, it’s not like other countries will now invest MORE.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 22/07/2026
Translation: we'd like to be sure we have the authority to reward our political allies in red states, sidestep universities, and make sure women and minorities are excluded as much as possible. 🧪
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Jason Nomburg @jnoms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happy to share the first preprint out of the Nomburg lab! Many aspects of cellular immunity are shared across the tree of life. Here, we show that some of these conserved aspects of cellular immunity are mirrored by conserved effectors of immune antagonism. Thread below! 1/15
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 20/07/2026
stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness:
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Willow Val Kilmer
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 19/07/2026
McSweenys had this take weeks ago www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The New Odyssey Movie Is Historically Inaccurate; Matt Damon Isn’t the Least Bit Greek
“It is clear that Hollywood has no interest in historical representation and is instead focused on pushing a single agenda—putting as many white people from ...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
341,699 comments submitted to the OMB Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance Proposed Rule. Very nice work, internets.
screen grab confirming the comment total and indicating the agency will only publish the ones it wants to.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14/07/2026
Gratitude and congratulations to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, @colesci.bsky.social, and the @standupforscience.net team. With 3 hours until the comment period closes, there are 341,699 public comments! Still time to submit one: www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2026-0034 OMB docket showing 341,699 comments
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 13/07/2026
Now or nothing 🧪
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Chiasm @chiasm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You have until midnight tonight (Monday). Please be coherent and cogent but leave a message!
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Marieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are looking for someone to lead the new Facility for Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg — please spread the word and apply if you are interested!
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audiommunity.org @audiommunity.org · 06/07/2026
In which @kevinbonham.com makes repeated and effusive plugs for @edyong209.bsky.social 's book "An Immense World" app.thestorygraph.com/books/5d4a4f...
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and ...
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 06/07/2026
A break from politics (mostly) to talk about magnetoreception in pigeons. In macrophages! Maybe... The latest @audiommunity.org 🧪
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Episode 57 - F'ing magnets, how do they work... in pigeons?
Insane Clown Posse aside, we know quite a lot about how magnets work. But how they work in animals to sense the earth's magnetic field -- less so.
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Melissa Berke @melissaberke.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Have you already made comments? Maybe called your reps? Great!! Now tell your friends, tell your family. Tell personal stories of what science does to help you and yours! 🧪
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Dryad @datadryad.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There's still time to have your say! Take our 4-minute survey, and help chart Dryad's future course! 🧪 SURVEY ⤵️ dryad.typeform.com/to/ZT7lMvAr?... #openscience #opendata #datasharing #openresearch #researchintegrity #scholcomm #scholcomms
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 04/07/2026
It is useful to see where the rhetoric is headed. Basic science funding is that rare, long-term, bipartisan good thing™️. It's not going to be good for anyone (other than reflexively contrarian hacks) for this to be turned into a partisan issue, but here we go 🧪
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 01/07/2026
Soon: Why dumping water on people makes them wet, according to a meteorologist
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If someone doesn't like your research grant, the US government may soon be able to help them sue you. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research
White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”
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