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Keke Fairfax

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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In the past couple weeks, people have really stepped up to ensure all ABRCMS students have a great experience, so THANK YOU! There are still a few disciplines that could use some help: where are my Cell Bio, Cancer Bio, and Immunology folks at?!? abrcms.org/donate/stude...
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ABRCMS Fundraising - Student Presentation Awards - ABRCMS
Judges – Help Us Raise Funds for Student Presentation Awards Thank you for your service as a judge at ABRCMS. Your dedication has helped shape the future of countless student scientists, and we’re dee...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Bit by bit RFKJr is undermining vaccine trust, science trust and potentially vaccine access in the States- this extended n updated version of an article by me and @chrischirp.bsky.social tries to summarise the multiple tactics he is using 🧪
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RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines in the US causing impacts for vaccine trust around the world.
Vaccine access and equity is being undermined
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Back from a wonderful FASEB meeting in Niagara Falls. Returned to at least 2 hours of administrative work in my inbox.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Totally wild (PI version) past 12 hours. 5 working hours to cut 7.5 pages down to 6. But this grant is now ready to be submitted.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels. They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B). If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...
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FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response | CNN Politics
The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This reiterates the point I’ve made a few times on here: the US’s loss will be other countries’ gain, but overall it will be an enormous loss. There is no other country that can replicate the US research investment or environment, and the primary brain drain will be out of research, not overseas.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If you won't believe me, here's Paul musgrave.substack.com/p/at-the-coa...
Screenshot from blog post that reads: Nor, especially, can they be addressed by American researchers moving abroad. When someone suggests that researchers just move abroad, I smile wanly, because I know that whoever is suggesting it has no idea of the scale of U.S. higher education relative to other markets nor of the difficulties other countries are facing. (What, just move to the many financially secure institutions of the United Kingdom? If you don’t keep up with UK higher ed news, then you may not recognize that’s a darkly bitter joke.) Some folks will find moving abroad attractive but it is simply not possible for the 1.4 million U.S. post-secondary instructors to just move to Canada.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Remember when private prison stocks soared immediately after the election? This is why. fortune.com/2024/11/07/p...
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Trump’s election win sends private prisons stocks soaring as investors anticipate hard crackdown on migration
President-elect Trump has vowed to launch the biggest deportation in American history—this could translate to big bucks for companies like CoreCivic and Geo Group.
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Dr. Ahna Skop @ahnaskop.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Future of NIH in the hands of five senators. Write to them if you are in PA -McCormick WV - Moore Capito ME - Collins AL - Britt LA - Cassidy
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Immunity @cp-immunity.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Online now: Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
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Epigenetic silencing of interleukin-10 by host-derived oxidized phospholipids supports a lethal inflammatory response to infections
Upon pathogen detection, phagocytes trigger immunity. This process induces tissue stress and the formation of host-derived molecules that further tune immune responses. We show that host-derived oxidized phospholipids accumulate upon microbial encounter, epigenetically suppress IL-10, and exacerbate harmful inflammation. Thus, targeting oxPLs represents a therapeutic strategy to treat deranged inflammation after infection.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
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World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I hoped never to see concentration camps like the ones I grew up in appear again in this country. Reading this breaks my heart.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
But universities are threatened with losing their tax exempt status if *students protesting the university* are too openly political. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/07/2025
Science doers, allies & stans in the House, literally: RIGHT NOW! Standup for #Science. Stand up for #NIH. Standup for #EPA. Standup for #NSF. Standup for #CDC. Standup to #Trump Standup to #RFK Standup to #Bhattacharya Standup to #Zeldin EVERYBODY UP! Resist here zurl.co/QdR9F #SUFS #EPA139
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Relevant: bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Scientists are telling me the damage is going to be generational.
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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1
Ann Coulter commenting that "We (meaning the U.S., presumably) did not kill enough Indians."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Struggling through writing blocks today. Starting another 30 minute block now if anyone wants to join me.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Why is faculty governance so important? The AAUP has understood for over a century that without it, and unless we are independent of outside influence, universities have no claim to the public trust. @aaup.org www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Email from Brown admin: government stopped payment on existing NIH grants as of April 3; in three months since, the gov't has cumulatively withheld $45 million in NIH grant reimbursements. Whatever injunctions, court orders, etc. may exist, no resumption of payments... and no explanation either.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
1. Trump's cuts to USAID and PEPFAR will far outweigh any benefit that accrues in eastern DRC. 2. The "peace" deal is really another minerals deal, with little regard for human security. (We have a piece lined up on this.) tl;dr: Trump & Vance don't care about Black lives, in the US or Africa.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We had a hummingbird friend visit while we at our pastries at the top of the garden. It was so hard to follow it from flower to flower.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Delayed post. Great visit to Red Butte Gardens on Saturday with BRIDGE UP and PISCES.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Pro tip: find a colleague that gives you honest feedback on your writing. @statfourwork.bsky.social will write me comments like "This is a terrible sentence" and they are very much appreciated.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Trump administration made Jim Ryan's resignation one of the conditions of the DOJ's case against UVA's alleged DEI. The executive branch just taking over every institution in US society--quite authoritarian.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/06/2025
My prediction: more and earlier dementia is gonna be one of the legacies of LLMs “The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains…and less theta connectivity, which is associated with working memory.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NIH director Jay Bhattacharya posted on X: "No clinical trial has been delayed, nor has any participant been dropped from clinical trial. These are the facts." Malaria, tuberculosis, cancer trials abroad have all been on the chopping block, leaving participants stranded, I reported in this story.
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NIH grant cuts will axe clinical trials abroad — and could leave thousands without care
US agency’s new policy could abruptly end studies of infectious diseases and cancer, leaving researchers scrambling for funds.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Many of us would describe Mamdani’s immigrant story as the American Dream, to Miller it’s a nightmare because, well, brown.
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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · 24/06/2025
⏳ Registration for the 2025 AAI Advanced Immunology Course closes June 30th! Don't miss your chance to learn from Course Director Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama in Boston, MA, July 27 – August 1. Level up your immunology knowledge and register now: ow.ly/FeFg50WfpC7.
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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In Scotland, the HPV vaccine is given to all girls since 2008. Not one recipient of the vaccine has developed cervical cancer. Not one.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great day on the river. My boat choose to race, we had a blast with our amazing guide Kallie. Every boat had the day they wanted :)
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
No pictures of the after hike donuts and coffee from Doughbird (a must visit resturant if you head to Moab)
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Another beautiful Southern Utah sunrise
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Great first day in Moab for the 2025 BRIDGE UP HBCU and PISCES cohorts!
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Dr.Dr. Helene Andrews-Polymenis @hpolymenis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I applied for this trial. This could EASILY have been me. Or someone else you know.
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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
act.standupforscience.net/forms/add-na...
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My grant reviews are do in 4 days for study section. I just tried to log into ERA commons to get the app for a review and got a 503 error. This is not cool. I have limited times I can review.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
‼️ Kulldorff is getting rich from anti-HPV vaccine litigation: “At a deposition in October, Kulldorff testified that the plaintiffs paid him $400 an hour & he had already billed for ~ $33,000 in legal work on the case through late September. He said he also received a $4,000 retainer in the NC case”
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Proposal submitted. Now to finish LOSs for a trainee's application
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Keke Fairfax @labfairfax.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I have this LOS half-way drafted. Taking a 5 minute break and then I'll try to finish it off if anyone wants to join me in writing.
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