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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

i'm tired of seeing “escalating ai capabilities” reported as if it is a fact. let's be clear this claim does not rest on transparent, well-defined, independently validated metrics, but is inferred from model behaviours elicited by humans and measured through opaque, poorly designed evaluations

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yay 🤞🏾🙌🏾❤️‍🩹

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Grateful for support from @niaidnews.bsky.social for our lab’s point of care test for measuring long-term adherence to HIV medications.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ha! 😆 His excellence at ⚽️ makes the world’s greatest footballers look defective.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🌊 🦢 🚶🏻‍♂️❤️‍🩹

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is the type of data-driven Messi analysis/praise I can get behind. Why call him a unicorn when we have no data (that I know of) to assess 🦄 incidence? I wish knew enough about manufacturing to turn your six standard deviations anecdote into a Messi is six sigma t-shirt.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That’s impressive! More power to you. Hoping for more steady progress. Day by day.

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Vicky C Yang @vcyang.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Between 1985--2023, MIT's faculty grew 9%. Administrative staff grew 189%. 📈 Why? In new @pnas.org paper, we use dynamical system model to show administrative bloat can emerge without empire-building--just from well-intentioned problem-solving gone awry www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Rasha Kardosh @rasharasha.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Inequality is not only hard to solve. Sometimes, it is hard to *see*. We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent? Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is a tale of birds🐦 & snakes🐍. The invasive Brown Treesnake (Boiga irregularis) has caused untold devastation on the island of Guam. Introduced after WWII via cargo ships, they cause power outages by shorting lines, but the real damage is to the native birds of Guam & particularly the Sihek.

A golden yellow snake with yellow iris and black slitted pupils is close to the camera. It's extending it's long scaly body through dark green leaves and greenery at night, illuminated by a flash so that the snake is well lit, but the jungle-like greenery is largely dark.

Stolen from a NatGeo article, the original caption was "The brown tree snake slithers through vegetation."
CREDIT: Bjorn Lardner, United States Geological Survey

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Jessica R. Glass, PhD @jessicaglass.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One federal grant was just terminated ($1.3 million from DHS) and one was awarded but not funded ($46,748 from NOAA) due to the new federal administration priorities and executive orders. PIs, how are you addressing these situations on your CVs? 💸

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

“Nunavik, with a population of 14,000, has seen as many cases of tuberculosis in the first three months of 2026 — around 40 — as were diagnosed in the first six months of 2025. According to a statement from the NRBHSS, eight out of the 14 communities in the region have active outbreaks currently”

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Tuberculosis Outbreaks Worsening in Nunavik While Quebec Government Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency

New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Thank you 🙏🏾 I hope so too

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Coming back to this as I try to squeeze a little more out of this academic quarter and don’t think I have any more to give. Thank you for writing this.

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 28/12/2025

.@fredhutch.org is seeking applications for the 8th Annual Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award which recognizes outstanding postdoctoral fellows from any discipline who are conducting cancer, infectious disease or basic science research. Learn more and apply: apply.interfolio.com/176955

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

She let me know that they recently received guidance that, ONLY for the January EI deadline (1/27/2026) and the February ESI deadline (2/3/2026), PIs can submit MIRAs even if their previous application (R35, R01, R15, R21, and R37) is still considered under review.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

White background, red ribbon. Text says “World AIDS Day”.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy. I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On #WorldAIDSDay we remember the incredible activism that turned the tide on this deadly epidemic in the past I’m sad that funding cuts by G7 nations are making such activism necessary yet again www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

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AIDS Activism, A Playbook For Global Health Advocacy

AIDS activism was exceptionally successful. Other areas of global health can and must use the AIDS activism playbook.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Sorry for the super late reply. Added

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Rachel N. Arey @rnareylab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Happy Pre-Thanksgiving weekend everyone! In the spirit of overindulgence I invite you all to feast on a cornucopia of Arey lab preprints (okay only two)! And fittingly their themes happen to be in the realm food and drink! Settle down next to the metaphorical fire as I share the stories...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

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Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget

NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This album - and others from Do Make Say Think - got me through countless work sessions in grad school. Feels like a fast track to a flow state whenever I listen to it

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Robert E. Campbell @campbell-lab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

New tools! GreenPy and ApplePy are fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate with huge responses (20–40x in vitro) and a range of affinities (10s of μM to mM). These should be game changers for imaging of metabolism! Great work by Shosei Imai @sikmys.bsky.social and team 👏. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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High-performance genetically-encoded green and red fluorescent biosensors for pyruvate

Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis and a central metabolite involved in many biochemical pathways. However, a lack of high-performance (i.e., Δ F / F > 10) single fluorescent protein (FP)-base...

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The Kueh lab @kuehlab.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Excited to share that our study, on how T cells selectively sense foreign antigens with single-molecule sensitivity, is out! This work was led by the brilliant Will White, and done in collaboration with Jay Groves and David Baker @uwproteindesign.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Matt Wynia @mattwynia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A particularly cruel effect of cutting funding for tropical diseases is that a billion dollars worth of donated drugs are about to go to waste. #NotEfficient www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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'Neglected tropical diseases' now face even more neglect

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

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Matt Wynia @mattwynia.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Fascinating and important work. Too bad that “all communication related to the paper is under review by HHS, and we do not have approval to participate in press interviews” according to one of the authors. What happened to #FreeSpeech? www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... via @statnews.com

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Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research

A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

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Bailey Bowcutt @baileybowcutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school

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Aleeza Gerstein @acgerstein.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I wrote this in a week where it felt like professoring while parenting (and equally, parenting while professoring) was impossible. This feeling ebbs and flows. Seems like Mothers Day is as good a time as any to share, maybe it will help someone else feel less alone. The More Paradox 1/8

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

NSF will award ~1,000 instead of their usual ~2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships this year. NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half

US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

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Ayokunle Olanrewaju @olan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

You're welcome. @jeremymberg.bsky.social also keeps a list here: jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Suffice to say - if you are a local philanthropist and would like to see infectious disease surveillance continue here in San Diego County, please reach out. Without continued support, we'll lose our eyes on infectious diseases in our county, just as they're likely to surge. Email on website 👇.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

"At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory…& “no one should expect the private sector to step in to fill the gap… There is little money to be made in this arena”

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CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

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Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Hot off the presses: big update to our work looking at how adaptive decoders influence neural representations. We added heroic analyses to show in both experiments & models that the structure of what the brain learns is altered by adaptive decoders. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Assistive sensory-motor perturbations influence learned neural representations

Task errors are used to learn and refine motor skills. We investigated how task assistance influences learned neural representations using Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), which map neural activity i...

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The Quiet Way the NIH Is Stalling Some Research Before It Starts

A number of grant proposals have disappeared from scientists’ review pipelines, with little explanation. Applicants are bewildered and frustrated.

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