Pam Rosato @pcrosato1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-re...inpreparation.substack.comOpinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted PhenolBy Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University 072
Reposted by Pam RosatoWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Intratumoral T cell activation kills tumors regardless of T cell specificity @natimmunol.nature.com @oliviacs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 082
Reposted by Pam RosatoCaitlin Kowalski @caitlinkowa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Hard to believe it’s already been 1 year since opening the Kowalski Lab! Such a whirlwind. Feeling so fortunate to work with these amazing women and for the support of the NIAID DP2 New Innovators Award that will fund our work on the skin mycobiome and atopic dermatitis for the next five years! 🔬 194
Reposted by Pam RosatoJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026For those in the mood for some seriously well-done gallows humor, I heartily recommend this... inpreparation.substack.com/p/nih-simpli...inpreparation.substack.comNIH Simplifies Grant Scoring To 👍 🤷♂️ 😂BETHESDA, MD—The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would replace its 50-year-old numerical scoring system with a streamlined three-emoji format, in which grant applications will ... 711440
Reposted by Pam RosatobioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Circulating and brain-resident memory CD8+ T cells seed distinct bystander TRM-like populations in glioblastoma www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 043
Reposted by Pam RosatobioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Mucosal-associated invariant T cells support IL-15-dependent Treg response in skin injury and promote resolution of skin inflammation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 012
Pam Rosato @pcrosato1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We are hiring!! The Dept of Micro and Immuno at Dartmouth has an open position for an Assistant Prof. Link here to apply. Feel free to directly reach out to me with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/187637apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 033
Reposted by Pam RosatoMarion Pepper @marionpepper.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A decade ago we showed that T-dependent IgM+ memory B cells (MBCs) that express CD80 and CD73 rapidly respond to a secondary Plasmodium infection (Krishnamurty, Immunity, 2016). Since then, post-doc Gretchen Harms Pritchard has been working out the cues that lead to the formation of these cells. ⤵️ 1207
Reposted by Pam RosatoJournal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 11/06/2026📽️ New video summary of a study "BCL6 is required for the development of functionally responsive IgM+ GC Tfh–independent memory B cells" from the @marionpepper.bsky.social lab (rupress.org/jem/article/...) Video by the first author, Gretchen Harms Pritchard:youtu.beBCL6 is required for development of functionally responsive IgM+ GC Tfh independent Memory B CellsOriginal paper: https://rupress.org/jem/article/223/8/e20252336/282726/BCL6-is-required-for-the-development-of Video summary by Gretchen Harms Pritchard (Marion Pepper lab, University of Washington)… 041
Reposted by Pam RosatoAndrew Hardaway @andrewhardaway.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If you have not left a public comment on the draconian OMB-2026-0034, here's a quick thread to make it easy. #standupforscience #neuroskyence Click here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...regulations.govRegulations.gov 55847
Reposted by Pam Rosatoelizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...elizabethginexi.substack.comThis new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini) 310864
Reposted by Pam RosatoKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026On OMB's proposal to make all grants political: "Speak up! Now’s the time! Standing by the side of the room, glancing around nervously and hoping that somebody else does something will lead us to disaster. These are not normal times, so stop acting as if they are." www.science.org/content/blog...science.orgAction! Action Now. 115287
Reposted by Pam RosatoWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Review @pcrosato1.bsky.social Living rent free in your head: resident memory T cells academic.oup.com/immunohorizo... 164
Reposted by Pam RosatoWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026ASPIRE to new horizons @immunohorizons.bsky.social academic.oup.com/immunohorizo...academic.oup.comASPIRE to new horizonsAs a scientist in training, I often wondered what it truly meant to be recognized as an immunologist. Beyond publishing rigorous and insightful research, h 131
Reposted by Pam RosatoNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 24/03/2026"The other way to put this is that NIH funded 33.1% fewer Hispanic trainees and only 6.3% fewer Non-Hispanic trainees in FY2025...we probably don’t have to think about this too deeply. The anti 'DEI' agenda of the new regime...is probably sufficient" 13527
Reposted by Pam RosatoAlex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This is such a unique way to build awareness, I love it. The advertising has been starting a lot of conversations locally. www.mynbc5.com/article/ice-...mynbc5.comICE Tours VT hosts guided tour to multiple DHS facilities across Chittenden CountyOver a dozen 'concerned' citizens hold inaugural ICE Tour Tuesday morning with friends and family, over 100 have signed up for round two 26528
Reposted by Pam RosatoGeorge O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Very happy for my former PhD student Jarrod Smith, seen here in his new lab. He is now an Asst Professor of Medicine & Microbiology/Immunology at Dartmouth! It is great to have him back. His lab uses zebrafish as a model to study gut microbiota. graduate.dartmouth.edu/mcb/people/j... 1251
Reposted by Pam RosatoJack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Josh Fessel wrote a damn good explainer: substack.com/inbox/post/1...substack.comNIH Unified Funding Framework"WTF happened to paylines???!!!" and other questions 063
Reposted by Pam RosatoColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE. 8274169
Reposted by Pam RosatoAatish Bhatia @aatishb.com · 02/12/2025In my last story on staff at the Times, my colleagues and I analyzed over a decade of federal science funding and interviewed many federal employees to identify all of the science that went unfunded this year. Here's a paywall-free link:nytimes.comThe U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science. 22911
Pam Rosato @pcrosato1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025we are hiring! reach out to me for more info if you are interested! apply.interfolio.com/174605apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 001
Reposted by Pam RosatoAdrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold. Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 49542
Reposted by Pam RosatoIgor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP David Baltimore. A true giant of biomedical research. Made so many fundamental discoveries: Reverse transcriptase; NF-kB; Rag genes (among others) Also shut down his lab for a week in 1970 to protest the US invasion of Cambodia.latimes.comDavid Baltimore, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Caltech president, dies at 87Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of genetic engineering. 02910
Reposted by Pam RosatoSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/08/2025I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade. We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration. History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science. 602744579
Reposted by Pam RosatoJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Many of us have long been worried about the harm of the 50% multiyear funding (MYF) requirement. When NCI published their payline at 4% AND cited MYF as the cause, I thought: “Someone in NCI is a hero. They took a huge risk to make the community aware.” www.cancer.gov/grants-train...cancer.govFunding Policy - Research GrantsNCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS. 26427
Reposted by Pam RosatoAAUP @aaup.org · 24/07/2025Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. 1/ 8540214
Reposted by Pam RosatoWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 24/07/2025This critical new knowledge of how a major clinical therapy (2018 Nobel prize) works was made possible by multiple research, training & career development awards from NCI & NIAID & NCATS, which face ~40% cuts of >$8 billion jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 021
Reposted by Pam RosatoNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 10/07/2025“If you cut out these diversity measures, you're going to make science full of people that are very elite…Full of people who have grown up with a large amount of privilege, who were able to work in a lab in high school because their dad was a prof at Cornell.” 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...nytimes.comHow Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural White Americans Too 19641
Reposted by Pam RosatoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM! 121574366
Reposted by Pam RosatoMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says. 111227308
Reposted by Pam RosatoJennifer Dees @jdees.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Gift link to Atlantic article www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comAn Uproar at the NIHJay Bhattacharya, the the agency’s director, has made a point of welcoming dissent. A letter from his officials will test that. 0195
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Reposted by Pam RosatoStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025(4/5) TOMORROW: Bhattacharya appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee.. He’ll be confronted publicly with the Bethesda Declaration—an unprecedented rebuke by hundreds of his own federal employees. HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP ➡️ 228465
Reposted by Pam RosatoStand 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) 4043101388
Reposted by Pam RosatoStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/06/2025HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈 Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them. Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure. grant-watch.us/nih-data.html @rcmedphys.bsky.social 7298100
Reposted by Pam RosatoKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... 371050418
Reposted by Pam RosatoColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2025🚨ATTENTION MOMS🚨 Friday, May 30th at 3pm Meet me outside of the CDC with your pregnant bellies, your babies, your toddlers, your strollers, your signs, and your baby gear. We are standing up for science and vaccines! @standupforscience.bsky.social RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/moms-... 16548289
Reposted by Pam RosatoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/05/2025💀💀💀 "Secretary, you spent nearly three decades as a WWE executive, where you orchestrated such spectacles as “The Undertaker vs. Kane: WrestleMania XIV” and “WWF Badd Blood: In Your House.” Suffice to say, you respect a good fight. And thus I say: Come at me, bro." 3428
Reposted by Pam RosatoWaggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks reveal transcription factors governing T cell adaptation and differentiation in the tumor microenvironment @cp-immunity.bsky.social www.cell.com/immunity/ful... 074
Reposted by Pam RosatoJon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj 25533508
Reposted by Pam RosatoJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Great new tool to help folks volunteer to speak out and share information with the press (even on background, anonymously) actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...actionnetwork.orgSIGN UP: Press ConnectionAre YOU willing to speak to the press? Join the Summer Fight for Science Air Game by signing up to be a source for break science news stories. We will provide media training and keep your information ... 17558
Reposted by Pam RosatoScott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred. 15437396
Reposted by Pam RosatoStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/05/2025Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership. 10402207
Reposted by Pam RosatoStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/05/2025Everything you need to execute your own teach in is at this link. Check the event guide, add it to Action Network, make some flyers, and get moving! #StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight...standupforscience.netSummer Fight For Science 2025 — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 411849
Reposted by Pam RosatoNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant." 311286940
Reposted by Pam RosatoKeith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025White privilege is being hired for a job you're not qualified to do, whining about DEI while screwing up again and again and again, and then being given extra time to "get it together" in the future. 942548658
Reposted by Pam RosatoSoni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Many congratulations to @pallavisgadgil.bsky.social for being awarded the Lucille Smith award for excellence in Biochemistry. This award is in honor of the memory of Dr. Lucille Smith. The first woman at Dartmouth to attain the rank of full professor! 1766
Reposted by Pam RosatoGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/04/2025When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare. 584371438028
Reposted by Pam RosatoPayal Yokota @payalyokota.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Excited to share our latest study @cp-immunity.bsky.social. Heartfelt thanks to the editorial and review teams , to my co-first @yeungadventures.bsky.social, our co-authors, and to @khannakm.bsky.social for his outstanding mentorship throughout! Pls read/share!👇 www.cell.com/immunity/ful...cell.comNerve- and airway-associated interstitial macrophages mitigate SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis via type I interferon signalingThe local immunoregulatory mechanisms that safeguard the host from excessive lung infection inflammation remain unclear. Yeung, Yokota et al. uncover the essential role of nerve- and airway-associated... 86825
Pam Rosato @pcrosato1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025While certain college presidents don't seem to understand what's happening, at least our local bookstore does #StillNorthBooks 070