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Children's Research Institute at UT Southwestern @cri-utsw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Come be part of our #relentlessdiscovery and discover the treatments of tomorrow. Faculty recruitment through Oct. 15 👉 cri.utsw.edu/careers @seanjmorrison.bsky.social @rjdlab.bsky.social @haozhulab.bsky.social @hrshin.bsky.social @peterlylab.bsky.social @henrydebelly.bsky.social

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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am so grateful for this honor - grateful to my mentors, lab, and family. Thank you @seanjmorrison.bsky.social for your support. And how great to be elected with some very good friends and two awesome UTSW colleagues, Elizabeth Chen and Joel Elmquist. Feeling very fortunate today.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think the bucket was good luck. Go Blue!!!

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We can’t wait for you to get here Jean-Laurent!

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Worth amplifying one point: Other institutions also have Nobel laureates, but we also have the frozen margarita machine! That really changed the field!

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There were more lab members who started bowling but not everyone survived to the end. They’re so competitive 🙄.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Giants in neuroscience and leaders for the entire time I’ve been in science (Yuh-Nung interviewed me for a postdoctoral fellowship in 1995).

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Kevin Hassett, Director of the National Economic Council of the United States: tariffs were not introduced for Russia because it's in the middle of peace negotiations. (By the way, Ukraine is subject to President Trump's tariffs).

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.

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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Peter Marks from the FDA resigns "it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies." #medsky 🛟😷🧪

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

America will be less healthy & less safe as a result of Peter Marks' forced resignation from FDA. He & FDA protected us from people who enrich themselves selling snake oil: unproven stem cell therapies, vaccine alternatives, other fake treatments. Thank you for all you did for public health Peter.

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Kymmenen pistettä ja papukaijamerkki!

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Why waste time briefing Elon Musk, when you could just share America's most sensitive military secrets with the Chinese government directly?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 20/03/2025

Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children and gives them to Russians to erase their heritage and demoralize Ukraine. Over 20,000 so far. And the US just stopped helping track these kids and likely deleted the database of all the research. Pure evil, right maga?

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Kevin Gardner @nmrkaygee.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Another outstanding story of the real-world impact of the short-sighted cuts to NIH and other federal support for the best scientific research infrastructure in the world. www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

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Bioscience Funding Confusion Threatens U.S. Innovation

‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

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Sean J. Morrison @seanjmorrison.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Congratulations to Liming Du, now on the faculty @iShandong university, for discovering that increased interferon levels in aging bone marrow remodels the stromal microenvironment around arterioles and contributes to the decline in lymphopoiesis.

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts (and what we stand to lose) @nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

House cuts to NIH (to fund billionaires) would cut the Cures Act (passed with bipartisan support) by ~$300 million or 70%. Scientific loss includes cancer research, adult stem cell research, brain/dementia research, and a critical data collection project to study rare diseases, among other topics.

Additionally, the Cures Act provides multiyear funding to four highly innovative scientific initiatives:

The All of Us Research Program, formerly known as the PMI Cohort Program,
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative seeks to better understand how the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information, which will transform the ability to diagnose and treat neurological/mental disorders.
The Cancer Moonshot℠
The Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project will support clinical research in coordination with the FDA using adult stem cells to further the field of regenerative medicine.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events

Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Measles outbreak in the U.S. continues to expand with 39 new cases in Texas (198 total) and 20 new cases in New Mexico (30 total) h/t BNO News

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is the Attorney General, the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. She goes on Fox News every day. Every single day. Spewing MAGA talking points. I wonder how MAGA would feel if the next AG under a Democratic president went on MSNBC every day & spewed partisan Dem stuff.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I opened by saying how much better it was when "decline of the American empire" was the title of a Quebec sex comedy rather than the foreign policy goal of the president of the United States www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9aD...

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In Conversation with David Frum: Trump's tariffs against Canada and America's place in the world

YouTube video by The Hub Canada

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/03/2025

At tonight’s State of the Union, Trump will have one goal: to distract. His policies are wreaking havoc on the economy and upending American lives, and he will lie, blame, and distract to avoid any bit of responsibility. Don’t fall for it.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Apparently, program officers (POs) must evaluate each grant and confirm that it complies with the Exec Orders. The objectionable topics include workforce DEIA, gender identity, environ. justice, foreign sites, and Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives) commonfund.nih.gov/humanvirome/... 3/n

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Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDPs) | NIH Common FundLock

Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives (PEDPs)To fulfill its goal of characterizing the many viruses that reside inside us without causing disease and to improve our understanding of how they impact...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

NIH has been intentionally holding up grants including non-competitive renewals. This “pause” should be evident in Reporter data over the next week, but I posted about the beginning of it yesterday. This is now ending because “NIH” has put a process in place to evaluate grants. 2/n

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Stopping cyber operations while the Russians aggressively pursue theirs is another unearned accommodation. Historically, Russia banks concessions and pushes harder. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia

The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Recognizing Rare Disease Awareness Day 2025 at UT Southwestern, with teams from the Genetic & Metabolic Disease Program @cri-utsw.bsky.social and the McDermott Center. We work to find causes & treatments for rare diseases. 25-30 million Americans have a "rare" disease - our mission is to help them.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

9yrs ago, his presidential campaign colluded with Putin. 7yrs ago, he sided with Putin in Helsinki and gave his middle finger to our intelligence community. 6yrs ago, he was impeached for extorting Zelensky. None of this is surprising. Trump’s with Putin. He has always been.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/02/2025

Pathetic. Shameful. Cowardly. Disgusting. Trump and JD Vance showed the world they will enthusiastically reward the aggression of dictators and don't think freedom is worth fighting for. They are setting fire to Reagan's "City Upon A Hill."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Everything makes sense when you understand and accept that Trump is negotiating on behalf of Putin.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

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Catweazle @itegoarcana.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

There can no longer be any doubt that Trump and the GOP have betrayed the US and their allies.

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