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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫

@zandrea.bsky.social
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Virologist & Professor, Pitt Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics and former Director of @Pitt-PMI.bsky.social Seattle native living in Pittsburgh. (Go Huskies! Go Hawks! Go Ms!) Website: ambrose-lab.com

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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to Robert Zhang from the @cornymel.bsky.social lab on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎉👏
PMI student Robert Zhang will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "The genetic basis, viral determinants, and immunological factors underlying antiviral antibody responses" on October 14, 2026 at 1 pm.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026
FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy to see that Sen. McCormick is calling for DOUBLING the NIH budget for research. Grateful for his virtual townhall for PA scientists. wapo.st/4hlaoz4 🎁
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Opinion | I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.
America should invest in NIH medical research, not retreat from it.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Whoa. This is unbelievable in 2026. This is what happens when public health disintegrates.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If my virology laboratory must follow federal biosafety guidelines to conduct our research, AI companies should have to do the same.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16/09/2026
Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.
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Man Lying on a Pile of Money
ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a delicate area to tread. If research is not conducted well, this could add fuel to anti-vaccine fire.
science.org
Exclusive: New NIH research center on vaccine harms takes shape
Clinical researchers will probe complications that can arise after immunization, but some worry about political influence
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“What do you make of this historic moment of two Black American men meeting in the semis of the US Open, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Andy Roddick?” Hey @espn.com , how bout you find a Black man (preferably a tennis player) to talk about this??? Where’s James Blake go?!
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This was amusing and accurate! mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
I apparently talk like someone from Washington state, which is accurate.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 04/09/2026
“Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research…” Billions. That’s a significant part of the NIH budget. 2/
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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Congratulations to @microbiosaroj.bsky.social from the @lauraamike.bsky.social lab on his upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🎈 🎉
Saroj Khadka will defend his dissertation entitled “Control of capsular polysaccharide chain length and attachment in Klebsiella pneumoniae” on September 28th in Scaife Hall.
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Jeff Gamza 📷 @jbgamza.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lightning over Oakland and the Cathedral of Learning tonight
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is brilliant!
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rando story: 40 years ago, I was on a subway reading her essay, “If Men Could Menstruate.” Noticed a guy reading it over my shoulder. So before I turned a page, I glanced to see if he was finished. Figured the more men who read her work, the better. The essay: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK565...
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If Men Could Menstruate
In this satirical piece, Gloria Steinem scrutinizes the sexist social constructions dominant Western attitudes towards menstruation by imagining a world in which men, not women, are menstruators. Thro...
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If NIH is looking to off load a little money this month, feel free to fund our 20 year virology T32 that got an 18 impact score! These bright-eyed young scientists would appreciate it and will put it to good use!
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Schools in my district are going remote because it is too hot and unsafe to be in the classroom. Read that again. This is what happens when human-caused climate change, infrastructure, and education are treated like unrelated issues. They’re not. Environmental justice is social justice.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools to shift 35 schools to remote learning due to projected high temperatures
Pittsburgh Public Schools will temporarily shift to remote learning at 35 school buildings this week due to projected high temperatures.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
18 PhD and 1 MSTP students just joined our graduate program last week!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says RFK Jr. offered federal help after two unvaccinated people died from measles, the first U.S. deaths this year. Shapiro declined, saying PA could handle it, and confronted Kennedy, telling him: “There’s real life consequences to spreading misinformation.”
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just a reminder that Dolly believed in vaccines.
Dolly Parton enthusiastically recorded herself receiving her first COVID-19 vaccine.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak just in time for the first week of school! Both were unvaccinated. First measles deaths in the Commonwealth in 35 years.
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Two die of measles in Pennsylvania outbreak
The deaths are the first measles-related fatalities in the U.S. this year. Both people had not been vaccinated against the illness.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Reviewer #2: You are using the wrong cup and your water is from the wrong source. Further, you are not qualified to handle cups or drink water.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The child was unvaccinated. Jonas Salk would be so disappointed.
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1 measles case confirmed at UPMC Children’s Hospital
A person has been diagnosed with measles at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, the hospital system confirmed Thursday. It’s the first confirmed case of the highly contagious disease i...
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Data backing up what many of us have suspected about students' use of AI.
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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We welcome our PMI students back to campus for the 2026-2027 school year, especially our 20 first year students!
A banner on the University of Pittsburgh Oakland campus says "It's possible at Pitt."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a setup for obscuring the impact of the political review of grants, which is fixing to be massive. It also greases the skids for corruption and funneling money away from universities and toward venture capitalists. Please vote this November, friends. It’s bad out here.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
5. If your score isn’t fundable, the percentile can help you decide whether or not to try again But now they’re going to hide the percentile. So you won’t know if your grant was in a very low percentile and that they decided to give the money to someone whose grant was rated significantly worse.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is anyone else watching the NIH Unified Funding webinar now?
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🙋🏻‍♀️ Male PIs: do you also get grant reviewer critiques concerned about your administrative duties preventing you from conducting your proposed research or training aims? Or is that just female PIs? Or just me? 🤔
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Science Magazine @science.org · 11/08/2026
Scientists have found a new virus in dairy cattle in southern Germany, Switzerland, and France. Learn more: scim.ag/45h9RbV
Newly discovered virus is sickening cattle in Western Europe
The pathogen, which reduces milk production, is the latest midge-transmitted virus affecting ruminants to reach the continent
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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Im looking for a postdoc to help with protein engineering efforts. If you know who could be a good fit send them my way! see details below:
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about the recent NIH grant terminations. www.post-gazette.com/news/educati... 1/3
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So far, terminated NIH grants have cost University of Pittsburgh $40 million
The federal government has unexpectedly ended two more research grants at the University of Pittsburgh, which in one case, upends 16 years of research...
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Calling all Pitt, CMU, and Chatham undergrad students interested in microbiology or immunology research!
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I love this! Good for them!
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“Contact tracing is not working,” apnews.com/article/cong...
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Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges
Ebola has killed over 1,700 people in eastern Congo, becoming the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease. A total of 3,802 cases have been recorded as of Tuesday.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
RFK jr overrode the NIH recommendation for NIAID Director to appoint his own preferred candidate (who applied, but NIH declined to interview), per @politico.com. Institute directors have final say on funding decisions and are critical to the integrity of NIH. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Words of wisdom to me from the 20-something barista: “You can do anything you set your mind to.” ❤️
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This may be the biggest mistake I’ve ever heard of anyone making in an undergraduate microbiology laboratory - and it wasn’t the students’ fault. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1. Mani-pedi 2. Retro 3. T lymphocyte 4. Veto-proof 5. Women’s studies
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
1. Mani-pedi 2. Retro 3. T lymphocyte 4. Veto-proof 5. Women’s studies
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
More than 10,000 Pennsylvanians are losing health insurance coverage EVERY MONTH. Congress let federal tax credits expire, and costs for ACA plans have spiked, leading to massive drops in the state's marketplace. Pennsylvanians making $40K or $66K/yr had premiums increase $100/mo or $500/month.
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ACA losses accelerate in Pa.
Pennie says rising costs are pushing more residents off their health plans.
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Pitt Program in Microbiology & Immunology @pitt-pmi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Congratulations to PMI student @catmphelps.bsky.social from the @meisellab.bsky.social on her upcoming PhD thesis defense! 🙌 🎉
Catherine Phelps will present her thesis defense entitled "Mechanisms of microbiome-mediated improvements to anticancer immunity" on August 6, 2026 at 10 am at The Assembly.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Top senators consider blocking the OMB rule. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap
It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Global Scholar Satellite Symposium: Virology in One Voice #asv2026 1/n
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not only do you need the money to buy eggs, but you need good health insurance to handle your salmonella infection.
wapo.st
1.5M cartons of eggs recalled in six states for possible salmonella contamination
The recall affects retail stores and food service providers in the Southern United States.
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Paul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)
In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NYT: 1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds by Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/4wTighg
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1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds
New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Expected view vs. today’s actual view. Stay safe out there everyone! 😔
Pittsburgh skyline in summer looking up the Monongahela River Pittsburgh skyline today looking up the Mon River obscured by wildfire smoke.
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are other people suddenly getting bombarded by emails from predatory journals from @directivepublicationsc.org? I’ve been getting up to 5 per day all week. 🙄
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Even as Cyclospora outbreaks have become more frequent, CDC's parasite surveillance team was slashed from 11 people to 3 last year. Joel Barratt, who ran the team, tells me he worries the agency doesn't have the staffing to stop the current outbreak quickly. My story in @nature.com:
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‘Explosive diarrhoea’ outbreak grips US: how researchers are hunting its source
Cases have hit record levels, and scientists are racing to pinpoint where the Cyclospora parasite entered the food supply.
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