The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.
WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
Identification of hot spring Obelisk-like RNA replicons and expanded diversity of the Obelisk superfamily | Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71096-6
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.
In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.
This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.
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The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A very nice 🧵 on a rather surprising finding.
New mRNA vaccine research has basically been shelved by this administration.
We know that vaccines basically eliminate cervical cancers.
The prospect of expanding this to additional cancers is incredible. Particularly the most lethal ones like pancreatic.
There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
🚨 Archaea alert 🚨!! We’re back this Wednesday, April 22nd, at 10 AM EST / 4 PM CET with two exciting research talks! You won’t want to miss this so check your email for the Zoom link or visit the link in our bio for more info on how to join the community 🦠
Bozeman ranked as nation’s best college town for third consecutive year
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Fun bit of trivia: the first photo of DNA's structure was from cow DNA.
Specifically, it's from 'calf thymus tissue', chosen because harvesting DNA from this tissue yields long continuous strands ("high MW DNA", in the parlance).
You're looking at what makes a cow a cow in this famous photograph.
The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026!
This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution.
To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca
@sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky
Since Trump has trouble distinguishing what someone in the medical profession looks like, here is a picture of a lifesaving professional.
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers.
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The awesome virome logo of a phage above a strand of DNA
Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome
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1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.
Announcing Seattle DROP: Discover Research Opportunities for Postdocs on May 5th
Interested in postdoc opportunities in Seattle, WA? Seattle DROP is a virtual biomedical postdoc recruitment event sponsored by @fredhutch.org, @uwnews.uw.edu, and @seattlechildrens.org on May 5th from 8 AM-1 PM PT.
Again looking for (self)nominations of/by grad students and postdocs to give virtual talks (via zoom) in the fall seminar series of MSU's Thermal Biology Institute. Does >not< need to be on thermophiles. Email me!
My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Nemudryi lab is looking for postdocs to join our team and study:
🦠 Bacterial phage defense mechanisms
🧬 RNA repair & CRISPR-based RNA editing
Excited about RNA, host-virus interactions & mechanistic biology?
Let's talk!
Apply: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT
It's National Public Health Week! 🎉
Public health in the US has roots going back to 1799, built on the belief that communities deserve protection from preventable disease. That mission hasn't changed, even when federal priorities do.
What does public health mean to YOU right now? Let's talk…
We tested the efficacy of semi-permeable capsules to capture protists from cultures and environmental samples using the Onyx from @atrandi.bsky.social. Tremendous effort from everyone in the lab and led by Marco Fantini and Nik Brask - check out the videos here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:
International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.
This isn’t a “could face” situation.
It’s a “are facing” situation. And brain drain will continue to happen as long as we undermine science in the US.
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Our perspective on measuring individual virus traits, led by staff scientist @antanij.bsky.social
#phagesky #microsky
A line grant of the cumulative numbers of awards for NSF from fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 lies below well the other curves.
NSF update
Still looking very bleak.
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Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...
A genome sequence represents a snapshot of an organism at a moment in time
just for the sake of it...
