Congrats to @jquidd.bsky.social Stephen Ferris!

www.damonrunyon.org/news/damon-r...

Let’s do this! #NK2025

She sure is!

Celebrating our Knowledge Ninja, Carly!

'cept the super fluffy mice are SO cute....I can't believe there have been millions raised to fund this work...like....give me the money.

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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Didn’t age well 😫

Terrifying and confirmed by my SRO

Integrating single-cell RNA and T cell/B cell receptor sequencing with mass cytometry reveals dynamic trajectories of human peripheral immune cells from birth to old age - Nature Immunology In this Resource, authors profile peripheral immune cells from a total of 220 healthy volunteers from birth to over 90 years. This revealed that T cells were most affected by aging with divergent agin...

Dynamic trajectories of human peripheral immune cells from birth to old age
@natimmunol.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prior vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during COVID-19 breakthrough infection SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in previously vaccinated individuals are characterized by reduced activation of innate immune responses.

SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in previously vaccinated individuals are characterized by reduced activation of innate immune responses
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@blishlab.bsky.social

It is shocking to me that signed contractual agreements can just be halted...eg, diversity fellowships revoked. hoping this is not accurate information I am getting.

I had the honor and privilege to attend a class with Elie Wiesel at Eckerd College and was just thinking of him today and the lessons he taught me. How do we combat fascism and fanaticism? We listen to the silence of those who are no longer able to speak.

RNase T2 plays an important role in limiting self-RNA recognition by preventing erroneous activation of TLR13
@jem.org @v-hornung.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1084/jem....
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

Don’t let people gaslight us into thinking what’s happening at the NIH is normal. It is in fact unprecedented
www.nature.com/articles/d41...