Picture of the century. 😍

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‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.

Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it's time to write - PubMed An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it's time to write

A few quotes I love from this article about writing: "There’s no such thing as thinking", "Writing. Is. Thinking.", "Without writing there is no thinking and no real opportunity for exchange in the marketplace of ideas."

Macrophage peroxisomes guide alveolar regeneration and limit SARS-CoV-2 tissue sequelae Peroxisomes are vital but often overlooked metabolic organelles. We found that excessive interferon signaling remodeled macrophage peroxisomes. This loss of peroxisomes impaired inflammation resolutio...

SMI member Jie Sun and colleagues explore how tissue sequelae during SARS-Cov2 can be limited by macrophages, allowing tissue regeneration: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SMIMemberPaper

a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat . ALT: a teddy bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a tie and hat .

Our 11yo is telling us science dad jokes as a way to delay having to go to bed. It's working.
My favorite of the evening:
Why did the amoeba fail its math test?
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because it multiplied by dividing

OMG! This is a good one! 🤣🤣

Join us with Drs. Mathis, Kipnis and Merad for #SIS2025 at the beautiful UVA campus in Charlottesville! It’s an affordable meeting with an outstanding speaker lineup. Enjoy the superb local history, food, wineries, events, and scenic views. immunology.virginia.edu/sis2025/

Congrats to the team!!

Congratulations!!!

Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article) Using an arcane law, officials have effectively delayed funding from the National Institutes of Health, leaving medical studies in jeopardy.

New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

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Great to see you!

It’s day 1 of the cut to NIH indirects and universities are scrambling to adapt. I’m going to post a series of videos on all the things I take for granted, but are both vital to research and covered by indirects for research grants.

Angry bird…

Type I IFN-mediated NET release promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis replication and is associated with granuloma caseation Sur Chowdhury et al. report that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection results in the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) that promote Mtb replication and associate with tissue damage. Blocking NET release results in better control of Mtb replication, revealing a strategy for treating these deadly infections.

Very excited for this story to be out!! Check out our dissection of how type I IFN promotes NET release, which contributes to Mtb pathogenesis and is associated with granuloma necrosis. Congratulations to all authors!! www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Congratulations on this beautiful work, Kat!!

Big congratulations!!!!