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Deepta Bhattacharya
@deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
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Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. Views my own.
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notdred.bsky.social
Running an agency like he ran his twitter account
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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theferrarilab.bsky.social
One would think that a communication of this magnitude would have been vetted and maybe spell-checked. This reads as a self-indulgent and vindictive missive by a man who couldn't stand up to the level of criticism that most researchers receive from their own colleagues on a daily basis.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 4h
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...

And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
FDA's big change to how vaccines will get approved
We obtained an internal email laying out the planned shift in strategy.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
We're hiring for tenure-track faculty! Please apply if you have interests in immune responses to microbes and/or cancer, immune regulation, microbial infections (bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi), the microbiota, and/or interests that span these disciplines.

arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (T/TE)
Establish or continue a successful, extramurally funded research program that will advance knowledge in the broad areas of immunobiology, as defined a...
arizona.csod.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
😕
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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kkjetelina.bsky.social
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
ddiamond.bsky.social Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 9d
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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jengommerman.bsky.social
Proud to share our work now out in Cell. We hope what we learned about IgA immune responses to rotavirus can be translated into better vaccines. Congratulations Dr. Kei Haniuda, an amazing PDF. TY
@uoftmedicine.bsky.social
for covering.

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November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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labphan.bsky.social
Looking forward to this see you there Deepta!
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social Deepta Bhattacharya @deeptabhattacha.bsky.social · 22d
I’m co-organizing a Keystone conference on B cells and plasma cells with Kim Good-Jacobson and Taras Kreslavsky! Deadlines for abstracts and scholarships is Nov 13. Great lineup of basic, translational, and industry speakers. Please repost!

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B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology, March 2026, in Keystone, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
🧪 Meeting will be in Keystone, CO March 16-20. Come for the skiing and the science!

#bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology

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November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
I’m co-organizing a Keystone conference on B cells and plasma cells with Kim Good-Jacobson and Taras Kreslavsky! Deadlines for abstracts and scholarships is Nov 13. Great lineup of basic, translational, and industry speakers. Please repost!

www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology, March 2026, in Keystone, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
The UofA is hiring for a Principal Scientist in cancer immunology! This isn’t a typical academic position—we're looking for a scientist with a great idea but needs time/resources to translate and commercialize. Please repost and apply if interested!

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Principal Scientist, Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies
Develop a research program in the advancement of immunological therapies.Play a crucial role in all aspects of research development, implementation, a...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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profshanecrotty.bsky.social
In our latest vaccine immunology study we tested whether it is possible to simultaneously prime multiple classes of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV using a combination of germline-targeting (GT) immunogens. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@scienceimmuno.bsky.social @lji.org
Simultaneous induction of multiple classes of broadly neutralizing antibody precursors by combination germline-targeting immunization in nonhuman primates
Simultaneous immunization with three germline-targeting immunogens primes multiple bnAb lineages in NHPs, advancing multiepitope HIV vaccine strategies.
www.science.org
October 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social
I love this story 😊
kevinjkircher.com Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · Oct 18
Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!
Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus
The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
Proud of the IDS, ashamed of my alma mater

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...
Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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marionpepper.bsky.social
Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tertiary lymphoid structures support the development of allergen-specific progenitor CD4+ T cells
Tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells (TRM) are key sentinels of the adaptive immune response that provide a rapid, robust inflammatory response upon reactivation in non-lymphoid tissues. While CD4+ TRM...
www.biorxiv.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This captures much of the frustration of today.
The image is an X post by @RealJakeBroe from 7 hours ago, featuring a two-panel comic. The top panel shows a scientist pointing to a chart with a general trend and an outlier, illustrating a rational argument. The bottom panel depicts a person labeled "ANTI VAX" pointing to a similar chart, labeling it "CONSPIRACY THEORY" with "Lies" and an outlier called "IRREFUTABLE PROOF!!!", satirizing irrational arguments. The caption reads, "It is difficult to win an argument with a smart person. It is impossible to win an argument with an idiot."
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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danvergano.bsky.social
But will put in a good word for my BootLander proposal to beat the heathens to the manifest destiny moondust.

Piece is me ventriloquizing a savage comment made by a retired NASA official about moon plan, natch.

7/7

have a good weekend, folks

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Here's How NASA Can Make the Moon Great Again
An unhinged 2026 U.S. budget proposal would hollow NASA to a husk bent to Elon Musk’s whims. Only one mission can save the space agency
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September 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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matthewherper.bsky.social
Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...
Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”
In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.
www.statnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Wanna know how to tell whoever is running the CDC has no clue what they're talking about?

It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social

In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.
CDC @CDCgov ACIP member Robert W. Malone, MD: “There is no established correlative protection for COVID. Period. Full stop. And stop saying otherwise.”
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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david.noll.org
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
sbagen.bsky.social Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Sep 18
When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV
CDC advisers make their first childhood vaccine edit
They voted 8-3 to recommend delaying the use of a measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox vaccine that about 15 percent of children receive.
wapo.st
September 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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lizszabo.bsky.social
Dr. Jake Scott asks why ACIP is asking about the MMRV when there's NO new data to report. "We've known about the seizure risk since 2005 and have been transparently discussing it with parents for nearly 20 years. Highlighting it again seems designed to amplify fear rather than improve safety."
September 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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helenbranswell.bsky.social
If you read 1 thing today, please make it this: my so-talented colleague @ericboodman.bsky.social explains why babies in the US are vaccinated at birth against hep B — and what the human costs of changing that policy would be. www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...
Dropping hepatitis B shots for newborns would ignore history and endanger children, scientists warn
People who study, treat, or have hepatitis B say ending routine vaccination at birth - as some vaccine critics want - could lead to a resurgence of the virus.
www.statnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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apoorvanyt.bsky.social
In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the CDC was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago — whether Covid vaccines work.
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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carlzimmer.com
Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq
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September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM