Immunoprof (she/they)
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My thoughts are my own and do not reflect my employer or family members. They can speak for themselves.
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Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded after their appointments were abruptly canceled and rescheduled for months later, according to immigration lawyers.
H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.
H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Indian H-1B visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their American work permits are now stranded after their appointments were abruptly canceled and rescheduled for months later, according to immigration lawyers.
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Great year-end list: the civil servants, data gatherers, reporters, lawyers & more who are supporting public health and trying to protect knowledge and lives from the destructive sociopaths in power. By @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Great year-end list: the civil servants, data gatherers, reporters, lawyers & more who are supporting public health and trying to protect knowledge and lives from the destructive sociopaths in power. By @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Reminds me of the adoptions that have happened with Alaskan coastal brown bears in Katmai. 💖
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reminds me of the adoptions that have happened with Alaskan coastal brown bears in Katmai. 💖
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Reclassifying marijuana is a welcome step toward aligning federal policy with science, evidence, and the reality of its legalization in many states.
We still need to fully legalize marijuana nationwide and to get justice for the communities harmed by the disastrous war on drugs.
We still need to fully legalize marijuana nationwide and to get justice for the communities harmed by the disastrous war on drugs.
Trump signs executive order fast-tracking reclassification of marijuana
The order does not legalize marijuana, but reclassification would allow the FDA to study it for medical purposes.
www.nbcnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reclassifying marijuana is a welcome step toward aligning federal policy with science, evidence, and the reality of its legalization in many states.
We still need to fully legalize marijuana nationwide and to get justice for the communities harmed by the disastrous war on drugs.
We still need to fully legalize marijuana nationwide and to get justice for the communities harmed by the disastrous war on drugs.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
www.aclu.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Food shortages, tents filled with sewage, and medical neglect are the grim norm at ICE's Fort Bliss detention center.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
Every new facility that ICE rushes to open is destined to be plagued by the same inhumane conditions unless Congress takes action.
This is honestly tragic. Tik Tok had a unique ability to bring communities together that I have not found elsewhere. It brought us together, globally. We found common interests. We found that we were not alone.
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is honestly tragic. Tik Tok had a unique ability to bring communities together that I have not found elsewhere. It brought us together, globally. We found common interests. We found that we were not alone.
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Brazil makes history! 🇧🇷
WHO has validated Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of #HIV — making it the most populous country in the Americas to reach this milestone.
WHO has validated Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of #HIV — making it the most populous country in the Americas to reach this milestone.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Brazil makes history! 🇧🇷
WHO has validated Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of #HIV — making it the most populous country in the Americas to reach this milestone.
WHO has validated Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of #HIV — making it the most populous country in the Americas to reach this milestone.
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Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
Transient hepatic reconstitution of trophic factors enhances aged immunity - Nature
Using lipid nanoparticle delivery of mRNAs to the liver in aged mice, T cell function and declining immune cues can be restored.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Diminished T cell immunity during aging can have profound effects on responses to vaccines, cancer immunotherapy and infection. This article describes a unique way to enhance T cell immunity in mice, which could someday be translated to humans. #Science 🧪
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My generation got to know him as one of three CNN reporters coming live from their Baghdad hotel room during the start of the first Gulf War. It was a new kind of war, carried live on air and he was one of the voices that brought it to us.
RIP
RIP
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
My generation got to know him as one of three CNN reporters coming live from their Baghdad hotel room during the start of the first Gulf War. It was a new kind of war, carried live on air and he was one of the voices that brought it to us.
RIP
RIP
So what, they are worried about healthcare costs now?
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
So what, they are worried about healthcare costs now?
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To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I love this city so much.
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I love this city so much.
Ahhh this applies to so many -isms.
Whenever I talk about antisemitism, colleagues message me and say some version of “I know lots of Jewish people and none of them seem to think this is a problem.”
No. None of them trust you enough to discuss this problem with you. That’s not the same thing as “none of them think this is a problem”
No. None of them trust you enough to discuss this problem with you. That’s not the same thing as “none of them think this is a problem”
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Ahhh this applies to so many -isms.
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Wow this is a seriously serious supplementary figure from @cellpress.bsky.social today. Panels A through UU.
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
I get that Cell likes to minimize the number of supplementary figures. But is this really what is happening here?
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Ooooh boy. I legit forgot to tune in because I got home late. Not sure I can face whatever happened tonight.
What the absolute [expletive] was that?!?
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Ooooh boy. I legit forgot to tune in because I got home late. Not sure I can face whatever happened tonight.
Agreed. I’ve done both formal and informal training in “social science” methods as a “natural” scientist but it’s impossible to convince grant reviewers that I can do the analysis I want to do. So I don’t even get the chance to publish. I wish people would stop gatekeeping methodology.
I think actually we should encourage interdisciplinarity and astronomy has a history of welcoming outsiders to help us solve computational problems especially but this is why it’s important for peer review to work correctly. If you’re new to a discipline, submit to standard journals in *that* field.
Beware natural scientists doing social science
You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse
You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Agreed. I’ve done both formal and informal training in “social science” methods as a “natural” scientist but it’s impossible to convince grant reviewers that I can do the analysis I want to do. So I don’t even get the chance to publish. I wish people would stop gatekeeping methodology.
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BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
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So if you are going to share, I'd appreciate it if you would share the original report. 4/4 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
'This isn't your granddad's KKK.' Inside the hate group expanding its presence in Tennessee
They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.
www.newschannel5.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So if you are going to share, I'd appreciate it if you would share the original report. 4/4 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons. We can expect more of this as regulations are rolled back for health a safety measures. Remember: every safety regulation we have is usually due to a very sad and tragic set of incidents (yes plural) that caused its necessity.
"At Walmart, recalled products were found in stores across 21 states.
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
In a letter to Target, the health regulator said officials in Arkansas found the company offering a $2 discount on the recalled formula from November 16 to November 22. Target had the formula in stores across 20 states."
US FDA sends warning letters to Walmart, Target for selling recalled baby formula
The FDA said four major retailers continued to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants even after the products were recalled.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons. We can expect more of this as regulations are rolled back for health a safety measures. Remember: every safety regulation we have is usually due to a very sad and tragic set of incidents (yes plural) that caused its necessity.
Ooof do better Reuters. This is the second headline this week that made me question your stance as an impartial news source. One incident in 30 years is successful policy. To expect perfection is ludicrous. Will this lead to policy tweaks? Maybe. But it doesn’t call anything into question.
A beachside shooting throws Australia's three-decade gun control regime into question reut.rs/4aMfwKP
A beachside shooting throws Australia's three-decade gun control regime into question
After Australia's worst mass shooting in 1996, it took the government 12 days to ban semi-automatic weapons, organise a gun buyback scheme and introduce a licensing system to weed out people considered unfit to carry a weapon.
reut.rs
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Ooof do better Reuters. This is the second headline this week that made me question your stance as an impartial news source. One incident in 30 years is successful policy. To expect perfection is ludicrous. Will this lead to policy tweaks? Maybe. But it doesn’t call anything into question.
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Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
December 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
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NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...
DOJ Admitted LaMonica McIver Didn't Assault ICE in Withheld Signal Chat
Plus, DOJ's ridiculous response to my Epstein FOIA, Trump's corrupt collusion with a hand-picked immigration judge to re-arrest Kilmar Abrego, and more embarrassing DOJ losses!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NEW: The government admitted in text messages that Rep. LaMonica McIver didn't assault a federal agent in Signal chat messages that DOJ failed to hand over until this past week. That story and more on today's Breakdown. Free to subscribe: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-admitt...