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Emily Bruce
@brucelab.bsky.social
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#NewPI in #RNA #Virology, electron microscopy aficionado, gardener, parent, Assistant Professor
@UVMLarnerMed. Prev @Gates_Cambridge scholar
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christopherbrooke.bsky.social
Anyone else getting grant termination notices for gain-of-function concerns at 5pm two days before thanksgiving?
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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ameracadpeds.bsky.social
“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
Should you find yourself - for whatever reason - looking for a new set of authoritative, accessible summaries of the risks and benefits of vaccines to share with people, the NHS website is still doing a good job at this www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
Text box reading: Vaccines do not... do not overload or weaken the immune system – it's safe to give children and adults several vaccines at a time and this reduces the amount of injections needed do not contain mercury (thiomersal) do not contain any ingredients that cause harm – only ingredients essential to making them safer and more effective and only in very small amounts do not cause autism – studies have found no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
I really didn't expect we would get to the point where former military officers who are now in Congress would have to beg the members of our military to refuse illegal and/or unConstitutional orders so long after the Nuremberg trials. But...here we are.
slotkin.senate.gov Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 7d
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Pathoplexus is growing not only in terms of new sequences, but also integrating into the larger ecosystem of pathogen surveillance by joining WHO's IPSN and expanding membership. This is the way a pathogen sequence database should work! (Lessons learned from GISAID/SARS-CoV-2...)
pathoplexus.org Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · 7d
1/ 🚀 Big thanks to our community - since August we’ve added thousands of new sequences, rolled out major new features, and welcomed fresh faces into the #Pathoplexus world. Let’s dive into what’s new.👇🏻

Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
Graph showing the change in number of directly submitted sequences to Pathoplexus since August 2024. 0 in Aug 2024 to almost 9000 today.
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
This is an outstanding piece of reporting on the complex barriers that currently stand between US poultry farmers and access to the safe effective bird flu vaccine used elsewhere. Well worth a read
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
On the second day of Christmas, a virus gave to me…
A paper design for cutting out some sort of snowflake
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
On the first day of Christmas, a virus gave to me...
A paper design for cutting out some sort of snowflake
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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flscitriguy.bsky.social
Updated guidance about study sections and due dates during the shut down. (Given the number of emails about issues with submission/letters of rec I had, this will help with those). grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-004: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Information for the NIH Extramural Community During the Lapse of Federal Government Funding NOT-OD-26-004. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
brucelab.bsky.social
The best tradition returns!
socialinfluenza.bsky.social Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 11d
It's beginning to look a lot like...
A good time to restart something I used to do during the run up to Christmas in The Other Place.
Designs to follow next week #VirusSnowflakes
Three sheets of white paper with printed designs on, with a pair of open scissors waiting to cut them out.
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
Withdrawing life-saving aid from developing countries and then demanding economically favourable conditions for restoring it would be bad enough, but the conditions and the approach also directly undermine international co-operation against future pandemics in favour of short-term national gain
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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socialinfluenza.bsky.social
🚨New preprint🚨
In a multidisciplinary tour-de-force, @itingtu.bsky.social shows that, because #H5N1 flu is now routinely infecting seals and sealions in Peru, it's also spilling over into the vampire bats that feed from beaches...
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itingtu.bsky.social I-Ting Tu @itingtu.bsky.social · 14d
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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elife.bsky.social
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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admiralmpj.bsky.social
Call them:

Jeanne Shaheen (202) 224-2841
Gary Peters (202) 224-6221
Jon Ossoff 202-224-3521
Mark Kelly (202) 224-2235
Peter Welch 202-224-4242
Tammy Baldwin (202) 224-5653
Elissa Slotkin 202-224-4822
John Fetterman (202) 224-4254
Catherine Cortez Masto (202) 224-3542
Angus King (202) 224-5344
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
brucelab.bsky.social
I want to do this PhD!!
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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repyassansari.bsky.social
I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

Change my mind.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"In normal times, against a normal candidate, we have no evidence that picking a friendly, relatable, likable candidate without a history of sexual abuse will work. Let’s not read too much into it."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yea...
Yeah, He Won, but He Was Up Against a Deeply Flawed Candidate
“I’m skeptical. The odds are that Mamdani’s victory is actually less significant than you think.” — Ross Douthat, New York Times - - -I was as surp...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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influenzaupdate.bsky.social
Last chace to register for this year's Influenza Update Meeting - and places are going fast. Don't miss out!

Looking forward to seeing you there, flu people
influenzaupdate.bsky.social Influenza Update Meetings @influenzaupdate.bsky.social · Oct 11
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Influenza Update 2025
University of Warwick, 15th - 16th December
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/med/...
Registration from £50 - £120
DEADLINE: 7th November
We hope you can join us there!
A banner in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh style showing and influenza virion and reading 'Influenza Update Meeting'
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
“Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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averydb.bsky.social
And for the trainees and scientific staff in their labs.......
drugmonkey.bsky.social Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20d
And importantly, while a few years to settle out might seem no biggie, it sure as heck is a big deal to those PIs who have been on the job for just a few years and are looking at the tenure decision looming ahead.
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
brucelab.bsky.social
For those of us 4 years into having a lab, finally having put together the data to compete for an R01, being told 'the standards for tenure haven't changed', the MYF mandate is an unmitigated disaster. And not one that can be fixed by 'just submitting a few more grants' as uni leadership suggests.
drugmonkey.bsky.social Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20d
And importantly, while a few years to settle out might seem no biggie, it sure as heck is a big deal to those PIs who have been on the job for just a few years and are looking at the tenure decision looming ahead.
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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drm.bsky.social
Interesting that there has been absolutely no communication with submitters/users of the system, and no statements from the scientific governance or compliance boards on what would seem to be a fairly significant change to GISAID data access policy and platform operations. gisaid.org/about-us/gov...
October 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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danstarrucdavis.bsky.social
Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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isabelott.bsky.social
Finally got my hands on a rare find: Sonja Buckley’s autobiography. She was instrumental in the development of tissue culture techniques for virus isolation & study, which required CONSIDERABLE skill pre-gloves, BSCs, & mechanical pipettes - & was the first person to isolate Lassa virus.
a beautifully hard bound blue book titled “The Late Bloomer” with the author’s name, Sonja Buckley MD signed inscription: “to Dr. D.L. Knox With esteem and admiration from Sonja Buckley MD Summer 1996” title page The Late Bloomer An Autobiography of a Female Medical Scientist (picture of Sonja Bucklcy MD, Summer 1945) by Sonja Buckley MD
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM