This study leveraged data from a long-term field project in Amazonian Ecuador to examine whether and how circulating Epstein–Barr virus antibodies (EBV-Ab)—a common biomarker of chronic stress in high-income settings—

Super happy for this paper to come out in AJHB! It was a big team effort with a rich dataset developed over a decade of field and lab work led by Josh Snodgrass (@jjosh1313.bsky.social) and others. Check it out to see what we learned about using EBV antibodies as a biomarker of adversity.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Please be part of a protest on Saturday, June 14. The more people who are out on the streets the safer we all are, and the more likely those in congress will worry about their own futures and stop what Trump is doing.

Peaceful protest and solidarity are what we need

🚨 Attention NIH & NSF grantees!

AAAS is hosting a rapid response webinar this Friday, 12-1 pm ET, on responding to federal research grant terminations.

NIH and NSF will be case examples.

Register here: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Does anyone know of a petition or open letter being organized for scientists to protest against the Trump wrecking ball being aimed at our funding agencies? We need something signed by massive numbers of researchers.

Next week the world's top scientists will gather in Boston for the #AAASmtg.

In 2017 we held a #StandUpForScience rally at AAAS, which kicked off a year of huge protests organized by the scientific community, which helped fight off censorship and budget cuts.

This week is a good time for a repeat.

My feed is overwhelmed with scientists right now calling out the catastrophic consequences of the NIH indirect cost order from last night. If those same people aren't also speaking out against the anti-trans, anti-DEI, anti-immigrant orders...we are lost. The only path forward is solidarity.

This past week I’ve been thinking a lot about the forensics work I did in Croatia and Bosnia in the 90s. It’s never too far from my mind given the tattoo that memorializes the massacre sites I worked at to identify the dead—Ovcara in Croatia and Srebrenica in Bosnia (it’s a fractured peace dove).

So at the #AAASmtg in Boston in 2017, scientists had the "Rally to Stand Up for Science". In 2025 we meet again in Boston for #AAAS2025. Any plans?

Scientists need to organize and make our voices heard--the world needs us now! In 2017, I co-organized the March for Science in New Orleans and we coordinated with scientists around the country (and world) to bring public awareness to the dangerous changes brought about by the Trump administration.

I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy.
To learn more:
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🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

What I didn't say was that as someone who teaches human growth and development I would have given this executive order a D- if written by a student. Not an F only because they didn't go all homunculus and argue that men place a little man inside a woman for growth into a child. That's next week...