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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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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 · 23h
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.
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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 · 7d
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 · 7d
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
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baym.lol
Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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lacefieldlab.bsky.social
My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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nature.com
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

go.nature.com/3X5lbUg
From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
go.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief
www.scripps.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)
Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians
October 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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drugmonkey.bsky.social
Eliminate what now?
i270exit1.bsky.social I-270, Exit 1 @i270exit1.bsky.social · 12d
3/7 Last month, 4,000 federal employees were fired in accordance with Russel Vought's wishes. A judge later ruled these firings illegal. Although NIH was not affected in this massacre, one of Riley's goals was to eliminate the Center for Scientific Review at NIH.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
Shutdown layoffs indefinitely blocked following new court injunction
Trump administration attorney says guarantee of back pay justifies issuing widespread reductions in force, but judge finds the layoffs unlawful.
www.govexec.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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alanstamm.bsky.social
"The White House just granted emergency FEMA assistance to red states hit by storms, but denied support to Blue States. . . . Federal disaster response overall is being transformed into a weapon of political revenge. . . .

"The real disaster is already here."
— @milestaylor.bsky.social
NEWS: Trump blocks disaster aid to Blue States, approves Red States
Your life is worth less to the president if you didn’t vote for him.
substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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langloislab.bsky.social
Excited to announce that we have a new faculty search opening in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Minnesota for a tenure track Assistant Professor in RNA Virology. More info can be found here: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
Careers
Minimum qualifications:PhD, MD, or equivalent in a relevant field of study, plus applicable postdoctoral experience.
hr.myu.umn.edu
October 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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anitadevineni.bsky.social
"Mr. Johnson appears to be using the considerable power of the speakership to render the House irrelevant."

He has refused to let the House meet for over a month, meaning he has no job to do but continues to get paid while nearly all other federal workers do not

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...
Keeping the House Absent, Johnson Marginalizes Congress and Himself
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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whatthefugacity.bsky.social
If anyone is hiring a technician, I’ve got a great candidate. I wish I could hire her myself! She’s got the grit, she knows how to hustle, and she does publication quality work. Lots of molecular biology, protein, and cell culture experience. Please DM me if you are interested.
October 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM