Deepta Bhattacharya
@deeptabhattacha.bsky.social
Professor of Immunology at University of Arizona studying immune responses to infections and vaccines. Views my own.
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Looking forward to this see you there Deepta!
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
Looking forward to this see you there Deepta!
🧪 Meeting will be in Keystone, CO March 16-20. Come for the skiing and the science!
#bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology
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#bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology
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November 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🧪 Meeting will be in Keystone, CO March 16-20. Come for the skiing and the science!
#bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
#bcells #antibodies #immunosky #immunology
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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/...
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
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/...
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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
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!
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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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
@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
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
@scienceimmuno.bsky.social @lji.org
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I love this story 😊
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.
www.heraldtimesonline.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I love this story 😊
Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations
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October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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...
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
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This captures much of the frustration of today.
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This captures much of the frustration of today.
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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-...
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
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-...
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-...
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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...
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.
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September 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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...
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...
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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.
It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social
In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.
September 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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.
It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social
In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy
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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
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."
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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.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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...
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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
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.
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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...
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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...
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
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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
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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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
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...
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I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
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August 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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August 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X)
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These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
August 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.
““Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”
Live Updates: Suspect Identified in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 14 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Live Updates: Suspect Identified in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 14 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Live Updates: Suspect Identified in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 14
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August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
““Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying.”
Live Updates: Suspect Identified in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 14 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Live Updates: Suspect Identified in Minneapolis School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 14 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
What drives me nuts about this is that there really wouldn’t have been any political cost for Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski to vote no. RFK Jr is only there transactionally for his support during the campaign. If he weren’t confirmed, pretty sure Trump would’ve just shrugged and said oh well.
Any comment, Bill Cassidy? “Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who has repeatedly claimed in the face of scientific consensus that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, told the Daily Beast that Kennedy’s stance is shared by “influential” members of President Donald Trump’s family”
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
August 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
What drives me nuts about this is that there really wouldn’t have been any political cost for Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski to vote no. RFK Jr is only there transactionally for his support during the campaign. If he weren’t confirmed, pretty sure Trump would’ve just shrugged and said oh well.
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Vought, Rufo, and Bhattacharya do not want what the American people overwhelmingly want.
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Vought, Rufo, and Bhattacharya do not want what the American people overwhelmingly want.