Sean Gibbons 🦠💩
@gibbological.bsky.social
microbiome researcher | associate professor @isbscience.org | affiliate prof @uwbioe.bsky.social | ecology, evolution, and systems biology of 💩 🦠 | precision/personalized nutrition/medicine ⚕️ | 🏳️🌈 he/him | lab website: gibbons.isbscience.org
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It's time for the 2025 Gibbons Lab Research Roundup!
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In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
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Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org
In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
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It is outrageous for a President who is tanking our economy here at home to suggest that the American taxpayer spend a fortune to “run” another country while doing nothing to make life better in America. I opposed the war in Iraq from the outset—and the parallels here are glaring.
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
It is outrageous for a President who is tanking our economy here at home to suggest that the American taxpayer spend a fortune to “run” another country while doing nothing to make life better in America. I opposed the war in Iraq from the outset—and the parallels here are glaring.
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
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January 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM
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Just need to outrun it for three more days.
December 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Just need to outrun it for three more days.
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I'll continue to say this until I'm blue in the face:
IF WE FIGHT, WE CAN WIN. IF WE DO NOT FIGHT, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL.
So, put your big girl pants on, Dorks.
IF WE FIGHT, WE CAN WIN. IF WE DO NOT FIGHT, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL.
So, put your big girl pants on, Dorks.
The question is an open one and it depends on us. The would-be destroyers of science #Trump #Vought #RFKJr #Bhattacharya #Memoli are just men. Zealots, fools, charlatans, opportunists. There are more of us than there are of them. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts f...
www.nature.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'll continue to say this until I'm blue in the face:
IF WE FIGHT, WE CAN WIN. IF WE DO NOT FIGHT, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL.
So, put your big girl pants on, Dorks.
IF WE FIGHT, WE CAN WIN. IF WE DO NOT FIGHT, WE WILL LOSE IT ALL.
So, put your big girl pants on, Dorks.
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Next up: Black Plague was a lab leak, dinosaur extinction was a lab leak, Big Bang was a lab leak.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Next up: Black Plague was a lab leak, dinosaur extinction was a lab leak, Big Bang was a lab leak.
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98 million Americans have prediabetes. A recent landmark paper showed normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades
thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Prediabetes remission and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: post-hoc analyses from the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome study and the DaQing Diabetes Prevention Outcome study
Reaching prediatbetes remission is linked to a decades-long benefit, halving the risk
of cardiovascular death or hospitalisation for heart failure in diverse populations.
Targeting remission might rep...
thelancet.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
98 million Americans have prediabetes. A recent landmark paper showed normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades
thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure
www.statnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
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This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective).
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
The Quiet Power of Program Officers
How invisible decisions shape what science gets done—and whether it matters
elizabethginexi.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective).
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
Read!
elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
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Celebrating the complex beauty of the season. ❄️🧬 From all of us at ISB, have a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Celebrating the complex beauty of the season. ❄️🧬 From all of us at ISB, have a wonderful holiday and a Happy New Year!
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If you missed it, this 60 minutes segment from 8 months ago is about the fact that many of the people sent to the Salvadoran prison have no criminal record and were going through the many legal hoops in the US. It has over 1.1 million views. TW: abuse
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youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw?...
What records show about the migrants sent to Salvadoran mega-prison
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
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December 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If you missed it, this 60 minutes segment from 8 months ago is about the fact that many of the people sent to the Salvadoran prison have no criminal record and were going through the many legal hoops in the US. It has over 1.1 million views. TW: abuse
youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw?...
youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw?...
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I have watched maybe 2 segments of 60 minutes in the last year & figure most people in the US haven't watched any. This segment alone has over 4 million views and over 450K likes on tiktok & over 690K views on yt. If they wanted this buried, it backfired. TW: abuse
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcRpJjb/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcRpJjb/
There's a reason they don't want you to see this video.
TikTok video by COURIER
www.tiktok.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I have watched maybe 2 segments of 60 minutes in the last year & figure most people in the US haven't watched any. This segment alone has over 4 million views and over 450K likes on tiktok & over 690K views on yt. If they wanted this buried, it backfired. TW: abuse
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcRpJjb/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrcRpJjb/
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One in five Republicans support a “government-provided system,” as do most independents. Democrats back Medicare for All by 90 percent. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Pramila Jayapal pushes Medicare for All polling
The Washington Democrat plans to brief her House Democratic colleagues on the findings in early 2026.
www.politico.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One in five Republicans support a “government-provided system,” as do most independents. Democrats back Medicare for All by 90 percent. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others.
How much did it save in federal spending?
Nothing...it led to an increase
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How much did it save in federal spending?
Nothing...it led to an increase
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others.
How much did it save in federal spending?
Nothing...it led to an increase
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How much did it save in federal spending?
Nothing...it led to an increase
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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Judge James Boasberg said the U.S. denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. n.pr/3YaVn9X
Federal judge rules the U.S. violated due process with Alien Enemies Act deportations
Judge James Boasberg said the U.S. denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Judge James Boasberg said the U.S. denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador after President Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. n.pr/3YaVn9X
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It's time for the 2025 Gibbons Lab Research Roundup!
Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org
In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
🧵...
Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org
In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
🧵...
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It's time for the 2025 Gibbons Lab Research Roundup!
Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org
In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
🧵...
Yeehaw! 🤠 @isbscience.org
In these dark times, let the joy of scientific discovery and trainee success be your balm ❤️🩹
🧵...
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New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
What have we learned about child poverty in America?
Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
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2025 was a milestone year for ISB. We didn't just look back at our 25-year legacy; we used it to launch discoveries that will shape the future of health.
In our 2025 Year in Review, explore the science and the successes that made the past 12 months truly historic.
isbscience.org/news/our-peo...
In our 2025 Year in Review, explore the science and the successes that made the past 12 months truly historic.
isbscience.org/news/our-peo...
2025 Year in Review: Breakthroughs, Milestones & Moments That Defined ISB
In 2025, the Institute for Systems Biology marked a pivotal year — one that coincided with our 25th anniversary and underscored our enduring role in shaping the future of biomedical
isbscience.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
2025 was a milestone year for ISB. We didn't just look back at our 25-year legacy; we used it to launch discoveries that will shape the future of health.
In our 2025 Year in Review, explore the science and the successes that made the past 12 months truly historic.
isbscience.org/news/our-peo...
In our 2025 Year in Review, explore the science and the successes that made the past 12 months truly historic.
isbscience.org/news/our-peo...
In defense of a broad-based liberal arts education:
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In defense of a broad-based liberal arts education:
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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I've heard about ICE improperly stopping or detaining Tribal citizens for no apparent reason aside from their physical appearance. This has got to stop.
The disrespect and harassment of U.S.-born Tribal citizens by ICE is outrageous and inexcusable.
The disrespect and harassment of U.S.-born Tribal citizens by ICE is outrageous and inexcusable.
Senators Demand Accountability Amid Reports of ICE Questioning Native Americans
U.S. Senator Patty Murray has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemning the treatment of Native Americans at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enfor...
nativenewsonline.net
December 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've heard about ICE improperly stopping or detaining Tribal citizens for no apparent reason aside from their physical appearance. This has got to stop.
The disrespect and harassment of U.S.-born Tribal citizens by ICE is outrageous and inexcusable.
The disrespect and harassment of U.S.-born Tribal citizens by ICE is outrageous and inexcusable.
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Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more