Joanne Flynn
@joanneflynn19.bsky.social
Mom. Microbiologist and immunologist studying TB. Chair of micro at University of Pittsburgh School of medicine. Volleyball, basketball, hockey fan. Go #Pitt! Oh and now I have a puppy (GSD). Opinions are my own. Not my employer.
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!
We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
August 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine
Please support! #standupforscience
Science saves lives!
Science saves lives!
Here is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better
Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.
actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better
Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.
ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
actionnetwork.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Please support! #standupforscience
Science saves lives!
Science saves lives!
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🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
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Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
#standupforscience #uspol #science
#standupforscience #uspol #science
June 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Employees of the NIH have signed on to the Bethesda Declaration, in protest of the authoritarian cuts to science funding. You can sign on in support of them here (including anonymously): https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration
#standupforscience #uspol #science
#standupforscience #uspol #science
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Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives.
🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
Statement from AAI President Stephen C. Jameson on Proposed NIH Funding Cuts - AAI News
AAI is deeply alarmed by the President’s proposal to drastically downsize the NIH by slashing its approximately $47 billion budget in fiscal year (FY) 2025 to just $28 billion in FY 2026.
news.aai.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Proposed cuts to NIH funding threaten American biomedical research, public health, and economic stability. AAI stands in strong opposition and highlights the vital role of NIH in job creation, economic activity, and safeguarding lives.
🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
🔗 ow.ly/ww5h50W2zEs
Why? This is crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Why? This is crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...
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"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
May 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything. The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here’s some of what those taxpayer dollars created" […]
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FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
Meeting the Moment Together
We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!
Congratulations to the ELAM and ELH Class of 2025 (our 30th cohort of fellows) on graduating! Welcome to the ELUM community!
May 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Proud to be an #ELAM graduate in this 2025 class! I learned so much. It was awesome to be surrounded by so many amazing, inspiring and powerful women in science and medicine!
This seems…shortsighted to say the least
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.
www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
www.wired.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This seems…shortsighted to say the least
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#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’
GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’
Trump's canceled NIH grants and HHS layoffs threaten U.S. biomedical leadership, Collins says, as she calls for funding to be restored.
buff.ly
April 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#Breaking: GOP Senator Collins says Trump’s layoffs of scientists, cuts to biomedical research ‘must be reversed’
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The headline "could" be a lot stronger.
The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent
in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent
in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The headline "could" be a lot stronger.
The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent
in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
The report states that "A 25 percent cut to public R&D spending would reduce GDP by approximately 3.8 percent
in the long run. This effect is comparable to the decline in GDP during the Great Recession." Yeah, that'll hurt.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
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Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
Reposted by Joanne Flynn
This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.
Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This was the most accurate account I have seen done. Made me tear up a few times. So much trauma in such a short amount of time.
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🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨 This MUST READ essay and call to action spells out, in very clear terms, how the Trump administration could get away with slashing the NIH budget. NIH scientists and Dems in congress need to read and understand it. This is where we win or lose the battle to save the NIH and US science. 🧪 🧠 🧬 🔊
So important to see!
University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.
It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.
It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.
April 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So important to see!
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A different kind of "overhead" IYKYK:
My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life
www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...
My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life
www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...
Overheard: The risks of ‘mirror bacteria’
The molecules that make up life, like DNA and RNA, have “handedness,” just like most people are either right- or left-handed. Over the course of billions of years, all life has evolved standard left-h...
www.pittmed.pitt.edu
April 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A different kind of "overhead" IYKYK:
My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life
www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...
My interview in PittMed magazine discussing our work on the dangers of the upside down: mirror life
www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/mirror-...
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My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze
America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.
www.wsj.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Reposted by Joanne Flynn
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
No better person, friend, scientist and leader than Sabine! Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social !
Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social. Absolutely thrilled for you and the department!
news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04...
news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2025/04...
Dr. Sabine Ehrt Named Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine
As chair, Dr. Ehrt seeks to build on the department’s already robust national and international footprint in tuberculosis research and expand its portfolio in other areas of research and innovation.
news.weill.cornell.edu
April 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No better person, friend, scientist and leader than Sabine! Congratulations @saehrt.bsky.social !
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2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎
We’re hiring! Looking for a laboratory post-doc fellow to help us disentangle protective and pathogenic T cells in TB, so we can stratify disease-risk after infection, and develop more effective vaccines. Interdisciplinary science in the heart of London. What's not to like? More here: bit.ly/4iIEiwu
April 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
2 weeks to the deadline for applications to this post.. take a look, get in touch if you want hear more, don't hold back😎
Reposted by Joanne Flynn
More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.
April 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
More Americans have died from measles in the last 6 weeks than in the last 30 years combined, and multiple children near the Texas outbreak have been hospitalized for liver failure after taking the baseless supplements that RFK pushed.
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Proulx, Wiggins, Lauffenburger, Sassetti et al. @umasschan.bsky.social identify noncanonical immunity as an important feature of bacterial control during #tuberculosis disease when human-relevant genetic and phenotypic diversity is incorporated into model systems. rupress.org/jem/article/...
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Proulx, Wiggins, Lauffenburger, Sassetti et al. @umasschan.bsky.social identify noncanonical immunity as an important feature of bacterial control during #tuberculosis disease when human-relevant genetic and phenotypic diversity is incorporated into model systems. rupress.org/jem/article/...