Phil Mixter
@philmixter.bsky.social
WSU professor emeritus, husband, father and scientist. Loves microbiology, immunology and science careers.
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@cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social Essay:
Immunology as a guide to human relationships
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Immunology as a guide to human relationships
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October 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
@cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social Essay:
Immunology as a guide to human relationships
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
Immunology as a guide to human relationships
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day?
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Home - Immunology Explained
Understand how your immune system works with clear, science-backed insights. We empower you to make informed decisions and feel confident about your health.
immunologyexplained.aai.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
🧬 Do you know how your immune system works every day?
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Immunology Explained, a new initiative from the @aai.org, makes it simple to understand how it impacts everyday health with clear, science-backed info.
Check it out: immunologyexplained.aai.org
#ImmunologyExplained #ImmuneSystem #Science
Undergrad research program expanding news.wsu.edu/news/2025/09...
Undergrad research program expanding
Just a year after its launch, the EschLEAD program is growing to include new faculty, industry partnerships, and an advisory board.
news.wsu.edu
September 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Undergrad research program expanding news.wsu.edu/news/2025/09...
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Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
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Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Global genetic structure of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health
The human gut harbors thousands of microbial species, each exhibiting significant inter-individual genetic variability. Although many studies have ass…
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April 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thrilled to share that our manuscript on strain-level gut microbiome variation across diverse populations and human phenotypes is out today in @cellpress.bsky.social
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Curious about how strain diversity relates to human traits? Follow this thread! 🌍 (1/n)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🌍 Happy #DayofImmunology 2025!
Today, we celebrated the power of #Immunology — a science that's driving medicine forward and deepening our understanding of health + disease. 🔬✨
In a world facing misinformation, today reminds us why #sciencematters + how immunology improves lives worldwide.💡
Today, we celebrated the power of #Immunology — a science that's driving medicine forward and deepening our understanding of health + disease. 🔬✨
In a world facing misinformation, today reminds us why #sciencematters + how immunology improves lives worldwide.💡
April 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌍 Happy #DayofImmunology 2025!
Today, we celebrated the power of #Immunology — a science that's driving medicine forward and deepening our understanding of health + disease. 🔬✨
In a world facing misinformation, today reminds us why #sciencematters + how immunology improves lives worldwide.💡
Today, we celebrated the power of #Immunology — a science that's driving medicine forward and deepening our understanding of health + disease. 🔬✨
In a world facing misinformation, today reminds us why #sciencematters + how immunology improves lives worldwide.💡
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Measles outbreaks are not normal.
Measles was eliminated in 2000 due to successful vaccination campaigns. Declining vaccination rates since have led to an increase in measles outbreaks. The good news is #measles is preventable with the MMR vaccine.
Learn more: ow.ly/wmo350V7LEQ.
#Immunology
Measles was eliminated in 2000 due to successful vaccination campaigns. Declining vaccination rates since have led to an increase in measles outbreaks. The good news is #measles is preventable with the MMR vaccine.
Learn more: ow.ly/wmo350V7LEQ.
#Immunology
February 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Measles outbreaks are not normal.
Measles was eliminated in 2000 due to successful vaccination campaigns. Declining vaccination rates since have led to an increase in measles outbreaks. The good news is #measles is preventable with the MMR vaccine.
Learn more: ow.ly/wmo350V7LEQ.
#Immunology
Measles was eliminated in 2000 due to successful vaccination campaigns. Declining vaccination rates since have led to an increase in measles outbreaks. The good news is #measles is preventable with the MMR vaccine.
Learn more: ow.ly/wmo350V7LEQ.
#Immunology
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Today is a devastating reminder that infectious diseases don’t care what your ‘beliefs’ are. Everyone is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Serious challenges require serious people at the helm. Protect your loved ones. Educate. Advocate. The cost of not doing so will be too much to bear.
February 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today is a devastating reminder that infectious diseases don’t care what your ‘beliefs’ are. Everyone is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Serious challenges require serious people at the helm. Protect your loved ones. Educate. Advocate. The cost of not doing so will be too much to bear.
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Looking forward to my visit at Washington State University the next few days. Thank you
@philmixter.bsky.social
for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻🔬
@philmixter.bsky.social
for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻🔬
February 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Looking forward to my visit at Washington State University the next few days. Thank you
@philmixter.bsky.social
for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻🔬
@philmixter.bsky.social
for the kind invitation! I’ll be speaking at the WSU SACNAS chapter meeting today and then giving a research seminar tomorrow at the School of Molecular Biosciences. 👩🏻🔬
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Teaching the next generations of young scientists a practical course about biofilms in building plumbing potable water... these are some fabulous images from their own shower hoses 🦠🧫
February 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Teaching the next generations of young scientists a practical course about biofilms in building plumbing potable water... these are some fabulous images from their own shower hoses 🦠🧫
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#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky Identified CD8+ T cells from human donors that can recognize naturally occurring influenza variants spanning more than 100 years, including the 1918 #influenzaA and 2024 #H5N1. @sciimmunology.bsky.social
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Molecular determinants of cross-strain influenza A virus recognition by αβ T cell receptors
TCR-peptide-HLA ternary structures define molecular mechanisms of TCR cross-reactivity toward natural influenza variants.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #immunosky Identified CD8+ T cells from human donors that can recognize naturally occurring influenza variants spanning more than 100 years, including the 1918 #influenzaA and 2024 #H5N1. @sciimmunology.bsky.social
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It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It’s been buried in all the news today, but every scientist in the US should pay attention to this:
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Mike Lauer went out on a limb for us all, sending out a memo saying institutes should start awarding grants. And it looks like Trump/Musk fired him for that. 🧪
Great #malariavaccine results
Single shot malaria vaccine using attenuated liver stage strain looks awesome: ‘This unprecedented 90% protective efficacy after a single low-dose immunization holds great promise for the potency of GA2 immunization’ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #immunosky 🧪
Single immunization with genetically attenuated Pf∆mei2 (GA2) parasites by mosquito bite in controlled human malaria infection: a placebo-controlled randomized trial - Nature Medicine
In a small randomized controlled clinical trial, a single immunization for malaria using mosquitoes infected with attenuated parasites showed unprecedented 90% protective efficacy and did not lead to ...
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January 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Great #malariavaccine results
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as a #microbiologist, I am a big fan of #humancomposting for human #burial. The lower #carbonfootprint and #ashestoashes mentality makes it my preference for when I go.
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Better than burial? Human composting is rising in popularity as a pollution-free life after death | CNN
Human composting is and is emerging as an alternative to cremation and burial that is friendlier to the climate and the Earth.
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December 29, 2024 at 5:41 PM
as a #microbiologist, I am a big fan of #humancomposting for human #burial. The lower #carbonfootprint and #ashestoashes mentality makes it my preference for when I go.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/29/c...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/29/c...
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After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
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Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Science works, y'all.
www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
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December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
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And I am starting to send out requests for podcast guests on #MattersMicrobial from January to June. Wednesday mornings Pacific time are best. I really want to promote microbial science and microbial scientists. Happy to get requests or suggestions or volunteers. #MicrobialCentrism
December 9, 2024 at 9:21 PM
And I am starting to send out requests for podcast guests on #MattersMicrobial from January to June. Wednesday mornings Pacific time are best. I really want to promote microbial science and microbial scientists. Happy to get requests or suggestions or volunteers. #MicrobialCentrism
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ICYMI: Analysis of blood serum found #LongCOVID was characterized by altered levels of certain immune complement proteins. These changes linked to complement activation and signs of dysregulation of the coagulation system. #Immunosky
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Persistent complement dysregulation with signs of thromboinflammation in active Long Covid
Analysis of blood revealed that Long COVID is characterized by changes to complement proteins and platelet activation.
www.science.org
December 2, 2024 at 6:14 PM
ICYMI: Analysis of blood serum found #LongCOVID was characterized by altered levels of certain immune complement proteins. These changes linked to complement activation and signs of dysregulation of the coagulation system. #Immunosky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rabies virus is the most lethal virus. Neuroinvasive rabies is a death sentence.
I cannot stress this enough: if you have any physical contact with a bat—especially a bite—get treatment immediately. If it gets into your central nervous system, you will die horribly.
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I cannot stress this enough: if you have any physical contact with a bat—especially a bite—get treatment immediately. If it gets into your central nervous system, you will die horribly.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
California teacher dies of rabies after animal bites her in classroom
The teacher died a month after encountering a bat in her Merced County classroom.
www.sfgate.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Rabies virus is the most lethal virus. Neuroinvasive rabies is a death sentence.
I cannot stress this enough: if you have any physical contact with a bat—especially a bite—get treatment immediately. If it gets into your central nervous system, you will die horribly.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
I cannot stress this enough: if you have any physical contact with a bat—especially a bite—get treatment immediately. If it gets into your central nervous system, you will die horribly.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...