Megan McCurry
@microbe-megan.bsky.social
Microbiologist in biotech | ChemBio/Microbio PhD | she/her | #BilnSci 🌈 (views are my own)
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the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Private foundations as well as businesses and science associations are following suit with the federal government's bans of DEI initiatives — the latest striking example being the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read more from @aniloza.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
Researchers 'stunned' after HHMI abruptly cancels program to make science more inclusive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students
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February 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Private foundations as well as businesses and science associations are following suit with the federal government's bans of DEI initiatives — the latest striking example being the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Read more from @aniloza.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
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ASM website screenshots from the wayback machine in December '24 (web.archive.org/web/20241211...) vs today. Pretty disappointing!! 🧪
February 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ASM website screenshots from the wayback machine in December '24 (web.archive.org/web/20241211...) vs today. Pretty disappointing!! 🧪
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As a longtime @asm.org dues-paying member & American Academy of Microbiology fellow… WTF? Do not undo years of society efforts to improve inclusivity and properly highlight the contributions of diverse microbiologists on an EO whim. Do not contribute to the erasure of scientists and individuals!
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As a longtime @asm.org dues-paying member & American Academy of Microbiology fellow… WTF? Do not undo years of society efforts to improve inclusivity and properly highlight the contributions of diverse microbiologists on an EO whim. Do not contribute to the erasure of scientists and individuals!
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Ok this is not ok. ASM actively sought out BMA and its members for Juneteenth and Black History month content for the last 4 years. Actively asked for black labor and then takes it down?! @asm.org this is unacceptable. You should be standing up for marginalized microbiologists not erasing them.
Checked on the article I wrote about Juneteenth in 2023…
”under review”
”under review”
February 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Ok this is not ok. ASM actively sought out BMA and its members for Juneteenth and Black History month content for the last 4 years. Actively asked for black labor and then takes it down?! @asm.org this is unacceptable. You should be standing up for marginalized microbiologists not erasing them.
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.
I want to expand on the extent to which IDEAA materials have been purged: I wrote an article last year for women’s history month on the history of women in antimicrobial development….DELETED.
I’m on one of ASMs IDEAA committees and we have received 0 communication from ASM staff on why this is happening. I had to find out via social media. Extremely disappointing.
February 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.
Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI
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1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The meninges host a distinct compartment of regulatory T cells that preserves brain homeostasis
Meningeal regulatory T cells restrain local interferon-γ–producing lymphocytes, thereby safeguarding parenchymal brain homeostasis.
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January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1/ New in #ScienceImmunologyResearch! We explored how the brain maintains equilibrium with the immune system. Our focus? The key player in immune tolerance and tissue function regulation: regulatory T cells (Tregs). Let’s dive in! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
@immunoeditor.bsky.social
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Save Science, Save Lives
Please join science supporters, scientists, and experts in signing an open letter asking Congress to stand up against attempts to politicize or eliminate scientific roles, agencies, and federal resear...
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December 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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