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Stephanie Shames
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Associate Professor MSU-MGI. Host-pathogen interactions. Posts my own. 🇨🇦/🇺🇸
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Americans overwhelmingly support investment in cutting-edge biomedical and earth science research to create a healthier population and planet—yet may not be fully aware of the destructive impact of the federal funding cuts—this laudable effort from the next generation puts a human face on the crisis
U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
www.science.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Macro(economic)phages on patrol
March 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Live footage of academia right now
March 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This week's WiPS seminars featured Joel Marty of the Kaminski Lab and Carissa Hutchison of the Shames Lab (@shames-lab.bsky.social) presenting their research.

Join us each Monday from noon-1pm in 1425 BPS to hear our students' Work in Progress talks.

#MSUresearch
February 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I wonder how long it’ll take before they realize that varsity sports require a university…
February 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Belated outing to celebrate the holidays, a birthday, and a first committee meeting. They can’t take away our joy 💪
January 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Not many people know that Nirvana wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit about a poster session
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion

Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM