Columbia University has just set a terrible and dangerous precedent. Speaking out in anguish against war crimes is what we should all be doing. And yes, it will break a few rules. Students should not be punished and silenced for acting based on their conscience.

Zionist holocaust denial did not arise out of a vacuum and the argument that Hamas is ‘worse’ than the Nazis because the Nazis ‘had remorse’ can only be understood as a product of a much larger colonial orientalist epistemology that both preceded and engendered Nazism

Congratulations to my CAMB Graduate Group PhD student Emily O'Rourke on being awarded the American Heart Association predoctoral fellowship to study human inflammasome responses to Salmonella! So proud of you! 🎉🥳

Penn/CHoP student led parasitology research in progress schedule for the semester. Remember a grad student should never-ever turn down free food & refreshment. Last year was a lot of fun, and all are welcome again this year!

My first paper from my postdoc is out at eLife - the journal today on noncanonical inflammasome response to LPS! Thanks to Daniel and Igor Brodsky for including me in this work, other co-first author Ronit Schwartz, PhD , my PI Dr. Sunny Shin, Cornelius Taabazuing and everyone else who made this possible!

How is caspase-11 noncanonical inflammasome assembly mediated by LPS? Read our new paper in eLife - the journal to find out! Congratulations to my co-first authors Daniel Akuma and Dr. Kimberly Wodzanowski, my PI Igor Brodsky, Dr. Sunny Shin, Cornelius Taabazuing and everyone who contributed to this work!

The media won't cover high quality peer reviewed published evidence on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on every single organ system, but rushes to cover 'expert opinion' on an unpublished non-peer reviewed abstract that contradicts everything we know about LC so far.🧵

Thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Dept of Biology Swarthmore College in the Fall! What an honor to be able to teach microbiology and mentor undergraduate students in the lab every day! This is my dream come true! I feel immensely grateful.

It takes a village, and I am so grateful for mine! A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible, including my steadfast mentors and my loving family and friends. I would not be where I am without the support of so many SJU Biology Dept., Penn Microbiology, Children's Hospital! Thank you!

Congrats to CAMB Graduate Group Shin lab alum Dr. Marisa Egan on becoming an Assistant Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College! So excited for you finding your dream job in undergraduate education & having your own lab! They are so lucky to have you! 🥳

Congratulations to Zackular lab postdoc, Dr. Marisa Egan, on her new position Swarthmore College!!! The Egan lab is going to do amazing things and I can’t imagine a better person to educate students on all things microbiology!

we are supposed to believe that the young people working to end mass slaughter are the threat and that the riot squads sent in to brutalize them are the peacekeepers

watching this happen in real time and knowing it will go down as a deeply shameful moment in history for both columbia and new york city is just… surreal. my heart is with the students

student reporters trying to hold back tears as they have to report on the fact that NYPD will have a permanent presence on campus until May 17th

This is happening blocks away from where I grew up. Every time, these institutions look at the shameful ways they've harm the vulnerable and decades later apologize, then go ahead and do it all over again. This is not the way New York, America, or the World should be. Vile.

This is a major turning point for anyone doing research on parasites, vector biology, or fungal pathogens that is going to rock our community! For now, we should give thanks to all the VEuPathDB team for everything they have done to support our research for so many years!!

UPDATE: After advocates submitted thousands of comments, the rule passed! US hospitals will be required to report key COVID, flu, and RSV hospitalization data again outside of public health emergencies, after initially ending the requirement earlier this year. Advocacy works!

It is what it is — It's time for a #LongCovid Moonshot. Period. And as usual Bernie Sanders is the first to reckon with an ignored, politically inconvenient, raging societal injustice. I'm nearly 1/2 a decade housebound with LC now — we need help and treatments NOW.

This is such a bullshit policy and clarifying its not a mask ban doesn’t change the harm it will create

Climate change is now. First case of tickborne Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis spotted fever in Northeast. The disease typically festers in Southern states, primarily Florida, but has steadily spread up the East Coast over the last 80 years. nypost.com/2024/09/30/us-…