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As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine. 🧵

Excited that our work describing oral microbiome differences across populations in Nepal is out! See Aashish's thread below! This is Erica Ryu's first (data) paper from the lab, and as always, so wonderful to work with Aashish Jha

I find it concerning we know of at least 3 persons who have had #H5N1 and don't know the source - The person from #Missouri who was admitted to the hospital - The teenager in #Canada who is in critical care - The child in #California It seems we are missing something and need

Dear friends and colleagues, I'm excited to share that in 2025 I will open my new lab at Penn Medicine, Penn Genetics and the RNA innovation center. looking forward to be doing cutting-edge science with great colleagues!

.Penn State Football student tickets for the Orange Bowl will be free, courtesy of Taco Bell. Students can request their tickets from now until 5 p.m. on Thursday, January 2. onwardstate.com/2025/01/01/ora…

Fiber makes short chain fatty acids, we affects health. Our paper showing how this works (in part) at the level of gene expression is out: doi.org/10.1038/s42255…

The primary issue to me is that extensive lab experience with publications or at least the prospect of them has become a de facto prerequisite for molecular biology PhD programs. This was not true when I applied to graduate school, nor was it true even when I became a PI.

I had ZERO research experience as an undergrad. I was the first one of my grad school cohort to defend my PhD thesis, won an outstanding dissertation award, got a F32 as a postdoc, and am now the Director of the Genomics Research Incubator at PSU.

It’s inspiring seeing mask blocs & covid cautious organizations working to ensure everyone in California has access to respirators. This is made possible because the disability & Covid communities never gave up on clean air & masking The government should take a cue from them.

VIDEO CORRECTION: We compare footage from eight months apart showing the destruction caused by wildfires in Los Angeles. We will delete an earlier version that said the videos were shot 10 months apart reut.rs/3C6vlx6

Looking at bioinformaticians’ profiles these days, you'd think everyone has decades of experience in cutting-edge single-cell and AI-driven bioinformatics. But something’s missing… 👇

Trump blocks NIH review. I’m on a study section to review cancer grants but received this email today: NIH has paused all communication, as directed by the new administration (e.g. cnn.com/2025/01/21/hea… ), and that apparently includes a pause for all study section meetings

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Just received notice that my NIH study section next week has been cancelled. It has nothing to do with DEI and will have a negative impact on critical cancer research.

“That’s when they suspended the constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t any rioting in the streets. People stayed home, watching their televisions, looking for direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put a finger on.” - Margaret Atwood, Handmaids Tale

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

Plasma protein and brain structural imaging evidence that #SARSCoV2 is associated with greater brain β-amyloid pathology in older adults, particularly those hospitalized or with hypertension. nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine a matched UK Biobank case-control study

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

Strong article from Tom Maniatis, head of the NY Genome Center, on the history of the NIH and its role in maintaining U.S. scientific leadership. Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States: Cell cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today. With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.