John Williams

SNAP benefits stop today, who knows for how long. Please donate to your local food bank.

I am loving the Moon book.

That is all.

Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium - Nature Microbiology Genomic and functional analyses of healthcare-associated vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium reveal that bacteriocin T8 is enriched in emergent lineages and provides a competitive advantage in v...

Excited to share our latest, out today in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social Bacteriocin production facilitates nosocomial emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idpittstop.bsky.social

Amazing scientists doing amazing science!

ASM legacy society journals are all high quality and not based on a profit model. Which, sadly, many “high-impact” journals now are. If more of us publish in our relevant society journals for microbiology, virology, immunology, etc., we can strengthen academic over profit publishers.

Some Facts on the Department of Education because even the president seems to have no idea what they do

Wrote a quick and dirty illustrated explainer on The Department of Education because if I have to hear any more misinformation about it I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

If the NYT cared to check facts instead of peddling again conspiracy theories about what scientists did or did not think (see QT'd thread), they'd realize that what happened in April 2020 was actually a forewarning for what is currently happening -- arbitrary political cancellations of grants. ▫️6/6

If it’s true to the book, hell yeah! Dune finally got it right on the third try. No diss to the priors, but missed the book.

I think Hollywood usually views SF as “yeah whatever, do what you want” whereas they would rarely seriously alter the plot of the classics.

Transmissible clamcer. Science rules.

I have no expectations sir. Just keep writing those wonderful books! Don’t let following take time away from writing lol

The session State of the Art - Pneumonia at St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference features a pair of presenters and is moderated by Dr. Matthew Kelly (UAMS). #IDSKy

Good crowd here in Pittsburgh for #standupforscience2025

#standupforscience in Pittsburgh from the Cooper Lab and
@raplab.bsky.social

Personal fave: Dictyostelium over Dictators

SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test Flight Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.

Falling debris from a failed test of a SpaceX Starship prototype disrupted flights at several Florida airports.

PIDS member Dr. Natasha Halasa presents the next Frontiers in Pediatric ID - Pediatric Transplant/Immunocompromised Hosts Platform - Influenza Vaccine Optimization Strategies in Immunocompromised Hosts at the 2025 St. Jude/PIDS Conference. #IDSky

Especially with no aim.

I have racing disease. My doctor said I had to let it run its course.

Our February member spotlight is Latania Logan, professor of pediatrics and associate division chief, peds ID @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social and PIDS IDWeek chair. Read more about Dr. Logan's career in peds ID at pids.org/2025/02/19/m...

An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

As an uncle, I'm devastated for the family of this child. As an Infectious Disease physician, I'm angry at people who have spread misinformation about vaccines leading to this outbreak.

apnews.com/article/meas...

The truth cannot be too often repeated

NIH research funding supports medicine and my lab

This is why research funding is important to me.

The Revolution will be AI-icized

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Trump Fires Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

www.huffpost.com/entry/us-tru...

This is not good for national security.

🎉 This is the best news in a month!! Hold the line, America.

Senator Murray Blasts Trump & Elon for Illegally Paralyzing Lifesaving Research Again, Threatening to Extinguish Ongoing and Groundbreaking Work - Senator Patty Murray ICYMI: Murray Blasts Trump and Musk Decimating HHS, Risking Americans’ Health and Livelihoods Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and...

A US Senator Joins the Fray. Thank you
@murray.senate.gov ! More of this, please!

www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project

www.thetrevorproject.org

➡️ NIH grants in '23 included $26B of direct costs and $9B of F&A = 26% of total costs or 35% of total direct costs. These are LOW overhead rates for any R&D-intensive industry. Academic biomedical research is an efficient bargain.

➡️ Every $1 of NIH support generates ~$2.50 of economic activity.

Or the 70s! Jim Croce’s “Operator”? Does not compute.

We're pleased to announce the 2025 SUMMERS Research Scholars Award. This program has funded 55 young researchers to date and we're enthusiastic about funding more. Review the application criteria & encourage anyone who may benefit to apply by April 4. #IDSky pidsfoundation.org/summer-resea...