Jeremy Kamil

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren - Christina Jewett www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.”

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can confirm

An mRNA Refusal to File

"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"

Indeed.

www.science.org/content/blog...

I know there are fires everywhere we look. Sorry to bring your attention to one more:

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is how a child dies of #measles 🦠 🎁 🔗 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary University votes to consider ending all studies at Oregon National Primate Research Center. But cost and feasibility are still in doubt

www.science.org/content/arti...

Donate to Stand with ONPRC: Fight Misinformation, organized by Andrew Sylwester The Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) is a world-class biomedica… Andrew Sylwester needs your support for Stand with ONPRC: Fight Misinformation

🧪 🫡 gofund.me/bc68fd2dd (backstory down-thread 🧵)

🧪 What a colossally destructive mistake to close OHSU’s primate facility, ONPRC www.science.org/content/arti...

Watched this happen on the iced-over Monongahela river Friday from my window at work. #Pittsburgh #Pgh #Heron #Birds 🧊 🎣

Bravo and kudos, Italo!

My quote of the day

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

📰 A few years ago I saved to my iPhone home screen (as an icon) this “text only” #News Feed from NPR @npr.org. It hasn’t disappointed. Highly recommend getting your news sans ads & graphics/ advertising bs. #ProTip here’s the link text.npr.org

"I hear the anger from many of my constituents" Contacting lawmakers works. Red district or blue district, state or federal, it doesn't matter: if you oppose this, tell them

Wife and I in tears reading this…

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Now requires a disambiguation page

WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment

"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.

At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.

It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

The NYT clearly states in its reporting that the federal government's version of events is contradicted by videos of the shooting today. Here is @melodyschreiber.com piece on the victim, a VA nurse who worked in the ICU www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Minnesota Officials Say They’ve Been Blocked From Investigation Into Federal Agent’s Killing of a Minneapolis Resident State officials said they took the unusual step of obtaining a search warrant for the scene but were still denied access by Department of Homeland Security officials.

NEWS: Minnesota investigators just said they were unable to do any work on the scene where Border Patrol agents shot and killed a US citizen.

They even went so far as to obtain a search warrant, and DHS still blocked their access to the scene.

Man shot in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

Alex Pretti took care of veterans as an ICU nurse. “He was a super nice, super helpful guy – looked after his patients," said @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social, who worked with Pretti both at the hospital and on scientific research. "I’m just stunned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

As US Is Poised To Lose Measles-Free Status, RFK’s New CDC Deputy Downplays Its Significance - KFF Health News Measles is at a 30-year high in the U.S., but technicalities may stave off the loss of the nation’s measles elimination status.

🦠My latest:

RFK's new CDC appointee shrugs off the potential loss of the U.S.’ measles-elimination status and deflects blame to other countries.

“It’s just the cost of doing business with our borders being somewhat porous.”

@kffhealthnews.org

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Science shows very different psychiatric disorders might have the same cause A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients.

🧪 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/3LlURDk

Whether or not you agree with the the views here, this is an insightful interview.