Jeremy Kamil

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this."

The latest from former U.S. surgeons general Jerome Adams, Richard Carmona, Joycelyn Elders, Vivek Murthy, Antonia Novello and David Satcher:

These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.

Over the last year, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier. Here’s a list of 99 of those hacks. #Academicsky 🧪

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

Continued degradation of science and medicine in the US. Since they don't understand the science, Trump political appointees at NIH will use lists of words to disallow highly rated research grants. 🧪
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Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

The damage done - Nature Medicine When clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders.

A feature in Nature Medicine explains the repercussions for investigators and patients when clinical trials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts and how they do not stop at borders. 🧪

Screenshot of text snippet from article, reads: Mr. Bigtree said that getting polio was "like having a cold," a notion that public health experts say is false and dangerous. He said that infection with the disease could offer strong immunity. "Polio is not the epidemic that we believe that it is," Mr. Bigtree said

🤔 Aaron Siri, a lawyer friend/ally of RFK Jr is making 💰 off / leading lawsuits that dovetail with RFK Jr’s anti vax + Tylenol autism noise? Of course, these folks who roll with Dell Bigtree are shaping US public health policy from the very top 🙃 📰 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...

Powerful piece by @richardastone.bsky.social about the rise in multidrug resistant bacteria in Ukraine's war-wounded and the threats the bugs also pose to non-soldiers and other countries. Very glad to see it in @knowablemag.bsky.social Thank you @pulitzercenter.org for funding Rich's travels. 🧪

Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby

Yet again, we see that vaccinated mothers tend to have healthier pregnancies and infants.

Women who were vaccinated against COVID during pregnancy had a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks & lower risk of congenital anomalies.

🧪 www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

Cryo-EM structures reveal the molecular mechanism of SUMO E1–E2 thioester transfer Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, Published online: 25 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01681-8This study reveals how human small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) E1 recruits its E2 partner UBC9 and transfers SUMO1 through large structural changes, uncovering key mechanisms that ensure specificity and fidelity in SUMOylation, an essential protein modification pathway.

New online: Cryo-EM structures reveal the molecular mechanism of SUMO E1–E2 thioester transfer

an old building with climbing plants around the door with purple flowers. The sign above the door says school of botany 1907

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Unspeakable cruelty (“gift” 🔗) #USAID wapo.st/46GSwcv

It took off because they foist it on you.. like Explorer pre-installed on Windows. I remember being super annoyed when Apple changed their Music App to be “subscription”-forward. Eventually I gave in for “convenience,” sake. And yeah, it can be expensive to buy every MP3.. but wow we got hoodwinked

So yeah, subscription services have pretty thoroughly enshittified the experience of listening to music. Amazing feat.

Just (re)-discovering the huge MP3 library I presciently backed up to Dropbox ~12 years ago. (Kiddos: Back in ancient times we would buy CDs and “rip” them to MP3 or buy MP3 albums) Streaming music I own using CloudBeats. What a revelation! Sound quality much better than Spotify or Apple Music too

I feel like Portlandia could film an entire new season, or hell, better yet a spin off.. “Apocalypse Now: Portlandia”

Google Gemini image rendering of a dude with a large greying beard in anarchist military fatigues holding a beer. He’s on a boat in a Pacific Northwest forested river gorge at sunset / dusk and there are rainbow flags and young folks with dyed hair in the background holding cases of beer.

Heart of Darkness, 2025: US Marine Corporal Kurtz gets deployed to Portland and ends up deep up the Columbia River gorge leading a trans-positive ANTIFA microbrewery.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up Towns from Washington state to Indiana have seen armed groups begin patrolling the streets after rumors spread on social media about an antifa invasion.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland.

Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming.

No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

My quote of the day

The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree.

Timothy Snyder

Why would Democrats agree to any budget deal when all of it can be overturned by executive fiat?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

Congrats!! And bravo! 🍾

In a chaotic meeting, RFK Jr.’s handpicked advisers begin altering the childhood vaccine schedule Kennedy says he wants to restore trust in vaccines. His hand-picked ACIP panel raised many doubts, and outside experts were left baffled and frustrated.

Absolutely brilliant synopsis of the #ACIP meeting by @statnews.com
@chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social @elaineywchen.bsky.social @lizzylawrence.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

AlphaFold model of the complex formed between HK2 and the SOX10 5′UTR (189–204 nts). The predicted RNA structure is shown in cyan, and HK2 protein is shown in green. HK2 residues and SOX10 mRNA nucleotides at the interaction interface are highlighted in red. Inset: schematic representation of the secondary structure of the SOX10 5′UTR (189–204 nts) predicted by Mfold, with the putative HK2-binding region (194–198 nts) marked in red.

Hexokinase 2 (HK2) is known for its metabolic role in #glycolysis. This study shows that it also functions as an #RNAbindingProtein that regulates mRNA translation, particularly of SOX10, promoting #melanoma cell proliferation independently of glycolysis @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ViI1qL

Five Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Microbiology, Evolution, and Biological Clocks - College Station, Texas job with Department of Biology - TAMU | 675062 Texas A&M University (TAMU) invites applications for five full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor positions

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

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Photograph taken while hiking, showing the intrusive igneous rock that makes up this part of the mountain range.

Sugarloaf, on the east side of the Organ Mountains, as seen from the Pine Tree Trail in southern New Mexico.

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

Top notch 🎦 OpEd by @derekberes.bsky.social & Alexander Stockton. “Using AI to identify narrative patterns across nearly 12,000 videos + podcasts from the world of wellness, NYT Opinion Video reconstructed the MAHA conspiracy theory rabbit hole” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...

Wow!

Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion.

A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!!

This is why vaccine equity matters!

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...