Anne Estes

The Microbirth Plan - Documentary More than a documentary. It’s a plan to protect the future of our species. | Check out 'The Microbirth Plan - Documentary' on Indiegogo.

I just supported Toni Harmon's/Alto Films latest documentary about #microbiome of #birth and first foods. Please join me in supporting this important film. 🤱🤰👶🧪 #microbiome

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Using this resource on AI vs human capable Bloom's Taxonomy from @oregonstate.edu as I write learning objectives! #STEMEdu 🍎🧪

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How to write a Symbiosis class syllabus. 😆 Loving working at Ovenbird coffee shop these last few weeks while our youngest is at a synthetic biology camp. #Baltimore

Respiratory Virus Vaccine Reduced Number of Babies Hospitalized by 72% The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, introduced across the UK in late summer 2024, led to a 72% reduction in babies hospitalised with the virus if mothers were vaccinated, a new study has…

A new study shows that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV led to a 72% drop in hospitalizations for babies with the virus in the UK, highlighting the real-world effectiveness of the vaccine in protecting infants.
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A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Whooping cough (pertussis) is also known as “100 day cough” bc it can cause 100 days of coughing so severe that rib fractures are common. It also makes small children stop breathing without warning, often fatally.

Vaccination can prevent up to 89% of infections but requires boosting every few years

2025 LIFE RCN Seminar Series Episode 1: Dr. Rogier Braakman — LIFE Research Coordination Network On June 10th, 2025, at 8AM PDT/11AM EDT, the LIFE RCN will be excited to introduce Dr. Rogier Braakman, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an adjunct scientist at Th...

Excited to give a virtual seminar in the NASA LIFE RCN series next Tuesday June 10th, at 8am PST/11am EST.

I'll be talking about the Chitin Raft Hypothesis and the rise of planktonic marine cyanobacteria.

🧪🦠⚒️🌐 #Paleobio #MEvoSky #MicroSky

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The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

Indiana Budget Bill Contains Sweeping Higher Ed Changes When Republicans revealed the legislation last week, new provisions requiring faculty to post syllabi and face “productivity” reviews had appeared. The bill quickly passed.

If signed, Indiana bill will require faculty at public colleges and universities to post their syllabi online and undergo “productivity” reviews.

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This is such a cool tool and exactly how we should have framed NIH research all along: Taxpayers fund scientists to understand disease and discover new treatments—and we deliver. It’s public investment that saves lives and improves health for everyone. Direct ROI. 🧪🧫 #IDsky #GastroySky

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
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NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

So some good news: recruitment has resumed for postbac and postdoc programs at NIH www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Here in Princeton, NJ, a town of about 30,000 people, the crowd at the #HandsOff protest. Appeared to be about 1300-1500 people, as high as 5% of the population. It's the largest event I have seen in this public space.

Measles Can Have Lasting Health Effects on Adults and Children (Gift Article) An infection can cause health problems that linger for years.

One reason to try super hard not to get measles as an adult is that it can, for a period of years, cause your body's cells to "forget" your other immunities 😬

It's HIGHLY contagious; some people need regular boosters; some people can't get one at all.

Pls talk to your health care provider!
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.

When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Antiviral unveiled that goes after multiple coronaviruses Open-science consortium discloses its lead candidate to fight SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV

New pancoronavirus antiviral targets the main protease (Mpro) of the two different coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and COVID-19. Via @laurahowes.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs...

Cannot recommend highly enough if you need. I have, and was just so grateful to have the resource.

Please repost: Postdoc position in antibiotic discovery in a large multidisciplinary project combining high-throughput approaches, microscopy, AI, and hit-to-lead optimization at @umontreal.ca and @mila-quebec.bsky.social. Apply to ML.Antibiotics@gmail.com. See
lnkd.in/dVVk4N3s. #microsky

My friend and colleague Alison Pouliot has co-written an important book on "wild mushrooming," and I'm glad that we at the Rachel Carson Center can publish an excerpt. You will also find a part of her 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘪 on our Portal, and soon an excerpt from 𝘔𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴.

INTRATERRESTRIALS | Kirkus Reviews Confronting the “shocking enormity” of all we don’t know.

It's a star! ⭐

Kirkus Reviews calls @karenlloyd.bsky.social, "one of those rare gifted writers who can be broadly profound as she is precise" in their STARRED review of Intraterrestrials.

Check it out: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I just heard about it! Looks interesting! Congrats on the Kirkus review! That's huge!

Trump’s team scrubbed environmental pages from the internet. This group is bringing them back to life A new guide from the Southern Environmental Law Center helps environmental advocates find tools, websites, and datasets that have been shut down by the Trump administration.

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Key Federal Food Safety Advisory Committees, NACMCF and NACMPI, Have Been Terminated Two key advisory committees, responsible for providing impartial scientific advice to federal public health agencies (USDA, FDA, CDC) relative to food safety, have been terminated: the National Adviso...

The National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection was established by Richard Nixon’s administration.

The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods was established by Ronald Reagan’s administration.

Committee members were appointed and received no compensation.

USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

Congrats!

An oral norovirus vaccine tablet was safe and elicited mucosal immunity in older adults in a phase 1b clinical trial An oral norovirus vaccine tablet is safe and induces strong mucosal and systemic immune responses in adults aged 55 to 80 years.

In the US alone, each year, norovirus causes ~20 million acute gastroenteritis cases, 70,000 hospitalizations, up to 800 deaths, at a cost of ~$10.6 billion annually.
An pill vaccine shows considerable promise in a clinical trial, establishing mucosal immunity
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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...