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Josh Mattila

@joshmattila.bsky.social

Researching macrophages and neutrophils in TB || Entomology PhD, ticks and tick-borne bacteria || macro photography and reef aquaria enthusiast || opinions my own || Northern Minnnesotan

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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15389    πŸ” 5952    πŸ’¬ 490    πŸ“Œ 261

Incredibly stupid and short-sighted

05.08.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rickettsia parkeri forms extensive, stable contacts with the rough endoplasmic reticulum Acevedo-SΓ‘nchez et al. characterize a novel interkingdom contact site between the ER and a cytosolic bacterial pathogen. They report that these bacteria–ER

@lamasonlab.bsky.social: obligate intracellular pathogen #Rickettsia interacts extensively and stability with rough ER of host cell using ER tethers VAPA and VAPB #phages 🦠
rupress.org/jcb/article/...

05.08.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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How many plasmids can bacteria carry? A synthetic biology perspective | Open Biology Plasmids are pinnacle tools in synthetic biology and other biotechnological applications. They serve as the simplest approach to introduce recombinant DNA, which is then transcribed into RNA that func...

How many #plasmids can #bacteria carry? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

04.08.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Delighted that our first paper from Tanzania on the temporal complexity of non-adherence to anti-TB treatment came out today- we started this collaboration in difficult circumstances back in covid times, building our relationships from scratch via videocall; I'm so delighted at how far we've come.

04.08.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

03.08.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2688    πŸ” 1231    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 272

Rickettsia peacockii, the East Side Agent, and it's epidemiologic association with spotted fever group rickettsial infection in Montana's Bitterroot Valley!

04.08.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Intrinsic differences in hamster and mouse macrophage biology correlate with susceptibility to L. donovani infection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.01.668127v1

03.08.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

01.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2463    πŸ” 1030    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 41

Rewriting history to protect the egos of powerful people never turns out well.

01.08.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis (shown in mice). In humans, cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5Γ— higher cancer-related deathsβ€”and 1.4Γ— greater breast cancer.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

30.07.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 19
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β€˜Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades β€” until they one day trigger a relapse

go.nature.com/41iIdJR

30.07.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 113    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 17
NOT-OD-25-138: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs NOT-OD-25-138. NIH

NIH wants to hear from you. No really.

Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

31.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

Mehdi's doing the Lord's work in this interview. Great stuff.

31.07.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

28.07.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 834    πŸ” 292    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 74
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Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. - NewsBreak In an urgent effort to save Hawaii’s critically endangered native birds, drones are now being used to drop thousands of lab-bred mosquitoes into the island

In an urgent effort to save Hawaii’s critically endangered native birds from avian malaria, drones are now being used to drop #Wolbachia and thousands of lab-bred mosquitoes into the island forests. What a future come true.

www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-l...

27.07.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Uffda. The Midwest in August can be hot hot hot! Safe travels!

30.07.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New analysis predicts sprawling effects of proposed NIH budget cuts Initial analyses of the Trump administration’s proposed NIH cuts neglect key aspects of their long-term economic and health impact, study says.

"While members of Congress asked the CBO to model cuts on the scale of Trump’s fiscal year 2026 budget proposal, the reductions are so large that they broke the models."

www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/n...

29.07.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

But will it actually matter? Senate Rs have already confirmed a whole parade liars who they knew were lying to them.

28.07.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity):
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Postdoc:
www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Please feel free to share this opportunity with anyone who might be interested!

28.07.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic Research Associate - Microbial Metabolomic

*JOB AD*: interested in doing a postdoc in microbial metabolomics? Passionate about natural products mass spec?

Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome!

Closing Date: 19 August 2025

jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

22.07.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

27.07.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2624    πŸ” 966    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 27

I knew Dave Morris from my days as a student in Bemidji High School (I spent some time in his office πŸ™ƒ). His attitude would've been predictable even then.

27.07.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 12 months since the Second Edition Viral Vectors eBook went live! You can download this helpful guide here: https://twp.ai/4ifKmL

11.07.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has he broken out the "just for research purposes" excuse yet?

26.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Treatment Action Group Statement on Suspension of TB Funding Over White House Gain-of-Function Fictions – Treatment Action Group Treatment Action Group (TAG) opposes in the strongest possible terms the suspension of at least 22 TB research awards by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following a May 2025 White House execut...

"In TAG’s view, the suspended TB studies do not pose a substantial risk to the American public in comparison with the clear and present danger of TB, which is the world’s leading cause of death from a single infectious agent."

www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/tr...

26.07.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Wadsworth Center is expanding it's research focus on #virology /vector-borne diseases!
www.asmcareerconnections.org/job/research-scientist-5-g-31/78488664/
This is a unicorn assistant prof equivalent position with 12-month hard money salary and no teaching commitments (!)
Reposts appreciated πŸ™

03.06.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

26.07.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

25.07.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 15
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health.

"Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."

25.07.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4370    πŸ” 1905    πŸ’¬ 326    πŸ“Œ 159

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