Casey Theriot

A federal agency - which controls an enormous amount of money - is breaking the law to hide its decisions from you and avoid accountability.

Hey OMB, see you in court.

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

Thank you Senator Tillis! NC folks drop him an email or make a call and thank him

We’ve known for months now that Vought was illegally impounding funds with the goals of rescissions. Better late than never for GOP Senators to politely ask that he stop breaking the law.

Enterococcus faecalis modulates phase variation in Clostridioides difficile https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666506v1

I am so excited about this meeting. I will cover the discovery of 10,000s new metabolites, including an entirely new class of molecules. Looking forward to hearing and discussing your science on microbiome metabolites and metabolism.

Probiotics Can Help or Hinder Gut Recovery After Antibiotic Treatment

New paper is out from our lab showing that some probiotics can accelerate and prolong the return of colonization resistance to C. difficile after antibiotics.
news.ncsu.edu/2025/07/prob...

Join us in Banff, CAN January 19-22 for the Keystone meeting on Microbiome Metabolism and Metabolites! Early scholarship deadline is September 23!

100+ UNC research projects lose federal funding UNC-Chapel Hill is navigating a significant $126 million reduction in federal grant funding compared to last fiscal year.

Thanks to WRAL for documenting the tremendous impact of the Trump administration efforts to end important research grants
www.wral.com/news/local/u...

We are looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to join our team at NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, near Research Triangle Park. If you are interested please DM me and or also apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/219...

Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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We are looking for a new postdoctoral fellow to join our team at NC State University College of Veterinary Medicine, near Research Triangle Park. If you are interested please DM me and or also apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/219...

Incredible work, JP!

#McClintockLetters

The microbiome diversifies long- to short-chain fatty acid-derived N-acyl lipids Mass spectrometry data mining tools enabled the creation of an MS/MS spectral library containing hundreds of N-acyl lipids, including conjugates with short-chain fatty acids. This resource enabled the...

If you have ever wondered what might happen to short chain fatty acids made by the microbiome. Here is a large class of metabolites and how they link to biology. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Jay Bhattacharya & Russ Vought are taking $566 million in NIH funding from my state (we are #2 in terminated grants)

The impact will be truly horrific, but these 2 men will rejoice 😡

Bhattacharya took $129 million from Duke’s HIV vaccine development efforts: www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025... 🤬

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Is it televised?

Senate Democrats to hold hearings on mass terminations at HHS, decrying RFK Jr. "destructive rampage" The widespread terminations at the Department of Health and Human Services have drawn questions about the functioning of key health programs.

Testifying tomorrow at a Senate hearing showcasing damage done to HHS by (personnel) terminations 3:00-4:30 convened by Senators Welch and Baldwin.

With former leaders from CDC, SAMSHA< AHRQ, ACL (Admin. for Community Living)

www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

It's worth commenting on the proposed plan to take away COVID boosters for people under 65. It takes 2 minutes.

That said, I am really tired of having to comment on every dumb-ass thing every day. Could we just not destroy our society?

I can’t recommend this enough.

UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses.

It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Excited to share our new work in @aga-gastro.bsky.social! We show that dietary fiber alters the window of susceptibility to C. difficile following antibiotic exposure. This really fantastic study was co-led by an amazing team @rinniehewlett.bsky.social @alhecht.bsky.social and Amanda PeBenito.

Hey do you guys remember the promises @SecKennedy made to @SenBillCassidy?

I do.

youtu.be/QrJcBtkfwvo?si…

Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial priority pathogen

Important: if a bug does not make the WHO's priority list, this does not mean it is not relevant. We present arguments why investment in R&D for surveillance, control and treatment of C. difficile (CDI) is of critical importance: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to announce the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting: Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection. Join us in Breckenridge in May 2026!!

You can check out the program and amazing lineup of speakers below: keysym.us/KSAntibiotics26

#KSAntibiotics26

‘It’s not too late to do something’: An open letter from a leading vaccine advocate to Sen. Cassidy about RFK Jr. “No amount of data showing that RFK Jr. is wrong will change his mind,” vaccine advocate Paul Offit writes in an open letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy.

“No amount of data showing that RFK Jr. is wrong will change his mind,” vaccine advocate Paul Offit writes in an open letter to Sen. Bill Cassidy.

www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/r...

It doesn't even matter if you are on the list when everyone is on the list. Impoundment in process, which needs more attention and policy-level responses given local impacts.

NSF - stopped paying.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH - stopped awarding.
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‘It’s been a tough period’: NIH’s new director speaks with Science Jay Bhattacharya discusses staff morale, grant cuts, and “rumors”

This report of interview with new NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social reveals a real $hit show...

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

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Step up--great action plan here!!

Front page @nytimes.com today
1 of 6 charts of the 1st 100 days
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...