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Ira Blader

@bladerlab.bsky.social

I'm a Professor who studies how parasites grow and cause disease. NY ➡️ קיבוץ כפר בלום ➡️ VT➡️UAB ➡️Stanford ➡️OUHSC ➡️UB➡️VT. Currently, Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at Virginia Tech Vet School https://tinyurl.com/mrxm2uhm

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Who had a better day than me? @virginiatech.bsky.social #hokies #hokiebird

09.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man is talking to a woman and says so you 're telling me there 's a chance . ALT: a man is talking to a woman and says so you 're telling me there 's a chance .
09.10.2025 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone is buttering you up to become IBC committee chair

09.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tell Aaron Boone that she is ready to pinch hit #newyorkyankees

08.10.2025 02:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evolution of polyamine resistance in Staphylococcus aureus through modulation of potassium transport | mSphere Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of infectious disease-related deaths globally. Understanding factors that govern adaptation and survival of S. aureus and other pathogens in the host environme...

Evolution of polyamine resistance in Staphylococcus aureus through modulation of potassium transport

#mSphere from @biobarber.bsky.social

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

19.08.2025 13:26 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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Nasal microbionts differentially colonize and elicit cytokines in human nasal epithelial organoids | mSphere Human nasal microbiota often includes highly pathogenic members, many of which are antimicrobial resistance threats, e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and drug-resistant Streptococcus ...

Happy to share this new article online at #mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Human nasal organoids (HNOs) are a new model system for studying bacterial colonization and interspecies interactions. A big congratulations to the whole team, especially co-first authors: Andrea Boyd and Leah Kafer

01.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Look who just learned how to use an AI Image generator

27.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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I bet that no one can write a significance and innovstion section for a NIH grant than this.

25.09.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Classic both siderism. Brady is a a’hole but he would be less of an a’hole if I didnt have to see his a’hole face anymore on sundays.

25.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IYKYK

24.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

!!שנה טובה ומתוקה

23.09.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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[We are Hiring!]

The Weiss Lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NY) is hiring a Postdoc Scientist to explore the Toxoplasma gondii cyst wall using XL-MS, Split TurboID, & U-ExM.

This project aims to unlock new strategies for treating toxoplasmosis.

DM for more info!

19.09.2025 16:28 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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@livgolfleague.bsky.social @pganews.bsky.social are you going to allow hate speech by one if your players against a sitting member if congress?

21.09.2025 21:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In fact, the Rapture may be a ligand for an Orphan GPCR. 🤯

21.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thats the confident swagger that is gonna beat the rapture. 🧎‍♂️‍➡️🤲🙏

21.09.2025 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Your grant is all we have to hsng out hopes on. So no pressure

21.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can @mikefeigin.bsky.social recognize the source of that bagel?

20.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#hokies

14.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whats wrong college football? Head coaches are out of control

14.09.2025 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The bills should run a play where they fake a screen snd throw to rb in flat on other side of field

14.09.2025 18:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ed who?? #billsmafia

14.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chill. Its gonna be ok. Trust in JA17

14.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What’s really sick and demented about this is that he knew by then who the shooter was and his background. But lying and playing the victim are his only sources of oxygen

12.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lol. i honestly couldn't give a shit what NY State or anyone associated with @NYCures does with its research funding. But damn, blocking a colleague because they pointed out the obvious is not the look you think it is.

11.09.2025 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

to clarify, I am not in NY anymore but this downstate bias is real and self-defeating.

11.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

After 12 years as faculty member at Uni at Buffalo I've learned that "state-wide" initiatives means bringing together labs from Lower, Midtown, and Uptown Manhattan. Ignoring Stony Brook, UB, UR, RPCI, Upstate Med continues the divide between NYC and is not statewide. And that's a shame

11.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
ASM Announces Honorees for 2026 Awards and Prize Program ASM announced the 2026 Awards and Prize Program recipients. The awards recognize leading scientists and researchers for their accomplishments and contributions to research, education and leadership.

Congrats to #mSphere Senior Editor Michael Johson @copperbae.bsky.social for this award from @asm.org that recognizes the important work that Michael is doing to ensure and promote equity and access for all scientists. Congrats Michael - you're awe inspriring. asm.org/press-releas...

10.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Soon we will be hearing how Mein Kompf was just a silly story of a man who just wanted to feel the grass between his toes and just wanted the jews to not ruin his day at the park

08.09.2025 21:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am sure that the supreme court will weigh in on this and with a 6-3 decision proclaim that trump has the right to be a child predator because …. Thats what their bosses in Moscow want them to decide

08.09.2025 21:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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