Colin Reardon

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

KEY POINTS • Enterochromaffin (EC) cells release signaling molecules which can activate nearby sensory nerves.Whether this occurs via a conventional synapse for-mation is unknown. • EC cells rarely make contact with sensory nerves inthe upper gut but this frequency increases in the distal colon. • Neurite-like protrusiton on EC cells, named by some as “neuropods” are not a preferential site of contact with nerve fibres.

🆕 #Neuroepithelial landscape of #Enterochromaffin cells varies across #GI location‼️
✅EC cells rarely make contact with sensory nerves in upper gut but this frequency increases in distal colon👏
🎯 #Neuropods are not a preferential site of contact🔥
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#ANMS #ESNM

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have.

www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

Action Memo for Senior Bureau Official John Armstrong FROM: SUBJECT: CA/VO - Stuart Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary (SBU) Revocation of Fl Visa for Rumeysa OZTURK (SBU) Recommendation 1: That you approve the revocation of the Fl visa, effective immediately, for under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Due to ongoing ICE operational security, this revocation will be silent; the Department will not notify the subject. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] (SBU) Recommendation 2: That you authorize the transmission of the attached notification to the Department of Homeland Security noting the, immediate revocation of OZTURK's visa. (Approve/Disapprove by 03/21/25) Decision: [Approved] Background (SBU} On March 21, 2025, the Assistant Director of the National Security Division of DHS/ICE's Homeland Security Investigations referred to CA information regarding Rumeysa OZTURK, a Turkish national, for a possible determination by the Secretary that the alien is deportable under INA section 237(a)(4)(C). As a nonimmigrant visa holder, such a determination is not necessary for OHS/ICE to pursue removal of OZTURK from the United States, as INA section 237(a}(1)(B) provides that an alien is deportable if their nonimmigrant visa has been revoked under INA section 221(i).

(SBU) Under INA section 221(i), the Secretary of State may at any time, in his discretion, revoke a visa.. This authority is delegated to you pursuant to Delegation of Authority 367-4. Department policy reflected in 9 FAM 403.ll~S(B) provides that a visa may be revoked in cases of a suspected ineligibility, when an individual would not meet requirements .for admission, or "in other situations where warranted." (SBU) OZTURK was issued an F-1 visa on December 14, 2020, valid until December 9, 2025. According to information provided by OHS/ICE/HSI OZTURK is a post doctorate degree candidate in Child Studies and Human Development at Tufts University. On March 21, 2025, OHS/ICE/HSI referred information to CA indicating that OZTURK co-authored an op-ed in Tufts' student newspaper. In this article, the authors wrote, "Graduate Students for Pal'estine joins Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (TSJP), the Tufts Faculty and Staff Coalition for Ceasefire, .and Fletcher Students for Palestine to reject the ,University's response" {to a student government resolution). According to OHS/ICE/HSI, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine was placed\\ on interim suspension 11 after it used images of weapons to promote a protest rally and urged members of the Tufts community to 'join the student intifada." OHS/ICE/HSI referral concluded that "OZTURK's involvement in these activities and associations with these groups may undermine U.S. foreign. policy by creating a hostile environment for Jewish students and indicating support for a designated terrorist organization." (SBU) While OZTURK has been involved with the actions protesting Turfts' relationship with Israel, QHS/ICE/HSI has not, however, provided any evidence showing that OZTURK has engaged in any antisemitic activity or made any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally. While the report implies a connection between OZTURK and the now-banned Tufts Student for Justice in Pa…

OZTURK was involved in any of the activities which resulted in TJSP being suspended from Tufts. (SBU) Through a search on March 21, 2025, on available USG interagency databases, CA/VO identified no reporting specific to OZTURK, and interagency vetting partners did not provide any response to OZTURK's 2024 visa application indicating the existence of derogatory terrorism-related information. (SBU) OHS did not identify any alternative grounds of removability that would be applicable to OZTURK, including the ground of removability for aliens who have provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist activity, and have not indicated whether it plans to consider termination of OZTURK's SEVIS registration. Although information provided by OHS/HSI/ICE does not establish any potential ineligibility for OZTURK, you may, in your discretion and in accordance with Department policy in 9 FAM 403.11-5(8), approve revocation of her F-1 visa effective immediately based on the totality of the circumstances presented indicating that revocation may be warranted.

Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed.

No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism.

An op-ed in a student newspaper.

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Teaching a pathogenic microbiology graduate class this semester. Did I use the pathogens for which the vaccines have been removed from the cdc recommended vaccine schedule as the examples for deep dives? Yes, yes I did. 😁

If we continue to compromise with people whose stated goal is to destroy NIH, then we will not be successful in saving it.

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

Here’s a better version bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair Macrophages are crucial for the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis, are considered key proinflammatory effector cells during intestinal inflammatio…

Thrilled for our wonderful postdoc @lizihegarty.bsky.social whose #PhD work on colonic #macrophages and #colitis with @bainlab.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social has been accepted for publication in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social 🔬

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are private jets being affected by this? Cause we could just cancel all those instead 🤷‍♀️

Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Faculty Position in Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology We are seeking an outstanding integrative physiologist (broadly defined) for the position of Assistant Professor (tenure track) to join our faculty in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology in the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), UC Davis. Our department is a highly integrated group of faculty studying molecular, cellular, physiological, and pathophysiological mechanisms of health and disease. The candidate should have an active research program that focuses on interdisciplinary physiology research using state-of- the-art approaches. We welcome research which diversifies our expertise, and/or that which complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory systems as well as developmental biology. Candidates are expected to expand access to education and provide opportunities in research for students, trainees, and the community across various life and professional experiences. • Candidates must possess a PhD and postdoctoral experience in physiology or a related field. • Aptitude/experience in teaching broad-based physiology or functional anatomy to professional or graduate students. • Experience with grant writing. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and collegially within a diverse community.

Sunrise at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

Sunrise in Davis CA

Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are dispensable or detrimental in murine systemic or respiratory viral infections - Nature Immunology Previous research has suggested that pDCs are required for an effective antiviral immune response, but direct experimental evidence to support this is lacking. Here Ngo et al. develop a pDC knockin mouse model and find that pDCs are dispensable for an antiviral immune response to mouse cytomegalovirus and may be detrimental during influenza or SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are dispensable or detrimental in murine systemic or respiratory viral infections @natimmunol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rheumatoid arthritis kept her captive. This nerve stimulator set her free A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to drugs.

A new surgically implanted device the size of a lima bean can help control rheumatoid arthritis that isn't responding to medications.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Immune cell profiling reveals diverse niches of immune residents of the enteric nervous system and potential neuroimmune interactions
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Seems pretty unlikely now.

data wrangler in action?

Amazing amount of work by Co-first author grad students, input from collaborators in @gareaulab.bsky.social, supported by NIH and @cziscience.bsky.social

Happy to share our new publication. Inhibition of acute lung inflammation by a neuroimmune circuit induced by vagal nerve stimulation | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Putin-loving guy who always looks like he’s on something (but got to bypass his background check & security clearance), who put me on a State Dept “subversives” list, gutted its capacity, and is planning to Wikileaks its anti-propaganda org, has such an interesting personal story. 👀

Uncanny.

If you add some f bombs in the search terms google stops with the ai summary too. But to each their own.

Don't forget to register for the 2025 Goyal Award Lectureship as we recognize the outstanding contributions of @gareaulab.bsky.social on Monday, May 12th at 11am EDT! Join us for great talk on #microbiota-#gut-#brain axis in #neonates! #GIresearch #Gastrosky #GIsky @apsphysiology.bsky.social

Amazing view from GIL banquet last night 🤩
#APS2025

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM

Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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State can’t or won’t even support the UC how is this going to work?

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Primary all democrats that go along with this bullshit

Anyone else’s submitted grant still not have an application id assigned? Apparently many grants from my university are sitting in this limbo stage. Most seem to be R21s…

Free Mahmoud Khalil.