Jessica Lane 👩🏼‍🔬

We are also excited to welcome a new postdoc @jrlane2014.bsky.social to the Rosen Lab! We hope she likes Klebsiella pneumoniae as much as Streptococcus pneumoniae. Fun fact: Jessica has 2 cats named Teddy and Binx 🐈 🐈‍⬛

Europneumo 2025 ✅
📍Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal

Opinion | America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

We started our Ph.D.s during COVID-19. Now, we’re graduating into political chaos “It is difficult to absorb all the uncertainty and still hold on to hope,” this Ph.D. student writes

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Hi all, a postdoc position is open in my lab @ UAB. If you like Gram+'s, molecular biology, and pathogenesis consider applying. We study how S. pneumoniae causes disease. See the ad for details:

uab.edu/postdocs/pro...

scholars.uab.edu/3120-carlos-...

Please share if you know someone

@standupforscience.bsky.social

#StandupforScience
📍Birmingham, AL
#madscientists

Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...

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Birmingham stands with science! #standforscience2025

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Mass. leads court challenge on Trump's cuts to medical research funding Over 20 states are suing the Trump administration over planned cuts to funding at medical and public health research institutions nationwide. The coalition of 22 state attorneys general is challenging...

The ATS applauds 22 state attorneys general in challenging NIH medical research funding cut. Friday's NIH action to cut life-saving medical research is prohibited by law. www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n...

On Feb. 7 the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced it is capping facilities & administration costs (also known as indirect costs) to 15% starting Feb. 10. This will devastate science & scientific research in the U.S. Email your members of Congress now: asm.org/Articles/Pol...

Bird Flu Enters a New Phase, Scientists Say (Gift Article) A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

A bird flu pandemic is not inevitable. But a series of developments over the past few weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

Chicago you were wonderful #AIC2024 🧫 🌃🎄

Can I please be added to this?

Can I please be added to this?

Slowly putting together a UAB starter pack as some of us slowly move over! Will contain UAB official accounts, faculty, staff, graduate students/graduate alumni, etc! Let me know people I’m missing so I can add them to it!

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Had a great time at the UAB Microbiology Department retreat! 🧫🦠