Kevin Bonham

Episode 53 - Something catastrophic Can we use a single vaccine against chicken eggs to protect against literally every pathogen out there? Eh, probably not.

On the latest @audiommunity.org - No, we're probably not going to prevent all respiratory diseases with a chicken-egg vaccine, but it's still cool immunology! Plus, @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I kvetch about new NIH policies on peer review 🧪

Ignorance is strength.

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway (I used Gemini Nano Banana 2 to create this fictional image.)

This piece by Elizabeth Ginexi is a must read. Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya are destroying the NIH simply ignoring the law and the US Congress. It’s illegal and immoral. The NIH Restructuring Congress Rejected Is Happening Anyway open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

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No, I think I heard it on some NPR show 20 years ago and never thought to follow up 🤷

Does this include the whole "judges parole more people after lunch" finding?

On the one hand, it would be nice to know that that particular source of capricious justice is wrong. On the other, distressing to know I've been confidently asserting this falsely for years

It really annoys me that the AI boosters mention these kinds of breakthroughs in the same breath as things like chatGPT. The fact that chat bots can draft off of things like alpha fold to gain legitimacy is just dumb

Cotton-Top Tamarins Meet for the First Time YouTube video by Museum of Science

For cotton-top tamarins, friendship is survival. 🐒🧪

After losing her longtime companion, Jane is meeting Hermy in a carefully planned introduction designed to support the natural social structure of this endangered primate species native to Colombia.

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Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

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Tell Gov. Healey: OpenAI Contract Needs to Be Open Last Friday, Governor Healey committed Massachusetts to a three-year, multimillion-dollar contract with OpenAI, a company that has been in the news recently for collaborating with ICE, to deploy its A...

Ask Gov. Healey to release the contract for the recent deal with Open AI.

We should know what, if any, privacy protections are in it.

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This is good news in the same way that ambulances arriving at the scene of a 50 car pileup is good news.

Wouldn't that be illegal under the ACA? I thought insurers can't refuse to cover people anymore.

Or Rumi: "Don’t turn your head. Keep looking at
the bandaged place. That’s where the
light enters you."

Or Cohen: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

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The average rent in Wellesley, MA is $4200/mo

Ah that'll do, thanks ☺️

Is there another place where the contents of this thread are written up? Not everyone in my life will know what to make of a bsky thread 😅

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

It's also worth noting that, due to the long incubation time of measles, it's not too late to protect yourself from your next exposure. And all the ones after that.

That's amazing 🤩. Sometimes it feels like that paper vanished into the ether because I started another postdoc in human microbiome and didn't really make the rounds with it. Very gratifying to hear that it had legs!

Extensive horizontal gene transfer in cheese-associated bacteria The identification of horizontally transferred genes, and commonly transferred functions, can provide a window into the selective forces acting on species within an ecosystem.

I assume the other advisor also needs to be UMD? If not, I'd be interested - been wanting to get back into HGT elifesciences.org/articles/22144

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I am doing a short workshop in this symposium (quoted below) for folks in and around Leipzig. Here's the abstract. I really indulged myself with this one.

A Guerilla Approach to Scientific Workflow:

Episode 52 - Close to the squeezey part Glaaaands - In this episode, Matt and Kevin talk about a new paper describing a new kind of macrophage. Or is it a dendritic cell? Or are categories meaningless?

Macrophages in your glands! Or are they dendritic cells? @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I discuss a new paper coining a new cell type - "adenophages" 🧪

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Alterations in the gut microbiome implicate key taxa and metabolic pathways across inflammatory arthritis phenotypes - PubMed Musculoskeletal diseases affect up to 20% of adults worldwide. The gut microbiome has been implicated in inflammatory conditions, but large-scale metagenomic evaluations have not yet traced the routes by which immunity in the gut affects inflammatory arthritis. To characterize the community structur …

Oh interesting - there's a chance I knew that at one point, I led this project for a time pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37494472/

I wonder if it's to do with T-cell polarization

Many autoimmune disorders are more prevalent in women than in men, though I don't know the extent to which hormones have been implicated.

Interesting that T is immunosuppressive in infection context (see other thread). I wonder if there's data on sex differences in *severity* of autoimmunity

Sure, but this is only satisfying to the folks that already agree with you, that's the disappointment.

Don't get me wrong - I get the same burst of dopamine when I see the hypocrisy pointed out - but it's tempered somewhat knowing it has zero effect on the hypocrites or their supporters