Assoc Prof @PittBioSci studying virulence and life cycle evolution in parasites. He/Him @boylelab.bsky.social
Pittsburgh, PA
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Our work just came out today in print form in Nat Micro. Really a tour de force from Hisham Alrubaye on sexual development in Toxoplasma gondii. Well done!
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Exciting. You can take the scientist out of the Parasitology lab but you cant get the parasitologist out of the scientist I guess!!! Great seeing this pop up. Hope all is well.
You can’t possibly think this is what ICE should be doing to your constituents neighbors:
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Can we please fix this. And other things like it. @DOGE @HHSGov @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay apple.news/AEnAoYBsyQAaaPplN…
Without Mahmoud Khalil, Noor Abdalla Faces Motherhood Alone thecut.com/article/mahmoud-k…
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Putting RFK Jr. in charge of the nation’s public health is a huge mistake.
When dangerous diseases resurface and people can’t access lifesaving vaccines, all Americans will suffer — and RFK Jr.’s family could keep getting richer thanks to his serious conflicts of interest.
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BREAKING NEWS:
RFK Jr. has been confirmed.
Watch this and tell me how any sane person would ever want this man in charge of our heath.
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RFK Jr. is about the least qualified person to be in charge of the nation’s health as head of HHS. He's fully on board for Donald Trump's fascist takeover of the government.
But he used to sing a very different tune years ago.
What happened to this RFK Jr.?
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I don't think the richest person in the world should be holding back funding for cancer research in violation of both the law and court orders
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Trump's proposal is ILLEGAL & amounts to an indiscriminate funding cut for research centers of all sizes, NOT just Ivies. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, & derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
Public research in the us is so good because all forms of science are funded. Things we don’t know will be useful or field changing are funded here. Listing priorities is difficult as we often don’t know where the next big breakthroughs are going to come from.
Long run outlook similarly bad. Why do you think this will somehow be a good thing? Also do you really think it’s about saving money? Cause I don’t.
I don’t want ham handed approaches focused more on creating chaos than solving any problems. This is not about the money.
It’s not about saving money. It’s a drop in the bucket and guts an incredible research infrastructure with the best equipment and best research labs. It is the most well funded research enterprise in the world. And the return to the economy is typically double.