Josh Mattila
Researching macrophages and neutrophils in TB || Entomology PhD, ticks and tick-borne bacteria || macro photography and reef aquaria enthusiast || opinions my own || Northern Minnnesotan
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaExciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaUnraveling TIME: CD8+ T cell- and CXCL11-driven endocrine resistance in breast cancer: doi.org/10.1172/JCI2... Tim Kong & Cynthia X. Ma provide a Commentary on Fabiana Napolitano: doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...
- Wild things happening at the Clay County, MN GOP caucus. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaAccording to a leading mathematical model, the destruction of USAID has resulted in 800,000 people dying who otherwise wouldn’t have. It is as if every single person in North Dakota had died over the last year—that is, if 2/3rds of North Dakota were children www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaA year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us
- "The National Institutes of Health wants to transition at least one of seven national primate research centers into an animal sanctuary, aiming to move away from animal testing in favor of alternative methods." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaPLOS Biology is proud to present our new collection of comment and opinionated review articles on the many facets of #immunometabolism! 🧪 #immunosky #immunology #metabolism plos.io/4c5z6Cn See 🧵⬇️ for more details
- Reposted by Josh MattilaWe are hiring!
- Reposted by Josh MattilaProteins often bind targets using avidity, the combined interaction strength of multiple weak binders. Now we’ve harnessed this principle for compact, *single*-component optogenetic tools for translocation. Lead by phenom PhD student @dennishuang.bsky.social #synbiosky🧵 📝 tinyurl.com/aviatar
- Reposted by Josh Mattilagranular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaI can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
- The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaRecord harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaFriends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University. www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/ Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline 🧫🧪🦠#microsky
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaFriends! I am so happy to share our new preprint! Hydrogen peroxide has been the most common reactive chemical threat to life forms since the Great Oxygenation Event 2.5 billion years ago. How do animals like C. elegans sense it fast and escape? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread 1/
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- Reposted by Josh Mattila#InterferonFriendsOrFoes? Another cool one @ellenfoxman.bsky.social &friends out @plosbiology.org about how excessive #IFNs delay repair by activating LATS & degrading YAP/TAZ in the Hippo 🦛 pathway! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 👇👇👇
- #Interferons protect against #ViralInfection, but can hinder tissue repair - how? @ellenfoxman.bsky.social &co show that high IFN levels suppress #BronchialCell migration & proliferation during tissue repair via JAK-driven LATS1 activation, independent of STAT1 @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1pyKA
- Reposted by Josh Mattila#Interferons protect against #ViralInfection, but can hinder tissue repair - how? @ellenfoxman.bsky.social &co show that high IFN levels suppress #BronchialCell migration & proliferation during tissue repair via JAK-driven LATS1 activation, independent of STAT1 @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1pyKA
- Reposted by Josh MattilaI’ve never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom
- Reposted by Josh MattilaTo delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this
- According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaI’m excited to recruit a postdoc to join my lab at NIAID (Rocky Mountain Labs). We study mucosal immunity and vaccine responses to respiratory viruses in a collaborative, supportive environment. Details & apply: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-miv... #Postdoc #Immunology #Virology #NIHJobs
- Reposted by Josh MattilaMinnesota is the best of us.
- Reposted by Josh Mattilawww.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!
- Reposted by Josh Mattila📢 New publication by @who.int & @ukhsa.bsky.social: " #Oropouche #virus research and development roadmap" 🪰 The Collaborative Open Research Consortium (CORC) has collectively identified 12 R&D priorities within these thematic areas, including #vector competence. www.who.int/publications...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaExcited to share work led by the wonderful Gopi Viswanathan examining roles of granuloma neutrophils &defining bacterial transcriptional profiles within mycobacterial granulomas. Cool collab with Qingyun Liu at UNC for evolutionary analysis of granuloma-specific genes www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaOur paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
- Reposted by Josh MattilaThe Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging. erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaJob 1: Postdoc in Bioimaging 🖥️🔬 We are looking for a method developer at the interface of Bioimaging, microscopy, deep learning, and image analysis. Ideally, you love Biological images, Python 🐍, open-source software, and "smart" microscopy. Apply here: abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...
- Reposted by Josh Mattila🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶
- Reposted by Josh MattilaImmediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
- Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
- Reposted by Josh MattilaThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaInterested in imaging cytonemes? ✅ out this blog @focalplane.bsky.social by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc Christina Daly! 🧪 🔬 👩🏻🔬
- Following on from her beautiful featured image post on FocalPlane, Christina Daly @christinaadaly.bsky.social shares her top tips for imaging cytonemes. @labogden.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/19/c...
- Reposted by Josh MattilaCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
- Reposted by Josh MattilaChongLy Scott "Saly" Thao's family has started a GoFundMe for him:
- Reposted by Josh MattilaWhat an act of betrayal to the Hmong community by our own government. People who put their lives on the line during Vietnam.
- Reposted by Josh Mattila"This is my Rick Santelli moment, this guy. We need to track him down." @timmiller.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social on an everyday protestor in Minneapolis who gets itL
- Reposted by Josh MattilaIf you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaAny DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.
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- Reposted by Josh MattilaAt one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
- Reposted by Josh Mattila“This is another Tuskegee” is not hyperbole. good reporting from IM
- We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
