Damian Maseda
Dad, immunologist, and aikidoka. Director of translational studies at Immune Health med.upenn.edu/i3h/
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaWhy are there such big differences between the sexes when it comes to immune responses? This Essay looks at what further research is required to fully determine sex-differential mechanisms in #immunity.🧪 #immunosky
- Reposted by Damian Masedafriend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
- Reposted by Damian MasedaThe people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Reposted by Damian Maseda"Climate injustice persists as those least responsible often bear the greatest impacts, both between and within countries." While billionaires get richer, billions suffer, and many millions will likely lose their lives. WE ✊ NEED ✊ TO ✊ FIGHT ✊ THIS www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Damian MasedaFor everyone not fortunate enough to be at the Midwinter #Immunology conference in Seefeld, you can have a little taste of it through my talk on #tissueTregs and using lung Tregs to fight #respiratory #pathology (unpublished work from @drntombizodwa.bsky.social!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_X4...
- Reposted by Damian MasedaA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaAfter turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts go.nature.com/4qLPpcb
- Reposted by Damian Maseda1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaVaccination against whooping cough, RSV and flu during pregnancy saves babies lives, but expectant parents are sometimes unsure. How do I know it's safe? Will it protect my baby? To answer these questions, we've created www.vaccinesinpregnancy.org #ObGynSky #MedSky #ImmunoSky 1/
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- Reposted by Damian Maseda"The High Seas Treaty was enabled by science. Now, science must be used to successfully implement the agreement and the protected areas it creates," write Kirsten Grorud-Colvert and Jenna Sullivan-Stack in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3YERGtu
- Reposted by Damian MasedaTraveling? Be aware that US Customs might demand to see what’s on your phone upon entry. Here’s some advice on how to handle the problem. GIFT ARTICLE
- Reposted by Damian MasedaUnhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaFortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaNEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaWhat do these companies have in common? -Cigna -Comcast -General Mills -Allstate -Marriott -Hilton -Walmart -Amazon -Microsoft -Meta All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election. And all have broken that promise.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaIf we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaOne of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
- Reposted by Damian MasedaDear listeners, When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song. Not as escape — as evidence. Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds. If hope is hiding, it often hums first.
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaAre authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed
- Reposted by Damian MasedaThe older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
- Reposted by Damian MasedaApplications are still open! The Science for Public Good Fund offers up to $1500 to support community-driven science advocacy projects. From workshops to local campaigns, you can help spark change. Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/3KVR9Qo
- Reposted by Damian MasedaHave you heard about the Night Science Podcast, where we talk about the creative process of doing science? We explore this with discussions with brilliant scientists & philosophers and artists, to figure out the tricks of the creative scientific trade. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaThis entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
- Reposted by Damian Maseda🔭 Are you looking for a #PhD project in infectious disease research and #immunology? 🧪 Do you want to be part of a vibrant research environment? 👉 The 2026 call of the IMPRS-IDI graduate school is now open with 6 exciting PhD projects in Berlin: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call
- Reposted by Damian Masedawtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
- Reposted by Damian MasedaThe USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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- Reposted by Damian Maseda“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025. Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”
- Reposted by Damian MasedaScientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better My book review @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Reposted by Damian MasedaCan’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
- Reposted by Damian Maseda"Postdoc in the job market"
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaWhen people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
- Reposted by Damian MasedaEvery year, #WorldScienceDay reminds us that science is more than discovery, it’s a bridge between people, disciplines & generations. Join IUIS for the Roundtable – “Trust, Transformation, and Tomorrow” on Nov 10, 16:00 CET. 🎥 Live on #ImmunoHub 🔗 loom.ly/2PZA5YI
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- Reposted by Damian MasedaOzempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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