Kevin Bonham
Assistant Professor at Tufts Medicine studying microbes, brains, and the immune system 🚽🦠🧠
Fermenter, gardener, Zen Buddhist. Ask me about #julialang!
🎙️: https://audiommunity.org
🌎: https://blog.bonham.ch
💻: github.com/kescobo
- Reposted by Kevin BonhamI 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:
- Registration is now open! 📢 Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium — a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries. 📍 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig 📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd #Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity
- Macrophages in your glands! Or are they dendritic cells? @woodrufflab.bsky.social and I discuss a new paper coining a new cell type - "adenophages" 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/audiommu...
- Reposted by Kevin Bonham🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?
- Git branches - you should be using them. But how? Part 2 in an on-going series introducing git for wetlab scientists 🧪 emptymodels.substack.com/p/git-for-sc...
- Reposted by Kevin Bonham1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.
- The idea is to put an improv comedy group front and center inside software that scientists use to write up their work in much the same way that improve comedy groups are now embedded into popular programming editors @anthonymoser.com
- Reposted by Kevin BonhamI’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 Kevin BonhamDo you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
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- Are you a wetlab scientist with some code you know you *should* be tracking with git, but you're not sure where to start? Been there! Don't keep putting it off - the sooner you start, the sooner you'll see what all the fuss is about! 🧪 emptymodels.substack.com/p/intro-to-g...
- Don't be fooled by people saying "other agencies do multi year funding (True), it'll be fine! (False)" If NIH had been doing multi-year funding for the last 20 years, yeah, it would be fine, but switching now basically sucks up the budget without funding new grants. (1/n)
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- Reposted by Kevin BonhamPhoto by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
- Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points. Hope it helps? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/emptymod...
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- What's your favorite emerging model organism? I don't know bunch about it, but A. baumanii seems like it's rather important and gaining some steam... 🧪
- Reposted by Kevin BonhamALERT: Congress may flat-fund science, but Vought, Bhattacharya, Memoli & RFK still have a bag of dirty tricks: impoundment, multi-year funding, termination of programs, appointment of cronies to leadership, changes in scientific review to ratfuck research in America. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
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- This is undoubtedly a good thing. But a big part of me wonders if it matters when they're trying to put a bigger thumb on in the review process 🧪
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- Has anyone managed to generate a new form biosketch for NIH? Hearing a lot about the issues with sciencv, and wondering what the nature of the digital verification on the generated PDFs is 🧪
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- Reposted by Kevin Bonham1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
- "Autism doesn’t destroy families. Ignorance does. Isolation does. Shame does. Especially when it comes packaged in a suit with a microphone and a claim to public good."
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- Reposted by Kevin Bonhamand the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com
- @woodrufflab.bsky.social says, if you want science to work, you can't have political hacks telling the scientists what to do. Perhaps that should be obvious, but these days, maybe not 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/ltq3Y...
- Most of what the government invests in scientific research pays off - if not in nature papers, then in workforce training and education. Considering how small a percentage of the budget it is, it's a pretty remarkable return 🧪 youtube.com/shorts/q8nOE...
- Creating a starter pack for science podcasts 🧪🎤 - I'm sure there are a lot that I missed! Share your recommendations! go.bsky.app/GmXrMYzat://did:plc:wurwg25i4pvnq3w34h2hldnv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3ma4lqg7qqy24
- We mostly try to be positive about papers, but this one was tough. I even went and wrote a bunch of code to prove my points... sorry for the snark! 🧪
- Reposted by Kevin BonhamLearned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology
- Reposted by Kevin BonhamNSF - Forced reorg - POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements) - Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …) I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing. “Details matter” 🙃
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- Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
- Can confirm. Also studies headbutting animals for reasons that are even more compelling than you might first imagine 🧪 youtu.be/y32pOGgK6u0?...
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- This construction happening right outside of my office for the past few weeks regularly shaking my entire building feels like a metaphor for something, I just don't know what.
