microbiome researcher | associate professor @isbscience.org | affiliate prof @uwbioe.bsky.social | ecology, evolution, and systems biology of 💩 🦠 | precision/personalized nutrition/medicine ⚕️ | 🏳️🌈 he/him | lab website: gibbons.isbscience.org
Sean Gibbons 🦠💩
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3 new papers on Covid boosters today
1. Less major adverse cardiovascular events in US Veterans
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2. High effectiveness for older adults
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3. Improved outcomes across all adults
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Interesting article by Glass et al. on using metabolic modeling to find new antibiotics for the vaginal microbiome.
What can spatial patterns tell us about tumor growth or dryland ecosystem resilience? Are there bridges and opportunities between these apparently distant disciplines?
This wednesday June 17 we'll have the 3rd Session of Eco-Onco Exchange, with @joshuabull.bsky.social and Benoît Pichon !
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“On balance, Iran emerges the strategic winner of the four-month war,” writes the Times editorial board.
Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds.
Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths.
Make no mistake: this is fascism.
Just start writing. My new post:
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The world's first trillionaire did this
Notable to me in the story about the admin weighing suspending habeas corpus & invoking the Insurrection Act-what moved the needle against the Insurrection Act was concern about "public relations."
Public pushback, agitation, & outcry can work. Even now. Keep it up.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
🧪 ICYMI interview with Neil Shubin, next President of the National Academy of Sciences.
About partisanship: "We have to bring the best science ... to the problems that our society faces... & we have be fearless about the consequences derived from that."
Gift link:
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This cohort study evaluates the effectiveness of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine against COVID-19–associated major adverse cardiovascular events.
🏳️🌈This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with @gunawanlab.bsky.social about his personal and academic journey as an LGBTQIA+ immigrant. Happy Pride month! #PrideinSTEM #LGBT
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The New York Times
Robert Reich
Out Now! Genome-scale metabolic modelling identifies vaginal microbiome members as potential probiotics #MicroSky
This June, we celebrate Pride by discussing with Felix Gunawan, assistant professor at the University of Toronto and co-affiliate group leader at the University of Münster, about his personal and acad...
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Ran Blekhman
Tim Dickinson
Leah Litman
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02380-wMetabolic modelling and experimental validation reveal that current probiotics lack the functional diversity of native microbes, identifying vaginal species that inhibit Gardnerella vaginalis through the dual mechanisms of resource competition and d-lactic acid production.
