Oregon officials report bubonic plague in local resident apnews.com/article/oregon…

Devastating if true

Made a long stop in Ireland before moving on to London with 🧬 Rachel Meade, Ph.D. 🧬 for my first international conference. Slán, Éire!

Don't miss our annual ice cream social and general body meeting!!!

#DidYouKnow ? Our Science Policy Boot Camp not only gives you the ultimate #scipol toolkit through expert-led workshops but also includes tours of legislative buildings and chambers to give you hands-on insight of where and how policymaking happens!
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Big things happening

Interested in being more involved in Science Policy, Advocacy, Communication, and Ethics? Want to help shape this space for the graduate and professional student community at Duke? Indicate interest in officer or other smaller positions here by June 1st! forms.gle/XQfbMhsxgQ3kLK…

TriCEM is excited to announce the winner of the 2023 Steve Meshnick Travel Award – congratulations to Rachel Keener!

The garden is flowering!!

*With the help of some special friends*

Our latest cellular GWAS paper Cell Genomics reveals a cation channel (MCOLN2) serves as a critical restriction factor for replication of #Salmonella Typhi by Mg2+ deprivation. A thread that goes back 17 years (my youngest student was 7 years old!) 1/10 dlvr.it/SlzYQz

So much fun advocating for science related policies with Duke GPSG this week! Thanks to the offices of Thom Tillis and Reverend Raphael Warnock for meeting with us.

Sending a big 👏 to the Duke Graduate School students who spent time in D.C. this week advocating for issues critical to grad education like federal 💵 for scientific research & student aid, as well as #climate policy.

Your commitment to making a difference is truly inspiring.

Duke University's @Duke_SPAcE is a new NSPN chapter seeking to build a community of engaged advocates in #SciPol and ethics. Leadership team members Cait Hamele, Rachel Keener, and Julia Palmucci share their experience starting the group on our blog: ow.ly/fbTK50Nnhii

Bruised up but ready for #MAMPM 2023!

Four Duke PhD students have received Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine Graduate Student Awards for research in evolutionary medicine. Congrats to Rebecca Williams Cook (@EvAnthDuke), Trisha Dalapati (@DukeMGM), Tania P. Guerrero Altamirano (@DukeUPGG) and Bach Nguyen (@dukebiochem)! bit.ly/3INAZoC

Ko lab ice skating team! Happy holidays!

Join us next week for our inaugural networking/social event!!

Not ready to part ways with Thanksgiving leftovers just yet?

Use our refrigerator storage chart to see if it might be time to send them to the freezer❄️. bit.ly/3Oqun0q

#ThrowOutYourLeftoversDay

🔔📕📗The Cambridge Journal of Science & Policy is inviting submissions! 📗📕🔔

Visit our website, cjsp.org.uk, for more detail on what we are looking for. Submissions are welcomed from authors all over the world, from all career stages. 🧵