Willis Lung Lab

We're the Willis Lung Lab @uabsom, @uabpeds. We're fascinated by the mycobiome and the gut-lung axis. #BLM #ScienceisCool @KentWillisMD

[Willis Lung Lab @LabLung]

And we live to fight another day

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Uh. You can’t be serious

[Willis Lung Lab @LabLung]

@WalterWChen1 @hoiseetsao @Transactivator @julie_mirpuri Congrats!

[N. Ambalavanan @ambaln]

#neotwitter...Our new work on area deprivation index (ADI) and neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) in preterm infants: https://t.co/UsSRf4wC99

[Willis Lung Lab @LabLung]

Some good news:

https://t.co/GdfFVKONS1

[Daniyal Jafree @daniyal_jafree]

Physician-scientist training is under strain. To understand why, we followed up all MB-PhD graduates from @ucl:

131 graduates published >5,800 papers, cited 3x the field norm

We hope the identified barriers inform change for all physician-scientists

https://t.co/te5w8pU3eq

[Shyam Prabhakar Lab @shyam_lab]

Back when my lab did a lot of ChIP-seq, we spent a lot of time validating our antibodies. Roughly half were bad. Now we know why.

[Juan Carlos Laveillé @canalavei]

@chic_siren_ son microtubos Eppendorf de uso científico o escolar, que en este caso contienen semillas en agua (probablemente chía, alpiste, lentejas o plantas acuáticas) para germinación.
muy comunes en experimentos escolares de biología, proyectos de ciencias o talleres de laboratorio.

[Willis Lung Lab @LabLung]

@jpe266 @NC_Renic Same. All the reviewers were like this is great, landmark, etc without a single significant critique and the editor rejected it after months. Maddening.

[The Incubator Podcast @nicupodcast]

When you intubate a 23-weeker in the delivery room, and the baby sits comfortably on 21 percent, do you still give surfactant?

In the episode we released on Monday, Roger Soll flips his own script. He has spent his career talking about intubating to administer surfactant. Here he argues the reverse. If you intubated that baby because they needed respiratory support, then that baby needs surfactant, and the FiO2 is not what decides it. The mode of ventilation trumps the oxygen requirement.

If the tube is in, the surfactant should follow.

He knows this is contested and says so plainly. But it puts pressure on the small habits many of us default to: confirm the tube, get up to the unit, settle the baby, wait and see whether the oxygen climbs. Soll calls that delay a mistake. Worth asking what actually happens in your unit at 3am.

🎧 Listen to Monday's full episode on Apple Podcasts:
https://t.co/4sFC2vJqnF

#nicu #neonatal #babies #medicine #newborn #innovation #podcast #neonate #surfactant

[Nathan Sundgren, PhD, MD @natetexsun]

This is indeed a big problem in Pediatric Residency Education. Only 13% & 44% making competency on flow-inflating bag and T-piece respectively. Ventilation skill is critical to neonatal resuscitation. But I'm sure the board that gutted resident time in the NICU and then gutted Neonatal fellowship time will fix it. @EBNEO @AmerAcadPeds @ab_peds https://t.co/FbQt7EZj1Q

[Naftali Kaminski @KaminskiMed]

Our urgent call in BMJ is out: >3400 signed letter calling on Word Medical Associations to STOP THEIR SILENCE. Dr. Abu Safiya is imprisoned by Israel >18 months with no charges. Solitary confinement. Beatings. His life threatened. This must End. 🧵
https://t.co/hxAzpigW0q

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like?

For @nature, I spent a month digging into leaked docs. We've published a list of 235 words being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

[Fumihiko Namba, MD, PhD @nambaf1107]

難波の依頼コメンタリーがPediatric Research にアクセプトされました✌️

『Prenatal Cannabinoid and Nicotine Exposure: Senescence as a Developmental Origin of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia?』

[Ann L. Jennerich, MD MS ATSF @aclong111]

Scientific meetings should be places where people can engage in difficult conversations and know that their voices will not be censored.

Appreciate this statement from @atscommunity.

Looking forward to #ATS2027 in New Orleans.

(link to statement in reply)

[Willis Lung Lab @LabLung]

@Chetta_milk_lab @mistygoodlab Congrats!!!

[Alexis Davis @AlexisDNeoMD]

The neonatology community’s response to the @ABPeds announcement for 2 year fellowship option: https://t.co/Sg1rtqHlT6

[UAB Department of Pediatrics @uabpeds]

Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the 2025–2026 Department of Pediatrics Faculty Achievement Awards! Recognized by their peers for excellence and outstanding contributions to the department, these individuals are helping shape the future of child health!👏 🥳

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: I was just listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene and she confirmed Donald Trump pushed the government shutdown HIMSELF so they couldn’t vote to release the Epstein files.

This should be a major scandal.

[Salim S. Hayek, MD @salimhayek]

Protected time for early-career investigators matters more when external funding is scarce, not less. If we only invest in people who already have grants, we've confused output with potential. 2/4