*NEW* PhD project available in my lab at The Blizard Institute, QMUL. Fully funded and starting this autumn, we'll be using cool 3D-printed models of human intestine to study how immune-fungal interactions drive gut fibrosis in IBD 🍄 Apply here by Fri 17th July! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result. n.pr/4o3hKJO

'All three awards (...) honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago. Some experts interpret the selections by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as representing the importance of slow, basic science, work pursued out of a desire to better understand the world.'

📚 NEW #gdT-cell PAPER from our team @QMUL.bsky.social! 🥳 'Bacterial suppression of intestinal fungi via activation of human gut γδ T-cells' out now on @biorxiv-immuno www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here's my first attempt at a 'Bluetorial'... 🧵 1/10 #gastrosky #IBDsky

📚NEW #gdTcell PAPER ALERT! 'Microbiota promote enhanced CD39 expression in γδ intraepithelial lymphocytes through the activation of TCR and IL-15 signaling' is now out in @mucosalimmunol.bsky.social! #gastrosky #GIsky #IBDsky Join us for a Bluetorial 🧵...

Bacterial suppression of intestinal fungi via activation of human gut γδ T-cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676560v1

The “publish or perish” culture in academia creates its own kind of evolutionary pressure. A scholar who studies human behavior through a cultural evolutionary lens explains how the relentless drive to publish can shape – and sometimes undermine – the quality of research. buff.ly/SqnFR4g

What happens to US public health without a fully functioning CDC? Americans will get a taste this upcoming cold and flu season.

The perfect end to a great #gammadeltatoronto conference: our latest review has just been published in Advances in Immunology! "Modulation of humoral immunity by γδ T cells: A potential adjuvant strategy for vaccination" 👉🏼 authors.elsevier.com/a/1l8ltErwXf... #gdTcells @forum-gd.bsky.social

🎉huge congratulations to Jake Samuel for passing his PhD viva with flying colours today! Big thanks to the examiners ⁦ @neilemccarthy.bsky.social and @nickbrooks22.bsky.social 🥳 and ⁦@cesiboy.bsky.social for Co-supervision! Looking forward to Dr Samuel’s gut-lymphatics-on-a-chip papers next! 🚀

#Bluetorial: In our latest paper on #gdTcells and #IBD in #ScienceImmunology we found that γδ IEL number and regulatory function are severely compromised BEFORE ileal inflammation occurs, suggesting that γδ IELs may maintain IEL homeostasis in response to a pro-inflammatory microenvironment. 1/n

In keeping with his decades-long crusade against vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., initially downplayed the West Texas measles outbreak. Now he’s found himself tasked with the job of doing something about it.

As bird flu cases inundate more poultry and dairy farms, state officials worry that the Trump administration’s firings of federal scientists and other actions will undermine efforts to track the virus and protect Americans, reports @nhassanein.bsky.social.

An unvaccinated, school-age child has died in West Texas. It's the first known death from an outbreak that's infected more than 120 people.

After a lifetime on the frontiers of the fight against HIV, researchers can finally see the end of the epidemic in sight. But thanks to the Trump administration’s executive orders, it’s unclear when—or possibly even ever—this breakthrough medicine will see the light of day.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

#hiring #postdoc We are looking for a postdoc to work on anti-tumor gamma delta T cells in breast cancer metastasis mouse models. Apply here: www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs...

Highly recommended - the topic, the location and the supervisor! #gdTcells #jobs @tcddublin.bsky.social

They…turned off…National Institutes of Health grants? That’s nearly $50 billion of scientific research.

Completely agree @profandrewmac.bsky.social! A pleasure to work with wonderful colleagues at several institutions including @mrccmm.bsky.social, @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social and @uoe-eid.bsky.social. Fungi are major causes of asthma but why our immune cells do this is poorly understood.

Today is a tough day for lots of people so will try and fill my timeline with good things to cheer/distract! I will kick off with this fabulous story of little “saunas” that help frogs fight off a deadly fungal infection 🧪

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

In the latest development in the raw milk saga, X is now unpasteurized.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to write this spotlight with @juanquintana.bsky.social and the lab, on the recent @lydialynch.bsky.social paper, showing rhythmicity of IL-17 expression in adipose! Fascinating paper, which raises loads of cool questions #immunosky www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

Today is your last chance to save on registration rates for the upcoming 11th International γδ T Cell Conference! Visit www.gammadeltatoronto.ca and register before 11:59 pm ET today! #gdTcells #gd2025 #BestConferenceEver

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The single best career advice that I give PhDs is that there are multiple different pathways to success. It is the detours that make your insights unique. This is why @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social made #PathwaysToSuccess - get inspired from different journeys! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

✨ New year, new opportunities: Come join our team for some exciting projects on human γδ T cell development using single cell and spatial multiomics! We're looking for PhD students and postdocs with interest/experience in computational biology. 👩‍🔬👨‍💻 Reach out for more info!

A good start to 2025! We found that IsoDGR protein damage promotes lung inflammation in old mice, but can be successfully treated using antibody therapy? Might the same approach also work in humans? 👀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @blizardinstitute.bsky.social @emmaschambers.bsky.social

FIRST POST! Fungi drive asthma, but does this require germination? We show A. fumigatus spores activate DCs after 3hrs of swelling, promoting airway allergy. Antifungal itraconazole limits swelling & reduces allergic inflammation. Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... @drpetercook.bsky.social 👩‍🔬

Toadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024

Recently finished your PhD or plan to in early 2025 and love #Tcell biology, particularly #gdTcells? We're recruiting a #NIDDK-funded #postdoc @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social! We'd love to have an #immunologist with expertise in #GIsky or #IBDsky join our team. bit.ly/4izpZLj #Immunosky

Fantastic bioinformatics PhD opportunities in the DRIVE Health CDT at KCL. Including two exciting projects on (epi-)genomics in ALS supervised by Ahmad Al Khleifat and me. Apply by 30 January 👇 drive-health.org.uk/projectpages... www.drive-health.org.uk/projectpages...

This is a superb compilation review of up to date #GDTcell based clinical trials from Marta Barisa et al. at UCL. @forum-gd.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is something we really don't think about enough: Victorian novels are full of children dying. FULL of them. Full of diseases that we can now prevent with sanitation and pasteurization and vaccines! And we wanna go back WHY? theconversation.com/infectious-d...

Nothing more Christmassy than being asked to declare whether your lab owns any chemical weapon precursors 🤗 #DecemberTraditions

#Writing = #thinking. Rewriting = rethinking. The ability to write or convey one’s ideas clearly is a skill that is practiced and formulated over time and with repetition. Writing skills are being lost with #AI viewed as a shortcut, but shortcuts on thinking won’t serve you or your science well.

First 🦋 post (great to join everyone here) about our paper that's been published in JACI: www.jacionline.org/article/S009... Check it out if you have ever wondered how fungal spore growth controls how dendritic cells (clearly THE best immune cell) trigger inflammation that causes asthma...

Our first 🦋 post! Very happy to share our latest paper just out in Cell Reports, exploring the crosstalk between immune and epithelial cells in the gut. Check it out! @vivianlilab.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Please join us for our November #GDTcellclub #gdTcells webinar with talks by Drs. Pamela Ohashi and Anna Ruta. Nov 21 @ 12pm (New York) | 5pm (London) mit.zoom.us/j/9351906959... Zoom ID: 935 1906 9595 Passcode: 292773

For those going the extra mile to relocate after the recent election, a review: Challenges for the human immune system after leaving Earth www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Find all the latest Mucosal Immunology research in our latest issue, online now: www.mucosalimmunology.org/current

Alright... let's see if the sky is really more blue over here (and less stress/anxiety inducing). Does anyone have a hookup with #gdTcell, #GIresearch or #IBD lists to repopulate my contacts?

By me: The best Bluesky tips 2024: replace Twitter and make social media fun again www.stuff.tv/features/the... This will be in the next issue of the print mag, but we wanted it online now to help anyone wanting Bluesky tips. (Shares appreciated. Then the editor might let me write more! :D)

soldier breathing his last in the somme: "i can only hope one day an estate agents will replace all the listings in their window with pictures of poppies"