Today we got our new imaging system for automated spatial proteomics installed! Maria Semenova is already eager to image thymuses. Thank you @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social - we are excited to be the first users in Finland for the new system integrating imaging and fluidics. Funded by @erc.europa.eu

WE ARE HIRING 💥 Do you want to become our new project coordinator? More details on the University of Helsinki webpage. Application period until September 10th - be quick! 🧪🧬🦠🧫🔬https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-PROJECT-COORDINATOR/828168902/

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Unpaid advertisement for the Finnish 🇫🇮 tourism agency: if it is unbearably hot where you are now (like New York), come to Finland. It is nice and chilly at 14 degrees of Celsius (57 F) now. #chillescape

New results on the role of circulating T follicular (cTfh) and T peripheral helper (cTph) cells in type 1 diabetes out at @eurjimmunol.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #immunosky #T1D #autoimmunity

Äidit huutakaa. Kehtolaulujen asemesta huutakaa. Huutakaa suoraa huutoa kaikkialla maapallolla yhteen ääneen. Naiset huutakaa. Pysäyttäkää liikenne, tehtaat, aseitten valmistus, unet. Seisokaa keskellä toreja ja teitä ja huutakaa.

OK, everything is not done, I give up. It is not raining, garden needs tending, and today it is 20 hrs of daylight so must move my focus there. Hyvää juhannusta 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥! 🇫🇮

In Finland 🇫🇮 we have this thing called ”everything must be done before midsommaren”. I have three days. Bring it on.

I agree the thymus likely presents all key epitopes for T cell tolerance. But studies based only on transcriptional data without testing each mimetic cell’s role should be viewed cautiously and given lower priority. #thymus #tolerance #immunology

Teamwork makes the dream work! Kekäläinen lab participating to the #HelsinkiPride month (a bit late to the game but our office was under renovation). #PrideMonth 🧪

Miten tehdään huippuyliopisto: riittävästi rahaa, panostuksia erityisesti perustutkimukseen. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

Found pinned to the notice board at Dept. of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki. Finnish academics supporting the good fight by Harvard University. The North Stands with You. 🧪@harvardcellbio.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Personal news: I have been appointed by the rector of @helsinki.fi to a tenure-track associate prof position in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology! My affiliations are with the Faculty of Medicine and HiLIFE, Institute of Life Sciences @helsinki.fi . Humbled and excited to start this new journey!

Postdoc opening in Pia Dosenovic's lab at Karolinska Institutet, "B cell-mediated immunity with a focus on basic immunological questions related to vaccine development" #Immunology #ScienceJobs #ImmunoSky ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

These times have proved that it is good to have something like Section 16.3 of Finland's Constitution: 'The freedom of science, the arts and higher education is guaranteed'.

Interested in translational human immunology? We are currently recruiting a PhD student or a post-doc to work on an exciting project to to study immune changes leading to the development of type 1 diabetes. #immunosky #sciencejobs uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

LLMs and open science are not meant to flood the already congested scientific literature with junk but should help us to be more creative. #immunosky #medsky 🧪 Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Life of a Northener: in the winter you barely are alive, just doing the minimum and would preferably just sleep. Spring arrives and you have started 12 new projects at home and work, barely sleep and dig in the garden untill wee hours.

#ImmunoSky #MedSky

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Majority of Finns does not approve of the planned tax cuts for the highest income percentiles. I disapprove the planned cuts even though these cuts would and will benefit me directly. I won’t work any more because of them. It is more important to me that my society is equal and supportive. 🇫🇮

Just in time for Eurovision. 🔥❄️ from 🇫🇮 dr. Sulo Roukka

🚨 Happening TODAY! Join us for the special #DayofImmunology 2025 Live Webinar 15:00–18:00 CEST 🗓️ Explore how the immune system shapes brain health + new insights in #NeuroImmunology 🔬✨ 🔗 Register now — immunohub.iuis.org/iuis/2024/we... @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social

Postdoc / MSc project available (8/12 months by 8/2026; welcome to apply more with us)! If you're interested in host-microbe interactions and (ideally) both wet lab and data, let me know! Example of our research - now working also with pigs and fish: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Gather 'round Bluesky, while I tell the hoary tale of epidemic vs. endemic. How can it be that pandemic interventions that were vitally important in 2020 are marginally effective in 2025? Science will give us the answers! Follow me... 1/

My kid started his societal studies in school this year and study voting and the tenents of democracy. I love the way Finnish educators use the student council as an example how children can take part in decision-making. They also had their own communal elections. Good discussions with kids 🇫🇮

Hey everyone— @healthsciences.mcgill.ca is thinking of ditching X Their Bluesky account is still empty, but if we can rally some followers, it might help them make the switch. Give them a boost? Thank you!!🙏

🐠 Atlantic cod thymus. The thymus is a crucial organ of our immune system that ensure the education of T lymphocytes. Actin is in orange, nuclei are in blue. #art #sciart #science #scicomm #research #fish #immunology #microscopy #Marinebiology @uio.no @biovitenskap.bsky.social

Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Review jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Democracy in action - we have local, communal elections this year. In 🇫🇮 we can vote in advance for several days before the actual election day. Everyone living in this city are eligble to vote, you don’t need to be a citizen, only parliamentary or presidental elections require that.

👉 Apply now for the Computational Immunology Summer School (July 28–Aug 6, 2025, Tartu, Estonia)! 👩‍💻 Hands-on AIRR data analysis, expert-led training, and cultural events await! 🗓️ Deadline: April 30 (Early-bird: April 15) Info & application: ut.ee/en/content/c...

Review @jimmunol.bsky.social Sterile production of interferons in the thymus academic.oup.com/jimmunol/adv...

T-cell-derived IFN-γ suppresses T follicular helper cell differentiation and antibody responses www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @iannaconelab.bsky.social

If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity in Europe, consider the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship: ec.europa.eu/info/funding... I am happy to host if the human thymus, immunoregulation, myasthenia gravis or allogeneic HSCT are topics that interest you. DMs are open! ImmunoSky MedSky 🦠🧪

Today is the international day for transgender visibility! Important now than ever when there are significant polical forces limiting freedom for people to be who they are and live their life true to themselves.

Remember: Finland is the happiest country.

What is up Bluesky! I'm an Associate Editor working at #PLOSBiology with everything related with #Microbiology and #Immunology Looking forward to all #science posts! Also, if you wanna book a meet-the-editor zoom meeting with me and talk about your work, just click scheduler.zoom.us/melissa-vazq...!

My Saturday morning coffee I must be the most trustworthy scientist ever, since I say fuck very frequently 🤣

Yesterday, President Zelensky’s delegation got a parking ticket here in Helsinki, just when he was speaking on the phone with Trump. This may sound like a small incident, but it explains why Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row: open.substack.com/pub/frankmar...

Tomorrow @helsinki.fi we have the honor to host Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy and our own president Stubb. www.youtube.com/live/jJKVCgH...

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

Coordinated changes in thymic stromal and hematopoietic cells that define the perinatal to juvenile transition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.04.641047v1

I need to use this algo. After all, I believe I have all my muumis in the valley.

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Really nice @eurjimmunol.bsky.social paper from Karina Silina & @marieszh.bsky.social labs on the IFN-Lymphotoxin-Cxcl13 axis in forming tertiary lymphoid structures in the lung doi.org/10.1002/eji....

Interesting twist: Sweden’s Eurovision song this year is by a Finnish band singing about sauna in Finnish-Swedish dialect. While Finland sends in song titled Ich komme. Estonian band has a Finnish song. Eurovision is about European cross-border unity this year? It’s about that *every year*. Plus fun

Honest question to PIs - how do you keep going? This work is (at least for me) in its essence solving problems, everyone’s problems, all the time, and it’s draining. Methodological, personnel issues, lab space & money, results are weird, nothing works like you expect. Etc. How do you make it work? 🧪

Kotimaiset #tiedelehdet! Onko jollain jo hyviä tai huonoja kokemuksia tekoälyn käytöstä? Oletteko tehneet linjauksia? Etsin osallistujaa paneelikeskusteluun Tiedejulkaisemien päiville. Vastaa alle tai laita privaattiviesti. Tätä sopii jakaa. #TiedeTaivas #TiedeJulki #Tiedelehdet

The move of Mordor is finally over!!! Our deep freezers finally moved and we should have our samples near(er) to the lab. 4 months of actuve planning, 3 mobths of active moving. Never again.

🧪 - people! This is the congress where you should go. Night science! I should also go but the day work that pays my science hobby keeps me in Finland.