18 Fully Funded PhD Studentships – October 2026 Start Join our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme in Infection Biosciences, tackling global challenges like emerging infections, antimicrobial resistance, and food insecurity. Learn more & apply: www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...

La honte sérieusement

Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold. Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in skin immunology and T cell biology? The @mrccmm.bsky.social is advertising a #postdoc position to study the antimicrobial-allergic immune response in atopic dermatitis with @lableibundgut.bsky.social. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... #immunosky #mycosky #eczema Please re-post

Next introducing Dr Alessandra Dantas. The Dantas group is interested in stress responses, antifungal resistance and in understanding the molecular mechanisms driving fungal adaptation to environmental stressors. @alesdantas.bsky.social www.ncl.ac.uk/dental/about...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange

Achievement unlocked

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.672933v1

France faces unprecedented chikungunya outbreak with first locally acquired cases detected in June - earliest on record. #chikungunya ↘️

🚨Registrations are open🚨 Join us in Lausanne Switzerland October 1-2 for an exciting symposium on innate immunity with oustanding invited speakers, short talks selected from submitted abstracts and poster sessions. Attendance is limited to 150 participants!

Donc Pierre-Edouard Fournier, qui a 12 articles rétractés, est en charge de faire respecter la loi et l'éthique au sein de l'IHU ainsi que de faire rétracter les articles qui doivent l'être. Bref, le changement n'est toujours pas pour maintenant. www.mediterranee-infection.com/communique-i...

On the 1st day of the @cancercenterams.bsky.social annual conference Lotte De Winde presented her recently published data on the development of lymphoma-on-a-chip model to study the role of fibroblasts in this pathology! You can find the publication here doi.org/10.1016/j.mt...

📄Our June issue is out now! Discover the latest breakthroughs in immunology, from fundamental mechanisms to translational insights. Don’t miss this month’s cutting-edge research 👇 bit.ly/4kIb4ii #immunosky #immunolgy @efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

I spotted these depressing journals a few months ago and tweeted about it then. Why do we need to have a race to the bottom in everything these days?

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

After a period of silence, delighted to share our latest work has come out as a pre print. Check it out. Huge thanks to the amazing efforts of co-authors and most importantly the generosity of the patients in providing samples. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Friends in Sweden and Italy: you have a bit more than a day left to put your contry over the threshold. Germany overtook you in the mad last sprint but you can still make it. Sweden is only missing 307 signatures, Italy a little over 5000. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

‘Cell type–specific efferocytosis determines functional plasticity of alveolar macrophages’ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I strongly believe companies selling antibodies should be held accountable for their product not working according to specifications. In which other field does companies get away with that?

Our goal is to publish this in Bioengineered to inform their readers. However, we are not willing to pay the APC of over $3000 and asked for a waiver. @tandfresearch.bsky.social has offered us a 50% discount but that's not good enough. They promised to respond within 3 days, 10 days ago....

We’re looking for a Junior Postdoc to join our growing team at Amsterdam UMC, working on inhalable nanovaccines to activate lung immunity especially resident memory T cells (Trm) against cancer. More info here👇 🔗 werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... @mcbi-amsumc.bsky.social

Our new study quantifies sex steroid hormone changes with age in women & men, with strong impact of genetics, contraception, smoking, BMI & lifestyle often in sex specific ways @immunobladder.bsky.social @milieuinterieur.bsky.social @pasteur.fr 🧪#immunosky #medsky www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

For the next session of our Single Cell club we will host Rosalia Franco Fernandez @amsterdamumc.bsky.social to discuss CD8 responses in gastric cancer metastasis!

🔔🔔 🔔 Sound the alarm! Not 1 but 2 PhD positions available in my research group at Amsterdam UMC studying the interaction between S. aureus wall teichoic acids and the host immune system. Multidisciplinary projects with experience in academia and industry. werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are everywhere, but what happens when they get inside us? Our latest study reveals how chronic plastic exposure affects macrophages and metabolism in a size-dependent manner. 🧵👇 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have a PhD position open in my lab! viruses and glycans... who does not love that combo😉. Please share!. #glycotime #lovevirology www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Microplastics cross the murine intestine and induce inflammatory cell death after phagocytosis by human monocytes and neutrophils https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642492v1

A glycan atlas of the mammalian intestine through ontogeny and inflammation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.06.641959v1

Ending virology and vaccine research is far more dangerous than virology and vaccine research itself. We can mitigate risks in the lab, but we can’t mitigate the catastrophic risk of being unprepared and defenseless against emerging viruses.

Happy to share this new #glycotime work with collaborator Tony Wyss-Coray, led by grad student Sophia Shi, mucin loss at the BBB is associated with aging and cognitive decline, can be reversed by restoration with with gene therapy. Aging is a mucinopathy! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MCBI researchers led by Lotte de Winde developed a lymphome-on-chip model that include lymph node stromal cells (fibroblastic reticular cells), thereby offering a new model to study these cells in the development and progression of lymphoma! tinyurl.com/2mads7kr

This is going to be another rough week for our colleagues in government & for all of us. Vast cuts of govt scientists hurts everyone’s health. Let’s talk about what this will do to vaccines. This is the process. Here’s how they’re going to undermine it: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

Lisez ce thread en entier ! L'HCERES critique le @collegedefrance.bsky.social qui fonctionnerait trop bien pour une institution qui n'a pas un chef administrateur de métier plutôt qu'un collège de professeurs qui s'autogèrent… IL FAUT SUPPRIMER L'HCERES, ennemie des libertés académiques !

Four species of the black yeast Aureobasidium growing on a medium with 10% NaCl. Weird how melanisation appears, disappears, reappears.

Have you ever wondered how pathobionts contribute to autoimmunity? In this week's issue of Science Translational Medicine @science.org we elucidate the mechanism how E.gallinarum influences systemic immune responses and aggravates autoimmunity.. #ImmunoSky #Microbiome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION IMAGING OF CELL-SURFACE GLYCANS 🧬🎨🍬 The glycocalyx, our cells' sugar coat, holds secrets in immunology, cancer, viral infections, and more. Visualizing its molecular architecture was impossible… until now. #glycotime #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also luckily we’re not doing this work in the States 🇺🇸 so we’re still allowed to ask questions about gender apparently.

Interested in research on cell-cell junctions and vascular biology? We are recruiting a PhD student! werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

1. A thread about the value of doing "slow science": When I was in grad school I heard this (likely apocryphal) story about one of my favourite scientists: Barbara McClintock.

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.

I remember being sceptical reading some papers from the early 2000’s on rapid effects of androgens. And now several recent papers have now described membrane receptors for androgens (see also doi.org/10.1126/scis...)! And one already has an agonist!

So this is a really interesting new paper. It shows that dihydrotestosterone can be sensed via a surface receptor and this surface receptor (GPR133) is what mediates the strength gains from the androgen. A major reason this is interesting is that canonically, steroid hormones act by diffusing...