Belated post of my macaron centrepiece from last week’s @ciiid-hudson.bsky.social Christmas party – “the cells of CiiiD”. A lot of work to produce this undetermined number of macarons (I lost count) 🙃 Big thanks to @biorender.bsky.social who I used to make the templates! @hudsonresearch.bsky.social

🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨 We discovered a new regulator of RIG-I-like receptors #MDA5 #RIG-I, which are critical innate immune sensors of #RNA that detect #viral infection. Check out our #biorxiv #preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... tl;dr 🙃 thread below

My department is now on Bluesky! A must follow if you want to keep up with some of the best scientists in innate immunity 👩🏼‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬 #immunosky @hudsonresearch.bsky.social

Q for my fellow scientists: you reviewed or authored a paper & when you see all of the reviewers’ comments, it is obvious one reviewer’s was written by ChatGPT, which all relate to the paper’s writing style rather than the actual science presented. Do you contact the handling editor? #sciencesky #AI

I've been on a bsky hiatus but I'm back to tell you to read this very cool paper if you're interested in IFNs & host-pathogen interactions! Our fav constitutively-expressed IFN, IFN-epsilon, facilitates immune evasion by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via modulation of sialic acid metabolism #immunosky

I am incredibly honoured to be selected as an OCRF grant awardee in 2025 – every $ awarded by @ocrfaustralia.bsky.social was raised by supporters determined to improve outcomes for patients with ovarian cancer 🩵

Super cool new ovarian cancer research from the Bilandzic group at @hudsonresearch.bsky.social ! #ovariancancer #metastasis #immunosuppression

I am incredibly fortunate and delighted to have been awarded a NHMRC Emerging Leadership Level 1 Investigator Grant this year! 🥳 This funding will provide crucial support for my research on interferon epsilon in cancer over the next 5 years. @hudsonresearch.bsky.social #nhmrc #investigatorgrant

Loved this talk from Prof Bowen, great example of how to engage with Aboriginal communities to improve health outcomes both respectfully and effectively 🖤💛❤️@theviin.bsky.social #lorneiandi

We've created a starter pack for everyone attending & supporting this year's Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference! 🔬🧪🦠🏖️ Let us know if you're attending #lorneiandi and would like to be added! Check out the starter pack here: go.bsky.app/G6cE3nw

What a great pick for this year’s #lorneiandi Hertzog oration, David Underhill @cedarssinai.bsky.social presenting exciting research (recently published @nature.com !) identifying a role for PDL1 in binding fungi during phagocytosis. Shame @paulh1pjh.bsky.social couldn’t make it this year!

It’s good to be back at #lorneiandi! What a great talk to kick off proceedings by Anca Dorhoi @unigreifswald.bsky.social on hypoxic macrophages in TB infection @theviin.bsky.social

Do you work on #interferons, come join the family! go.bsky.app/71vKZJA

Now this is important research I think we can all get behind! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/s...

“It is a great shame that Ireland is a special case, but the shame is not Ireland’s.” ~Mark O’Connell The Irish Times ☕️🥐

Heading to @3rrrfm.bsky.social radio to discuss some of our science on #innateimmunity #inflammation #RNA sensing and what this could mean for new #mRNA therapies. If you’re in Australia, tune into Einstein-A-GoGo this morning at 11 am. Podcast link to follow! @hudsonresearch.bsky.social #immunosky

Another year, another science-themed cake for the @hudsonresearch.bsky.social CiiiD EOY party! This edible board game is made from gingerbread & royal icing, with a hidden medovik (honey cake) inside! It was a labour of love but lots of fun to make! #sciencesky #immunosky #bakingsky #sciencebakes

Time for a 🧵 on our new paper from the Walkley lab in @scienceimmuno.bsky.social. If you're into RNA editing by ADARs, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) sensing, post-transcriptional gene regulation and CRISPR screening, then read on! 1/X www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #RNASky #ImmunoSky

🚨IFN fans!🚨New research on IFN-epsilon just dropped: IFNe is constitutively expressed in the testis & protects the male reproductive tract from Zika virus infection! This work was led by the wonderful @drruki1.bsky.social @hudsonresearch.bsky.social #immunosky 1/3 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

One of the coolest science tattoos I’ve seen! 😍

👋 fellow immunologists, it’s a pleasure to be with you all on bsky! I work on type I #interferons, I figured it would be neat to have a starter pack for those of us working on all things IFN! I’ll keep adding to it, let me know if you want to be included! #immunology #immunosky go.bsky.app/71vKZJA

The wave is rising 🌊🦋 In just a few days, we have surpassed the halfway mark of people in this #innateimmunity and #inflammation starter pack! Contact me to be added or tag someone you think should be on here. #immunosky #academicchatter go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB