Want to image the adult zebrafish brain? Here's a nifty design that I made with the help of a talented master's student, Corey Steinhauser. Supporting files here! morgridge.org/research/lab...

Comparable data is hard to find, but when we looked at 2022/23 & 2023/24 data we see that deaths are still higher for COVID than influenza *BUT* looking at % hides the fact that COVID-19 is more contagious and in 23/24 there were almost 3x as many COVID hospitalizations than influenza. 4/n

📃 New paper alert! The Zychlinsky Lab and @raunser-lab.bsky.social identified the first protein that converts chromatin into an immune effector: Myeloperoxidase transforms chromatin into neutrophil extracellular traps. Now published in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love every field's hyperspecific variant of this. (Molecular biology's is moving very small amounts of clear liquids from one tiny container to another.)

Springboard for an international scientific career! 🧬🧪🔭⚛️🧠🌱 Call for #MaxPlanckResearchGroups launched; applications are possible until October 14, 2025 www.mpg.de/max-planck-r... #ScienceCareer

'Posts about research on Bluesky receive substantially more attention than similar posts on X, formerly called Twitter, according to the first large-scale analysis of science content on Bluesky. The results suggest that Bluesky users engage with posts more than do users of X.'

and protection from TB back in the 90s! Given the wide use of Daraprim we would love to find someone on #IDsky with retrospective data to search of improvement of treatment outcome and prevention of TB diagnosis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7742423/

Anyone have a good method (clearing, etc) to get rid of autofluorescence across all channels in a squishy, mucus-y sample like an oyster, in order to do FISH/HCR on the bacteria that live in the mucus of the oyster? 🧪🦑🐙🔬

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

New Danish cohort study with over 1 million kids confirms safety of aluminum in childhood vax. They looked at 50 different conditions, including autoimmune, allergic & neurodevelopmental (eg autism). This should end further debate on this topic (but probably won't). Annals Intern Med 15 July 2025

It was a pleasure to connect with the broader eosinophil community again, this year in Montpellier! Met old and new friends and left with many new ideas. Thanks to all the organizers. 🤗 #IES2025

Real world example that humans are not mice - something we should always keep in mind when studying immunology in model systems. 😉

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

🎶 Straight from the Lab to the Mic: when a Pasteur scientist turns her thesis into a rap 🎶 #FeteDeLaMusique

Students who started their PhD in 2020 and are about to graduate

We're excited to share our new preprint on bioRxiv! ✨ You can view it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... See below for more information 👇

Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social‬ and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Very cool study on how prior TB infections can be a risk factor for following infections! Check it out #IDSky #ImmunoSky #Microsky 🧫🧪

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

We then brought Phollow into the gut of live zebrafish, taking advantage of their transparency and small size to visualize microbial communities across the entire intestine —capturing their dynamic interactions with the host in real time! pink = DNA, purple = actin, green = E. coli

Same for ZFIN! @zfinmod.bsky.social put them in your papers' acknowledgements and cite them (Bradford et al. 2022 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...)

Great opportunity for postdocs in almost any field of science. Check it out! 🧪👩‍🔬🔬🦠🧫

I've seen this trend myself in the #Bioinformatics #Genomics #NGS community: a few still retweet on the other place, but most original posts are on #Bluesky

CHECK IT 🦠UT: Exosomal siRNA delivery to inhibit bacterial gene translation Proof-of principle in MRSA, using siMecA to silence the mecA gene, resensitizing the pathogen to methicillin This RNA interference approach worked in the mouse model #GeneSilencing #AMR www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Thank you @keystonesymposia.bsky.social for this opportunity. I have learned so much already and I am looking forward to the remaining talks and posted! #IDSky #TBSky #PhDSky 🧪🧫🧬👩‍🔬🦠

Very cool tool for spatiotemporal control of translation in zebrafish larva using light! 😲

We went axe throwing with the lab the other day for a (late) celebration of our most recent paper. This made me realize I never posted about it on here 🦋 (only on the other side 😅) Apologies to everyone who has seen it there for the double post. A thread 🧵1/6 🧪

We have a feeling you'll be interested in this one. Nature is keen to find out how scientists are using Bluesky and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Take the survey! 🧪

The IMPRS-IDI call 2025 closes in 2 weeks. Don't forget to apply for one of our 7 #PhD projects over the holidays 🎅. ⏰ The application deadline is January 3 Project descriptions and how to apply: www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/imprs-idi-call

Our graduate school is having another call including a project in the Cronan Lab - can highly recommend! 7 fully funded PhD projects in infection and immunity, application deadline January 3rd.

What is your favorite cytosolic pathogen that (a) infects macrophages and (b) is genetically tractable? Looking for someone who’d like to team up on a small but impactful project (we would do the heavy lifting!)

Love this tool. I found some interesting new follows. 😃

This is a great #opportunity for international students interested in infection biology. Please share widely! 🧪🦠🧫🔬 #Scisky #ImmunoSky #MicroSky

Sending out a #zebrafish signal 🚨 If you work with our favorite fish or similar fish models, we want to follow you! Help us connect 🙏

We made a transgenic #reporter line for #eosinophils in #zebrafish! Will make a thread about this once it's past peer review, but here is the preprint for everyone who's interested. Stay tuned for more cool stuff we can do to study eosinophils in zebrafish.

🔬🧪Hey Bluesky! It's about time I introduce myself. I'm a biomedical scientist at the intersection of immunology & infection biology. Currently investigating the role of #eosinophils in tuberculous granuloma using the #zebrafish model. Let's explore the unseen together! #ImmunoSky #InfectionBiology