Every zombie movie asks the same questions epidemiologists ask during real outbreaks: How did this start? How many are infected? How do we contain it? Turns out stories about the undead are powerful public health teaching tools. 🔗 Read more if you dare... bit.ly/4nFpdxE via @uk.theconversation.com

ICYMI – Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest tools and techniques in microscopy. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/22/m...

This bird flu virus has become better adapted to infect humans go.nature.com/3WTOZ6e

ECRs with proposals on the cusp of funding (solid red) ended up having higher quality work later in their career than ECRs whose proposals squeaked by getting funded (solid blue). Wondering if part of this is a grit effect with revising rejected work. (Full disclosure: I would be a blue dot).

‘Gamechanging’ HIV prevention jab to be approved for England and Wales

“How long will the bioinformatics analysis take?” If you’ve ever been asked that… you know the answer: It depends. Here’s why: 🧵

🦠🏆This week, three scientists won the 2025 #NobelPrize for their discoveries about the immune system’s security guards - regulatory T cells. Dr @zania-stamataki.bsky.social#NobelPrizeis building on this breakthrough, working to develop new therapies for autoimmune and liver conditions.🔬

🔥 thread on infections praying on vulnerable freshers at uni (and not just freshers). And yes, there is loads of covid currently, and rhinovirus is increasing according to @ukhsa.bsky.social - get some rest and take good care of yourselves 🤧🫖☕️

Get your Zoster vaccine! @naturemedicine.bsky.social A consistent relationship of VZV reactivation with dementia in 100M US adults after controlling for nearly 400 measured characteristics, with zoster vaccines reducing risk of dementia in dose-dependent manner www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Freshers' Flu, the seasonal viruses that pray on vulnerable students. Great to work with @joshelgin.bsky.social and @sheencr.bsky.social on this piece for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fake microscopy images generated by AI are indistinguishable from the real thing www.chemistryworld.com/news/fake-mi...

🚨 New Web Resource Alert! 🚨 We're delighted to share Viro3D a database of >85000 viral protein structure predictions from >4400 human & animal viruses. 🔗 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk 📄 www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @molsystbiol.org @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social #Virology #AlphaFold 🧪 🦠

It's #ResearchAppreciationDay tomorrow! 👩‍🔬 A huge thank you to the researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals working behind the scenes to drive medical breakthroughs. 🙌 Without them, many of the treatments and discoveries we rely on today wouldn’t exist. @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social

Beautiful day, beautiful campus! #QEHospital University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social

📣Professor Alex Richter, presenting "Testing times: developing diagnostics to meet contemporary healthcare challenges" @bsi-midlands.bsky.social @britsocimm.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

❤️🔬 Exciting developments discussed at The Future of AI in Microscopy and Image Analysis meeting, organised by COMPARE at the University of Birmingham! Excellent hosting by Davide Calebiro and team, and lovely to see Edalat Radfar's tour of our UoB #Snouty, and the robotic arm that feeds it!

📆 Get your diaries out! The International Bioinformatics Hackathon is back 🧬🖥️

#Medsky🧪 #IDSky #oncosky #Neurosky #immunosky #pedsky #publichealth 60 years after its discovery as the first human tumour virus, #EpsteinBarrvirus (EBV)-specific therapies & #vaccines have entered #clinicaltrials.

🎊 Congratulations to our postgraduate students presenting at the Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy #PGRGala2025 🎊

Fantastic presentation by @maurogaya.bsky.social visiting our Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy as part of our @britsocimm.bsky.social seminar series #immunosky #virosky @ciml.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

The beautiful river Clyde, Glasgow, Scotland ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Th1 cells express Tfh effector molecules and associate with B cells at the T-B border following viral infection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

European HCC guidelines: biopsy before immunotherapy! Is that what you all following? @atoosarabiee.bsky.social @renumathyd.bsky.social @ebtapper.bsky.social #liversky #gastrosky www.annalsofoncology.org/action/showP...

“Alright my Liver?” @anniejarcher.bsky.social presenting at Overcoming inequalities in liver disease event in Birmingham on the great work conducted as part of this NHSE funded programme in delivering outreach clinics to detect early stage liver disease and support onward management. #liversky

Emanual Maverakis et al. use single-cell and bulk RNA-seq and immunohistochemistry to characterize necrobiosis and identified SPP1 and CCL5 as novel therapeutic targets for NL and NXG, rare diseases without a highly effective therapy: buff.ly/7htsyLe

Measles-spreading parties are extremely dangerous.

'More than 3 million doses of anti-D containing Harrison's blood have been issued to Australian mothers since 1967.' ❤️👶🤱

Why do people share health #misinformation? Research shows it’s often out of genuine concern, not malice. Here’s why empathy is a key approach in changing the conversation:

Again and again Continue HCC surveillance based on diagnosis of cirrhosis prior to SVR. This study showed NIT dynamics do not reliably exclude those at risk for HCC post SVR 👇🏼 @jhepatology.bsky.social #Liversky

The #WHO put out a detailed statement on the ongoing outbreak of unknown cause happening in the north western DRC. Health authorities & WHO experts are on the ground working to determine the cause & strengthen response efforts. Here’s what we know so far. 🧵👇 www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

A call for the United States to continue investing in science journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @acasadevall1.bsky.social @bladerlab.bsky.social @goodrumviruslab.bsky.social Highlights of U.S. government-funded advances in biomedical sciences/healthcare:

Today is #RareDiseaseDay! Join us in raising awareness for individuals with a rare disease, with over 3.5 million people living with a rare disease in the UK alone. 📖 Read more about rare diseases and the work of the BSI-CIPN in our latest blog: bit.ly/4kmwIsX

Regulatory T cells constrain T cells of shared specificity to enforce tolerance during infection @science.org

"Over the past five years, more than 1,200 people died after they got close to the top of a waiting list for a transplant but were skipped, The Times found." #medsky #liversky #kidney #heart #liver #transplant

#liversky #gastrosky

Unfortunately, this sort of disruption has dangerous consequences for all - viruses know no borders. #virosky #medsky #flu #vaccine #influenza

An enormous amount of work, to tailor models to human liver cancer for precision therapy -congratulations Tom Bird and team 👏 #gastrosky #medsky #immunosky #liversky

My first presentation with a Bluesky quote - discussing how to target enclysis to boost liver cancer immunotherapies #liversky #immunosky #virosky #medsky #hepatitis #virus -thanks to @aek-tuekprakhon.bsky.social for the 📸

In today's #readoftheweek📚 learn about the ALNE model and how it generates quantitative and accurate differential diagnosis between cases with AIH or PBC. Read here this JHEP Reports article: www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S258... @jhepatology.bsky.social #LiverSky

NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.... #IDSky #LiverSky #HepSky

We are very proud to bring you a highly requested new type of event this year 🙌: an ECR Careers Meeting 🤩 Join us Thurs. 13th March at the UCL IIT/Pears Building (Hampstead, London) 🚨Registration is FREE! Follow this link to register NOW! www.immunology.org/events/bsi-l... For more details👇

The double-glazed ceiling: new PIs face continuing precarity - increasing bottlenecks in the article by Charitini Stavropoulou and Ian Viney @resprofnews.bsky.social #ECR #researchcareers @ukri.org @acmedsci.bsky.social @royalsociety.org Check out the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Regulatory T cells converted from Th1 cells in tumors suppress #cancer immunity via CD39, say Sang-Nee Tan, Chen Dong and colleagues (Westlake University): https://buff.ly/3ED6d1G #TumorImmunology #SolidTumors #LymphocyteBiology

20 years of research on giant viruses www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Invest in your potential with our Career Enhancing Grants 🙌 These grants are here to support you in navigating the world of #immunology and reaching new heights in your #career 🚀 Apply now! bit.ly/3QedNDL Deadline: 27 March

The beauty behind the infection. Human lung cells infected with influenza A virus (H3N2). Viral Nucleoprotein in cyan, ER exit sites in red and Nuclei in orange. #FluorescenceFriday #SciArt

I put together a small guide on how to get started with Fiji. Please distribute to anyone who might benefit form this! zenodo.org/records/1477... #imageanalysis #fiji #imagej #training

Cells are filled with toxic stuff that damages healthy proteins. Is that garbage just left to rot on the curb? No way! Ubiquitin ligases have evolved to recognize chemical damage and clean it up! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flow virometry: recent advancements, best practices, and future frontiers doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

In HCC patients treated with anti-PD-1 and lenvatinib, a circulating effector memory CD8+ T cell population is critical for treatment efficacy www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... preview by @meganburgerphd.bsky.social @cp-cancercell.bsky.social