The decision announced today to scrap the AEA (Australia’s Economic Accelerator) Program is a disappointing step backward for Australian innovation, the translation of Australian research, and aspirations of long term economic growth being underpinned by R&D&I. 1/5 🧵 #Innovation #Research #auspol

Science is good. We should fund it.

Xie and colleagues describe a population of CD4⁺ T cells that expresses granzyme K and drives intestinal inflammation. Read it here: rdcu.be/fcdg6 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW REVIEW Sun Hur and colleagues summarize recent advances into FOXP3 and AIRE. Read it here:  www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imagine if a decent amount of funding support had been given to this project and we were less reliant on fertilizer. www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

New—Prevalence of early-stage type 1 diabetes in young adults: a population-based cohort study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D #FREE to read #MedSky #EndoSky

Excited to announce our new journal from @isme-microbes.bsky.social ISME Host Microbe is live and now accepting submissions. Look forward to receiving your papers! #Microsky 🧫 🦠

Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels. In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵 @cp-cell.bsky.social #Immunology #SystemsImmunology

Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis @cincyresearch.bsky.social @babiesresearch.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don't miss out! Register for the IDS 2026 meeting in Brisbane, Australia. Early bird registration pricing ends 9 March 20206. www.ids2026.com.au/registration/

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH. Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New—Autologous and allogeneic stem cell-derived islet therapy in three recipients with type 1 #diabetes and complete loss of endogenous pancreatic β-cell function pretransplant www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D #FREE to read #MedSky #EndoSky

New in @jama.com: "In this cohort study of 1324 Canadian children, we identified early-life interactions between human milk feeding and several gut microbes with respect to the infant metabolome and childhood SBP." #pediatrics #breastfeeding #microbiome #cardiosky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (#DKA) is an acute complication associated mainly with type 1 #diabetes, but can occur in type 2 & other forms of diabetes, & is one of the most preventable causes of morbidity and mortality for individuals with diabetes www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D #T2D #FREE w/reg

And finally ... camps. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!

You asked, we listened! Abstract submissions for IDS 2026 have been extended! Life gets busy and we don’t want you to miss out on the opportunity to be a part of this year’s conference. NEW Deadline - Friday 23 January at 11:59 PM (AEST) www.ids2026.com.au

Good news: there is still time to submit you abstract for the 2026 Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane Abstract deadline extended to Friday 23rd January @ids-t1d.bsky.social #type1diabetes

One week left to get your abstracts submitted for the Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane, April 2026! @ids-t1d.bsky.social #type1diabetes

Abstract submissions for the Immunology of Diabetes Society - IDS 2026 are closing soon! IDS is the conference for #type1diabetes research in 2026... Students and early-career researchers can apply for a travel award or a Rising Star award. @ids-t1d.bsky.social

The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Type 1 diabetes is associated with impaired T cell effector differentiation and regulatory T cell dysfunction, both of which may contribute to immune imbalance and loss of self-tolerance @natcomms.nature.com @adaptiveimmunity.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪 The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing “There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

Super proud that my PhD mentor being awarded the #Burnetmedal at #ASI2025 in Perth, Frank Carbone and the discovery of cross-presentation, and its role in priming killer T cell responses, using his original lecture slides from late 80’s #classicfrank

Joint chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic profiling of human and mouse pancreatic lymph nodes uncovers distinct features of CD4 T cells in T1D @sciimmunology.bsky.social @vahedilab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you interested in #type1diabetes research? The Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane, Australia is coming up fast. April 20-24 2026 Abstract submission deadline: January 16h 2026 Early bird registration deadline: March 9th 2026 www.ids2026.com.au @ids-t1d.bsky.social

Excited to share AlphaDIA's publication in Nature Biotechnology! Our open-source DIA framework brings deep learning directly to raw MS data with feature-free processing, transfer learning for any PTM, and performance matching top tools. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

▪️ “There was a time when politicians did not use defamation laws. Most believed they had platform enough to defend their reputations... You & the govt you served in played a big role in changing that. Imagine the consequences.” - Sat Paper Editorial ⤵️ www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21849/...

As screening and early treatment for type 1 #diabetes become more widespread, the European action for the Diagnosis of Early Non-clinical Type 1 diabetes For disease Interception (EDENT1FI) consortium highlights the need for clearer, more consistent terminology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D

A new soft plastics recycling scheme is replacing Australia’s failed REDcycle. Will it mean consumers have to pay more?

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature. Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

#JaneCaro comments on the absurdity that sees all taxpayers fund private schools while underfunding public schools @janecaro.bsky.social Gift article #Auspol failure #AusLabor fail www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21678/...

In The Lancet @thelancet.com: Minimum effective low dose of antithymocyte globulin in people aged 5–25 years with recent-onset stage 3 type 1 #diabetes (MELD-ATG): a phase 2, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, adaptive dose-ranging trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D

Prediction of progression to type 1 #diabetes with dynamic biomarkers and risk scores thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D #MedSky #EndoSky

Video circa 2022.... #auspol

Want to hear all the latest #type1diabetes research? Registration has now opened for the 2026 Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress @ids-t1d.bsky.social www.ids2026.com.au

Disasters are multiplying & the costs are set to skyrocket. The ADF is already stretched, & shouldn't be asked to carry this burden. We need to decide who pays for disaster relief: ordinary Australians, or the fossil fuel industry fuelling the damage? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Straight to the Pool Room.📌 Excellent explainer on immigration and housing. #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Just maybe we need a campaign to reform education. At a time when we all face a huge social upheaval to #transition the #economy, trashing the arts and social sciences and making them inaccessible will only benefit Shell, Santos and Woodside as a delaying tactic. #auspol @jasonclaremp.bsky.social

Interesting report that I missed from last year detailing just how dire R&D funding has gotten in Australia. ~15years of cuts have left us so far off the pace its embarrassing. go8.edu.au/wp-content/u...

Superb science journalism from @nature.com on a handful of bad editors driving most retractions. This was always a concern for mega journals, where editorial oversight quality varies wildly - this report puts names and numbers on the problem. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important first-in-human report today for donor pancreatic islet beta-cell transplant to an individual w/Type 1 diabetes. With genome editing, there was no immune response induced or need for immunosuppression. Major implications for transplantation in general @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

The ancestral protein of the CRISPR–Cas9 system — less than half the size of its famous descendant — is engineered into an effective DNA-targeting tool that can be delivered by AAV as an epigenome editor for in vivo gene silencing #NBTNV go.nature.com/43JRgno rdcu.be/eyorl

Why working less could be better for you — and your employer www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Good to see reports on this finally out…we need an independent science watchdog to prevent this happening again. The cage, the camera and the con: How a superstar scientist was finally caught out - The Age

"Transmission of maternal oral pathobionts to the infant gut predisposes offspring to exacerbated enteritis" http://dlvr.it/TM6rrb Hiroko Nagao-Kitamoto Nobuhiko Kamada @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

I reviewed this paper a bit ago and have been waiting for it to come out. A great resource for us Bifidobacteria researchers!

If NIH shuts down funding of animal-only grants, get ready for a whole lot of grants to include some pointless organoid experiments just to qualify. What a terrible rule! www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announce...