you know how people always say "oh haha I put off doing this admin task for ages and ages and turns out it was fine and took no time" well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there

📣 We’re thrilled to announce the 5th Scottish Immunology Groups Network symposium! #SIGNET26 🗓️ 11 March 2026 📍 Perth, Scotland A full day of cutting-edge research, collaboration & networking across the Scottish #Immunology community. Register here: https://bit.ly/3LxUJA5

My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover! Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Longest Day Of The Year

Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in @PLOSPathogens journals.plos.org/plospathogen... Led by previous PhD student @BacchettiRoss and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.

urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"

Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII. Lessons should have been learned.

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

Yay immunology! Tregs FTW! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

real bravery

Doing the Glentress 7 today - 7h mountain bike race. I plan to become a machine which turns peanut butter and jam sandwiches into laps.

We're looking for a Lead Scientist to join Flow Cytometry Centre in Aberdeen! Fantastic opportunity to deliver services, work with varied research groups, promote cytometry and further develop the facility. Aberdeen is a great place to live/work- APPLY NOW www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/cyto...

Latest McSorley lab paper is out! Led by Vivien @vshek.bsky.social, this is a story about the immunomodulators from H. polygyrus bakeri (Hpb), and how their analysis led to the identification of HpBoRB, a secreted protein which binds host RELM-beta www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extremely happy to see our work out in #ScienceImmunology. We show allergen-induced ECM remodelling occurs independently of IL-13 or IL-17 driven inflammation. Rather chitinase-like proteins drive airway ECM accumulation & inhibition of Ym1 can remarkably reverse it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Allergen-induced airway matrix remodeling in mice can be prevented or reversed by targeting chitinase-like proteins | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🎉🎉 @hetompkins.bsky.social @drtesutherland.bsky.social @mattoburgess.bsky.social @james-ep.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Hominid re-diversification

Pangolin taking a mud bath: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026! Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission! Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟

I have marked 6 MSc theses in 2 days and I cant read any more words. No more words thank you. Or acronyms. Especially acronyms.

Great postdoc opportunity available in the Konkel lab in Manchester!

IL-25-induced memory type 2 innate lymphoid cells enforce mucosal immunity Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me

Super proud that my PhD paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/all.... RSV leaves long-lasting marks on the lung, potentially boosting future immune responses but also contributing to allergen sensitisation.

Me: (birdwatching) ooo a brown one

We made a short animation explaining what goes wrong in the lungs during asthma! 🫁🎬 Designed for the public, students & patients—check out how immune cells respond to threats & how asthma treatments work. Big thanks to @WellcomeTrust & Acteria!

Gonna steal this sign for my office door

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Baby voice: Things can be good without being perfect. You must learn to grasp this fact. If you are unable to do so, you will have a very thankless life, politically and personally.

In our latest work we've explored associations between the fecal bile acid pool and helminth infection status in school aged children in Uganda. Have a read and see what we found!

Great to be a (small) part of this beautiful new study on global diversity of soil transmitted #helminths from @stephenrdoyle.bsky.social and colleagues 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The fantastic Menon Lab (@madhvimenon.bsky.social) in the @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social in Manchester are hiring!! 🚨DO NOT MISS YOUR CHANCE TO APPLY!🚨 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Postdoc seeking to unravel how lung-infiltrating #Bcells contribute to chronic lung disease #immunosky

The perils of living in cow-country. I thought I was putting the grass cuttings on the compost heap. Apparently no, I was filling up the cow feeding trough. The cows made it clear that this was the best day ever.

🚨 Abstract submissions are OPEN for the British Society for Immunology Congress 2025! #BSI25 Join 1,500+ immunologists in Liverpool between 1–4 Dec, for 4 days of science, workshops & networking. Submit your abstract by 3 Sept & showcase your research! 🔗 bit.ly/4kYXvLN

Delighted to be on the new Editorial Board and looking forward to helping refresh the BSI’s BiteSized Immunology resource ⬇️

What? I... WHAT??

There are few things you less want to dig up in the garden than yellow tape saying “danger high voltage”. I’m not saying it’s the worst thing, but it’s top 5.

british fan chat

Our latest story describes the amazing evolutionary battle between malaria parasite and human. The parasite evolved RIFINs to bind inhibitory KIR receptors and suppress immune cell function while humans have activating KIR receptors to bind these RIFINs to kill parasites!

mRNAs encoding adjuvant proteins boost immunity. A fantastic study from Hunter et al shows the value of IL12. Study validates original work on this concept, ref below. Kudos to the authors on this exciting discovery! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 New McSorley lab paper just out in Cell Reports! Very happy to see this published - it has been a lot of work, and its turned into a really nice story. In it, we show that HpARI+HpBARI can be used as vaccines Tutorial thread below (1/16): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stayed last weekend in the wonderful Bamff wildland. So many beavers! Right outside the window! Morning coffee and beavers = excellent.

Got some helpers for today’s marking. Baby cows are best cows.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

🧪 New online today! Anti-ST2 antibody reduces airway hyperresponsiveness mediated by monocyte-derived #macrophages during #influenza A infection www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

I get an absurd amount of joy watching the happy spring trees get their happy Spring leaves on. Absurd.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon