To argue "infections" are an extrinsic factor to heritability is bizarre to me - as if aging takes place in a vacuum. Infections are part of longevity. Infection resistance is heritable (e.g. AMP polymorphisms in mammals, insects). I don't disagree longevity is highly heritable... 1/2

🔔HIRI has opened a new call to recruit Group Leaders. If you are interested in opening an RNA Biology and Infection lab, join us! Deadline: February 15. More info here 👇

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)! Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

Tha'ts what scientists want too. We need AI that makes sure you don't break the dishes (or centrifuge)

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

The human pangenome continues to grow and improve! Release 2 is here! Click through for the details, but this is a pretty amazing dataset including not just the phased assemblies, but PacBio HiFi, ONT Ultralong, Dovetail/Illumina Hi-C, PacBio Kinnex, and Illumina WGS for all samples

Establish your own independent research group as Group Leader - AI in Biology. We’re looking for individuals interested in bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

“Everyone thinks their genes are the cause for them getting an age-related disease, it’s actually your immune system.” - @erictopol.bsky.social the author of Super Agers on #HealthandVeritas podcast pod.link/1588414491/e... @thehowie.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social

Applications due Monday September 15 for the International Event Grants! These grants support symposia, workshops, courses, and other evolutionary biology events, including virtual events. Learn more and apply now: rb.gy/76fgi

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

📣New today! 📄Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jkpritch.bsky.social @finngen.bsky.social & colleagues

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Join the annual meeting of the Society for Immune Polymorphism (SIP), November 3-5, Netherlands! A meeting for everyone interested in polymorphic immune molecules (e.g. #MHC/#TCR) and their functional diversity across species. Early bird/Abstract deadline is Aug 15: sip-sassenheim.org

📣 2 #Immunology #Summer_Schools that might be of interest to you: If you are working on adaptive immune receptor repertoire: ut.ee/en/content/c... If you want to get deeper into new advances in Immunology: focis2025.univ-rouen.fr/page.php?pag... #ImmunoSky

'Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40yrs or younger. Wn the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them'

Interested in starting your research group in AI and applications to science? Check out our upcoming online event for DFG funded opportunities in Goettingen!

Your research matters! Contribute to the future of #EvolutionaryBiology by submitting your Abstract to #ESEB2025. 🔬 Explore over 50 topics, including: ✅ #Evolution in all its aspects ✅ #Genetics & #Genomics ✅ New Frontiers and more! 📩 Submit now: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, eds @ahlie.bsky.social, Jeremy Greene, and me, will be available open access from @cambridgeup.bsky.social in May 2025. In a world of growing health inequity, radical social medicine has never been more urgent! #histstm #histmed #sts

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

IMBA is recruiting a Junior Group Leader! Are you interested in starting your own lab, pursuing curiosity-driven basic research in the life sciences? Apply now to our group leader position. The deadline is May 28. Link is below.

Proudly presenting Dr. Artemis Efstratiou, who recently defended her PhD. She worked on variation of #MHC immune genes and dynamics of the T cell receptor repertoire in sticklebacks under different experimental conditions. Congratulations, Artemis! 🥳🎉 www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung...

I just noticed this new header above the website of #MolecularEcologyResources. I'm sure that there are vast numbers of 'healthcare professionals' who will want to read our paper on MHC diversity in sticklebacks (😂), but what about the other few remaining scientsts? Just asking, @wiley.com ...

Hello Blue world! I recently migrated from the old Twitter as I got tired of the continuous bombardment of far-right propaganda. I intend to use this account mainly for scientific exchange with a pinch of politics. So, why not start with a summary of our recent paper? doi.org/10.1186/s130...

🚀 Registrations are open: 2025 SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses, Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s... Please help us sharing this announcement 📣 @gimmfoundation.bsky.social #CBR @moorefound.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR

To all fish immunologists, if you haven't read this @jimmunol.bsky.social paper from Adam Hurlstone lab in #zebrafish which I know it's a few years old please do, the more I read it the more gems I find in it journals.aai.org/jimmunol/art...

Age-Related Dynamics and Spectral Characteristics of the TCRβ Repertoire in Healthy Children: Implications for Immune Aging onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1... ‘Petrous Fever’ - not an inner ear problem, but a pretty unique paper collating opinions and reflections on the aDNA ‘gold rush’ from museum curators, archaeologists and anthropologists with some insightful responses at the end.

In school, you probably learned that human cells have 46 chromosomes, which is 2 copies of 23 chromosomes, sometimes called 'diploid' or '2n'. But there are other 'ploidies' in your cells. To start with, 80+% of your cells have NO chromosomes: red blood cells or 'erythrocytes'...

'A new study in this issue of PLOS Biology examined the fidelity of various brain organoid protocols in reference to human primary developing brain by gene co-expression relationships with million-scale collection of public scRNA-seq data sets.' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Coupling antigens from multiple subtypes of influenza can broaden antibody and T cell responses | "we found that using this approach substantially improved the antibody response to avian influenza HA" | by Mark Davis' lab @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just in time for the holidays, our lab has just submitted our first lab led paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! We use phylodynamics to reconstruct how H5N1 got to North America and spread so rapidly. Full thread coming post holidays, but for now, super proud of @lambod50.bsky.social

A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors |"a Gln226Leu substitution switched Texas HA binding specificity to human-type receptors" @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A starter pack for PhD students and Postdocs in Immunology to connect 🔽 Drop a 🧬 and I'll add you to the list. Let's build the upcoming immuno community! #ImmunoSky 🧪 go.bsky.app/RABVXY4

'We then found that, whereas RANKL neutralization in young mice mimicked thymic involution, exogenous RANKL treatment in aged mice restored thymic architecture as well as endothelial cell and epithelial cell abundance and functional properties.' #Immunology #Immunosky

🧪We welcome Jeroen Dobbelaere as a guest author on our blog series ‘How to make labs more sustainable.' Jeroen is one of the newest members of our Sustainability Committee and will teach us how to start approaching #sustainability from inside the lab. https://bit.ly/4gkeSUw #SciSky #climatechange

I guess this is one area many of us overlooked. The socioeconomic factors in long-term association of pathogenic viruses and bacteria...

Dava Sobel shows how Marie Curie "lit a path for women in #science... but her telling confirms, heartbreakingly at times, just how narrow and gloomy the path was." Kate Zernike reviews Sobel's "The Elements of Marie Curie" for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/b... #WomeninSTEM

Best #Nikolaus 🎅! Our paper on how the 🫁 microenvironment can shape #innate immunity against #viruses is out @sciimmunology.bsky.social This was a herculean effort brilliantly led by @pauljbaker.bsky.social who singlehandedly established the model in the lab during the pandemic. 🧪 #Immunosky 1/9

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

Most of the talks from our Oct meeting are now online, with a few more to come: www.precisionmedicine.columbia.edu/videos

Association between #HLA (especially DR and DQ) and response to different vaccines (pertussis, diphtheria and hepatitis B), with a potential role for ethnicity-associated expression differences in HLA-DRB1 @NatMed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After we reach advanced age, around 80, the propensity to develop cancer is markedly reduced. A discovery reported at Nature today about aged stem cells and iron insufficiency may help explain this advantage www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We weren’t supposed to be talking about Hemingway. But Miller, who is 38, is reflective, and with a family of ducks at our feet and a breeze bending the shore reeds, we had detoured. Our main topic was race and psychosis" www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/m...

"Researchers are rewarded if their papers are highly cited or published in prestigious journals (...) Conversely, developing and maintaining software, even if it supports a wide body of research or meets the needs of broad scientific communities, rarely results in similar opportunities."

With the growing bluesky community I probably missed some people - don't hesitate to ask to be added or to suggest people!

In a great collaboration with @typaslab.bsky.social, @lisamaierlab.bsky.social and @biocs.bsky.social found that 24% of the tested human-targeted drugs inhibit the growth of gut commensal bacteria. "Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria" (2018) www.nature.com/artic...

Join us today at 5 PM! ⤵️

We’re no experts but this sounds like it might be suboptimal for disseminating research.