When thinking about science Camus' thoughts are prescient; "For methods imply metaphysics; uncosciously they disclose conclusions that they often claim not to know yet" For immuno folks: asking a question through an immunological lens will lead to immunological conclusions - not quite objective.

providencemag.com/2025/07/chri... Fantastic article. "Writing shapes people, and people shape societies, especially democratic ones." Learning to write well is a skill that manifests in positive ways beyond communication. For Lasch and Orwell, sloppy writing produces dishonest societies.

Article reference limits discourage adequate scientific discussion and are counterproductive. Building strong arguments cannot be done with one citation of a review. Authors should also be appropriately credited for the work they have done, even if published a long time ago.

🎉 Over the moon to share the first paper from my lab!! We discovered an unexpected role for the cytokine OSM in lung epithelial homeostasis and repair. 🧵 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Really enjoy the intersection of math and statistics with immunology. Great work.

Was a pleasure to write this journal club spotlight on the following excellent preprint from Neetu Srivastava, Xiaoxiao Wan and colleagues. Please be sure to check out their excellent work here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Really couldn't be more proud to have the last chapter of my PhD finally out in publication at @cellpress.bsky.social. We looked at the mechanisms behind how the developing gut microbiota in newborns plays a role in education of the pulmonary immune response against respiratory viruses.

I am very excited to share our article on IFNg, stroma and disease tolerance during intestinal helminth infection published today in Cell. This work was lead by the amazing @susanwestfall.bsky.social and supported by many international collaborators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Having had a bad clavicle fracture 6 months ago, two operations, and too many X-rays (all for $0!) I am super grateful for the ortho team @sinaihealth.bsky.social in Toronto for their exceptional care. Proud to be 🇨🇦, and I hope we as a nation push even more $ into the medical sphere.

Featured Article: Cross-kingdom-mediated detection of protozoa NLRP6 regulates colonic mucus secretion upon intestinal protozoan infection. NLRP6 does not directly sense Tritrichomonas but Bacteroides-derived sphingolipids enriched during infection www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Highly recommended read!

Reliance on AI to solve problems without having any conception of the solution approach has elements of praying to a deity.

NEW @preprintclub.bsky.social Journal Club by Jennifer Ahn & @jengommerman.bsky.social highlighting a @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social paper by @arimolofskylab.bsky.social, Jeanne Paz and colleagues that reports a role for IFNg in protecting against seizures after traumatic brain injury

www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... Super happy to have contributed to this work led by the skyless Dr. Nate Winsor in our lab published in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! If you're interested in learning more about gut protozoa, bacteria, and mucus, be sure to give it a read!

A somewhat expected consequence of the rise in scientific publishing (oftentimes dubious papers), is that seminal papers, especially those prior to 2005-ish are much harder to find without specific PubMed queries. Does anyone have any tips?

This is insane - transplantation of genetically modified pig heart into human as a treatment for heart failure. Despite the patient succumbing to antibody-mediated graft rejection, there were encouraging postoperative improvements. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know my weekend read!

Ever wondered how gut microbes control immune responses at extra-intestinal locations? Here #theonlylabever reports how a gut protozoan commensal shapes pulmonary immunity to exacerbate asthma and limit the dissemination of mycobacteria. @cellpress.bsky.social ⬇️(1/x) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Yes but it’s easy to fall into the trap of “busy reading”. Reading without being able to put the work into a theoretical framework is almost pointless. Also important to be able to distinguish good papers from the swathes of junk.

I don’t think more resources necessarily means better science. I think the bigger issue is the current zeitgeist of giving attention to “data heavy” papers that may not necessarily have that much more scientific substance. We now value flashy techniques over substance - this mood needs to change.

In times when science denialism is at a high, it’s a good reminder that human life expectancy was between 30-50 until mass vaccination campaigns, discovery and use of Abx, and discovery of HAART which all collectively boosted LE by at least 20 years in the 20th century.

Biological science needs to go back to the fundamental idea that hypotheses should always be attempted to be disproven. Either the experiments show negative results and the paradigm is further solidified, or new data causes ground-breaking shifts in old, unquestioned ways of thinking.