Nov issue of #Science #Immunology out now! This week: exTH17 cells sustain #IL17 –independent rheumatoid #arthritis; CXCR4+ mesodermal progenitors → rostral blood vessels, prodefinitive hematopoiesis, & postnatal tissue #macrophages; & how #Bcells acquire antigens from #parasites! scim.ag/4qQA6Q6

After many rewarding years at @StJudeResearch surrounded by exceptional colleagues & groundbreaking science, I’m delighted to join @fredhutch to push boundaries in viral & cancer immunology. Grateful to St. Jude and looking forward to what’s next at FH! More here: www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

I need a gyro! I'm holding out for a gyro till the end of the night! It's gotta be warm and its gotta be fast and its gotta be fresh made tonight

Lovers of Trained Immunity - this one is for you. A focused E-life issue on the topic - lots of ground to cover. elifesciences.org/collections/...

Neuroinflammatory canine disorders: unveiling disease mechanisms from a One Health perspective url: academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...

What a great #Cytokines2025 meeting! Caught up with many #IFN scientists, made multiple new connections, had fun giving a talk & great to see those from UW Immunology all these years later. Always my fav conference 😀🥳 Thanks to all the organizers!🙏🏻 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social @ramlabuw.bsky.social

Has no one seen The Mummy? This seems like a terrible, terrible idea! What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#Cytokines2025 has begun- looking forward to a few days of networking, especially with #IFN friends from outside 🇨🇦 when it has been too long 😀 Despite the challenge of travel to the US at the moment, still 20 countries represented this year 🌎 #Cytokines25 @cytokinesociety.bsky.social

Welcome to #Cytokines2025! We are thrilled to have you in Seattle for cytokines2025. Check in starts at 11 am, join us for cutting-edge scientific sessions, celebrate excellence at the award ceremony, and connect at the welcome reception. Enjoy the meeting and Seattle! 🌲🧬✨ #Cytokines25 #Immunology

maslow's hierarchy of cells 1. physiological needs: oxygen, nutrients 2. safety: a tissue culture dish to adhere to 3. love and belonging: contact with surrounding cells

Exciting news!!
I’ve been awarded an #SNSFStartingGrant and will join the Institute of Parasitology, University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor in summer 2026.
A dream come true! 🥺

Sometimes It’s Hard To Be a Woman Hillbilly himbo JD says he’s a coal miner’s son, and now he wants his wife to start reading the family Bible. Will Usha standby her man or ask him for a D-I-V-O-R-C-E. by Maureen Dowd

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

CDC FluView hasn't been updated in a month, so I will start posting Philadelphia flu activity updates weekly. It is especially important to track flu in the US this year, since there are reports of a severe early flu season in parts of Asia. The PA department of health also has a nice website. 1/2

A huge honour to be a recipient of the Delphine Parrott award and give a memorial lecture. Delphine was the 1st female professor at the University of Glasgow and a groundbreaking immunologist. Also great to be introduced by Allan Mowatt as an honorary Scot! @immunememorylab.bsky.social

In science we joke about questioners after a talk starting with ‘This is a question not a comment.’ I’m at a social science event and someone just started with ‘If I can be faux-naïve…’

'Political appointees are also granted the power to take “appropriate measures to correct scientific information in response to violations” & their views are also the “sole & exclusive means” of evaluating “agency policies governing the use, interpretation & communication of scientific information”

The geniuses who “would have” perfectly tamed covid can’t control measles or pertussis.

Now in #Science #Immunology: Hirahara lab reports activated #TH2 cells store LC-UFAs present in inflamed #lung within #lipid droplets. Subsequent catabolism via #microlipophagy induces ST2-hi effector & memory TH2 cell phenotypes, exacerbating #type2 #airway #inflammation! #asthma #immunometabolism

Why can our farts ignite? Time to find out (and quite a bit more) in our new paper in Nature Microbiology led by the amazing Dr Cait Welsh. Integrating atomic-to-ecosystem level insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This seems very interesting - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Is being a PI just updating mouse protocols every month?

Is this intended as a pro-Mandani post? Because it sure comes off that way

Reports of severe flu cases in Hong Kong. If I was a politician, I would strengthen international collaborations to study infectious diseases in other countries. Now is a good time to get a seasonal flu vaccine in the US…there are signs we could have an early season. www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

Sunday 7.55 AM #AAI IMMUNOLOGY informatics and modeling course at UPenn day 3. Plenty of trainees from all over the country raring to go. @davidchristian.bsky.social @aai.org @i3h-upenn.bsky.social @pennvetwdc.bsky.social @beiting.bsky.social

Born at the wrong time, today he would be either running Justice or the next chairman of the Fed

For the microbiologists - any other pathogens have a street named after them! Yesenia Way or Tuberculosis Av?

“The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”: “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone” orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Asthma is a chronic disease characterized by acute, intermittent, recurrent episodes of airway inflammation. A decade of work developing the tools, techniques and collaborations needed to figure out how CD4+ T cells in the lungs propagate disease can be found here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Congrats @mclellanlab.bsky.social ! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Rubbing shoulders with a @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate! 🤩What a week! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person: isbscience.org/news/press-r... @isbscience.org @naehasubramanian.bsky.social @flash-point.bsky.social @annabiosys.bsky.social

Hard to compete with this.

📣 EJI is proud to share that this year’s Nobel Prize winner, Shimon Sakaguchi, published with us on 6 October: bit.ly/46R7n4g We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Shimon for receiving the prize in recognition of his pioneering work on Tregs. #NobelPrize #Immunology #Tregs

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

Nobel prize for Tregs! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance" Stay tuned for more. #NobelPrize

Denise Kirschner talks about her research for Discovery Research week storage.thankview.com/uploads-vide...

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be joining the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026! My lab will study RNA virus-host interactions with a particular focus on the spatial regulation of viral replication and innate immune activation. genoyerlab.com

The October issue of #Science #Immunology is out now! This week: how #TCR avidity shapes #CD8 #TCell responses to #mRNA #vaccines and the latest research on the immunology of #brain #tumors reviewed! New content added every week! scim.ag/46TGooP

Hearing from someone in NIH program: “Our final Task Order for $6.2M went out today. Every obstacle DOGE put up to keep us from funding new TOs and extending others was overcome. My fired contract officers were rehired. It was a lot of work, but we did it. For now.”

I'm proud of our new study showing that some people born in the 1990s have high levels of antibodies that cross-react to H3 viruses from the 1990s and....contemporary H1N1 viruses. Such a surprising story led by Grace Li, in collaboration with many Penn-CEIRR labs. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Toxoplasma for the win! There is a reason its the King of Pathogens!