🧬 New research shows lung basal cell–derived PROS1 reduces COVID‑19‑induced inflammation and enhances antigen presentation in monocytes. Read the study: vist.ly/5adqg #COVID19Research #Immunology

Huge thanks 👏 to the congress organisers and #WSF for the invite to present my work @ucd-chas.bsky.social on fibroblast-immune cell interactions at #SSWC2026 🫁 special thanks to #WSF who fund the work 😀 Lovely to catch up with colleagues and make new connections #SSc-ILD @ucdresearch.bsky.social

📢 Funding opportunity: BALR joint #studentships are now open for applications from undergrad science/med students and PI/PostDoc supervisors across a range of respiratory conditions. ⏰ Deadline 17th April Visit balr.co.uk/awards @actionpfcharity.bsky.social #BreathingMatters #PulmonaryFibrosisNI

Save the date! We’re delighted to announce that the BALR conference 2026 will be hosted at the University of Leicester 23-25 June 🫁 More details coming soon!

Don't miss out on your chance to attend "Fuelling the immune response IV: #UKimmunometabolismMeeting2026" Those that have joined before will know these are fantastic meetings providing an open & productive forum to discuss really cool science 📆16-17th April www.immunology.org/events/fuell...

#BSI25 the graphical abstract @britsocimm.bsky.social lots of fun caching up with everyone in #Liverpool and learning about ongoing exciting #immunology research. Enjoyed presenting my poster #354 on #DIPNECH 🫁 and blood immune cell metabolism! 💪 @ucd-chas.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Coffee ☕️ time? #BTSWinter2025 Say hello at the #BALR stand 😃 learn about @balrcommunity.bsky.social great membership opportunities for #ECRs and 🫁 #RespiratoryResearchers Maybe grab some treats 💙

Thanks to #BTSWinter2025 🫁@btsrespiratory.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work on #DIPNECH @ucd-chas.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @balrcommunity.bsky.social

Thanks to the fantastic speakers in our BTS/BALR session on novel lung models (Part 1) 🫁🔬and our fabulous chairs @alisonejohn.bsky.social @julieworrell.bsky.social Like great movies, great topics get a sequel! Don’t miss Part 2 at 11am, back in Westminster (4th floor) #BTSWinter2025

Interesting article 💥 Ant1 acts as as metabolic checkpoint in emphysema 💥 implications for monocyte derived macrophage infiltration 🫁 Check out our editorial here: www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1165/... #ImmunoSky @ucd-chas.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Pre-print alert! And this one really is a must read for anyone that does spectral #flowcytometry. It is a complete, fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold. Want to get a tough sample, like lung, looking like this? Read more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.

This 2-part Symposium prepared jointly with @balrcommunity.bsky.social covers a huge range of research topics within the field. Don't miss this fascinating deep dive into the latest developments in lung disease. 👉 brit-thoracic.uk/WM25 #BTSWinter2025

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target! So how do you pick the right one for your experiment? Here’s the solution 👉 Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at: 🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

New #flowcytometery protocol drop from Oliver Burton. This one is on optimising blocking while preserving signal, in particular how to overcome Fc interactions and dye-dye interactions, and preventing tandem break-down. currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#BALR2025 🫁 @cardiffuni.bsky.social what a fantastic 3 days 👏 lovely to see everyone and to present some #fibroblast data updates 🤗 Really high standard from all #ECRs and great #flashtalks #posters #presentations. Superb keynote from @tatalab-duke.bsky.social thanks @balrcommunity.bsky.social

Well done to all presenters! Excellent time keeping and a pleasure to chair this 😀 #ECR #speedyscience #scicomm @balrcommunity.bsky.social #BALR2025 🫁 🔔 only got to ring my bell once at the start of the session 😂

Do you want to become part of a dynamic committee and contribute to the strategic planning of the BALR? Apply for the open positions on our committee! Chair Treasurer Communications Secretary Publications Secretary RSB Representative Post-Doc Rep More info at balr.co.uk/about

Multimodal profiling reveals tissue-directed signatures of human immune cells altered with age @natimmunol.nature.com @teichlab.bsky.social @donnafarber.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ever thought: 'If only I had 1 more day!' Well, you have not 1, but 5 more days to submit an abstract to #BALR2025! ⏰NEW abstract submission deadline: 15/08 ⏰Late breaking (posters only): 25/08 ⏰Registration deadline: 25/08 balr.co.uk/meetings

Lung structural cells are altered by influenza virus leading to rapid immune protection following re-challenge @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NOW in @natcomms.nature.com my postdoc work @uofgsii.bsky.social @immunememorylab.bsky.social 🫁 structual cells retain an imprint of IAV infection💪 Rapidly controlling a localized antiviral response BRFORE memory-T cells are required! rdcu.be/eyQ0F #ImmunoSky #PulmSky @wellcometrust.bsky.social

🌟 Immunology #PostDoc🌟 @ucd-chas.bsky.social Novel surgical innovation investigating sentinel skin flaps in acute solid organ rejection 🔬 🔗 #immunosky Apply NOW: my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal… @britsocimm.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @balrcommunity.bsky.social @hrbireland.bsky.social

📣Registrations and abstract submissions are OPEN for #BALR2025 in Cardiff 8-10 Sept! A stellar program and ECR awards await! Head here www.balr.co.uk/meetings to submit your abstract by 10/08 and register by 25/08!

🌍✨ Today is World Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis Day! ✨🌍 Let’s come together to raise awareness of these often invisible, but life-altering diseases. 💙 📖 Read our blogs shorturl.at/rMQ4g 🎧listen to Inflammatory! podcast shorturl.at/VOSFB #inflammatory #livebeyondIA

hen it rains it pours!! What an amazing #ATS2025 for #CurePF4ALL! Nerandomilast -> ⬇️FVC decline compared to placebo in Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis patients on antifibrotics or untreated. 👏🏼 Drs Maher, Martinez & #FibroneerILD team!! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Happy to share our new collaborative review in #ERJBreathe focusing on #ILD and recent insights into 🫁#pathogenesis @ucd-chas.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social @balrcommunity.bsky.social #ECR #PulmSky 😄 publications.ersnet.org/content/brea...

Well done to #PhD students Atia, Megan and @shforde.bsky.social who presented their exciting #respiratoryresearch 🫁 posters today @ucd-chas.bsky.social #PGRday #immunecells #UCDSoM #ILD #womeninSTEM 👧

🎉 Happy International #DayofImmunology! 🧬💙 As we approach the end of our DOI 2025 campaign, we want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the video campaign! 🙌🎥 #ThankYouImmunology #NeuroImmunology @iuis-online.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @myriamnabhan.bsky.social

#WeekendRead! #EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell! Peng Bai Marichal &co show @ Science Immunology that endothelial cells produce TGFb to differentiate monocytes into #lung interstitial macrophages preventing aging & fibrosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In the interest of balance #news

Thankful for this opportunity 🙏 World Scleroderma Foundation #WSF to drive this exciting work forward 🫁 @ucd-chas.bsky.social #collaboration #stromalimmuology #SSc#SSc-ILD #pulmSky #RheumSky #ImmunoSky

🚨🔔 Delighted to see this piece of work from @cvrinfo.bsky.social now out in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ! Indeed, it really reflects what multidisciplinary team effort can be. Guess what? Spike of #SARSCoV2 is not just about antigenicity/immune evasion… doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Elegant work by Jason Cyster's group "Our study demonstrates that the canonical chemoattractant receptor-ligand systems well-established for lymphocyte homeostatic trafficking to LNs are no longer the major contributors in the inflamed setting." #ImmunoSky

If you know, you know! 😉#LateLateToyShow #spaceseeds #SpeirGorm 🦋

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!

Our new preprint is here! We show eosinophils are retained in the bone marrow by everyone’s (our😊) favourite atypical #chemokine receptor ACKR2. #Eosinophil education of #monocytes promotes differentiation to #macrophages and bacterial elimination during E.coli #infection. Please read and share.

Sectarianism in immunology. (highly specific for immunologists, all credit to @pedromics on X) 1/8

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

BALR is always proud to support the future of Resp Research. The winners of the BTS/Asthma+Lung UK and BTS/BALR mid-career lecture awards Dr Elaine Soon and Dr Aran Singanayagam will present their work at #BTSwinter2024 on Thurs 28/11 at 4.15pm in the Churchill room.

Do you want to become a virologist? The @CVRinfo PhD programme is now recruiting for both UK and international applicants - rotate in two labs then choose a project tailored to your interests. Also you get to live in Glasgow, which is fab. Please RT! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Look what I made! 🦋 With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com Some clear research trends emerging👌 #fibroblasts #lungs #ILD

Beautiful paper from Burkhard Ludewig’s group showing the importance of immunoregulatory stroma to support anti-tumour immunity. www.cell.com/action/showP...

Lots of new followers on 🦋 #ImmunoSky Great to see everyone here. I'm a respiratory immunology and 🫁 fibrobalst enthusiast based in Dublin 🇮🇪Throwback to this lovely #blueSky pic from last year 😎 #fantasticfibroblasts

The British Association for Lung Research enters Bluesky! Give us a follow, visit our website balr.co.uk, become a member if you aren't already, the membership comes with lots of perks!

Happpy #IDWGIS with some nice GFP! 👌 my first bluesky post 📫 #WomenInScience