Terrific work from @jelenalab.bsky.social and Fabian Fischer on controlling cell death. Fantastic to see this out!

I love me some Bernie Sanders

Super proud of my friend Sabrin @sabtahri.bsky.social, whose final (and terrific) PhD work came out today in #Blood (in collab with group of Niels vd Donk) It demonstrates an association between BM CD16+ NK cells and response to dara! #hemesky #hematology #myeloma doi.org/10.1182/bloo...

Reese Witherspoon became a billionaire and people are cheering and congratulating her on being a hugely talented business woman. I feel people do not realise that money is a limited thing. Billionaires (skilled or not, it doesn’t matter) are hoarding the resource.

What I find so brilliant about the haematopoiesis is that it takes place in a piece of tissue (bone) that already fulfils another role (holding up the meat sack). Human design being space-efficient, ain’t it something

When I said 2025 was gonna be my year 😭 Can I restart? I wasn’t ready

Just learned that US school libraries have banned Anne Frank’s diary, for the reason being she briefly discusses crushing on a girl. Anne Frank’s diary! Banned!

Hematologists! I need help! What is the unmarked population? Lin-cKit+Sca1-CD16/32+CD34- in mouse bone marrow! #hematology #hemesky

Getting a bit tired of the inflation of importance of the physician-scientist. And I say that as someone who went to med school once upon a time. Acting like they’re the most important being in research sells basic biologists, far stronger in bench lab skills, way short.

Landed my 2nd ever grant, hurray! 🥳

Eurostar really getting on my last nerve and it’s only Jan 5th

Absolutely fantastic work by Vivian Lau and @gerardlab.bsky.social on IFNy-related tumour escape! Must-read for all tumour immunologists! 💯

#EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell!💥Thrilled for the final version of our paper @cp-cell.bsky.social! We show that type III #interferons control ZBP1 activation driving gasdermin C cleavage & delaying gut repair by inducing #pyroptosis in intestinal epithelial cells! 1/n www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

For anyone who may need these over Xmas…just in case

Although still in 'First Edition' style, I am happy to finally share our latest article on DNMT3A double mutant AML. Hope to be able to share the way-easier-to-read print version of the paper soon! (1/2) #hemesky ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

Now in press, excellent paper by @zkellermayer.bsky.social where he shows that in the myeloma 5TGM1 model activation of NK cells, ILC1 and CD8+ T cells is lost upon disease progression! 👀 Awesome work, happy to have contributed #mmsm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Things to love about living in Oxford:

What if all PhDs just stopped defending and started attacking?

Officially dr. de Jong 🥂 Last Friday I finally defended my thesis and obtained my PhD degree cum laude. A big thank you to my supervisor Tom Cupedo, my paranymphs Cathelijne Fokkema, Sabrin Tahri and Natalie Papazian, and the opposition committee 🙌🏻

Share and help fill this one up! Suggestions via comments or DM! #stroma #fibroblast #MSC go.bsky.app/KPJMU4

Still trying to build a stromal biology starter pack! #stroma #fibroblast Let me know if you or other stromal biologists have joined bsky so I can add you!

#LocationLocationLocation & #EveryCellIsAnImmuneCell!! Check out the final version just out today of our Trends in Immunology review on the regionalization of the immune response along the respiratory tract!! dlvr.it/TG3Qzc

I got glasses for astigmatism and I think my prescription is slightly off as I can now see my cat’s retina reflections from certain angles 🙃 Makes me feel very eye-doctory though! #eyeSky

Maybe my parents would finally understand what I do

I've also made a feed with that collects posts from everyone in this starter pack bsky.app/profile/dpas... . I'm thinking it'd be most useful if there perhaps is also a keyword attached (which shouldn't be too long because char limit) #juniorlifescience perhaps?

Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here. The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added go.bsky.app/PY5tCas go.bsky.app/FmERUoD

My PhD on bone marrow inflammation in #myeloma has finally come to an end! Thesis written and distributed and I will be defending a week from now! Very ready to go ahead full throttle on a new chapter in my career

Are all Dutch people a bit iffy about using ‘skeet’ to indicate posting on here or am I the only toddler around? 🙊🇳🇱

For those with an 'invalid handle' handle

Mr. Blue Sky please tell us why you had to hide away for so long

I’ve made a starter back for #stromalcell #fibroblast enthusiasts! 🧫 It’s still very small as it seems many of our community haven’t made the move here yet and/or I can’t find them! Please reach out if you want to be added 🙌🏻 go.bsky.app/KPJMU4

I am really enjoying the surge of people to bluesky but still kind of missing the VERY early career group of people! (Aging in academia is a funny thing) - I went ahead and made this starter pack go.bsky.app/Jq8YaQM - if you would like to be removed/added please let me know

Hello 🦋! I’m Madelon, clinical scientist in #immunology. I love everything myeloid and stromal! My PhD work (Erasmus MC) detailed role of bone marrow #inflammation in #myeloma. Papers in comments. As a postdoc I study stroma-myeloid interactions in #arthritis (Uni of Oxford) 🔬💅🏼

Being a 30-something postdoc in a lab full of 20-something PhD students that always have plans after work

My feed here is a MESS Please help me find back my immunologist/cell biologist niche 😭

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