Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Yes, please! Will be trying this out soon. (Well, someone in the lab will be trying this soon!).

@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social efineptakin alfa (NT-I7), a long-acting form of IL-7, induce beneficial stem-like CD8 T cell-supporting tertiary lymphoid structures enriched for PD-L1 in murine lung tumor model biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great piece. Now extrapolate across the other 26 institutes and every disease/biological process you can conceive.

Inflammatory memory of stem cells: implications for hematologic diseases buff.ly/QBUFcjd #hemesky

Tcf1 and Lef1 prime prethymic progenitors for Notch responsiveness, promoting early thymic progenitor fate and lineage stability @sciimmunology.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ASH applauds the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for rejecting proposed NIH cuts but urges Congress to also protect critical CDC programs supporting individuals with blood disorders. 🔗 https://bit.ly/41PqLNv #Fight4Hematology #ResearchSavesLives #HemeSky

Damage-induced IL-18 stimulates thymic NK cells limiting endogenous tissue regeneration www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natimmunol.nature.com @dudakov-lab.bsky.social @fredhutch.bsky.social

It gives me great pleasure to present the latest from our lab, outlining a curious cellular and molecular pathway that limits thymic regeneration after acute insult. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Minoxidil restores thymic growth in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome by limiting Sox9+ chondrocyte expansion. New study from Pratibha Bhalla, Nicolai van Oers and colleagues (UT Southwestern Medical Center): rupress.org/jhi/article/... See a short video summary 🎥 youtu.be/8M7qQELxQ8g

Didn't realize this included scientific papers too - a quick search revealed 44 authored manuscripts!

A Rapid and Scalable Subcutaneously Administered Murine Thymus Micro-organoid for Generating Functional T cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.671099v1

Thymic size decreases with age, but the factors driving thymic regression in later life had been ill-defined. M. Paula Longhi & team now find smoking and sex differences contribute to thymopoietic activity in individuals aged 50 and older. Full report: buff.ly/To6Qikz

Preview @cp-cancercell.bsky.social Lymphoma accelerates T cell aging by transcriptional and epigenetic reprogramming that mirrors physiological aging www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...

Outstanding work outlined here demonstrating the importance of maternal breast milk antibodies for immune development from my @fredhutch.bsky.social colleague Meghan Koch.

Perspective @nataging.nature.com Sustained immune youth risks autoimmune disease in the aging host www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Review @natrevcancer.nature.com Ageing, immune fitness and cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This exciting paper gives hope for 22q patients! Minoxidil restores thymic growth in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome by limiting Sox9+ chondrocyte expansion url: rupress.org/jhi/article/...

I’m sorry, what now?! www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Research has an economic return multiplier >1. So taxes don't even really pay for research. Research more than pays for itself, the taxes are just used to kick-start the positive economic cycle. The more money invested in research, the better the economy.

Review @natimmunol.nature.com The role of gut microbial metabolites in the T cell lifecycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting. Very interesting.

Activated STING in the thymic epithelium alters T cell development and selection leading to autoimmunity www.jci.org/articles/vie... @jclinical-invest.bsky.social

Forum @cp-trendsimmuno.bsky.social @cgerlachlab.bsky.social The T cell subsetting challenge www.cell.com/trends/immun...

How on Earth is he still referred to as a vaccine skeptic? I think we are well beyond that now. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Feeling like the worst “Rainy Day” has hit your hematology lab? ASH is deploying some significant umbrellas. More details soon! Watch @ash.hematology.org

Great piece and highlights what we need to be making clearer.

As an Australian it has always been a mystery to me the high level of fealty to the monarchy your average Canadian has compared to the antipathy of the average Australian; although I've always suspected that proximity to the US plays a part.

There is an irony in Canada showing how independent and free they are by parading their foreign monarch who technically still rules by Royal Assent through "their" representative (the Governor-General).

Excited to share our study describing a role for a subset of Thetis cells, TC IV, in tolerance to food antigens. A team effort led by Vanja Cabric and Yollanda Parisotto www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A wave of Irf8-dependent αvβ8+ Thetis cells in gut lymph nodes imparts tolerance to food antigens early in life via pTreg cell differentiation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social

A triumph of perseverance from twitterless Tom Weber, Christine Biben and the team, our in vivo barcoding "LoxCode mouse" used to resolve epiblast fate to fetal organs is finally published in @cellpress.bsky.social and available through @jacksonlab.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you are invited to review abstracts for ASH2026 in a basic science category, please know that I reviewed these sections and pushed for you to do this work. PLEASE HELP ME OUT. We want to increase the quality and representation of basic science at ASH.

People who leave alarms set in hotel rooms are welcomed into the third circle of hell.

Please watch tonight’s important episode of “60 minutes” focused on the impacts of reductions to the NIH budget and workforce featuring a UW Immunology graduate student. www.youtube.com/watch?v=noyS...

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Here we go…

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

Add one Governor to the cause!

Today, the NIH announced a decision “to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR).” www.nih.gov/news-events/... 1/n

Geared up for today’s rally!

Not a good time to be a scientist in the US. Thankfully science will continue in countries where science is independent of politics. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We were delighted to have @king5news.com.web.brid.gy visit us in the Termini Lab to discuss how NIH funding cuts could affect cancer research: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Szo9... We NEED indirect costs to provide funding needed complete research studies that will lead to life saving discoveries.

One of the coolest studies of last year would not be funded by the current NIH policy. By studying people undergoing gender affirming testosterone treatment, they discovered how sex hormones shape the #immune response, with important consequences for everyone! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh FFS. Most of these are focused on the effects of sex steroids, which are used for more than just (and will be relevent beyond) gender affirming care.