This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/th... @uplift.ie

Delighted to announce I passed my PhD viva yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners @kesslerbenedikt001.bsky.social and @gunnarns.bsky.social for the fantastic discussion and feedback. Thanks as well to my incredible supervisors Ben Collins and @colllab.bsky.social, and everyone in the labs!

So proud of the new Dr @emmamckay.bsky.social for smashing her PhD viva! Huge thank you to her examiners @kesslerbenedikt001.bsky.social @gunnarns.bsky.social for great discussions on NLRP3 inflammasomes and proteomics - first student co-supervised with Prof Ben Collins 😊

Great couple of days in Manchester for the excellent @britsocimm.bsky.social Innate Immunity and inflammation meeting #BSIInflammation25

Brilliant couple of days attending the Irish Society for Immunology annual meeting in Galway. Great science in a beautiful place!

Had a brilliant couple of days in Galway with the lab at the Irish Society for Immunology meeting - great science and great craic!!!

NLRP3 inflammasomes can assemble on most organelles. A beautiful study by Hafner et al demonstrate the flexibility of organelles that can support inflammasome activation. Kudos to the authors on an intriguing study. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ivahb.bsky.social @elvirab.bsky.social

If you’re looking to gain hands-on training in the basics of mass spectrometry and proteomics bioinformatics, then this course is for you! Make sure you’ve submitted your application by 6 April: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Some financial assistance is available - see the course website. 🧪🧶🧬🖥️

We are recruiting a student for a really exciting PhD project on understanding how high plasma suPAR predicts poor outcome in patients with ARDS @wwiem-qub.bsky.social #ARDS #criticialcare - any questions please get in touch! (open to UK and RoI) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The loss of TBK1, or both TBK1 and the related kinase IKKε, results in uncontrolled cell death–driven inflammation. We show that TBK1/IKKε prevent premature cell death by limiting the activity of multiple death pathways in myeloid cells. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If pubmed is inaccessible at the moment, try @europepmc.org

Thrilled to start 2025 with our latest findings! Yersinia invades macrophage cytosol to activate caspase-11 when caspase-8 or YopJ are inactive. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Discovery of a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Human NLRP3 with a Novel Binding Modality and Mechanism of Action https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.21.629867v1

Have you ever wondered whether pyroptotic corpses have functions beyond the grave? We made the surprising discovery that pyroptotic corpses are flagged by #filopodia to alert #DendriticCells they need autopsy. A short Bluetorial (1/13)👇with movies! Link: rdcu.be/d2mjm

Hi #TeamMassSpec! #FeMS+ has joined BlueSky! Please share and get the word out so we can build up a base here.

@inflammasomelab.bsky.social was the lucky 100th added to this starter pack! Definitely one to follow for all the incredible #inflammasome #inflammation work they do! go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB

The unofficial FeMS starter pack (until they join us on Bluesky :) anyway. If you're a woman working with a mass spectrometer please ask to be added! All women are welcome! go.bsky.app/PUwu7fr

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

My proteomics resources on Bluesky: Proteomics Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HH7kqEh PSP converted into a List so more researchers can be added: (bsky.app/profile/did:...) Early Career Researchers in Proteomics Pack: go.bsky.app/Dp8PHX1 Single Cell Proteomics Pack: go.bsky.app/KYdPDb8

The wave is rising 🌊🦋 In just a few days, we have surpassed the halfway mark of people in this #innateimmunity and #inflammation starter pack! Contact me to be added or tag someone you think should be on here. #immunosky #academicchatter go.bsky.app/QqJ9AgB

Scaffolding of NLRP3 on osmotically swollen vesicles but not intermediate filaments promotes inflammasome assembly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.18.624139v1