After a negative decade - finally a good year for IPF patients - Inhaled Treprostinil associated with a smaller decline in FVC & fewer clinical-worsening events (but also ~30%). Still no improvement - but let’s all hope momentum continues #CurePF4ALL www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

In the last 10 years, we have learned that air pollution is linked to cognitive decline and dementia. But bold policies can improve the air that we breathe. Ajit Niranjan reports on progress on #airpoolution on the Breathe Cities and @c40cities.bsky.social networks.

#CleanAir is a human right but we need to assert that right. Dr Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah speaks about how air pollution can effect your #health and the #environment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnG4... @rcsi.bsky.social @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social @momscleanairforce.org @mumsforlungs.bsky.social

"Straight from the playbook of tobacco". The Stove Industry Association has been pressuring councils to tone down their public health campaigns, telling them they were exploring options for potential legal action. This stinks even more than the burning they promote. #WoodBurning #AirPollution

Immune-microbiome coordination defines interferon setpoints in healthy humans @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @spitzerlab.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social @joelbabdor.bsky.social @pennmedicine.bsky.social

OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman

Air pollution contributes significantly to lung diseases such as asthma, COPD, and lung fibrosis 🫁. Are we making the matter worse with ‘low smoke’ fuel? @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social @ilfa-ireland.bsky.social @ild-ipfdoc.bsky.social @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social

The burning of ‘low smoke’ manufactured fuels are potentially more harmful to human health than traditional home-heating methods, new Irish research has found. www.imt.ie/news/low-smo...

New Post! Will Childhood Air Pollution Lead to Adult Brain Disease? Dr. Ray Dorsey Answers at Moms’ Annual Summit on March 4 www.momscleanairforce.org/dr-ray-dorse...

#ChurchOfRockAndRoll #54 Van Morrison wrote & sang the songs on Astral Weeks, and is usually the only name credited with its creation. But the album's producer + musicians played a massive part. The album couldn't have been what it was without them #AstralWeeks #VanMorrison

🔬 Years before working with Neumirna, our Director Prof @dchenshall.bsky.social focused on miR-134, now part of their lead epilepsy programme. Reducing miR-134 can help control seizures and normalize brain cell activity, forming the basis of NMT.001. @researchireland.ie @rcsi.bsky.social

A welcome U-turn Hopefully a sign RFK’s antivaccine faction is being marginalised FDA political appointee Prasad had first overruled FDA scientists. Then POTUS reported to have pressured FDA Commissioner Makary. Next, FDA agreed to review the application www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

GWAS and multiomic analyses uncovers rheumatoid arthritis endotypes doi.org/10.1002/art.... High IFN-I expression linked to lung disease and drug-assoc immune reactions in Still's disease doi.org/10.1002/art....

Breathe: By utilising digital adherence technologies and data-driven insights we can make progress towards achieving the goals of TB elimination and ensuring care for people with TB in resource-limited settings: https://publications.ersnet.org/content/breathe/22/1/250173

📆 One month to go! With onsite spaces selling fast, register soon to avoid missing out on the 24th ERS Lung Science Conference – from 19–22 March in Estoril, Portugal (and online). Book your place: https://channel.ersnet.org/hp-126-1-registration

Nature- X’s feed algorithm increases engagement but also swings users attitudes to the right. What effects could it also have on engagement with science and policy? @kaminskimed.bsky.social @drpujamehta1.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The next time you hear some politician blaming pearl mussels or the Habitats Directive for flooding disasters, might be a good time to point this out to to them.

Science isn't a suggestion—it's how we keep our kids safe. 🩺 The move to ignore the health risks of carbon pollution is a major step back, but we aren't backing down. The legal fight to protect our air begins now! ✊🌬️ #ClimateAction #MomLife #ScienceMatters www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Proud to say Ireland 🇮🇪 is doing well at position 11 but could do better and make the top 10. #CleanAir @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social @irishlungcheck.bsky.social

I feel that is still more wishful thinking than a reality, Bluesky is not even close to Science Twitter in the heydays of 2015-2021 & there’s still way more science action on evil Twitter than on benevolent Sky. But I’m willing to keep trying. And it keeps improving (drafts are a great addition)

Excellent initiative in England. Let’s see this happen in the Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪 too. #CleanAir @roinnslainte.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social @jennydickens41.bsky.social @fjobrien.bsky.social

Vaping in cars carrying children to be banned in England Rising evidence that secondhand vapour from e-cigarettes poses health risks, government says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“You can rescind a finding, but you can’t rescind the truth.” And like that, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin Chavis gets to the heart of why the Endangerment Finding won’t stand. @risestjames.bsky.social

#Women&GirlsinScienceDay Academic & particle physicist Anne Kernan was a huge advocate for women in science, on one occasion funding a trip to CERN for an undergrad she had never met, meeting her at the airport and paying for her accommodation until funding came through. www.dib.ie/biography/ke...

Rephrasing question to revive #CurePF4All convo here: Do megakaryocytes contribute to Pulmonary Fibrosis? What think you @ipfdoc.bsky.social @drpujamehta1.bsky.social @knipelab.bsky.social @elizabethredente.bsky.social @ild-ipfdoc.bsky.social @kerrijohannson.bsky.social @drdayjee.bsky.social ?

What can be done about this? Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations. Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement. @whittledaway.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social

This is a problem. Internet searches have been a cause for concern (and occasionally help) for a while now. A lot of background knowledge is needed to make sense of the suggestions thrown up by searches, but the AI summaries simply aren’t reliable. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Interesting article about how car design and diesel affects how much air pollution we breathe. It’s time to improve air quality on our streets for our own health and our children’s future health. #cleanair @rcsi.bsky.social @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New: Phosphodiesterase 4B inhibitor Nerandomilast first of its kind to be approved for progressive pulmonary fibrosis www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Last summer I announced that, after 13 years, I will step down as Chief of #YalePCCSM in June 2026. And now the search for the #NextChief is on!!! Read more about our section at medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

People with #rheumatoid arthiris and #scleroderma who have lung fibrosis can safely and effectively monitor their breathing and oxygen levels at home. Read our paper in @bmc.springernature.com describing how patients face and overcome challenges. @irishthoracicsoc.bsky.social rdcu.be/eQV9e

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

EMBL scientists have created a more sensitive single-cell sequencing tool for genomic variants and RNA in the same single cell. Known as SDR-seq, the tool has unprecedented scale, precision, and speed to characterise variants and link them to functions and disease. www.embl.org/news/science...

Delighted that Ziqi Dong's PhD paper is out for all to read! Hypoxia is fundamental to normal development, and fascinating! Thanks to all of our co-authors including @jamesnathanlab.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Fascinating work on the regulation of telomere length - molecular clocks we all have in our cells controlling aging and disease. Emerging evidence of their role pulmonary fibrosis. #CureIPF #Telomeres @elife.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social @kaminskimed.bsky.social

Great work by Dr Aoife Carolan from our group at @rcsi.bsky.social RCSI showing data from our familial pulmonary fibrosis clinic. - 1 in 5 patients have a family memeber with lung fibrosis. - 1 in 5 of these patients have a single suspected gene. #CureIPF @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social

Gene variants such as MUC5B can increase the risk for lung fibrosis/IPF. We found a strong correlation with high frequency of the variant per county and hospital admissions for lung fibrosis/IPF. This method could be used for future geographical healthcare planning. doi.org/10.1183/2312...

I totally agree. Summaries may be fine for some forms of science communications but scientists need the detail to make up their minds on the veracity of claims in papers.

It is grossly irresponsible of Reform to platform such dangerous pseudoscience in the name of ‘free speech’. Reform criticised over doctor's Covid jab claims at conference www.bbc.com/news/article...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Really cool: "Sex-biased Gene Expression Underlies Immune Dysfunction in Asthma " Kudos Drs Kay and Gomez and team!!! #DemistifyAsthma www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1165/... @ajrcmb.bsky.social @yalepccsm.bsky.social

Looks like telomere dysfunction is complex in mice and people - needs more investigation and great science. #Telomeres #CureIPF 🧪 🧬

🫁 Listen up LUNG people! 🫁 Get your colleagues over here to #medsky and start posting and engaging! These breathing problems aren’t gonna fix themselves - we need engagement, knowledge sharing, and discussion! 🤩

​A new study reveals a shocking link between oil & gas air pollution and the health of our children. It's time to demand cleaner air for our families. #CleanAir #ClimateAction #ProtectOurKids #momsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The nicotine addiction industry always wants new victims. Why else sell bubblegum flavoured vapes? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The air we breathe at work shouldn’t put our health at risk. That’s why we propose new exposure limits for hazardous chemicals like cobalt, PAHs, 1,4-dioxane & welding fumes. These measures could save €1.16B in healthcare costs & protect workers’ lives ↓ europa.eu/!mCQd69

We are delighted that RCSI is featured on the Sunday Times Ireland Best Places to Work 2025 list. Organisations must have excellent scores across a six-step framework, including reward and recognition, well-being and job satisfaction. 🔗 www.thetimes.com/world/irelan... #BestPlacestoWork2025

Delighted to give a talk at the Vermont Lung Stem Cell Conference last week. Also got to visit with @kottond.bsky.social, Finn Hawkins, Joe Kaserman, and Kostas Alysandratos - all legends of the lung regeneration field at the CReM Boston University @crem-boston.bsky.social #CureIPF

Incidence, Prevalence, and Mortality of Interstitial Lung Diseases in Alberta, Canada: A Population-based Study www.atsjournals.org/doi/suppl/10... 🧵👇 📣 TL:DR Incidence stable, prevalence rising, improved survival for ILD & IPF over 10 years. Numbers much higher than prior reports for ILD & IPF.