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Elisa Fadda

@elisafadda.bsky.social

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Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, head chef at https://GlycoShape.org, Salem's butler, fucose fanatic #glycotime everyday! She/Her

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · Nov 13

As we (my lab and I) are new here 😻, let me introduce some exciting #glycotime work we recently published in Nature Methods doi.org/10.1038/s415... GlycoShape is a completely OA database and toolbox to restore the 3D structure of glycans on glycoproteins 🥳 You can find it at glycoshape.org 1/2

artistic rendition of glycoproteins 3D structures anchored on the cell surface and soluble with the glycans restored with https://glycoshape.org

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1h

We will NOT stand for Trump and Vought decimating our health sciences with RFK Jr's permission.

JOIN US FOR A RALLY AT HHS ON FRIDAY 10/17!

WE ARE TAKING BACK SCIENCE.

#ImpeachTheQuack
#GetOutTheVought
#TakeBackScience

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 3d

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 30m

I usually leave my garden flowers to the bees, as I don't have heaps (yet), but the gorgeous purple dahlia from Schiphol Airport is starting to fade so I thought I should continue to celebrate its beauty for a wee bit longer 💐😍 #gardening

And for #glycotime friends, fans of sialic acid, rejoice 💜

Bouquet of light purple, pink and deep purple flower bouquet in a glass vase, including dahlia, cosmos, lavender, mini carnations and daisies (different types I don't know the names of 😜) all from my garden

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 1h

After a rejection or a major *major* revisions is where usually the endless going around takes place. But I like much more "response" in general

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 5h

'Compared with many other tumor types responsive to ICIs such as melanoma or NSCLC, gliomas typically harbor few nonsynonymous mutations, giving rise to even fewer immunogenic neoepitopes. Hence, with very few exceptions, gliomas do not respond to ICIs'
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

The immunology of brain tumors

The cellular and molecular determinants of the antigenicity of brain tumors and the immunosuppressive brain tumor microenvironment are reviewed.

www.science.org

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 6h

Uughh... I am afraid I missed that as well, I withdraw my initial comment..

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting study that looks at dynamics of B cell responses in the lymph nodes to vaccination against SarsCov2 (COVID). This shows that B cell responses are broadened in the node germinal centres enabling wider responses to variants 🧪 #ImmunoSky

Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization

SARS-CoV-2 variant booster vaccination broadens human B cell responses through the germinal center reaction.

www.science.org

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 8h

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology

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Gladstone @treasurymog.bsky.social · 7h

Happy #Caturday

a gray and white cat is laying on a couch next to another cat

ALT: a gray and white cat is laying on a couch next to another cat

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 7h

Sad to hear this from someone I thought had a good moral compass, for a change... The degree people are willing to bend over to appease a psycho baby on permanent tantrum mode is unreal and disgraceful ☹️ they should be more Norwegian!

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 8h

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk, has declared the Christmas Island shrew is extinct. This little animal is extremely common all over the island, and at night its shrill shriek, like the cry of a bat, can be heard on all sides. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 9h

Oh no

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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 9h

#BBCNews - Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rare wildflower bloom blankets Chile's Atacama desert

One of the world's driest deserts is transformed into a sea of wildflowers after a rare bloom.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 18h

More than 200,000 deaths a year can be attributed to freshwater snails. The snails are hosts to deadly parasites, in particular parasitic flatworms known as flukes.

For reference, lions kill about 250 humans per year...which still feels like a lot?

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 18h

For movie night (if you need inspo) is All the President's Men, an absolute classic always worth another go 🍿📽️

Poster for the movie All the President's Men with Dustin Hoffman (left) and Robert Redford (right)

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 19h

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19h

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/115350001798882417 The Nobel Committee says more succinctly and forcefully what I said to the Royal Society.

Warner Crocker (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image This part of the Nobel committee's statement hits. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/press-release/ #politics #NobelPeacePrize

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you!! 🍿

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😂🤣😂🤣🙏🏻

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 1d

Snap! I think I wrote something precisely along those lines after seeing the doc Endurance, which is truly stunning! also went to the south pole pub in Annascaul to pay homage to a true explorer and hero, Tom Crean mentioned only in passing in the doc

films.nationalgeographic.com/endurance

The sign at the entrance of the South Pole pub reads this pub may contain nuts

Sign posting Ernst Shackleton's as in the paper to recruit volunteers for the Endurance voyage. Reads "Men wanted for hazardous journey small wages, bitter cold, long months, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success"

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 1d

Irish writer and author @naoisedolan.bsky.social and everyone participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza have shown incredible courage and the best of humanity. I urge President Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin @gov.ie to demand Ms. Dolan's release immediately.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 1d

Question for the hive mind: Is this less or more likely if reviews and rebuttal are public?

Rebuttals currently aim primarily to sway one person (the editor). But if they are increasingly context for readers to judge the merits of criticism (eLife-type process), will they differ?

Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 1d

What I abhor is the swamp of text in rebuttal (pages and pages on nothing) that does not address my query, but goes endlessly around it, to go to why 'I didn't do this because I can't care less about checking, about making my science accurate as I possibly can' 3/n

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 1d

In my small scale experience they do! Would people read those? not sure... but as a rev and author for eLife, the process was laborious but lead to well crafted comprehensive reviews. The Editorial job there is also quite substantial, but ultimately it is a system all publications should aspire to