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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Aug 30

Leaving Basel after an amazing @embo.org meeting on Barrier Immunity! Bravo @maurogaya.bsky.social and @immunologyking.bsky.social for putting together such a brilliant lineup.

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Eduardo Villablanca @ejvillablanca.bsky.social · Aug 27

Great analogy to illustrate the question @carlanowosad.bsky.social is pursuing on her lab: how GC are form and how GC cells find their way to their specific locations

#embo workshop Basel

#immunalogy

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Michelle Linterman @linterman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantastic @embo.org young investigator lecture on lung B cell responses from @maurogaya.bsky.social #EMBObarrierTissues

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Aug 23

Superstar 🤩

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Aug 21

Vote for the extremely talented Helena here!!

Helena Aegerter @helligator.bsky.social · Aug 21

The New Scientist @newscientistnl.bsky.social has selected me for their Talent in Science competition: Vote for me here!
www.newscientist.nl/polls/new-sc...

If you need a little convincing, I made a little video explaining why researching mucus is so important
youtu.be/dYnXBnq4ttc

Learning about Charcot-Leyden crystals in mucus with Miles and Slime

YouTube video by Helena Aegerter

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Frederick "Erick" Matsen @matsen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Why does selection feel so weak relative to mutation in affinity maturation? A new blog post giving three perspectives, including our new transformer-based model of natural selection on antibodies: matsen.group/general/202...

The term 'affinity maturation' understates the influence of somatic hypermutation

Three recent papers quantify how nucleotide-level mutation processes drive antibody evolution.

matsen.group

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Aug 15

Love this series! Great to see some familiar faces in here 😎

Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Aug 15

#WomenInSTEM becoming independent: People should feel free to be themselves and do great science. We asked ten women researchers about their science and the process of setting up a lab as an independent researcher: rupress.org/jem/article/...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

🧪 Senate appropriators say: NIH's budget gets a... boost!

Rather than 40% cut, NIH gets a $400M *increase* in the Senate committee bill for FY26 (about +1%).

"Congress has your back," said @murray.senate.gov.

ADVOCACY MATTERS! There's still a long road (esp in the House), so keep up pressure.

Full Committee Markup of Defense and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Acts | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Jul 30

BREAKING: Trump wants to illegally cut off $15 billion in lifesaving NIH research.

Research to cure cancer, Alzheimer's, and so much more is on the line.

These people are LYING about waste, fraud, and abuse at NIH to justify attacking medical research—we all need to say so.

My full statement. ⬇️

Senator Murray Slams Trump Admin for Choking Off Lifesaving NIH Medical Research - Senator Patty Murray

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on reports today that President Trump’s Office of Manageme...

www.murray.senate.gov

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Jul 24

And share widely please, both here and when you are chatting to great graduating students!

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Charles Bergquist @cbquist.bsky.social · Jul 24

Starting up OnlyLabs, where people can pay to watch researchers who used to have federal funding do Hot Uncensored Cutting Edge science experiments.

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Jul 22

Nowosad Lab will be recruiting postdocs soon. Reach out if you are interested!

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immunoboys @immunoboys.bsky.social · Jul 1

S1P is produced in the outer lymph follicle area and degraded by B cells resulting in a negative gradient towards to follicle center. S1PR2 signalling on GC B cells leads to migration arrest, keeping B cells within the follicle. (🐭 data)

Green et al 2011 🧪⑂
www.nature.com/articles/ni....

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Jul 2

'Under the new administration, the NIH, which for more than 75 years has supported scientists who are pursuing research deemed to be in our national interest, is pulling back. Budgets are being slashed.'

Research funding cuts: What's at stake

Researchers like Richard Huganir are closing in on a cure for SYNGAP1-related disorders. But in the face of federal funding cuts, can they finish what they started?

hub.jhu.edu

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Jul 1

Big day for the lab today 🧪

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congrats to Gaby Berman, officially a Nowosad Lab PhD candidate!!

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Please share this widely and encourage students to apply! Many of our current graduate students were recruited through this program -- happy to answer any questions and connect with students
bsky.app/profile/stan...

The Stanford Biology Preview Program @stanfordbpp.bsky.social · Jun 24

Planning to apply to Biology PhD Programs this year? Let us help you out!! At the Stanford Biology Preview Program, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the graduate school application process. Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · Jun 25

Cream puffs in a tip box can only mean one thing… a celebration!

Nowosad Lab milestone- first student qualifying exam complete 🥲

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Brendan Harley @profharley.bsky.social · Jun 7

The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us

From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

www.statnews.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Jun 2

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.

The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.

www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya

Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

www.importantcontext.news

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · May 31

The bottom line with the proposed cuts to NSF is to cut the number of working scientists and disappear opportunities to train new scientists.

This is a PROPOSED budget to Congress. Call your reps.

screenshot from the NSF budget request to congress showing that the number of people involved in NSF activities will drop from 330,100 to 90,000.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · May 30

Presidential budget proposes a 70% reduction in NSF funding for 2026 compared to2024.
Instead of funding 23% of proposals (2024) they will fund 7% (2026).
A perfect recipe for the destruction of American science.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 30

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Nature Reviews Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com · May 29

Not one, not two .... but FIVE recent papers highlighting a role for RORgt+ antigen-presenting cells in the gut in establishing tolerance to food antigens
#oraltolerance #immunosky #foodallergy

RORγt+ antigen-presenting cells mediate food tolerance - Nature Reviews Immunology

Five recent papers identify the RORγt+ antigen-presenting cells that induce food-antigen-specific regulatory T cells and establish food tolerance.

www.nature.com

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Carolyn King @immunologyking.bsky.social · May 30

Last chance TODAY - to register and submit abstracts for #EMBObarrierTissues in Basel 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭! We've hit our registration goal 🥳, but there's always room for more. Join @maurogaya.bsky.social and me to explore the latest in lymphocyte and mucosal immunology. Details: meetings.embo.org/event/25-bar...

Adaptive immunity in barrier tissues

Immune responses lie at the heart of almost every aspect of human health, including host responses to infection, autoimmunity, cancer, metabolism and aging. While adaptive immune responses by B and T…

meetings.embo.org

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Carla Nowosad PhD @carlanowosad.bsky.social · May 14

The last few days were a much needed reminder that community is everything in science. Thanks V Foundation, you guys are the coolest.

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