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Emily Condiff
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Microscopy/image analysis | Super Resolution, Confocal, High multiplex imaging | Immunologist | PhD from Medzhitov lab @Yale Immunobiology now in Somerville, MA
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Sample-level modeling of single-cell data at scale with tinydenseR #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690752v1
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Single-cell mapping of maternal–fetal cross-talk in preeclampsia #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8254581/latest
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
econdiff.bsky.social
Kind of surreal when the flight from the USA to Brazil starts with an announcement about how to recognize measles symptoms and says “Let’s keep measles out of Brazil”
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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tommytang.bsky.social
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Talk to your bioinformatician before you run the experiment.
A 30-minute conversation can save a 3-month project from failing.
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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thebrysonlab.bsky.social
The @ragoninstitute.bsky.social is launching a new faculty search for a computational immunologist! Applications are open now and reviewed on a rolling basis. Please share broadly with your networks! #immunosky

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Computational Immunologist - Boston, Massachusetts (US) job with Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, & Harvard | 12849577
The Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard in Cambridge MA, together with the Departmen
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December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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superbugs.bsky.social
Why scientists have to become better communicators and learn how to engage different audiences.
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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mucosalimmunol.bsky.social
Tissue resident colonic macrophages persist through acute inflammation and adapt to aid tissue repair in this work from @lizihegarty.bsky.social, @bainlab.bsky.social, and colleagues: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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mucosalimmunol.bsky.social
Disruptions to the vagus nerve can perturb endometrial microbiota and induce injury; pantothenic acid could help restore uterine health: www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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don’t cheapen your slides! there *are* places to get free, human-created, rich, visual content on this bitch of an internet, some on this list: livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Embracing my silly side makes me a better scientist. I wish I’d done it sooner
Humor has helped this professor connect with students and colleagues—and remain resilient during hard times
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November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Seminal fluid expands the uterine gamma/delta T cell pool during early pregnancy in mice

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Seminal fluid expands the uterine gamma/delta T cell pool during early pregnancy in mice
Seminal fluid elicits an immune response in the uterine mucosa after mating that impacts embryo implantation and pregnancy, but the underlying molecul…
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November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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theonion.com
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method https://theonion.com/rogue-scientist-has-own-scientific-method-1819568501/
Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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payalyokota.bsky.social
..cross your 't's folks.. here's how!

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Guidelines for T cell nomenclature - Nature Reviews Immunology
This Consensus Statement clarifies the existing subset-based nomenclature for T cells. Furthermore, it proposes an alternative modular nomenclature that is designed to be brief and flexible and to avo...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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cp-immunity.bsky.social
A Notch too far: Treg plasticity in multiple sclerosis
Regulatory T cells can play conflicting roles in autoimmune inflammation. In this issue of Immunity, Benamar et al. reveal that gut-microbiota-induced Notch3+ regulatory T cells migrate to the central nervous system in multiple sclerosis and transition to inflammatory Th17-like cells.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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nature.com
Nature research paper: iPEX enables micrometre-resolution deep spatial proteomics via tissue expansion

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iPEX enables micrometre-resolution deep spatial proteomics via tissue expansion - Nature
Isotropic tissue magnification is integrated with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging to enable untargeted spatial proteomics at micrometre resolution and with high protein identification rates in multiple tissue types.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Good NPR story on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.

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50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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An important anniversary for Minnesotans everywhere: 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
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🔊 Listen Now: 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Morning Edition on NPR One | 5:03
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November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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NEW Perspective by @alazozcan.bsky.social, Tommaso Vicanolo, Veronique Angeli, Yuval Rinkevich & @drusqui.bsky.social presents a model of immune cells as architects of tissue barriers, by depositing matrix components or by interactions with structural cells and the ECM
#structuralimmunity #immunosky
Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers - Nature Reviews Immunology
This Perspective presents a framework of ‘structural immunity’ that positions immune cells as architects of tissue structure. Beyond their roles in antimicrobial defence, we posit that immune cells co...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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malaiseforever.bsky.social
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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embl.org
EMBL Barcelona researchers develop a human placenta model to protect pregnant women and their babies.

This in vitro model that mimics the maternal-foetal interface of the placenta, allowing for the study of molecule exchange and drug transport.

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A human placenta model to protect pregnant women and their babies | EMBL
EMBL researchers were awarded a BII foundation grant to support Model-MI – an in vitro model that mimics the maternal-fetal interface.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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science.org
The mice could be used to better understand and treat heavy menstrual bleeding, and study reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis. https://scim.ag/473mwRw
Lab mice can now have periods like humans
Studies of rodents with a menstrual on/off switch could help people with endometriosis and other disorders
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October 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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October 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Treatments for acne offer only partial and temporary reductions in symptoms – but two vaccine candidates could offer new hope. This article is part of our Nature Outlook on Skin. 🧪
Acne vaccines could offer robust defence
Researchers are hoping to trick the immune system into fighting back against the bane of adolescents everywhere.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM