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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today we got our new imaging system for automated spatial proteomics installed! Maria Semenova is already eager to image thymuses. Thank you @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social - we are excited to be the first users in Finland for the new system integrating imaging and fluidics. Funded by @erc.europa.eu

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Aug 27

WE ARE HIRING 💥 Do you want to become our new project coordinator? More details on the University of Helsinki webpage. Application period until September 10th - be quick! 🧪🧬🦠🧫🔬https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-PROJECT-COORDINATOR/828168902/

PROJECT COORDINATOR

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Adam Braithwaite @braithwaiteat.bsky.social · Jul 3

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Unpaid advertisement for the Finnish 🇫🇮 tourism agency: if it is unbearably hot where you are now (like New York), come to Finland. It is nice and chilly at 14 degrees of Celsius (57 F) now. #chillescape

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Tuure Kinnunen @tuurekinnunen.bsky.social · Jun 24

New results on the role of circulating T follicular (cTfh) and T peripheral helper (cTph) cells in type 1 diabetes out at @eurjimmunol.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#immunosky #T1D #autoimmunity

The Frequency but not the Phenotype of Circulating Peripheral T Helper Cells is Increased at Later Stages of Progression to Type 1 Diabetes

Frequencies of circulating T peripheral helper (cTph) and activated T follicular helper (cTfh) cells increase close to the diagnosis of clinical type 1 diabetes, but not at the onset of autoimmunity.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 22

Shout in beds, on delivery tables,
in kitchens,
in fields, schools, offices and
in shops.
Shout with your hands raised: - No!

No, no, no.
No war!

Eeva Kilpi

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 22

Mothers, shout.
Instead of lullabies, shout.
Shout a direct cry
all over the world in one voice.

Women, shout.
Stop traffic, factories,
weapons manufacturing, dreams.
Stand in the middle of the squares and roads
and shout.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 22

Huutakaa vuoteissa, synnytyspöydillä,
keittiöissä,
pelloilla, kouluissa, toimistoissa ja
kaupoissa.
Huutakaa kädet kohotettuina: - Ei!

Ei, ei, ei.
Ei sotaa!

Eeva Kilpi

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 22

Äidit huutakaa.
Kehtolaulujen asemesta huutakaa.
Huutakaa suoraa huutoa
kaikkialla maapallolla yhteen ääneen.

Naiset huutakaa.
Pysäyttäkää liikenne, tehtaat,
aseitten valmistus, unet.
Seisokaa keskellä toreja ja teitä
ja huutakaa.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 20

OK, everything is not done, I give up. It is not raining, garden needs tending, and today it is 20 hrs of daylight so must move my focus there. Hyvää juhannusta 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥! 🇫🇮

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 19

I think I left some for next year.

Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 19

Status report: everything is almost half done. I have one day.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 17

In Finland 🇫🇮 we have this thing called ”everything must be done before midsommaren”. I have three days. Bring it on.

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David Usharauli @davidusharauli.bsky.social · Jun 11

I agree the thymus likely presents all key epitopes for T cell tolerance. But studies based only on transcriptional data without testing each mimetic cell’s role should be viewed cautiously and given lower priority.

#thymus
#tolerance
#immunology

Developmental trajectory and evolutionary origin of thymic mimetic cells - Nature

In mice, tissue-mimetic cells appear in thymus in two distinct waves, creating two distinct pools of mimetic cells, each expressing antigens characteristic of different cell types.

buff.ly

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 11

Teamwork makes the dream work! Kekäläinen lab participating to the #HelsinkiPride month (a bit late to the game but our office was under renovation). #PrideMonth 🧪

Team members raising the pride flag to our office door

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.fi · Jun 8

Miten tehdään huippuyliopisto: riittävästi rahaa, panostuksia erityisesti perustutkimukseen.
www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

HS Visio | Rahalla saa ylivoimaisen yliopiston

Helsingin yliopisto putosi jo kertaalleen maailman sadan parhaan yliopiston listalta. Samalla listalla Kööpenhaminan yliopisto on vuodesta toiseen Pohjoismaiden paras. HS kysyi Kööpenhaminassa, mistä ...

www.hs.fi

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · Jun 2

Found pinned to the notice board at Dept. of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki. Finnish academics supporting the good fight by Harvard University. The North Stands with You. 🧪@harvardcellbio.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Harvad T shirt and a note pinned to a notice board with text: We stand with our collegues against the trumpists’ attacks on freedom of speech and academic liberty. The trusth will prevail!

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · May 27

Personal news: I have been appointed by the rector of @helsinki.fi to a tenure-track associate prof position in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology! My affiliations are with the Faculty of Medicine and HiLIFE, Institute of Life Sciences @helsinki.fi . Humbled and excited to start this new journey!

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · May 26

Postdoc opening in Pia Dosenovic's lab at Karolinska Institutet, "B cell-mediated immunity with a focus on basic immunological questions related to vaccine development"
#Immunology #ScienceJobs #ImmunoSky

ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Postdoctoral studies in Immunology (scholarship)

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet conducts research and teaching within immunology, inf

ki.varbi.com

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · May 23

These times have proved that it is good to have something like Section 16.3 of Finland's Constitution: 'The freedom of science, the arts and higher education is guaranteed'.

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Tuure Kinnunen @tuurekinnunen.bsky.social · May 23

Interested in translational human immunology? We are currently recruiting a PhD student or a post-doc to work on an exciting project to to study immune changes leading to the development of type 1 diabetes. #immunosky #sciencejobs uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher, Translational Immunology

The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher (Translational Immunology) position in Kuopio. The position will be fill

uef.varbi.com

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · May 20

LLMs and open science are not meant to flood the already congested scientific literature with junk but should help us to be more creative. #immunosky #medsky 🧪 Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI

Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

www.science.org

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · May 13

Life of a Northener: in the winter you barely are alive, just doing the minimum and would preferably just sleep. Spring arrives and you have started 12 new projects at home and work, barely sleep and dig in the garden untill wee hours.

a black banner that says we the north

ALT: a black banner that says we the north

media.tenor.com

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · May 5

#ImmunoSky #MedSky

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 5

"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · May 5

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · May 5

The ERC welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from @ec.europa.eu for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering larger, longer-term grants, as announced by President Ursula Von der Leyen at the Sorbonne this morning.

👉 europa.eu/!NTYTTV

Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'

The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...

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