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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 2d

Super excited to announce the launch of the PhD subspecialization program in genetic & genomic counseling at @ubcmedicine.bsky.social - it's open to applications!

All details including contact information for any questions is available here: medgen.med.ubc.ca/graduate-pro...

Please share widely!

PhD Sub-Specialization in Genetic and Genomic Counselling - Department of Medical Genetics

Overview The PhD sub-specialization in Genetic and Genomic Counselling will develop researchers who generate knowledge through empirical research that will advance and inform evidence-based practice i...

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Hind Hussein, PhD @hindhussein.bsky.social · 18d

Hello everyone! I am a postdoc in mucosal immunology and I am looking for new postdoc position in Europe! I know a lot about gut mast cells, but also CD4 T cells and type 2/3 immunity in general. I've worked with single cell sequencing and neuroimmune interactions. Feel free to share! Thank you! ♥️🥼👩‍🔬

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Editor searching reviewers in August

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · Aug 19

TYK2 inhibition enhances Treg differentiation and function while preventing Th1 and Th17 differentiation
@cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social
@mklevings.bsky.social
cell.com/cell-reports...

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Today is Generalised Pustular Psoriasis awareness day. The US National Psoriasis Foundation has a lot of resources for people living with this severe condition
www.psoriasis.org/gpp-resource...
#psoriasis, #dermatology, #RareDisease

GPP Resource Center

GPP is a painful, rare, and chronic form of psoriasis that can appear in a small area or over a wide swath of the body. Explore this GPP Resource Center to connect and learn.

www.psoriasis.org

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · Jul 25

My biggest, loudest job application advice:

WHY do you want this job? This SPECIFIC job? What about it interests you? What do you think of it? What can you bring to it?

I know this sounds obvious but a generic cover letter isn't doing you favours - really. *Show me you know the job!*

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is very true. My most productive time is between 5.00 and 7.00pm...which is why I am currently faffing around on Bluesky #Procrastination #AcademicChatter

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Jul 22

27. Everyone has a best time of the day to write. Once you figure out what time this is (for me it’s roughly 9-11am) do everything you can to protect it! This won’t be easy, because your best writing time is always someone else’s “I suck at writing then, might as well schedule meetings” time

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚨Our latest paper is out on the Br J Dermatol 🚨Using #MendelianRandomization, we identify OX40 as a likely disease mediator in palmoplantar pustulosis. Given OX40 inhibitors are in clinical development (for #eczema), this is exciting news!
#skin, #inflammation tinyurl.com/mtezcub3

Validate User

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · Jul 11

I feel seen...

Brian Stevenson Ph.D. spirochete lab @bstevensonlab.bsky.social · Jul 10

Progress with my grant proposal:

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Francis Lynn 🇨🇦 @nictitate.bsky.social · Jul 7

Come join us in Vancouver! Exciting opportunity for a more senior investigator researching new regenerative medicine approaches for Type 1 diabetes. $8M in funding for successful candidate research.ubc.ca/media/file/j...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Carl Anderson @carlanderson.bsky.social · Jun 5

The latest preprint from our lab, led by the amazingly talented Lucia Ramirez Navarro.

Do circulating immune cells capture the transcriptomic signatures of their counterparts in the inflamed gut? No, except for a rare population of T cells expressing tissue residency markers.

Lucia Ramirez-Navarro @luciaramirez.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 SUPER EXCITED to share our new preprint on the mucosal and circulatory immune landscape of Crohn’s disease!

🩸 Blood is commonly used in biomarker discovery and drug development, but how well does it reflect what's actually happening in the gut? 👀

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🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tissue-specific and circulatory immune signatures of mucosal inflammation in Crohn's disease

Crohn's disease (CD) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract driven by an aberrant immune response. To understand the immune mechanisms underlyin...

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Canadian Society for Immunology @cdnimmunol.bsky.social · May 31

Hello @bsky.app! We’re excited to have made the transition over to BlueSky 🦋 and are already excited to be part of the fantastic #immunology community!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 8

Weird intersection of math & centrifuge balancing:
Visual proof that it's possible to balance a 24-position centrifuge rotor for any number of equally-filled tubes EXCEPT 1 and 23.

Some of these are anxiety-inducing, though.

(🧑‍🎨: aliyoh, labrats subreddit)

It's a 24 panel illustration, with a rotor (circle) with 24 open circles. For each increment from 1 to 24, an additional circle is filled with blue or pink, in ways that create a symmetrical axis of mass, allowing the rotor to be balanced when rotating at high speeds. The pinks generally show the odd numbers (divisible by 3) while the blues are the paired (divisible by 2) I think?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 7

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym.

It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · May 2

Fully funded #PhD studentship available at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to investigate immune memory in #psoriasis using #singlecell methods. Great project supervised by Satveer Mahil with opportunities to visit my lab at @bcchresearch.bsky.social. Please RT. tinyurl.com/yp7jvudv #immunosky

Decoding inflammatory memory in psoriasis remission and recurrence to enable personalised medicine

This project will characterise cellular and molecular features of inflammatory memory during psoriasis remission and recurrence using single-cell multiomics to inform personalised data-driven therapy.

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Steve Wang @stevewang251.bsky.social · Apr 26

Heard from a former (undergrad) student who just defended her PhD. Students: tell your old profs about your successes and achievements. It's not bragging, and we love to hear about it. It's one of the best parts of being an educator.
#academicsky

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Apr 14

Chilblains were reported in #SARSCoV2–exposed individuals without PCR- or serologically defined #COVID19. Saidoune, Gilliet , @ahmad-yatim.bsky.social et al. show that excessive TLR7 responses to SARS-CoV-2 by pDCs are linked to I-IFN–driven chilblain development. rupress.org/jem/article/...

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Matthias Görges @mgoerges.de · Apr 7

UBC is hosting US Applicant Week from April 14-18, which allows US students to apply during an extended application period for graduate studies. Sixty graduate programs will be reopening applications for US applicants for September 2025 and January 2026 start dates - www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for September 2025 or January 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants. If you are a prospective graduate student from the United States considering Canada for graduate school – now is the time.

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Francesca Capon @francicapon.bsky.social · Apr 5

Does anybody want to join in a movement to limit the number of supplementary figures in a paper? Am currently reviewing a manuscript and it never ends.. was it really worth adding 3 panels to Fig S10, just to make a minor point? (and yes, it is a #singlecell paper)

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · Apr 1

Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies

The R Graph Gallery – Help and inspiration for R charts

The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.

r-graph-gallery.com

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Jessi 💫 @jessigrace.bsky.social · Mar 28

When you lie on your resume, but still get the job 🐾🤭

📽️dogswithjobs

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Mar 20

"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge"

Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

An eppendorf centrifuge in that specific nicotine-yellow color from the 80s. It's the exact color as the old fridge in your garage that you keep sodas in that your parents replaced in 1997, and which has outlived a half-dozen of its replacements.

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Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social · Mar 15

New preprint! We worked with @msftresearch.bsky.social and @broadinstitute.org to see whether large language models (LLMs) can be useful to variant scientists in deciding whether genetic variants seen in a patient are responsible for their disease. tl;dr yes they can: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evidence Aggregator: AI reasoning applied to rare disease diagnostics

Retrieving, reviewing, and synthesizing technical information can be time-consuming and challenging, particularly when requiring specialized expertise, as is the case of variant assessment for rare di...

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Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social · Mar 12

Labeling your axes and then explaining them slowly is perhaps the biggest bang for the buck you can get for making your slides more understandable.

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