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Damian Maseda

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Dad, immunologist, and aikidoka. Scientific director at Immune Health https://www.med.upenn.edu/i3h/ -Personal account-

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · Nov 12

Starter pack for fellow immunologists here!

Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · Oct 28

Added new folks to the #Immunology Starter Pack 🧪

@sarahdimeloe.bsky.social
@mahimaswamy.bsky.social
@profken.bsky.social
@johannajoyce.bsky.social
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
@immunoah.bsky.social
@bnmelgert.bsky.social
@copperbae.bsky.social
@benjaminkrishn3.bsky.social

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Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

What's one piece of advice you'd give to someone considering a PhD?

We asked 3785 doctoral candidates across 107 countries for their hard-won wisdom
go.nature.com/4nDjJ7t

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

go.nature.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 6d

Every year, the Ig Nobel Prizes honor the weirdest and most wonderful science out there—like studying how drunk bats fly or the physics of perfect pasta. It’s all real research, and it’s all hilariously brilliant. Because sometimes science makes you laugh… then think.

🎤🎥🎞️@tomlumperson.bsky.social

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 7d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 8d

Wow. That's impressive!!!

Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 9d

Long live Schroedinger's cat!! Or not!!!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 15d

AKA avoiding the problem does absolutely nothing to solve it.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 18d

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.

It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 18d

You are forgetting to mention he impact that such measures will have on the US health and academic systems, which is quite vast.

Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 18d

Not to mention all of the scientific enterprise in the country....

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 18d

I absolutely love this. >10 years ago I did my own home-made too, but didn't try that many factors, and ended up with a 1.5%formalin +0.5%Tween-20. The "magic" aspect is a nice touch 😁. I can see a logo with an Oliver's face schematic with pointy ears.....

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 19d

For our #flowcytometry peeps, would you like to have a single fix/perm protocol that is optimised for everything? One that preserves fluorophores while allowing simultaneous TF and cytokine staining? How about 100-fold cheaper?

You got it:
currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 24d

Fantastic post about kids and video games. Bring awareness to culturally accepted behaviors that can be very misleading!

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25d

While doing laundry this morning, I walked by my 8-year-old, who was playing Minecraft on Creative Mode (the only mode we allow). "What're you building?" I asked. "A cannon," 8 said. "Oh yeah?" I asked, "Why?" 8 replied nonchalantly, "To get rid of a mob of Creepers." I stopped cold... 1/ 🧵

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · 28d

Our Immune Health team at @upenn.edu is moving this week to a newly created #Immunology hub. This new environment will tremendously foster cross-pollination of ideas, and boost our capacities to translate basic research into the clinic. Very exciting times!

Ushering in a bold new era of Immune Health discovery | Penn Medicine

A reimagined facility has been introduced as the epicenter for pioneering Penn research aimed at “breaking the immunological code” of autoimmune diseases and bringing them to heel.

www.pennmedicine.org

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.latimes.com/obituaries/s... RIP David Baltimore. A true giant of biomedical research. Made so many fundamental discoveries: Reverse transcriptase; NF-kB; Rag genes (among others) Also shut down his lab for a week in 1970 to protest the US invasion of Cambodia.

David Baltimore, Nobel Prize-winning scientist and former Caltech president, dies at 87

Baltimore played a role in virtually every important national debate over the use and potential misuse of the science of genetic engineering.

www.latimes.com

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Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · Sep 8

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains

Damian Maseda @dmaseda.bsky.social · Sep 7

This cover is especially good

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · Sep 4

Join us on Sept 30 for an in-person AAI Congressional Briefing on harnessing the immune system to fight cancer featuring Dr. Steven Rosenberg, Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, and cancer survivor Alexis Browning. #AAIadvocacy. RSVP: bit.ly/AAI-GA-Brief...

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The American Association of Immunologists @aai.org · Sep 4

We have joined @idsainfo.bsky.social, @asm.org, and 19 other medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, in calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to ensure the health of the American people.

Read the statement in full: news.aai.org/2025/09/04/j...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · Sep 3

'Here, we detail the biological, environmental and experimental factors that can affect circadian rhythms of mice and provide recommendations for designing and reporting experiments for in vivo metabolic studies.'
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The time is now: accounting for time-of-day effects to improve reproducibility and translation of metabolism research - Nature Metabolism

This broad group of authors summarizes the impact of circadian factors on metabolic biology and offers recommendations on how to account for and report biological, environmental and experimental facto...

www.nature.com

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