Balthasar Heesters
@heesters.gitlab.io
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Immunologist interested in germinal center regulation by follicular dendritic cells, sugars, B-cell selection and antibody responses. Assistant Professor #UtrechtUniversity heesters.gitlab.io
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magdalenaskipper.bsky.social
A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow.

With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement
#AcademicSky 🧪
#womeninSTEM

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly
A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.
www.nature.com
heesters.gitlab.io
Interested in germinal center regulation?
Should we coddle our immune system?
Two more weeks to apply!
3 year funding
heesters.gitlab.io
Proud of my 3 PhDs @luckrimp.bsky.social, Martijn and Petri!
Good job team(s)!
Next year I’ll join again.
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Always great to be at the Dutch immunology conference (NVVI)!
heesters.gitlab.io
Very inspiring talks at the 10th anniversary science for life conference @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Impressed by other fields, such as Ben Lehner’s talk.
Great venue in the Beatrix theatre. Science as art.
Ben lehner’s talk
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Great thanks! Can I be included?
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drnatsampaio.bsky.social
A few yrs ago we spent $10K on trialing antibodies. Only a few worked well. The good news is we got refunds for everything that didn’t work! Just need to push the companies. Don’t suffer in silence!

Great to see more effort/avenues for improving reliability and reproducibility of Abs! #immunosky
johanduchene.bsky.social
"The antibodies don’t work!"

We, like many labs, have faced issues with bad antibodies cell.com/cell-stem-ce...

Great to see that some are tackling this problem head-on!

Read more about their solutions:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ImmunoSky #Metaresearch #Openscience
The antibodies don’t work! The race to rid labs of molecules that ruin experiments
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this.
www.nature.com
heesters.gitlab.io
Hello #immunology community!
Happy to join Bluesky for some great ad and bs free scientific discussions!
Let me know if you like germinal centers and follicular dendritic cells.