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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · 7d

Interested in skin immunology and T cell biology? The @mrccmm.bsky.social is advertising a #postdoc position to study the antimicrobial-allergic immune response in atopic dermatitis with @lableibundgut.bsky.social. jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
#immunosky #mycosky #eczema Please re-post

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Microbes in Health and Disease @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social · 16d

Next introducing Dr Alessandra Dantas.

The Dantas group is interested in stress responses, antifungal resistance and in understanding the molecular mechanisms driving fungal adaptation to environmental stressors.

@alesdantas.bsky.social

www.ncl.ac.uk/dental/about...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16d

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review

Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...

arxiv.org

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌡️ Fungi in a warming world: join our PhD on Candida auris evolution – thermal tolerance, immunity & antifungal resistance. Based at Exeter & Bristol, GW4 BioMed2 MRC DTP : www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #InfectiousDiseases #PhD #GW4 #Exeter #Bristol #MedicalMycology #AMR #ClimateChange

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Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Achievement unlocked

50mL tubes standing without support in a biosafety hood.

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Judith Behnsen @judith-behnsen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence - Nature

Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.

www.nature.com

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Aug 31

Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.672933v1

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · Aug 5

France faces unprecedented chikungunya outbreak with first locally acquired cases detected in June - earliest on record. #chikungunya ↘️

Summer 2025: early emergence of chikungunya in mainland France

An unprecedented situation has arisen this summer, with the first locally acquired cases of chikungunya detected as early as June, notably affecting the Grand Est region for the very first time. Chiku...

www.pasteur.fr

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Rebsamen Lab @UNIL @rebsamenlab.bsky.social · Mar 2

🚨Registrations are open🚨

Join us in Lausanne Switzerland October 1-2 for an exciting symposium on innate immunity with oustanding invited speakers, short talks selected from submitted abstracts and poster sessions.

Attendance is limited to 150 participants!

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Fabrice FRANK @fabricefrank.bsky.social · Jun 28

Donc Pierre-Edouard Fournier, qui a 12 articles rétractés, est en charge de faire respecter la loi et l'éthique au sein de l'IHU ainsi que de faire rétracter les articles qui doivent l'être.
Bref, le changement n'est toujours pas pour maintenant.
www.mediterranee-infection.com/communique-i...

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Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congrats Neil and team!

Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · Jun 20

It is my favourite paper of 2025 so far, absolutely amazing work. Congrats!

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Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology Lab @mcbi-amsumc.bsky.social · Jun 19

On the 1st day of the @cancercenterams.bsky.social annual conference Lotte De Winde presented her recently published data on the development of lymphoma-on-a-chip model to study the role of fibroblasts in this pathology! You can find the publication here doi.org/10.1016/j.mt...

Lotte de Winde standing in front of her title slide « Lymphoma on a chip model reveals that lymph node stromal cells promote B cell lymphoma survival and migration »

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European Journal of Immunology @eurjimmunol.bsky.social · Jun 17

📄Our June issue is out now! Discover the latest breakthroughs in immunology, from fundamental mechanisms to translational insights. Don’t miss this month’s cutting-edge research 👇
bit.ly/4kIb4ii

#immunosky #immunolgy
@efis-immunology.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Jun 10

I spotted these depressing journals a few months ago and tweeted about it then.

Why do we need to have a race to the bottom in everything these days?

Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 10

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · Jun 3

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Fungal Cell Wall Research available to study the Malassezia-host interaction interface in the context of atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Neil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · Jun 3

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social
For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · May 29

The LeibundGut-lab at the @mrccmm.bsky.social, in collaboration with @neil-gow.bsky.social, recruits two postdocs to study the skin commensal yeast Malassezia in atopic dermatitis #fungalrecognition and #fungalimmunology jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Peter Cook @drpetercook.bsky.social · May 16

After a period of silence, delighted to share our latest work has come out as a pre print. Check it out. Huge thanks to the amazing efforts of co-authors and most importantly the generosity of the patients in providing samples. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Activation status of immune cells in the airway is a defining feature of severe fungal asthma.

Airborne fungi are potent inducers of respiratory disease and cause the debilitating conditions severe asthma with fungal sensitisation (SAFS) and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Howev...

www.medrxiv.org

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · May 16

Friends in Sweden and Italy: you have a bit more than a day left to put your contry over the threshold. Germany overtook you in the mad last sprint but you can still make it. Sweden is only missing 307 signatures, Italy a little over 5000.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

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Jonathan Mannion @jmannion1.bsky.social · May 5

‘Cell type–specific efferocytosis determines functional plasticity of alveolar macrophages’

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell type–specific efferocytosis determines functional plasticity of alveolar macrophages

MPO activates an immunometabolic rheostat to restrict the functional plasticity of macrophages in favor of proresolving properties.

www.science.org

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Rémi Hatinguais @remicillin.bsky.social · May 1

I strongly believe companies selling antibodies should be held accountable for their product not working according to specifications. In which other field does companies get away with that?

Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · Apr 30

Antibodies don't work.

NLRP3 is by far the most studied inflammasome — yet <30% of commercial antibodies were specific.

Only 4 of 14 tested antibodies detected NLRP3 specifically.

Antibodies must be validated before use.

Full report by @ycharos.bsky.social : zenodo.org/records/1162...

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