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Cliona O’Farrelly
@clionaofarrelly.bsky.social
scientist, human rights activist, reader
July 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🚨 Applications for the #ListerPrize2026 are now OPEN!
This prestigious award supports rising stars in #biomedical research and funds curiosity-driven work that informs innovative #health and medical solutions.

Get some great tips for a stellar submission ⤵️
lister-institute.org.uk/applications...
July 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
July 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Great opportunity!
We are very excited to be hiring a Postdoc to our expanding team! Are you interested in neuroinflammation, immunometabolism and/or epilepsy research?? 🧠 Apply now my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal……
@Futureneuro_ie @RCSIPharmBioMol
***Closing date 16th July***
July 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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July 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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July 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Discovery of a genetic mutation that markedly enhances the response to cancer immunotherapy
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
July 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Type I IFN signaling contributes to arthritis pathogenesis in obesity through activation and expansion of CD8 T cells in visceral adipose tissue and synovium @jem.org
rupress.org/jem/article-...
July 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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We are very proud to introduce our brand new 2025 #ListerFellows! This year there are eight Prize recipients. lister-institute.org.uk/a-warm-welco...
June 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social we will soon be advertising two postdoc positions! Interested? Please get in touch in the first instance and I'll provide more info on the projects. You can also learn more on our lab website www.theradlab.co.uk
#immunosky 🧪
The RAD fungal infection lab
www.theradlab.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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July 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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July 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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July 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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1/ 🚨 Hot off the press in Nature Immunology: CD4⁺ T cells can license Kupffer cells to rescue dysfunctional CD8⁺ T cells in the liver. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is just the proving ground—this is a paradigm shift in tissue immunity. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵(1/11)
June 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
@cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social
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Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
Kurt-Jones et al. examined IFN-ε, a hormone-responsive type I IFN expressed by genital epithelial cells, during Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. They demonstrated that mice lacking IFN-ε exhibit ...
www.cell.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Our JULY ISSUE is live! CAR T cells, hepatic stellate cells, metabolic diseases in East Asia, irritable bowel syndrome, and much more!

www.nature.com/nrgastro/vol...
June 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
June 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Next up at #Metascience2025 - Lord (Patrick) Vallance, UK Minister for Science, on role of metascience in informing government funding. Metascience Unit set up to be "provocateurs"...
June 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
‘just arrived in the post! By Brian Trench, one of Ireland’s first dedicated science communicators, DCU lecturer in science communication and current convenor of Wexford Science Café and his friend and colleague Massimiano Bucci www.routledge.com/Science-Comm...
Science Communication: The Basics
Science Communication: The Basics is an accessible yet critical introduction to science communication, which is viewed as the social conversation around science. It addresses why science communication...
www.routledge.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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June 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM