Henry McSorley
@henrymcsorley.bsky.social
I use parasites to mess with the immune system. Reader at University of Dundee. I also like bikes and cats.
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Delighted to see our new review online. It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to write this for @scienceimmuno.bsky.social with @judiallen.bsky.social & @james-ep.bsky.social - we hope you enjoy our overview of serous cavity #immunology ☀️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Immunobiology of the serous cavities
Local immune function and cross-tissue communication in the serous cavities are reviewed.
www.science.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Delighted to see our new review online. It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to write this for @scienceimmuno.bsky.social with @judiallen.bsky.social & @james-ep.bsky.social - we hope you enjoy our overview of serous cavity #immunology ☀️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Impact tracking platform Researchfish will be closed down next year, its owners Elsevier have confirmed. Tom Williams reports #academicsky #impact
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/impact-tracking-tool-researchfish-be-closed-down-next-year
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/impact-tracking-tool-researchfish-be-closed-down-next-year
January 30, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Impact tracking platform Researchfish will be closed down next year, its owners Elsevier have confirmed. Tom Williams reports #academicsky #impact
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/impact-tracking-tool-researchfish-be-closed-down-next-year
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/impact-tracking-tool-researchfish-be-closed-down-next-year
I realise its not the main thing here, but Denmark does not decide the Nobel Peace prize... Its based in Norway? Which is a different country?
Also, obviously, insane.
Also, obviously, insane.
January 19, 2026 at 8:49 AM
I realise its not the main thing here, but Denmark does not decide the Nobel Peace prize... Its based in Norway? Which is a different country?
Also, obviously, insane.
Also, obviously, insane.
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
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Check out our latest study on the PfRIPR protein,
essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.
essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.
January 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Check out our latest study on the PfRIPR protein,
essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.
essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.
I presume once you've reviewed and edited sufficient numbers of manuscripts, you max out your XP, level up, then start getting paid for it. Right?
January 13, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I presume once you've reviewed and edited sufficient numbers of manuscripts, you max out your XP, level up, then start getting paid for it. Right?
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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'Type 2 immunity in health and disease' takes place 11am–12:45pm, Wed 3 Dec!
Explore the cells and signals driving type 2 responses and why their regulation remains elusive by joining this parallel session at #BSI25.
Registration is still open: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8
Explore the cells and signals driving type 2 responses and why their regulation remains elusive by joining this parallel session at #BSI25.
Registration is still open: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
'Type 2 immunity in health and disease' takes place 11am–12:45pm, Wed 3 Dec!
Explore the cells and signals driving type 2 responses and why their regulation remains elusive by joining this parallel session at #BSI25.
Registration is still open: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8
Explore the cells and signals driving type 2 responses and why their regulation remains elusive by joining this parallel session at #BSI25.
Registration is still open: https://bit.ly/3IkxWq8
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’
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📣 Registration is open for #SIGNET26! Join immunologists from across Scotland on 11 March 2026 for a full day of research talks, networking & collaboration.
Featuring keynotes from Prof Graham Anderson & Prof Tracy Hussell!
Sign up today 👉 https://bit.ly/49VL6FA
Featuring keynotes from Prof Graham Anderson & Prof Tracy Hussell!
Sign up today 👉 https://bit.ly/49VL6FA
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📣 Registration is open for #SIGNET26! Join immunologists from across Scotland on 11 March 2026 for a full day of research talks, networking & collaboration.
Featuring keynotes from Prof Graham Anderson & Prof Tracy Hussell!
Sign up today 👉 https://bit.ly/49VL6FA
Featuring keynotes from Prof Graham Anderson & Prof Tracy Hussell!
Sign up today 👉 https://bit.ly/49VL6FA
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you know how people always say "oh haha I put off doing this admin task for ages and ages and turns out it was fine and took no time"
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
you know how people always say "oh haha I put off doing this admin task for ages and ages and turns out it was fine and took no time"
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
well I put off doing *this* admin task for weeks and actually it fucking sucks and it's taking soooo long, it's hateful, so there
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My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My PhD work is (finally) published in Science Signaling! And it made the cover!
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Here’s what we found 🧵⬇️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy Longest Day Of The Year
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy Longest Day Of The Year
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Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
Cryptosporidium oocyst wall proteins are true components of the oocyst wall and COWP8 is not required for parasite transmission
Author summary Infection with Cryptosporidium causes diarrhoea, which can be fatal for malnourished children or people who are immunocompromised. There is no vaccine or effective medicines available t...
journals.plos.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Incredibly proud to share that our work on Cryptosporidium Oocyst Wall Proteins is published in
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
@PLOSPathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Led by previous PhD student
@BacchettiRoss
and carried on by current PhD student, Sarah Stevens.
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urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République précise avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté. «Comment j’ai réagi ? Bah pfff voilà», résume-t-il.
Le nouveau ministre de la Ruralité, Michel Fournier, raconte avoir appris sa nomination à la télé
Le plus vieux ministre nommé sous la Ve République a précisé avoir discuté avec le Premier ministre «deux jours avant», sans que rien ne soit arrêté.
www.liberation.fr
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
urgently need you guys to know that this French politician below 1) didn't know he'd been appointed as a minister until he saw it on TV 2) reacted by going: "bah pfff voilà"
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Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII.
Lessons should have been learned.
Lessons should have been learned.
October 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Dr. Seuss went hard during WWII.
Lessons should have been learned.
Lessons should have been learned.
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If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.
October 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.
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Yay immunology! Tregs FTW! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
www.nobelprize.org
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Yay immunology! Tregs FTW! www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
real bravery
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
real bravery