Jimmy Fagersund
@jimmyfgrsnd.bsky.social
Learning about non-coding RNA in human T-cells 🧬🔬
PhD-student at University of Turku, 🇫🇮.
PhD-student at University of Turku, 🇫🇮.
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What’s the alternative? Have PhD students that you don’t mentor? Is an unmentored PhD student really a student?
"...researchers who invest time in their students tend to lead more-productive, more-collaborative groups and attract stronger future students than those who do not." "Time spent with the next generation of scientists is an investment."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
What’s the alternative? Have PhD students that you don’t mentor? Is an unmentored PhD student really a student?
The dust has settled after this year's SSI-meeting at karolinska institutet.
Thanks to everyone who made it a great meeting 🤓🔬🧬
📸 @rahulbiradar.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who made it a great meeting 🤓🔬🧬
📸 @rahulbiradar.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The dust has settled after this year's SSI-meeting at karolinska institutet.
Thanks to everyone who made it a great meeting 🤓🔬🧬
📸 @rahulbiradar.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who made it a great meeting 🤓🔬🧬
📸 @rahulbiradar.bsky.social
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AI in biology: "I read about some new computational method...get excited because it’s exactly what I need...I try the method...Most of the time things don’t work...I have seen this play out so many times my default assumption is nothing is going to work" blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
We still can’t predict much of anything in biology
Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
AI in biology: "I read about some new computational method...get excited because it’s exactly what I need...I try the method...Most of the time things don’t work...I have seen this play out so many times my default assumption is nothing is going to work" blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...
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BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
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Our newest preprint is out! I'm super proud of this work.
We found:
Obesity turns some adipose tissue-derived fibroblasts into immune-active players in a highly atherogenic atherosclerosis mouse model.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
#Atherosclerosis #Fibroblasts #Obesity #Immunology #SingleCell
We found:
Obesity turns some adipose tissue-derived fibroblasts into immune-active players in a highly atherogenic atherosclerosis mouse model.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
#Atherosclerosis #Fibroblasts #Obesity #Immunology #SingleCell
Adipose tissue-derived fibroblasts engage in immune-stromal crosstalk during obesity-aggravated atherosclerosis in mice
Background Atherosclerosis is a common disorder where changes in vascular wall and in the surrounding perivascular adipose tissue are evident. However, how multiple cell types contribute to the diseas...
www.biorxiv.org
September 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Our newest preprint is out! I'm super proud of this work.
We found:
Obesity turns some adipose tissue-derived fibroblasts into immune-active players in a highly atherogenic atherosclerosis mouse model.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
#Atherosclerosis #Fibroblasts #Obesity #Immunology #SingleCell
We found:
Obesity turns some adipose tissue-derived fibroblasts into immune-active players in a highly atherogenic atherosclerosis mouse model.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
#Atherosclerosis #Fibroblasts #Obesity #Immunology #SingleCell
Reminder to all the scientists: Touch grass 🌿
View from Ukko-Koli in Koli National Park in Eastern Finland.
View from Ukko-Koli in Koli National Park in Eastern Finland.
July 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Reminder to all the scientists: Touch grass 🌿
View from Ukko-Koli in Koli National Park in Eastern Finland.
View from Ukko-Koli in Koli National Park in Eastern Finland.
Shimon Sakaguchi presented this on Monday, looks very promising!
Generation of antigen-specific and functionally stable Treg cells from effector/memory T cells for cell therapy of immunological diseases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659621v1
June 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Shimon Sakaguchi presented this on Monday, looks very promising!
First full day of the ENII Summer School on Advanced Immunology in Alghero, Sardinia is done! So far it has been fantastic! 🤯 @rantakarigroup.bsky.social Nick doing what he does best in the picture, talking 😉
May 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
First full day of the ENII Summer School on Advanced Immunology in Alghero, Sardinia is done! So far it has been fantastic! 🤯 @rantakarigroup.bsky.social Nick doing what he does best in the picture, talking 😉
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Stort tack till Svenska Kulturfonden som stöder min forskning! 🧪🧬
www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...
www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...
Svenska kulturfondenilta apurahoja Turun yliopiston tutkijoille
Svenska kulturfonden on myöntänyt maaliskuun 2025 rahoituspäätöksissään apurahoja Turun yliopiston tutkijoille.
www.utu.fi
March 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Stort tack till Svenska Kulturfonden som stöder min forskning! 🧪🧬
www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...
www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...
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An absolute #mustread showing how much the publishing industry is using and abusing scientists for profit. And with a bonus metric to catch fraudulent citations, the #impactinflation
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 19, 2024 at 9:59 PM
An absolute #mustread showing how much the publishing industry is using and abusing scientists for profit. And with a bonus metric to catch fraudulent citations, the #impactinflation
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I never imagined I'd see this day, but clearly I didn't have enough imagination. NIH is going to terminate ongoing (and of course all future) research that focuses on gender identity, inclusion, environmental justice, anything "deemed DEI" etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I never imagined I'd see this day, but clearly I didn't have enough imagination. NIH is going to terminate ongoing (and of course all future) research that focuses on gender identity, inclusion, environmental justice, anything "deemed DEI" etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To be fair, it took years before I learned the difference between "TRANSGENIC" and transgender as well 🫠
March 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
To be fair, it took years before I learned the difference between "TRANSGENIC" and transgender as well 🫠
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NIH hoitaa tieteen hakukoneita, jotka ovat joka päivä välttämättömiä bio/lääketieteessä koko maailmassa. Ne ovat nyt kaikki kumossa. Ei liittyne siihen, että DOGE veti eilen töpselin kokonaiselta valtion IT-osastolta. Mutta muistuttaa, miten tärkeä USA on koko maailmalle - eikä vain sotahommissa.
March 2, 2025 at 4:49 AM
NIH hoitaa tieteen hakukoneita, jotka ovat joka päivä välttämättömiä bio/lääketieteessä koko maailmassa. Ne ovat nyt kaikki kumossa. Ei liittyne siihen, että DOGE veti eilen töpselin kokonaiselta valtion IT-osastolta. Mutta muistuttaa, miten tärkeä USA on koko maailmalle - eikä vain sotahommissa.
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Registration for THE 50th SSI-meeting in Stockholm opens soon! We hope to see many of you there! #SSI2025 #ScandinavianSocietyOfImmunology
February 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Registration for THE 50th SSI-meeting in Stockholm opens soon! We hope to see many of you there! #SSI2025 #ScandinavianSocietyOfImmunology
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👩🔬Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉 🌟
Today, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women in science and want to hear your story!
Share your experiences, challenges, and successes as a woman in science!
#ySSI #yEFIS #WomenInScience
Today, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women in science and want to hear your story!
Share your experiences, challenges, and successes as a woman in science!
#ySSI #yEFIS #WomenInScience
February 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
👩🔬Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉 🌟
Today, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women in science and want to hear your story!
Share your experiences, challenges, and successes as a woman in science!
#ySSI #yEFIS #WomenInScience
Today, we celebrate the incredible contributions of women in science and want to hear your story!
Share your experiences, challenges, and successes as a woman in science!
#ySSI #yEFIS #WomenInScience
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Liver metabolizes high fructose corn syrup to fructose, which leads to increase production of LPC lipids that promote tumor growth.
#Glycotime
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Glycotime
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth indirectly via interorgan lipid transfer - Nature
Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth in animal models of melanoma, breast cancer and cervical cancer indirectly via metabolite transfer.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Liver metabolizes high fructose corn syrup to fructose, which leads to increase production of LPC lipids that promote tumor growth.
#Glycotime
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Glycotime
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Look who's here
@pnas.org ✔️
@science.org ✔️
@naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️
@natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️
@naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️
@naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️
@genesdev.bsky.social ✔️
@cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️
@genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️
@jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
@pnas.org ✔️
@science.org ✔️
@naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️
@natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️
@naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️
@naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️
@genesdev.bsky.social ✔️
@cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️
@genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️
@jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Look who's here
@pnas.org ✔️
@science.org ✔️
@naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️
@natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️
@naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️
@naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️
@genesdev.bsky.social ✔️
@cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️
@genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️
@jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
@pnas.org ✔️
@science.org ✔️
@naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️
@natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️
@naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️
@naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️
@genesdev.bsky.social ✔️
@cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️
@genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️
@jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
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This is now done and you can find it here:
go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn
go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn
November 1, 2024 at 8:38 AM
This is now done and you can find it here:
go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn
go.bsky.app/TKp9YAn
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Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here.
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
November 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Wonderful to see the #immunology community growing here.
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
The first starter pack is full (they cap at 150), so I created a second one. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/PY5tCas
go.bsky.app/FmERUoD
My Twitter ("X") feed has been really awful this last week, figured it was time to migrate.
Hope to see some cool science here, but no pressure or anything 💪
Hope to see some cool science here, but no pressure or anything 💪
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 AM
My Twitter ("X") feed has been really awful this last week, figured it was time to migrate.
Hope to see some cool science here, but no pressure or anything 💪
Hope to see some cool science here, but no pressure or anything 💪
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Hello #immunology community! Hope we can make this a better place to discuss science and share ideas!
November 16, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Hello #immunology community! Hope we can make this a better place to discuss science and share ideas!