Simon Grassmann 草人
@simongrassmann.bsky.social
Immunologist in lab of Joe Sun (太阳酒)
K99 @NIAID for studying STAT signaling in immune cells
Occasionally I write about science and politics for Jacobin 🔬🌈🌹
K99 @NIAID for studying STAT signaling in immune cells
Occasionally I write about science and politics for Jacobin 🔬🌈🌹
I didn't expect to be so sad learning that my favorite philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, has passed 💔. I hope I can explore lessons from his philosophy for STEM research more in the future, I made a first attempt in this book chapter:
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neoliberalism in academia—What we can learn from physiology
Neoliberalism has transformed academia by centering competition. Competition for high-impact papers and grants is supposed to “optimize” science. Howe…
sciencedirect.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I didn't expect to be so sad learning that my favorite philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, has passed 💔. I hope I can explore lessons from his philosophy for STEM research more in the future, I made a first attempt in this book chapter:
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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So happy to see this story come together. Check it out! Kathleen Mills and many collaborators - GM-CSF–mediated epithelial-immune cell cross-talk orchestrates pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
GM-CSF–mediated epithelial-immune cell cross-talk orchestrates pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus
During mold infection, epithelial-derived GM-CSF licenses neutrophil killing of fungal cells, leading to improved survival.
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
So happy to see this story come together. Check it out! Kathleen Mills and many collaborators - GM-CSF–mediated epithelial-immune cell cross-talk orchestrates pulmonary immunity to Aspergillus fumigatus | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Traveled to DC today for the Stand Up for Science rally ❤️🔬
We need public funding of science, no cuts!
We need public funding of science, no cuts!
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Traveled to DC today for the Stand Up for Science rally ❤️🔬
We need public funding of science, no cuts!
We need public funding of science, no cuts!
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Congratulations to Dr. Adriana Mujal on this @cp-immunity.bsky.social study demonstrating a new role for an age old cytokine! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Splenic TNF-α signaling potentiates the innate-to-adaptive transition of antiviral NK cells
NK cells possess innate and adaptive features, but unlike T and B cells, NK cells
are not thought to require priming in lymphoid organs. Mujal et al. demonstrate that
the spleen supports enhanced expa...
www.cell.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Adriana Mujal on this @cp-immunity.bsky.social study demonstrating a new role for an age old cytokine! www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
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Huge congratulations to @timorckert.bsky.social on receiving the Pettenkofer Prize for our work on human NK cell memory and clonality! A heartfelt thank you to Oliver Keppler and the Pettenkofer-Stiftung for the warm welcome and the wonderful ceremony!
December 3, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Huge congratulations to @timorckert.bsky.social on receiving the Pettenkofer Prize for our work on human NK cell memory and clonality! A heartfelt thank you to Oliver Keppler and the Pettenkofer-Stiftung for the warm welcome and the wonderful ceremony!
I made an excursion into the Humboldt vs. neoliberal university model, some (left) Alasdair MacIntyre takes on virtues in academia and ideas about what to change and how. 😉 Check out my chapter about neoliberalism in academia in this new book: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neoliberalism in academia—What we can learn from physiology
Neoliberalism has transformed academia by centering competition. Competition for high-impact papers and grants is supposed to “optimize” science. Howe…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I made an excursion into the Humboldt vs. neoliberal university model, some (left) Alasdair MacIntyre takes on virtues in academia and ideas about what to change and how. 😉 Check out my chapter about neoliberalism in academia in this new book: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
You should follow my amazing mentor joe 😊 we have a lot cooking in the lab about to go out, if you are interested in NK cells (and a little CD8 and even B cells 😂) give a follow
hello to everyone on bluesky!
November 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
You should follow my amazing mentor joe 😊 we have a lot cooking in the lab about to go out, if you are interested in NK cells (and a little CD8 and even B cells 😂) give a follow
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hello to everyone on bluesky!
November 18, 2024 at 9:21 AM
hello to everyone on bluesky!
Immunologists (especially if interested in NK cells) should follow @labwaggoner.bsky.social, on twitter the best way to not miss papers 😅 stephen you should ask @rodrahimi.bsky.social to be added to an “immunology starter pack”
November 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Immunologists (especially if interested in NK cells) should follow @labwaggoner.bsky.social, on twitter the best way to not miss papers 😅 stephen you should ask @rodrahimi.bsky.social to be added to an “immunology starter pack”
To populate my Bluesky and people know what I do: I am an MD turned immunology "basic" researcher. In the past I did adoptive T cell therapy and then fate mapping in the Buchholz lab in Munich:
CD8+ T cells in MCMV:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CD8+ T cells in MCMV:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Early emergence of T central memory precursors programs clonal dominance during chronic viral infection - Nature Immunology
T cell memory formation is often described as occurring during the chronic phases of infection. Buchholz and colleagues use the phenomenon of ‘memory inflation’ following cytomegalovirus infection to ...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:25 PM
To populate my Bluesky and people know what I do: I am an MD turned immunology "basic" researcher. In the past I did adoptive T cell therapy and then fate mapping in the Buchholz lab in Munich:
CD8+ T cells in MCMV:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
CD8+ T cells in MCMV:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...