Timesh Pillay
@timeshpillay.bsky.social
Respiratory doctor interested in its full breadth, from molecular host-pathogen interaction to universal healthcare. Free Palestine.
New funding for pre-PhD clinical researchers in respiratory medicine
Launch of new pre-doctoral early career fellowships for respiratory HCPs | British Thoracic Society | Better lung health for all
The British Thoracic Society have joined with Asthma + Lung UK to fund grants for PhD's in respiratory-related research.
www.brit-thoracic.org.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New funding for pre-PhD clinical researchers in respiratory medicine
Reminds me of this english.masirahtv.net/post/35834/
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reminds me of this english.masirahtv.net/post/35834/
Very sad. More and more people are dying while experiencing homelessness in the UK, especially in England museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness
We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...
museumofhomelessness.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Very sad. More and more people are dying while experiencing homelessness in the UK, especially in England museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...
Exciting PhD opportunity for clinicians interesting in gram negative and Mycobacterial drug discovery (and ready to get stuck into the lab!) www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Johnson lab and Hess lab | Curating bioactive chemical space in pathogenic bacteria using accumulation signatures across species
www.crick.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Exciting PhD opportunity for clinicians interesting in gram negative and Mycobacterial drug discovery (and ready to get stuck into the lab!) www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
The global academic boycott of Israel’s complicit institutions is taking effect sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...
Global research collaboration with Israel sharply down this year
Significantly fewer academics, particularly in Europe, are authoring preprints with researchers in Israel this year, a sign that academic boycotts could be starting to scientifically isolate the count...
sciencebusiness.net
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The global academic boycott of Israel’s complicit institutions is taking effect sciencebusiness.net/news/interna...
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Amid a genocide, Starmer is sending diplomats to discuss a new trade deal with Israel. Britain is telling this genocidal government ‘one of the reasons to come to Israel is to demonstrate very strong support from the UK’
It’s revolting. We need sanctions not more trade. 1/2
It’s revolting. We need sanctions not more trade. 1/2
👉NEW -- ‘Use trade talks with Israel as leverage’, government urged
by @markcurtis30.bsky.social
UK officials continue to promote trade and investment with Israel while it is massacring Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/use-trade-ta...
by @markcurtis30.bsky.social
UK officials continue to promote trade and investment with Israel while it is massacring Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/use-trade-ta...
‘Use trade talks with Israel as leverage’, government urged
UK officials continue to promote trade and investment with Israel while it is massacring Palestinian.
www.declassifieduk.org
May 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Amid a genocide, Starmer is sending diplomats to discuss a new trade deal with Israel. Britain is telling this genocidal government ‘one of the reasons to come to Israel is to demonstrate very strong support from the UK’
It’s revolting. We need sanctions not more trade. 1/2
It’s revolting. We need sanctions not more trade. 1/2
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Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free".
Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
May 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free".
Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
Glad someone is systematically assessing this
We researched the BBC’s online coverage of 16 aspects of UK policy towards Israel and the pro-Israel lobby.
The BBC is covering up how Britain backs Israel, and its complicity in genocide👇
www.declassifieduk.org/national-sca...
The BBC is covering up how Britain backs Israel, and its complicity in genocide👇
www.declassifieduk.org/national-sca...
‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up
Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds.
www.declassifieduk.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Glad someone is systematically assessing this
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Genocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’
Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siege
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Genocide.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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After a great review process with @naturecomms.bsky.social, I'm so happy to share our work identifying inactive RING E3 #ubiquitin #pseudoligases in the TRIM protein family!! rdcu.be/ehlGW
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@katmcphie.bsky.social @diegoesposito.bsky.social @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
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@katmcphie.bsky.social @diegoesposito.bsky.social @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
Identification of RING E3 pseudoligases in the TRIM protein family
Nature Communications - Understanding the catalytic and regulatory mechanisms of the ubiquitin system is key to tapping into its therapeutic potential in diseases where its dysfunction is...
rdcu.be
April 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
After a great review process with @naturecomms.bsky.social, I'm so happy to share our work identifying inactive RING E3 #ubiquitin #pseudoligases in the TRIM protein family!! rdcu.be/ehlGW
🥳 🍾 🙌
@katmcphie.bsky.social @diegoesposito.bsky.social @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
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@katmcphie.bsky.social @diegoesposito.bsky.social @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
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Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe
Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...
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NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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I too have been dismissed from NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors along with 3 other women and a non-white man
Just received the email that my recent appointment to a BSC, which was supposed to be until June 2029, was terminated effective immediately.
More political meddling at NIH:
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
I'm told that multiple (2-4ish) members of the Boards of Scientific Counselors, which oversee intramural research, have been kicked off the boards before their term expires.
No explanation given, but the thought is that these were folks who cared about DEI.
March 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I too have been dismissed from NIAID Board of Scientific Counselors along with 3 other women and a non-white man
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New preprint on how a minimal Salmonella kinase needs a host kinase to activate it. Work led by @timeshpillay.bsky.social and another great collaboration with @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Salmonella effector kinase SteC is activated by host-mediated phosphorylation
The pathogen Salmonella , which causes significant human morbidity and mortality, encodes an effector kinase, SteC, which mediates actin polymerisation and cell migration. Given the minimal nature of ...
biorxiv.org
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New preprint on how a minimal Salmonella kinase needs a host kinase to activate it. Work led by @timeshpillay.bsky.social and another great collaboration with @katrinrittinger.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
During my PhD at @crick.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, I explored the molecular interaction between host and pathogen. My question: How have pathogenic bacteria evolved to manipulate their host environment during infection? 🦠https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640964v1 1/11
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
During my PhD at @crick.ac.uk and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, I explored the molecular interaction between host and pathogen. My question: How have pathogenic bacteria evolved to manipulate their host environment during infection? 🦠https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.01.640964v1 1/11