This title isn't about the HHS secretary!

This was an amazing conversation about Headbutting (it's related to #immunology, we swear) with @nicoleackermans.com 🧪, who just published a review describing the last 10,000 years of human thought on animals bashing skulls

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Assistant Professor position posted for my Department, Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte! Current research foci: Immunology, Microbiology, Virology; Biomolecular Function; Proteostasis; Genome Integrity; Epigenome Regulation; Cancer; Environmental Risks. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141

Excited to be talking to @nicoleackermans.com today about her work on headbutting in animals throughout the centuries! Do you have burning questions about neuroinflammation in bighorn sheep or the differences between woodpeckers and football players? Let us know!

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In the latest episode, we're talking neonatal Tregs! What are they? Still don't know! What do they do? Still don't know! Where do they go? Ahh, the right question - it's the skin of course!

With special guest @zackhilt.bsky.social 🧪 #immunology

I recently recorded an Immunology Podcast called @audiommunity.org where I get to geek out on why Neonatal T cells are unique from Adult T cells. Please give them a listen and get the viewership up. Extra important to amplify the voice of real scientist and dampen all of the pseudoscience grifters.

In our latest episode, @woodrufflab.bsky.social and @kevinbonham.com talk about glycoRNAs, and the way they're shielded from the immune system in a new paper from the labs of @raflynn5.bsky.social and @vijayrathinam.bsky.social 🧪

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Did you know that there are small RNAs embedded in the plasma membrane of your cells? I didn't!

But your immune system sure does! New episode of @audiommunity.org out now! 🧪

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The latest @audiommunity.org - Remembering David Baltimore by trying (and mostly failing) to explain the complex molecular biology in a classic #immunology paper describing the discovery of the VDJ recombinase gene 🧪

audiommunity.org/episode046

Oops! Forgot to post to Patreon for the last episode... #AI and #science - what's not to love? With @kevinbonham.com and @woodrufflab.bsky.social 🧪

Turns out, quite a lot

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Episode 45 - Big if true audiommunity.org/episodes/epi...

Someone made an AI-based "virtual lab" to engineer nanobodies - is this a paradigm shift in how we do science,
or a transpararent and cynical effort to slurp up all of the citations for being first?

In a couple of hours, @woodrufflab.bsky.social and @kevinbonham.com are going to discuss a new paper (in early preview) about an #LLM -based "virtual lab" that designed nanobodies for #sars-cov2

What would you want to know? Do you think this is a cool idea or harbinger of doom? 🧪

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Bacteria have immune systems? And autoimmunity? Well...

In this episode, Kate and @kevinbonham.com discuss a new paper showing that anti-phage defenses of bacteria can provide really broad protection, but pesky selection gets in the way 🦠 🧫 🧪

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Everything you wanted to know about oxidized lipids & immunity, in one review. We explain how oxidized lipids impact inflammation, dendritic cells, anti-tumor immunity and more.
Kudos to Joon Choi for his exceptional work.
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Expression level of anti-phage defence systems controls a trade-off between protection range and autoimmunity
By Nitzan Aframian and Avigdor Eldar.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolutionary molecular biology paying dividends again - this time in finding new modulators of innate immunity - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New bluesky account, revamped website, and a new episode to boot!

@kevinbonham.com and @woodrufflab.bsky.social discuss a new paper about T cells in the subfornical organ... Why does that sound so unseemly?

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