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Cathriona Foley
@cathrionafoley.bsky.social
Lecturer / Assistant Professor at
University College Cork, Ireland
Immunology, Cancer & Surgery research
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⬆️Systemic IL-6 in patients with mastectomy compared with wide local excision breast cancer surgery.

⬆️IL6 gene expression in normal tissue ⬇️ overall survival.

⬆️M2 macrophages in normal tissue of older patients ⬇️ overall survival.
Perioperative systemic IL‐6 and immune‐adipose‐ metabolism transcription in tumour and tumour adjacent breast cancer
Immune-adipose-metabolism factors in the macro- and micro-breast-tumour environment are influenced by the magnitude of surgery and certain clinicopathological features. These results provide insight ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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🚨 TAKE ACTION: Tell Basketball Ireland our Women's Team should not play against genocidal Israel
#BDS #BanIsrael
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TAKE ACTION: Tell Basketball Ireland our Women's Team should not play against genocidal Israel
Send an email in a couple of clicks
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November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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US President Donald Trump has said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the occupied West Bank
Israel would 'lose all US support' if West Bank annexed
US President Donald Trump has said Israel would lose its crucial backing from the United States if it annexes the occupied West Bank.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
Israel's gymnasts will not be able to compete at the upcoming world championships in Indonesia after sport’s highest court today rejected requests from the Israeli federation to 'guarantee the participation' of its team
jrnl.ie/6844401f
Israeli gymnasts not able to take part in world championships as appeal over visas rejected
Indonesian authorities denied Israeli gymnasts entry visas for the championships later this month.
jrnl.ie
October 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
Five Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in what the network has described as a “targeted assassination” by Israel outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital
jrnl.ie/6787316
Israel kills five journalists in strike on media tent near Gaza Hospital
Prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed alongside four of his colleagues in the Israeli strike yesterday.
jrnl.ie
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
A substantial number of female physicists in the first half of the 20th century contributed to quantum physics. For the history of physics to properly recognize their work, new approaches are needed, argues Andrea Reichenberger in Nature Reviews Physics. go.nature.com/41mjQuJ #WomeninSTEM ⚛️ 🧪
August 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine my.uplift.ie/petitions/le... @uplift.ie
Let Them Play
Irish government is blocking these children's visas. #LetThemPlay #GaaPalestine
my.uplift.ie
July 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
🦠 New research shows obesity disrupts dendritic cell responses to viruses by impairing cytokine production & metabolism - helping explain higher infection risk.

📖 Read the open-access study: https://bit.ly/40kBiiH

By @andrea-woodcock.bsky.social‬ et al.
##Immunology
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reposted by Cathriona Foley
'Male CD8+ T cells stimulated with IL-15 exhibited greater bystander activation, including increased NKG2D expression and greater antigen-independent cytotoxicity against tumor cells compared with female CD8+ T cells.'
#immunology #immunosky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Biological Sex Influences Human Bystander CD8+ T Cell Activation
CD8+ T cells isolated from male donors exhibit greater IL-15–driven bystander activation, NKG2D expression, and cytotoxicity than female CD8+ cells. This study reveals a sex-based difference in innat....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights.

Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.
June 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia grad detained for 3+ months. The judge said his arrest appears to be unconstitutional retaliation for pro-Palestinian speech. Khalil hasn’t been charged with a crime.
June 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Wow, incredible: we were 110 000 drawing a #redline for #Gaza in Brussels today! ✊🏽🇵🇸
More than about time for the Belgian government and the EU to take concrete actions! @oxfameu.bsky.social @11.be @cncd.be
#SpeakUpForPalestine #EndTheSiege #CeasefireNow
June 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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"Protesters walked a 5-kilometer loop around the city center of The Hague to symbolically create the red line that the government has failed to set."

"Organisers described it as the country's largest demonstration in two decades."
#Netherlands #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
Hundreds of Thousands form 'Red Line' Around the Hague | Common Dreams
The red line the government has failed to set.
www.commondreams.org
June 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Israeli gunfire and airstrikes have killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Israeli military kills 41 people in Gaza, medics say
Israeli gunfire and airstrikes have killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (...
www.rte.ie
June 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Denis Walsh: Camogie players are right to protest about skorts - it’s scandalous they still need to
Denis Walsh: Camogie players are right to protest about skorts - it’s scandalous they still need to
If camogie matches have to be abandoned, so be it
www.irishtimes.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Congts to @magsmccarthy.bsky.social
On the release of ‘Ring That Bell’!
open.spotify.com/track/3PtQBG...
Mags McCarthy (@magsmccarthy.bsky.social)
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May 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Rory McIlroy becomes the first Irish golfer to win the Masters after stunning roller coaster round
Rory McIlroy becomes the first Irish golfer to win the Masters after stunning roller coaster round
Fifth Major and career Grand Slam for McIlroy after he lost four-shot lead on back nine but beat Justin Rose in playoff
www.irishtimes.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Free Event
April 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell on Tommy Tiernan Show. She deserves a Nobel Prize for her amazing, peaceful attitude to not sharing in a Nobel Prize.
March 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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“… misogyny … always adapts to the contemporary context.”
March 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM