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Cheri Sirois
@cherisirois.bsky.social
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Scientist of mostly invisible things. Editor at Cell (speaking only for myself here). 🗣️EN/ES 😷🦠🔬🧪🧬🌈✨ #immunosky #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransAdults
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This is so thought-provoking…

ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
August 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Fun paper alert! Have you ever noticed that cats tend to sleep on their left side...? Be sure to check out the video abstract of this paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social
www.cell.com/current-biol...
A screen capture from the video abstract of the article shows a line drawing of three cats sleeping on a shelf. The tails of the cats on the left and right are dangling. The leftmost and middle cats are curled up on their left side, while the cat on the right is curled up on its right side. Text at the top of the screen reads, "Two-thirds of the time, cats are found to sleep on their left side,"
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy #DayOfImmunology to all who CELLebrate! 🤓🔬I’m looking forward to representing @cp-cell.bsky.social at IUIS 2025 in Vienna in August! Registration is still open— see you there?iuis2025.org @iuis-online.bsky.social
A photograph of spires and rooftops in Vienna is cut into a mosaic of diamond and triangle shapes on a white background. The logo of the International Union of Immunological Societies appears beside the text “2025 Vienna”. Other text reads, “19th International Congress of Immunology, August 17-22, 2025, Vienna, Austria, supported by OGAI Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology”.
April 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Things are Not Fine, but here is my current go-to bread recipe:
300 g bread flour
300 g pasta flour
1 tsp dry yeast
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt (ish?)
glug of oil
300 ml warm water + more until the dough just comes together.
Knead, rise until doubled, shape and rise in pan w/parchment, 350F ‘til done.
A loaf of homemade white bread sits on a wooden cutting board, on a dark kitchen countertop with a white wall in the background . Three thin slices have been cut off the end of the loaf and lie stacked where they fell.
April 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Huge gratitude to @systemsvirology.bsky.social for organizing #CSHApandemic and bringing us all together, and for including @cp-cell.bsky.social in the program. And also for hosting the coolest lab party in Tokyo! 😎🥼🎉
Smiling members of the Sato lab, and guests, bend, squat, and pose with two-finger “peace signs” and “thumbs up” in front of a white board wall. One person holds a copy of the journal Cell.
January 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Happy new year! Hat tip to @worry_lines on Insta for putting it so nicely… www.instagram.com/p/DEPSO1uiRV...
Art by @worry_lines, posted by them to their account on Instagram. A cartoon person first has a crack over its heart, then a bandage, which it then takes off. Then cracks appear behind its head, which it starts to patch with mud and a trowel. The person says, “I used to want to fix myself, and made New Year’s resolutions, but I no longer believe that I am broken, or a problem in need of solutions. Instead I want to fix the system and make positive contributions.”
January 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The last Cell issue of the year is online. This one is a doozy if you like interferons (as I do!) or transposons and ERVs (and who doesn't?!) There's also cool stem cell and dev bio in this issue, immune responses to Zika during pregnancy... cancer, plants... cool stuff! www.cell.com/cell/issue?p...
Cover art for the December 26, 2024 issue of the journal Cell. The artwork resembles spilled and swirled paint, with bright colors of pink, yellow, green, white, and black on a deep blue background. The "Cell" logo appears in bold white text in the upper left corner and the Cell Press 50th anniversary logo appears in light blue text in the bottom right corner. Taken from the published cover description: "The cover image features an artistic representation of how the fetal tripotent pancreatic stem cell (pink, yellow, and white smaller circle) gives rise to the three main cell lineages of the pancreas (pink, yellow, and green fluid lines), which together make up the pancreas organ (yellow, green, and pink larger oval). Image resources: Simona Jole Anna Lafirenze."
December 27, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Some punnier options in a thread started by @achillebro.bsky.social 😄
The image captures a thread of posts that couldn’t be linked directly. The posts suggest butterfly-related pun terms for actions on Bluesky.
November 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #597,564!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #597,564, Cheri ‪@cherisirois.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 17, 2023"
September 20, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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For my inaugural Bsky post, I offer sunrise over Quito on 18 Aug 2023, with Cotopaxi in the distance 🤩
August 19, 2023 at 10:54 PM