Darragh Duffy

@darraghduffy.bsky.social

Immunologist at Institut Pasteur Paris 🇮🇪🇫🇷🇪🇺 Interested in immune response variability - causes & consequences https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T9gaOrMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Happy to share our last study on how age, biological sex and genetics affect not only the extent of antibody responses against viruses but also the specific viral epitopes recognised. Thanks to Axel Olin @EtiennePatin @LabExMI @institutpasteur @cdf1530 @CNRS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Demographic and genetic factors shape the epitope specificity of the human antibody repertoire against viruses - Nature Immunology

Patin and colleagues present a mineable Resource database for identifying demographic and genetic factors that impact antiviral antibody repertoires in humans.

nature.com

Scientist's way of saying 'I ❤️ you' "I found this paper/preprint that made me think of your project." "I checked the mice/cells/plates already." "I just sent you the edits you requested." "I have a slide/diagram that will work for that." "I had that problem with [lab equipment], I have a fix."

Uruguay built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. It produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources & created 50,000 new jobs. Customers pay at least 20% less than they did before the transition

Justin@ediparolev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

“For three decades the goal of tech development has not been to improve our lives or serve the public good, but to maximize shareholder value & increase the power of the companies that control it..the root of so many of the social harms that the tech oligopoly have saddled us with”@parismarx.com

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 7mo ago

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For @policyalternatives.ca, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

I guaranteed you, In time it will emerge that Elon was financially backed to dismantle a space that actually led to bad people being held accountable. It was purchased for billions just to be ran into the ground. It was worth spending that much money to destroy the accountability machine

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In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.