We're very excited to welcome Christian to our lab as a postdoctoral fellow! @uuuips.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social He'll work on the effect of adjuvants on FDCs. heesters.gitlab.io/christianmar...

Christian Joins the Lab – From Pain to Immunity

We’re excited to welcome Christian Martin as the newest postdoc in the Lab for Germinal Center Biology!

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A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow. With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement #AcademicSky 🧪 #womeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly

A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.

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Interested in germinal center regulation? Should we coddle our immune system? Two more weeks to apply! 3 year funding

the worst thing you can do for your immune system is to coddle it ..

ALT: the worst thing you can do for your immune system is to coddle it ..

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Balthasar Heesters@heesters.gitlab.io · last yr.

We have an exciting postdoc position for 3-years! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Apply or sent me a message if you have any questions. Work @uuuips.bsky.social with wonderful colleagues such as @luckrimp.bsky.social and others without bluesky ;) More information: heesters.gitlab.io/postdoc_hire/

We have an exciting postdoc position for 3-years! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Apply or sent me a message if you have any questions. Work @uuuips.bsky.social with wonderful colleagues such as @luckrimp.bsky.social and others without bluesky ;) More information: heesters.gitlab.io/postdoc_hire/

Postdoc to investigate Follicular Dendritic Cell (FDC) Stimulation

Join our team to unravel the complex effects of PRR stimulation on FDC functionality and its consequences for FDC interactions with immune cells in the GC.

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I’m very happy to welcome Vicente to the Lab! heesters.gitlab.io/vicenteferna... He will be working with Petri on B cell survival factors :)

Welcome Vicente to the Lab!

We have some exciting news! Starting next Tuesday, February 4th, we’ll be welcoming Vicente to our lab.

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Always great to be at the Dutch immunology conference (NVVI)!

Very inspiring talks at the 10th anniversary science for life conference @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Impressed by other fields, such as Ben Lehner’s talk. Great venue in the Beatrix theatre. Science as art.

Old news to everyone here, but I wrote a little post on why I've moved here: From the Dark Zone to Bluesky heesters.gitlab.io/bluesky

From the Dark Zone to Bluesky

Although I've been on bluesky since May 2023, I just moved my entire activity there, join me in the lightzone(.bsky.social)!

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For all the Twitter/X immigrants, I highly recommend github.com/kawamataryo/...

GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky.

Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge

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A few yrs ago we spent $10K on trialing antibodies. Only a few worked well. The good news is we got refunds for everything that didn’t work! Just need to push the companies. Don’t suffer in silence! Great to see more effort/avenues for improving reliability and reproducibility of Abs! #immunosky

Johan Duchêne@johanduchene.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The antibodies don’t work!" We, like many labs, have faced issues with bad antibodies cell.com/cell-stem-ce... Great to see that some are tackling this problem head-on! Read more about their solutions: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #ImmunoSky #Metaresearch #Openscience

Hello #immunology community! Happy to join Bluesky for some great ad and bs free scientific discussions! Let me know if you like germinal centers and follicular dendritic cells.