Hope you enjoy this short piece, which came out yesterday. Some thoughts I’ve been musing on for a while about why adaptive immunity evolved. Read it for free at rdcu.be/fAO5P

Nature Reviews Immunology@natrevimmunol.nature.com · 3mo ago

Why adaptive immunity?

Unbiased identification of responding T cell clones from longitudinal repertoire sequencing with CloneSearch https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.29.728700v1

One month until London Q-Immuno Day 2026! 🧬💻 Join us on May 8th for interdisciplinary discussions at the intersection of theory, computation and immunology. More details and free registration at: qimmuno.com/ldnday/

I agree with Secretary Noem that this was an act of domestic terrorism. However, I disagree about who the terrorist is.

Why the fuck is every Dem leader leading with “Maduro sucks…but…” Fuck you. Just say this is unconstitutional and I’m starting the impeachment process.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 10mo ago

… Min. Leader Chuck Schumer statement: “… launching military action without congressional authorization and without a credible plan for what comes next is reckless…”

Join the advanced international course on "Innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy" at the @institutcurie.bsky.social January 28th - 30th , 2026 training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...

📣 Registration for the next international course at @institutcurie.bsky.social on the innovative approaches for pediatric cancer immunotherapy is now open, until november 28th, 2025. 🗓️ January 28 - 30, 2026 ▶️ More info: training.institut-curie.org/courses/inno...

The Metagraph paper is out in Nature; it showed up in my feeds today! Congratulations to Mikhail Karasikov, @gxxxr.bsky.social, @akkah21.bsky.social and all of the other authors (whom I'd love to follow on Bluesky if I can find you ;P) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories - Nature

MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.

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🔥 Mark the date! 🗓️ Millésime 2026 of the @embo.org Workshop on Pathogen Immunity and Signaling has arrived. Terrific roster of speakers, many spots for talks, spectacular venue in Leiden. Submit your abstract. Join us on 8 – 11 June 2026. meetings.embo.org/event/26-pat...

Pathogen Immunity and Signalling

Viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens pose a serious threat to human health, requiring a coordinated response from the innate and adaptive immune systems. Our immune system relies on pathogen recept…

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Slowly and tediously, even the rich and powerful can be taken down in functional democracies. This is the third conviction for Sarkozy (and his acolytes). This should encourage other democracies in difficult situations to keep hoping for justice to prevail. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Former French president Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libyan campaign financing trial – Europe live

Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of conspiracy, but innocent of other charges, in case surrounding millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

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EWS::WT1 Isoform-Dependent Regulation of Neogenes in Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.676906v1

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader – AI in Biology

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...

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Congratulations to @danafarber.bsky.social’s Cathy Wu, MD, who was selected by Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer as the recipient of the 2026 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award and Lectureship. ➡️ bit.ly/4octIB3

Sign the petition to call for the removal of RFK, Jr. www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

Sign the IMPEACH RFK Citizens' Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Join with us to sign our Citizens' Petition to the US Congress to choose the people over Trump and Impeach RFK Jr Now!

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The deadline is approaching for this fantastic course! Apply now! Free to attend!

Bardin Lab@bardinlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Students (Master's/PhD), do not miss this fantastic Developmental Biology course of @sorbonne-universite.fr and @institutcurie.bsky.social - It is FREE and open to international students, however, room and board + travel are not included. training.institut-curie.org/courses/deve...

Twice in one day I find myself without words...

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Powerful story from Carolyn Johnson at the Washington Post... wapo.st/44ntbo4 [Should be a gift link; let me know if there are problems]

So glad to have played a small part in this story. Great work @manellab.bsky.social !

Nicolas Manel Lab@manellab.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to share our latest @cp-cell.bsky.social. We present VICAR (VIral-induced Centromeric DNA Amplification and Recognition), a new defense system to detect viruses in the nucleus based on nuclear cGAS. www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

PhD opportunity in a great lab at a great institute !

Sebastiaan van Heesch@sebastiaanvheesch.bsky.social · last yr.

### PhD position alert ### Please repost! I'm excited to announce a new *PhD position* within our group. We are looking for a super-motivated candidate with a solid basis in wet- and dry-lab research. Apply now & make sure to include all docs! werkenbijprinsesmaximacentrum.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Postdoctoral position in Computational Biology open ! Our Lab is trying to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in establishing intestinal immune homeostasis and how a breakdown of these mechanisms may lead to diseases More info 👇 : lnkd.in/dQZq55nv lnkd.in/d6sbw59P

Reminder to join us June 5/6 in Paris if you're interested in pediatric immunity and cancer development ! @institutcurie.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @hopitalnecker.bsky.social @institutimagine.bsky.social

Josh Waterfall@joshwaterfall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in the relationship between the developing immune system and pediatric cancer ? Come join us for the first Paris Kids Cancer symposium June 5/6 institut-curie.org/symposium-pa... @institutcurie.bsky.social @aphp.bsky.social @gustaveroussy.fr @institutimagine.bsky.social

Cornell’s new homepage: RESEARCH MATTERS 🔬🔭🧪⚗️🧬💪😍 www.cornell.edu

Study Immunology in Paris! 📚 Join this International Master’s Program focused on Inflammation & Inflammatory Diseases 🌍 Open to international students – 🏠 Housing & 🇫🇷 French lessons included! ✨ Don’t miss out! #Immunology #StudyInParis #yEFIS @efis-immunology.bsky.social

🔴 Dans un entretien à @lexpress.bsky.social, Yasmine Belkaid DG @pasteur.fr, Bana Jabri DG @institutimagine.bsky.social et Alain Puisieux, Pdt du Directoire de l’Institut Curie, lancent un appel pour défendre la #science face aux menaces qui pèsent sur elle. ➡️ www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research. en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...

Two days to go until the 3rd LDN Q-Immuno Day at UCL! We are looking forward to welcome you on Thursday for an incredible line-up of speakers. Full schedule now available here: qimmuno.com/ldnday/

13 chair positions open @inserm.fr to lead a junior research group in France covering #neuroscience, #immunology, #bioinformatics, #bioengineering, #biotherapy, #public health pro.inserm.fr/rubriques/co... 🧪🔬

📢 permanent research engineer position as leader of the Hub Algorithmics & AI pole at the Institut Pasteur. Come and join us! More details on research.pasteur.fr/en/job/perma...

Permanent research engineer position as Head of Hub Algorithmics & AI pole - Research

The Hub of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics provides analytical support to research units and platforms at the Institut Pasteur. The Hub is committed to this mission through:  As head of the Algorithm...

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Remember to join us June 5,6 for the first #ParisKidsCancer symposium on #pediatric #immunity and #childhoodcancer Registration open now ! institut-curie.org/symposium-pa...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵