Maria Jenmalm
@mjenmalm.bsky.social
Professor of Experimental Allergology, Linköping University, Sweden. Interested in diversity & how early microbial exposures shape infant immune development🤰👶
This qualitative study of LC in children and adolescents includes heartbreaking quotes like: "The friends she had before are not there anymore because, as she puts it: 'they got tired of me not being able to do so much anymore.' " bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/2
Experiences of living with long COVID during childhood and adolescence: a qualitative study from the child’s perspective - BMC Pediatrics
Background In February 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined long COVID in children, highlighting limited knowledge about its psychosocial impact. Studies show it as a complex, long-lasting condition affecting multiple systems. WHO and researchers emphasise the need for more understanding, particularly its effect on daily life. The aim of this study was to explore how life is experienced and how it changed whilst living with long COVID during childhood. Methods We present a qualitative study with an inductive and exploratory approach. Between October 2022 and March 2024, 16 children between 9 and 18 years old diagnosed with long COVID were interviewed face-to-face using a semi-structured interview guide. The results were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke. Results The results present the subjective reality of children suffering from long COVID and their struggle in daily life. The findings are presented through three themes: Losing my foothold, Fatigue decides my path, and My way forward, illustrating a temporal and emotional journey, reflecting how children make sense of their experiences, adapt to the persistent impact of long COVID, and gradually move toward acceptance. Conclusions This study addresses the lack of knowledge of long COVID in the society, how it affects children in their struggle to find a new path in life. It also shows that, with knowledge and support, the symptoms and the burden of the condition can decrease or even pass. It is important that people around these children, including health care, school and family, use this knowledge to promote health and avoid educational, health and social problems at a vulnerable time in life.
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Congrats to Dr. Mary E. Brunkow! Dr. Brunkow & her two colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today “for their fundamental discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance." Brunkow is an American molecular biologist & immunologist. #WomenInSTEM
Congratulations to new Nobel Laureate and AAI Distinguished Fellow Shimon Sakaguchi, co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational discoveries on regulatory T cells and peripheral immune tolerance! Published in The JI in 1995: ow.ly/LGk150X7984.
Immunologic self-tolerance maintained by activated T cells expressing IL-2 receptor α-chains (CD25). Breakdown of a single mechanism of self-tolerance causes various autoimmune diseases
Abstract. Approximately 10% of peripheral CD4+ cells and less than 1% of CD8+ cells in normal unimmunized adult mice express the IL-2 receptor α-chain (CD2
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Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It also demonstrates the fairness of the prize, as Mary Brunkow is a Senior Program Manager (not a professor) at the @isbscience.org hood.isbscience.org/people/mary-...
Check out our latest episode! Dr. Tamara Tilburgs (@ttilburgs.bsky.social) from @cincychildrens.bsky.social talks about the mechanisms of immune tolerance during pregnancy! Listen now: bit.ly/3H7ZM8H
My warmest thanks to all coauthors incl @hroager.bsky.social for your excellent contributions to our review "Gut microbiota development across the lifespan: Disease links and health-promoting interventions" & to @jinternmed.bsky.social for supporting our symposium & selecting us as Editor's Choice.
Journal of Internal Medicine@jinternmed.bsky.social · last yr.Welcome to read the Editor´s Choice in June! ➡️ Gut microbiota development across the lifespan ➡️ Disease links and health-promoting interventions ➡️ Outlines future research directions 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/joim.20089 👉June issue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652796/2025/297/6 #gutmicrobiota
Gender equality doesn’t just 'happen.' Women’s rights must be fought for and protected. Our responsibility is clear. To lead by example and create a world where opportunities are fair for all. Not just today, but every single day. #InternationalWomensDay
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Lucia greetings from the medicine students at Linköping University🌟
Our December Issue is out! https://buff.ly/4fXY85D Cover: Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu et al found that certain rare genetic mutations in the BTNL8 gene are more common in children w/ MIS-C (https://buff.ly/41cs75m). Image shows Manhattan plot for all the constituent ancestral groups in the MIS-C cohort.
Hi Bluesky. Follow me for women's and children's health research. Areas of interest include microbiome, preterm birth, infection and inflammation. Here's a new paper! Secretor status is a modifier of vaginal microbiota-associated preterm birth risk - www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Secretor status is a modifier of vaginal microbiota-associated preterm birth risk
Mutations in the FUT2 gene that result in a lack of expression of histo-blood group antigens on secreted glycoproteins may shape the vaginal microbiota with consequences for birth outcome. To test thi...
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y agoThere are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.
🦠🔬🚨 I have created a starter pack for those involved in research related to human microbiomes (there are other excellent microbiome packs by @claesengroup.bsky.social but this differentiates human from environmental/plant microbiomes). Let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/3eeA7BP
Maybe gut microbiome scientists could be a tract (if it were specifically for the gut microbiome), but I can't find a starter pack specific to the gut. This one is specifically the human microbiome, which is missing from your wonderful spreadsheet: bsky.app/starter-pack...
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you. All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
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"Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science" mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
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👋 Hi everyone! I'm Whitney, an epidemiologist. I’m embarking on a mission to debunk public health misinformation, promote data-driven insights, and empower a science-savvy community. Follow along, share, and let’s make knowledge contagious! #DataWorthSpreading #AmplifytheFacts 🧬👭🌍
Here's an article by @kakape.bsky.social on the migration of scientists to Bluesky from X. One thing stood out to me: there's a button for sharing on X at the top (along with Linkedin, etc.), but no blue butterfly to be seen! www.science.org/content/arti...
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
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If you are looking for basic science 🧪 podcasts with ♀️ hosts, check out This Week In Immunology. Excellent source of primary literature: www.microbe.tv/immune/categ... @kateclancy.bsky.social Period podcast has a lot of great primary research on women's health issues. 🧵 periodpodcast2.libsyn.com
Immune | Immune
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Antibiotic treatment of pregnant mice reduces the amount of breast milk antibodies (SIgA) and alters the neonatal fecal microbiota, making neonatal mice more susceptible to sepsis www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Prenatal antibiotics reduce breast milk IgA and induce dysbiosis in mouse offspring, increasing neonatal susceptibility to bacterial sepsis
Up to one-third of women receive antibiotics during pregnancy. Pietrasanta et al. show that antibiotic treatment of pregnant mice reduces the amount of breast milk antibodies (SIgA) and alters the neo...
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Fascinating new paper about how commensal #fungi can promote #type2 responses in mice, a process involving fungal induction of #IL-33 🍄 🧪 #ImmunoSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity - Nature
Kazachstania pintolopesii is a highly prevalent fungal symbiont that can trigger type 2 immunity and influence the composition of the gut mycobiome, as well as immune and disease phenotypes.
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