This 38,000-year-old Adorant figurine from a cave in the Swabian Alps contains symbols that may encode similar amounts of information as the earliest forms of written language. https://scim.ag/4rdysad

Ancient artifacts hint at earliest protowriting

Geometric shapes on 40,000-year-old bone and ivory suggest early European Homo sapiens long possessed cognitive tools for language

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Warum reagieren Krebspatient:innen oft anders – und manchmal sogar besser – auf Impfungen? Darüber durfte ich im Podcast „Der Code des Lebens“ sprechen. Ein herzliches Dankeschön an das Team für die Gelegenheit, meine Forschung zu Impfantworten, Organoiden und KI vorzustellen.

Krebs, Impfung, Immunsystem: Was Blutproben und Organoide verraten

Warum wirken Impfungen bei Menschen mit Krebserkrankungen oft anders als bei Gesunden? Der Systembiologe Dr. Florian Wimmers von der Universität Tübingen spricht in dieser Folge darüber, wie sich Kreb...

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Der Code des Lebens@dercodedeslebens.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📣 Neue Podcast-Folge 📣 Warum wirken Impfungen bei Menschen mit Krebserkrankungen anders? Dr. Florian Wimmers über Impfantworten bei Krebs, Mini-Organe und den Einsatz von KI in der Immunforschung. 🎧 Hier gehts zur Folge: codedeslebens.podigee.io/50-krebs-imp... #Podcast #Genetik #Krebs #Impfung

🔬 Future of #Toxicology? Discover how #NAMs are reshaping safety—more predictive, more human-relevant. 📍 @unituebingen.bsky.social Tübingen 📅 March 24–26, 2026 📝 Submit by Nov 14, 2025 more infos: bit.ly/4nAHiNd

Vaccines have health benefits you didn’t even know about. Get your flu shots yearly, and shingles shots as soon as you are eligible.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Acute and chronic viral infections, including Herpes Zoster (Shingles), Hepatitis C, HIV, CMV, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, are linked with a substantial increased risk of cardiovascular events, from a systematic review. Figure for SARS-CoV-2 below newsroom.heart.org/news/some-ac...

Studying neutrophils is not easy. Exciting to see that they can acquire longterm changes associated with epigenetic reprogramming.

Alejandro Brenes@ajbrenes.com · 11mo ago

#Neutrophils are short lived cells, yet in ARDS display long term changes, with impaired neutrophil functions even after 6 months. How can they undergo long term reprogramming? this is what @mas-g.bsky.social answered, mapping changes to neut. progenitors. @walmsley-lab.bsky.social #immunosky

🚨 A fantastic opportunity to join HIRI to start your research group on RNA Biology 👇 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Junior Group Leader for RNA-Biology, RNA-Technology or RNA-Medicine (f/m/d) - Würzburg (Stadt), Bayern (DE) job with Helmholtz-Institut für RNA-basierte Infektionsforschung (HIRI) | 12844907

#RNAexcellence Junior Group Leader Positions (f/m/d) Job advertisement no.:   089/2025 Starting date:                  As soon as possible. The con...

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Median lifetime earnings by education. Yes, a PhD is worth it. www.tamus.edu/data-science...

🔬PhD position available! Join our 🇨🇭🇮🇹 collaborative project on #Neuroimmunology and #ParkinsonsDisease — work with patient-derived samples and cutting-edge methods. 📄 Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1Znx_... @syis-ecr.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Postdoc Opening – Cancer & Immune Interactions We’re hiring! Fully funded position to explore next-gen vaccines using organ-on-chip tech. 🔬 Study tumor–immune crosstalk in multi-organ systems 🤝 Work with 6 labs (microfluidics, organoids, bioinfo) Apply by Aug 25 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Postdoctoral Researcher: Cancer-Immune Interactions in Human Organoid Systems - Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg (DE) job with University of Tübingen | 12841595

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to determine the impact of cancer on immune responses in human organoid systems.

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Great meeting! The exchange with fellow Emmy-Noether-awardees is an extremely valuable feature that other early career grants lack! Thanks for making this possible @dfg.de

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft@dfg.de · last yr.

Rund 150 (!) aktuell und ehemalig Geförderte waren beim diesjährigen #EmmyNoether-Jahrestreffen - und es war wieder einmal lustig, produktiv, sonnig, kollaborativ, synergetisch, kommunikativ und noch viel mehr. 😊 Kurzer Bericht, mehr Impressionen & die Präsentationen zu den Talks: fcld.ly/ent2025

𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀: 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 The human microbiome—comprising trillions of microorganisms—interacts closely with our immune, metabolic, and nervous systems. It influences directly our health. On #WorldMicrobiomeDay, we celebrate the science that shows how much Microbes Matter.

If you’re curious what we’ve been up to lately, check out this feature on our recent work in Attempto!

Universität Tübingen@unituebingen.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Eine neue Ausgabe von ATTEMPTO! – der Zeitschrift für Forschung der Universität Tübingen - gibt es online und als Printmagazin. 🤗 Wir wünschen viel Lesevergnügen: www.uni-tuebingen.de/attempto 📷: Illustration: ChatGPT / DALL-E; Titelfoto: Valentin Marquardt, MockUp: pixpine

Can vaccines heal cancer? In this episode, Prof. Juliane Walz reveals: "Very, very early in my life, I decided I wanted to do something with cancer and develop treatments for cancer." Discover personalized peptide vaccines in cancer immunotherapy 👉uni-tuebingen.de/en/269679 #Podcast #CancerResearch

It was so much fun meeting all the wonderful new profs of BW and learning more about lab atomization and AI-assisted surgery. #TheNerdLänd

Isabel Monte@isabelmonte.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great evening in Stuttgart celebrating that Baden-Württemberg is #TheNerdLänd with my #ERCStG colleagues @therealimmunecell.bsky.social and @mariuslemm.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social

🚨 Join the #EUROoCS digital lecture with Peter Loskill tomorrow, Jan 21, 5–6 PM CET! Learn how #immunocompetent tissues enhance #OrganOnChip models for Immuno #Oncology, (cardio) #metabolic & #ophthalmology research! 🔬🧫 👉 Register at: bit.ly/EUROoCS-Lecture @plosk.bsky.social @3rcenter.bsky.social

Nothing like walking into work and seeing this—the colors are pure magic!

Excited to see this paper out. Durability is the holy grail of vaccine design. 💉 Here, we made the unexpected discovery that megakaryocytes, the cells that produce wound-healing platelets, can support long lasting vaccine immunity! #BiologyIsWild! 🧬🔬 Glad I could be part of this wonderful team!

HIPC@hipcproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our collaborators analyze multiple predictors of antibody response in #vaccines in humans. @natureportfolio.bsky.social Authors include: Bali Pulendran, Mark Mulligan, @tsanglab.bsky.social Steve Bosinger, @therealimmunecell.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CDC just confirmed the first severe case of #H5N1 in the US in a patient in Louisiana. This virus seems to be the same genotype D1.1 that is spreading in birds at the moment (so not the cattle genotype B3.13) that severely sickened the teenager in Canada. #IDsky 🧪

Brilliant work congrats to the authors!

Michael Fischbach@mfgrp.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today we report that an engineered skin bacterium, swabbed gently on the head of a mouse, can unleash a potent antibody response against a pathogen. Could lead to topical vaccines that are applied in a cream. @djenetbousbaine.bsky.social led the charge... @natureportfolio.bsky.social 1/55

Calling all bioinformatics experts: I’m considering incorporating LLMs (like ChatGPT) as coding assistants into a beginners class on omics analysis & applied bioinformatics. Are they a help or a crutch for early learners? What’s your take on the risks/benefits? #Bioinformatics #LLMs #CodingEducation

Der CMFI Nikolaus war an der Universität Tübingen unterwegs und hat für die Studierenden und Mitarbeitenden Schokonikoläuse auf dem gesamten Campus versteckt. Sein Versteckspiel haben wir für euch gefilmt. #Nikolaus youtu.be/YK7FWOE_w_s?...

Der CMFI Nikolaus versteckt Geschenke an der Universität Tübingen

YouTube video by CMFI - Cluster of Excellence

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This is really horrific. These single cell reference atlases are widely used as is to train all kinds of models! This is one of the reasons I've constantly harping about uniform reprocessing & extremely careful QC of large atlases. 1/

Tomàs Montserrat Ayuso@tmontsay.bsky.social · 2y ago

scRNA-seq has revolutionized biology, but it’s not without challenges. We uncovered significant quality issues in widely used reference cell atlases like the Human Cell Atlas and Tabula Sapiens. Up to 85% of cells in some datasets are low-quality or misidentified! 2/8

The Immune Alliance Meeting in Nara, Japan. Bridging great scientific exchange and collegial friendship across countries. @dgfi_org @YI_dgfi #immunology

Fascinating findings: Immune system disruptions in cancer patients can persist over a decade post-treatment. We still know so little about the long-term impact of therapies on immunity.

Waggoner Lab@labwaggoner.bsky.social · 2y ago

Multiple myeloma long-term survivors exhibit sustained immune alterations decades after first-line therapy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to delve into the world of #immunology 💉 and connect with brilliant colleagues in the truely exceptional setting of #Nara Park! 🇯🇵 Deers are roaming the conference venue! 🦌 🏯 #ImmuneAlliance #DGfI #JSI

Thrilled to see this study! Three years ago, we uncovered an IRF/AP-1-driven epigenetic program boosting antiviral resistance after flu vaccination. Amazing to see similar myeloid plasticity and reduced inflammation emerging beyond influenza. Immunology never ceases to amaze! 😊

Alex Lercher@alercher.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great Spotlight by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social and #SashaTabachnikova on our recent publication in #Immunity, where we studied antiviral innate immune memory in alveolar macrophages in the context of respiratory viral infections! www.cell.com/trends/immun...

Thanks @tsanglab.bsky.social for putting this together. Such a fantastic resource to stay up to date with systems immunology research.

Raphael Gottardo@rgottardo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks @tsanglab.bsky.social for putting this together! #immunology #datascience go.bsky.app/PjH2Fuj

A vertical takeoff of life science with #AI LLLMs. Publication of 10 new foundation models of Proteins, DNA, RNA, methylation, cells, and interactions, evolution, and design in the past couple of weeks! Unprecedented progress, reviewed in the new Ground Truths erictopol.substack.com/p/learning-t...

Hello BlueSky! 🌟 I am excited to be here and finally chat immunology, systems biology, and vaccines again. 🧪💡 Also, we’re growing our team in beautiful Tübingen (thanks to @ERC_Research) and looking for talent in #AI or #scRNAseq. There is still time to apply! 🚀 www.nature.com/naturecareer...

The human proteomic revolution proceeds with high-throughput assessment, AI analytics, correlation with health and disease, drug interactions, biomarkers www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...