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Adrian Liston

15 days

#Science changes the world every day. Curing #diseases , designing #supercomputers , building #greentechnology , creating wearable #nanotechnology ... You may know what science can do, but what do you know about the people who become a #scientist ?

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 months

My advice to grad students - learn to spot people like this, so you can avoid them the rest of your career. You’ll be happier and more successful without this type of toxicity in your life. Warning: Shockingly bad career advice below

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Grad Students: Networking is critical for success in academia. But the real question is WHO to network with. I’ve known grad students who will spend time at conferences drinking beers in the bars with grad students from unranked programs. Is that 1/

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

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I quit as a Frontiers editor and refuse to review papers for them because of how difficult the journal makes rejecting a paper. You essentially can’t, you can only get stuck in endless reviewing loops. Still shame on everyone involved, but this is what the Frontiers system allows

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This is absolutely shameful. What in the everloving fuck

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@LabListon

2 years

For anyone doing #flowcytometry , would you like to have a new protocol that reduces your #antibody costs by ~10-fold and also gives you higher quality data, with better signal-to-noise ratio? Yes? Then read work by @olivertburton and @CarlyEWhyte . 1/6

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Excited to share our new paper out at @NatImmunol today! We discovered the limiting factor for #brain #Tregs is #IL2 , and developed a new #genetherapy to treat #traumaticbraininjury and other #neuroinflammatory pathologies. 1/12

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

Trying to reflect on what constitutes a successful research lab. I came up with these 11 ingredients: any other suggestions? 1/12

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

All life-changing career steps should involve signing a massive tome on a wooden lectern. A big step for me today, getting ready to move from @BabrahamInst to @CamPathology in @Cambridge_Uni to take up the Professorship of Pathology!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

When this is all finished, can we please give a big increase in funding to immunology? The work we do is pivotal to most human diseases - infections, cancers, neurodegeneration, diabetes, cardiovascular.... fund immunology to prepare for the next catastrophe

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@LabListon

3 months

Biggest paper yet from the lab out now in @ImmunityCP ! It is a massive #openscience resource on #tissueTregs , and what makes #Tregs tick in the #tissues . Spoiler-alert: Tissue Tregs are really different from what we all thought. 🧵 1/21

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@LabListon

2 years

We have an exciting #computational paper out in @CellRepMethods . Ever use a #tSNE or #UMAP in #scSeq , #flowcytometry or #masscytometry ? It doesn't have to be just a pretty picture anymore - we've developed a statistical test to check for differences. 1/6

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@LabListon

3 months

@MushtaqBilalPhD Being unethical isn’t necessary for success. Even if it was, I’d rather be ethical and less successful. Sucking up to toxic people gives you the “reward” of spending more time with toxic people, nothing more.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

A growing body of evidence suggests that brain-resident CD8 T cells and IFNg drive cellular and cognitive #aging in the #brain . Our @NatImmunol commentary on recent advances from @NatureNeuro goes into the #neuroimmunology mechanisms

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

I am really thrilled to release #AutoSpill onto @biorxivpreprint . It is a novel method for applying compensation to #flowcytometry data, which reduces the error by ~100,000-fold. It is thanks to AutoSpill that we can push machines to their max colours

AutoSpill: a method for calculating spillover coefficients in high-parameter flow cytometry

Compensating in classical flow cytometry or unmixing in spectral systems is an unavoidable challenge in the data analysis of fluorescence-based flow cytometry. In both cases, spillover coefficients...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Question for immunologists with an evolutionary bent. Why would fever have evolved? The magnitude is likely to be too mild for a direct anti-microbial effect, and as a signal mediator it is horribly dangerous compared to small molecule mediators

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

7 months

We are recruiting two new positions, a postdoc and a technician, to join us at @Cambridge_Uni ! The laboratory is an inclusive, international and diverse team, supportive of your personal and career development. Join a kind lab :)

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

1 year

Biggest paper yet from the lab now a #preprint on @biorxivpreprint . A massive #openscience resource on #tissueTregs , and what makes #Tregs tick in the #tissues . Spoiler-alert: Tissue Tregs are really different from what we all thought. 🧵 1/21

The tissue-resident regulatory T cell pool is shaped by transient multi-tissue migration and a...

The tissues are the site of many of the most important immunological reactions, yet the immunology of the tissues has remained relatively opaque. Recent studies have identified Foxp3+ regulatory T...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

11 months

Our lab's highest honour, the #GoldenPipette

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

7 months

Why I hate hobbies on CVs 1. They are unnecessary. It is a job, not a relationship. It honestly shouldn't have any impact at all on hiring decisions. 2. It is class-coding. You are from Australia and trained in tennis, horse-riding and violin, I get it, you are from money.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Our new article is out at @NatImmunol on diversity in the human #immune system, taking an #evolution / #genomics view on this fascinating question. 1/13

Human immune diversity: from evolution to modernity

Nature Immunology - The extreme diversity of the human immune system, forged and maintained throughout evolutionary history, provides a potent defense against opportunistic pathogens. Liston and...

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@LabListon

3 years

I am absolutely thrilled that the @wellcometrust is funding our #neuroimmunology proposal. We are going to be developing new tools to study #microglia and #brainTcells , and applying them to understand #traumaticbraininjury . Incredibly grateful for the trust given to our team. 1/5

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

9 months

Our review on #brainTregs is out at @NatRevImmunol . See the latest on what #Tregs can do in the #brain . It is more than you expect! Not use #immune control but #neurorepair and #homeostasis . 1/4

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@LabListon

3 years

I gave an #AcademicJobs talk @UAlberta yesterday. My aim was to lift the veil on applying for academic research positions, negotiating a start-up and making the first steps in your new lab. Excessive honestly will likely land me in hot water, but...

A cynics guide to getting a faculty position

A cynics guide to getting a faculty position…and succeeding in itProf Adrian Liston

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Thrilled to have our latest paper published at @SciImmunology . It is a nifty story of #Treg lineage plasticity, identifying and characterising the unstable cells that are so concerning to those working on Treg #celltherapy . 1/13

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 months

I stand by my mantra. Every disease should be considered immunological, until proven otherwise. #neuroimmunology

An inflamed brain can trigger psychosis. The search is on for patients who might be cured

The discovery of rogue antibodies behind paranoia, hallucinations, and other symptoms could bring a “paradigm shift” to psychiatry

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

6 months

Standard grants should be 5 years. Tenure track should be 7 years. Expectations have gone up so much, lower is just unrealistic. Short grant cycles are bad for science, and bad for scientists, just increasing the pressure and tension while reducing creativity and reproducibility

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

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Our latest paper is out in @WellcomeOpenRes ! Rather than on #research , it is on best practices in a research #team & building a #PositiveResearchCulture in your #lab . Nurturing that culture is among the most impactful things you can do, here is how: 1/11

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Congratulations to our latest lab baby! That is 15 times now that my students and staff have proved that having a baby doesn't need to be put off until "later".

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Details matter. Look at the difference in viability you get prepping glial cells from the brain with different methods? Huge differences in the astrocyte/olgiodendrocyte viability depending on the method.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

Would love to have some type of match-making website that would pair up wet-lab PIs with computational PIs for long-term collaborations. There must be computational group leaders out there who would love to have unlimited data and wet-lab people willing to test their models

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Honoured to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology @RoyalSocBio

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

10 months

Where do #TissueTregs come from? The previous standard model is the "seeding and specialisation" model, where #Tregs enter from tissues, turn on a dedicated transcriptional program per #tissue , and dwell indefinitely in that tissue as specialised cells. 1/3

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 months

I've put together a set of links for the various career development advice articles I've been writing for the past ~20 years, here arranged by career stage: Hope it is helpful to some people!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

7 months

#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

I've been working on a really exciting project with @ImmunolCellBiol , the society journal for @ASImmunology . Here is a sneak peek for Twitter! As I step into the Editor-in-Chief role for the journal's 100th year (oldest #immunology journal!), we are looking to the future. 1/18

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Our latest #immunology book for children, "Maya's Marvellous Medicine", is now out! Follow Maya as she learns all about #vaccines and how the #immunesystem works. Whether it is a #vaccination or a running race, the lesson is clear - practise makes perfect!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

So excited for our latest #neuroimmunology paper to come out in @CellCellPress ! Work from the team @BabrahamInst and @CBD_VIB @KU_Leuven discovered that #brain #Tcells are needed for the maturation of @microglia and normal behaviour development. 1/11

CD4 T Cells in the Brain

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Two post-doc positions are being advertised in the lab at the moment. Both are in neuroimmunology, but I value diversity in all its forms - cross-over applicants from other fields are encouraged. Come work in a progressive welcoming environment, with great scientists :)

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Map of the 45 countries that past and present lab members come from. Diversity and mobility create great science

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

@UKRI_News From a senior research perspective: I'd rather fund fewer people, but fund those people properly. In the long-term, making science an unattractive career choice will hurt more. From a mentor perspective: Please retroactively increase stipends. Students are hurting.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Hey there, #singlecell peeps, you ever use a #tSNE or #UMAP ? It doesn't have to be just a pretty picture. We've developed statistical tests to compare multiple plots, calculate p values and the relative distance between multiple samples. 1/4

A Cross Entropy test allows quantitative statistical comparison of...

The advent of high dimensional single cell data in the biomedical sciences has necessitated the development of dimensionality-reduction tools. t-SNE and UMAP are the two most frequently used...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Anyone interested in #microbiome and #immunology should read this magnificent paper by @BrodinPetter . Direct demonstration that altering the microbiome in healthy infants modifies their immune system.

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@LabListon

4 years

Any #immunology #openscience peeps want to get their hands on a nice raw dataset for #flowcytometry #systemsimmunology of #COVID19 ? Out now on @medrxivpreprint , our article on T cell changes and disease severity: plus open data resource for re-analysis

An open resource for T cell phenotype changes in COVID-19 identifies IL-10-producing regulatory T...

The pandemic spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is due, in part, to the immunological properties of the host-viral interaction. The clinical presentation varies greatly from individual to...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

5 months

Starting Your Independent Research Laboratory

Starting Your Independent Research Laboratory | Stroke

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

Happy to release onto @biorxiv_immuno a beautiful story by @CarlyEWhyte on the context-dependent effects of the #IL2 network. One of the oldest and most important #cytokines and we are still learning news things about it! 1/17

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Anyone interested in #brain #Treg #neuroimmunology please come to my #globalimmuno talk today!

Global Immunotalks

@globalimmuno

3 years

Looking forward to our next #globalimmuno talk this Wednesday February 2 at 9am PST noon EST 5pm GMT by Dr. Adrian Liston. Title: Manipulating brain Tregs to protect against neuropathology LINK:

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@LabListon

3 months

Are you a PI running job interviews? Want some insights into what questions to ask to find the right candidate? #ImmunologyFutures crowd-sourced the problem, read now at @ImmunolCellBiol !

Immunology & Cell Biology | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library

Asking the right questions during a job interview helps you find the best person for your team. Here we crowd-sourced the #ImmunologyFutures community for their go-to job interview questions, to...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

1 year

Immunology gets a lot of flack for its impenetrable jargon, but once you go into anatomy immunology couldn't be easier, while neuroscience gets brutal fast. 1/4

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@LabListon

3 years

Labs should be funded with a small long-term core funding, with competitive funding used for short-term boosts on dedicated projects. The current system is structurally unsound

Tanentzapf Lab

@TanentzapfLab

3 years

Innovation in science is dependent on our ability as scientists to take risks & try new things. But how are we expected to take risks & try new things in a funding climate where many of us feel like we are 2 or 3 bad grant cycles away from not having funding to run our labs?

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

1 month

Anyone interested in a sneak peak of a new project we have coming out? It is called "Becoming a #Scientist " and goes through the stories of my amazing lab members. Every one has a unique pathway, overcoming personal challenges. They are an inspirational #team !

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

I'm thrilled to be stepping in as Editor-in-Chief for @ImmunolCellBiol , the society journal for @ASImmunology , in 2023, the 100th year of publication for ICB! What an exciting time to be a part of a historic journal! 1/5

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@LabListon

1 year

Paper time! We have a new #aging #neuroimmunology study out at @EmboMolMed ! Fantastic work from Pierre Lemaitre, @SamarTareen and @EmanuelaPasciu1 , collaborating with the labs of @ys_lidia and Matthew Holt, at @KU_Leuven , @i3S_UPorto , @VIBLifeSciences and @BabrahamInst . 1/5

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@LabListon

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#PhD researchers - want to build your #career options for post-PhD? This strategic framework provides you the necessary goals and timelines to ensure you have a good range of career options after you graduate. 🧵1/4 @ImmunolCellBiol with @lydiamakaroff

Immunology & Cell Biology | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library

PhD training is incredibly versatile, with the possibility of leading to a myriad of downstream careers. However, it is often only in retrospect that the options and optimal strategies behind your...

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@LabListon

4 months

Our brain Treg review on the cover of @NatRevImmunol !

Adrian Liston

@LabListon

9 months

Our review on #brainTregs is out at @NatRevImmunol . See the latest on what #Tregs can do in the #brain . It is more than you expect! Not use #immune control but #neurorepair and #homeostasis . 1/4

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I want to tell you about the amazing people I work with. When I look around the laboratory, everyone has a different story. Different challenges overcome, different experiences gained. The one thing that unites us, though, is that none of us were destined to be a scientist.

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@LabListon

10 months

Every disease is immunological unless proven otherwise

Leonhard Schilbach

@leoschilbach

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sCD14, a marker of immune-inflammation can help to distinguish between psychotic disorders with and without disordered social interaction

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2 years

Our latest work is out in @JExpMed ! Work by @CarlyEWhyte , @singhkailash04 , @jldvib and co on the context-dependent effects of the #IL2 network. One of the oldest and most important #cytokines and we are still learning news things about it! 1/17

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@LabListon

3 years

More evidence for my "the immune system is important for everything" hypothesis

Science Magazine

@ScienceMagazine

3 years

Two new studies highlight how the immune system influences the genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer cells, which may lead to improved strategies for cancer prevention and therapy. Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective :

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"Becoming a #Scientist : The Graphic Novel" is now live! Follow the inspiring stories of my amazing lab members at @Cambridge_Uni @CamPathology . The diverse barriers they overcame, their #rolemodels , and their #motivation to enter science! Please share!

Becoming a Scientist: The Graphic Novel

Science changes the world every day. Curing diseases, designing super-computers, building green technology, creating wearable nanotechnology... You may know what science can do, but what do you kn...

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

8 months

Every disease is immunological until proven otherwise

Institute of Molecular Immunology

@KnolleLab

8 months

Autoreactive T cells are the bad guys in GBS! Outstanding study! Find out more here 👇

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2 years

@TheLucyGarner @UniofOxford Academic research institutes look at industry salaries and (rightfully) conclude that they can never match them. But that misses the point. You don't need to match salaries to improve retention, you just need to make salaries and conditions good enough that people don't job hunt

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1 year

Happy International Women's Day from our PhD students!

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@LabListon

2 years

This was my 200th paper! To celebrate 200 productive collaborations, here are some neat word clouds of my coauthors, topics we worked on, and journals we published in! 1/4

Nature Immunology

@NatImmunol

2 years

Liston and colleagues design a gene-delivery system to specifically target astrocytes in the central nervous system to express IL-2 and thereby expand/maintain Treg cells to suppress neuroinflammation

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@LabListon

4 years

My lab trained 16 #Erasmus students in 10 years in Belgium. Bringing in students from Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey. Some stayed in Belgium, some returned home, all enriched our lives and their lives. Shame I can't continue now in the UK.

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@LabListon

3 months

@AnhHLe2702 From the replies, I am convinced that it is satire/trolling, just a particularly harmful form of satire/trolling that amplifies plausible negative messages so people in the know can laugh at naive ECRs who fall for it. Still not a fan, I'm not even sure if this is better

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Manuscript accepted! Patient 001 from our #primaryimmunodeficiency #genetics cohort, started >10 years ago, now with complete genetic and molecular mechanism thanks to super-PhD student @JulikaNeumann , together with the amazing Stephanie Humblet-Baron. More details soon! #PID

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@LabListon

2 years

We have an exciting new paper describing a novel class of #primaryimmunodeficiency ! Amazing @JulikaNeumann and team discovered #ITPR3 mutations in two families with combined immunodeficiency. As always, studying #PID teaches us so much about biology! 1/9

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@LabListon

3 months

@smead2 I thought that at first. Then decided it didn’t matter. It wasn’t funny or clever. It is harmful

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@LabListon

1 year

😍I love it when students send me a photo of their screen while sitting at the flow cytometer😍 Enthusiasm is infectious!

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@LabListon

6 months

Small lab, big lab, multi-PI lab... there is no "best" style. All have pros and cons. In my opinion the best research environment is a mixed ecosystem of all three. To make that work, though, leadership needs to understand the uniqueness of each model, and actively mitigate risks

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@LabListon

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Excited to publish a novel #primaryimmunodeficiency in @jacionline ! We found #DBF4 mutation as a new cause for severe congenital #neutropenia . Read on for the #clinical , #molecular and #immunology details, plus a potential #treatment ! 1/7

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Bregs made the list but not Tregs? Which B cell person has a hotline to @xkcd and decided to use their power for evil purposes? Not cool, Randall, not cool

Randall Munroe

@xkcd

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Lymphocytes

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#PositiveResearchCulture is hard to define. We know it when we experience it, and we certainly feel it when it is absent. In #ImmunologyFutures @ImmunolCellBiol we ask: how can #universities and institutes nurture a positive culture? 1/13

Immunology & Cell Biology | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library

Positive research cultures provide the environment for scientists to explore ideas, grow as individuals, develop team science and create a positive impact on those around them. Here we focus on key...

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@LabListon

2 years

Real life photo of an immunologist at a neuro meeting. #neuroimmunology

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@LabListon

2 years

We've got positions open! #Postdoc #job in #neuroimmunology . Welcoming applicants from #neuroscience , #immunology , #molecularbiology . Come join an international, diverse, LGBT+ friendly team to work on an exciting @wellcometrust project!

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@LabListon

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I am looking forward to getting inducted into the @Catz_Cambridge family tonight! I just need to not mangle the Latin in my Oath of Fellowship too badly...

St Catharine's College

@Catz_Cambridge

1 year

A warm welcome to Prof. Adrian Liston (2023) who has been elected to our Fellowship this month. Alongside his research at @CamPathology , he works on communicating science to children & improving equality of opportunity in scientific careers: @LabListon

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Know any immunologists who gave you really good career advice? Drop me a line so I can try to get them to communicate that advice further. @ImmunolCellBiol , the society #immunology journal from @ASImmunology has a really exciting project incubating...

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Our paper on using #genedelivery of #IL2 to the #ageing #brain now has the cover image at @EmboMolMed ! Take a look at the paper here - a new therapeutic option to halt cognitive decline with #age .

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3 years

It has been one year today since my lab went into lockdown. As a non-essential, I haven't been to the lab since - fortunately my talented team has been able to make great advances, despite capacity issues and safety measures that make time in the lab more painful. Bravo team!

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12 PhD students or post-docs have had babies while being in my lab. It didn't hurt any of their careers. People shouldn't worry so much about it - have children, or don't, when you want to.

Jillian Carmichael

@ViralCarmichael

3 years

I sometimes get asked by students & postdocs why I chose to have kids so early in grad school. They assume I planned it, lol. Nope. Surprise pregnancy 6 months into my PhD program. ✌🏼🙃 I have zero regrets & love being a (youngish) mom, but no, it wasn’t my original plan. 1/3

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To all PhD students: You can both stay in academia and have a cat. More seriously, different career pathways are... different. Life is easier when you find a niche that suits you, so look for that niche. But don't assume that someone else's niche will work for you.

Life After My Ph.D.

@LifeAfterMyPhD

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Since leaving academia, I work fewer hours, the work is easier, I make more money, and I have a cat now. That "I SHOULD be doing something" feeling is gone. That heavy dread is gone. Life feels lighter and calmer. After what I edured the past 6 years, I'm relishing this.

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@TheLucyGarner @UniofOxford Post-docs should be better paid - at that level of skill, post-docs should have sufficient income for comfortable independent-living while saving for a house. Academic research institutes tend to over-glorify turn-over and under-appreciate the value of retention.

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3 years

Great to see #AutoSpill now on @NatureComms ! If you do #flowcytometry experiments and haven't already tried it, give it a shot! GitHub R library, online website (), @FlowJoNow v10.7, @FloreadaCyto ... plenty of options available.

Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

I am really thrilled to release #AutoSpill onto @biorxivpreprint . It is a novel method for applying compensation to #flowcytometry data, which reduces the error by ~100,000-fold. It is thanks to AutoSpill that we can push machines to their max colours

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My twitter feed: Academics who work >40h/week are bad role models Also my twitter feed: Academics should spend more time mentoring, spend more time prepping for teaching, spend more time on social issues Can't do both without more support or a time machine

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

...okay, there may be some truth in this

Andy Greenhalgh

@headimmune

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Immunologists looking at neuroscientists’ gating strategies

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@TanentzapfLab The multi-PI lab is pretty common outside the Anglo world. My lab in Belgium was officially multi-PI (single PI labs are the minority in Belgium), and my lab in Cambridge is unofficially multi-PI. Works great, if the right people come together.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

Anyone interested in a huge set of longitudinal serum and terminal tumour samples taken from #pancreaticcancer mice? All paired with MRI, blood glucose and weight measurements? #metabolism #nutrition Especially keen to give it to any early career researchers: save time+money

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

1 year

@FromPhDtoLife I was recently asked to provide a copy of my written conference notes to prove I actually attended a conference *to which I was an invited speaker* in order to get costs reimbursed.

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

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I've just been vaccinated with the Ad26.COV2.S #CovidVaccine . If you are eligible, consider signing up for a vaccine trial at . The faster these trials are run, the sooner the vaccines are rolled out. Please, mask-up & avoid contact. We are nearly there!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Good news for #immunology in #Canada , if you work at 70 institutes across Canada you can now publish open access articles in @ImmunolCellBiol at no cost. Free #openscience immunology in a historic journal with great international reach? Sounds like a win for @CdnImmunol !

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 months

Thanks to @NatRevImmunol for the chance to write about incorporating our lived experiences into effective #sciencecommunication ! A few tips on making your science communication effective and accessible to everyone:

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@LabListon

4 years

Tips for new PIs: how to survey lab morale and give tailored career advice to trainees and staff

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

I've been using the microbiome-autism "link" as an example of likely confounding factors for years now. Glad to see the experiment actually done. (As an aside, this is a key reason why mouse+human research is far better than human alone)

Large autism stool metagenomics study finds limited direct autism associations, in contrast to strong relationships with dietary traits, stool consistency, and age, suggestive of a model whereby...

www.cell.com

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

I am delighted to be joining @ChurchillCol on a Senior Research Fellowship. A wonderful chance to work with a modern, science-focused faculty in the collegiate Cambridge environment!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

I'm not saying anyone should do this. But if they are planning on it anyway, please freeze a series of PBMCs and serum samples.

BNO News

@BNOFeed

2 years

German man arrested after getting vaccinated against coronavirus at least 87 times to sell proof of vaccination to anti-vaxxers - FP

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

8 months

My 2024 work resolution: focus on the wellbeing and career development of others. A sure path to job satisfaction :)

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 years

If anyone would like to hear more about #IL2 #cytokine networks, #Treg feedback circuits and the curious linkage between #Bcells and #CD8Tregs , I just gave a talk on our pre-print story from @CarlyEWhyte and team: The talk is here:

The curious case of IL-2

Prof Adrian Liston discusses the IL-2 cytokine network

www.youtube.com

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

4 months

@jdpereira Institutions need to understand the value of a positive exit - every ex-employee is a potential lifelong ambassador for your institute, if treated with respect and dignity on the way out

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

1 year

Final day at @BabrahamInst , last boxes being packed. It has been a roller-coaster of huge wins and enormous adversity over the past four years. I'm so proud of what my amazing team has achieved, relocating from @VIBLifeSciences , through pandemic and lockdown. 1/2

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

3 years

Immunologists: next year @ImmunolCellBiol is turning 100, making the @ASImmunology journal one of the oldest #immunology journals around. We want to serve the immunology community for the next 100, so please: what can a society journal do for you? Ideas appreciated!

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Adrian Liston

@LabListon

2 years

Had a long discussion with the lab yesterday about the perils of getting saddled with too many “service” jobs. I was asked how to say “no”, and thinking of writing an #ImmunologyFutures piece on the topic. So, #AcademicTwitter , how do you say “no”?

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@LabListon

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Saying “no” to academic service Academic service roles are essential for the profession. A successful academic career, however, requires balancing these service roles with your primary objectives. Here we discuss strategies for saying “no”

Immunology & Cell Biology | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library

Academic service roles, including governance, mentoring, committee work and reviewing, are essential for the profession. A successful academic career, however, requires balancing these service roles...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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