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magdamatusiak.bsky.social
Immunologist, Instructor at Stanford University; all things macrophages, spatial tissue biology
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"If I had to name a person who has done more for the benefit of human health, with less recognition than anyone else, it would be Maurice Hilleman."—Richard Gallo

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'One 2017 analysis found that women who experienced menopause later in life — over age 50 — lived longer than those who experienced it earlier. When estrogen levels drop, such as during menopause, women’s immune systems seem to weaken.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

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I ❤️ UW Immunology. Thank you @jmoltke.bsky.social. komonews.com/news/local/t...

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'Bob’s true test of a perfectly structured presentation was that the speaker should be able to ditch the PowerPoint slides and successfully deliver the same message using only the blackboard (...) most talks would indeed be better when boiled down to the bare basics: chalk board, presenter, ideas.'

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A large dataset we hope is helpful for patients who may have CAPS, an #autoinflammatory condition associated with genetic variants in NLRP3. Lots of "variants of uncertain significance" now have a specific readout from our in vitro assay which can help with clinical diagnosis. rdcu.be/d9iRG

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Tissue-resident memory CD8 T cell diversity is spatiotemporally imprinted www.nature.com/articles/s4...

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We’re thrilled to announce that OralGut3 will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November 2026! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for updates—some fantastic speakers are already confirmed! Follow 👇🏼 for the latest news. #OralGut3 #GutHealth #MucosalImmunology @oralgut.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

1 in 3 girls and women around the world experience physical and/or sexual violence by: A husband A boyfriend An intimate partner A lover A parent A relative A colleague A boss A stranger bit.ly/3gy8pfq #EndViolence

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

I am thrilled to share our latest article that has been published in @cp-immunity.bsky.social. We describe a new role for NLRP3 outside of its #inflammasome complex, where it can regulate microglial #metabolism & key metabolites that affect the epigenetic landscape(1) www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

submitted 29 days ago • 230 comments

Journal of Human Immunity is coming! Happy to be a part of this and support great studies into the unique immune systems of Humans #ImmSky info.rupress.org/jhi-announce...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Come join us as a group leader: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49356/ Happy to answer queries.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

There's a really interesting new paper out in Science for people who care about immunity to flu (which should be everyone because flu is a VERY big problem): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Here's my thread explaining this work🧵

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

President Jimmy Carter spent a good bit of his post presidency trying to rid the world of some truly awful diseases — things that afflict the poor & powerless like river blindness, Guinea worm & lymphatic filariasis. Not glamorous work, but so important. RIP. www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h...

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

Probabilities are indeed a strange concept. I like to think of them as a confidence level of something happening, or how much of my own money would I stake on them being true (or in the case of an experiment, repeating the same result). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Bring Light back to Ukrainian Schools Christmas Fundraiser: Power generators to keep 112 Ukrainian schools light and warm. u24.gov.ua/bring-light-...?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for an enthusiastic bioinformatician (long-term postdoctoral follow or staff scientist) interested in cancer/melanoma biology and therapy resistance. Data Science (single-cell, spatial multiomics integration), Machine learning, R, Pyhthon... jobso.id/ik9e

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Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

submitted 93 days ago • 18 comments