PhD Defense of Moataz Noureddine, today 2 PM EST. Join us in person in the Goldwurm auditorium at Mt Sinai or virtually mssm.zoom.us/j/7403277880. @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social

Goedemorgen.
Eerst mist in het westen. Elders vrij zonnig. Later stapelwolken met lokale bui.
MaxT van 15 graden aan zee tot 19 graden in de Kempen.
Z-wind of VAR 1 Bft

Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew

Hey, Boomers: Read this. Your vaccinations may be doing double duty! (Gift article)

Black-and-white 1950s photograph of physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett in her General Electric laboratory. Seated at a desk, she wears glasses and a striped short-sleeved blouse, holding a ruler and examining papers with focused intensity. Shelves of bottles and equipment line the background — the workspace of the woman who invented non-reflective glass.

Side-by-side demonstration of Katharine Burr Blodgett's 1938 invention: non-reflective glass. Left: three colorful yarn balls (red, blue, yellow) are clearly visible through coated glass with no glare. Right: the same balls appear blurred and distorted by reflections through ordinary clear glass. A powerful visual proof of the invisible coating that revolutionized lenses, windows, and screens.

Who invented non-reflective glass?

American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.

It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

Frikkin amazing stuff.

Volgende week zondag (23 november) is het Dag van de Wetenschap. De perfecte uitstap!
Alle info via
www.dagvandewetenschap.be

#DVDW2025

Congrats to Lauren A. Chang to bring this home and thanks to all the coauthors Brett T. Webb @yeungadventures.bsky.social T. Yeung (master of 🔬 ) Moataz Noureddine Prajakta Warang Gagandeep Singh Eleanor Burgess for their support and wonderful collaboration. More to come soon!

Transient lung eosinophilia during breakthrough influenza infection in vaccinated mice is associated with protective and balanced Type 1/2 immune responses - PubMed Our findings reveal that eosinophilic recruitment during influenza breakthrough infection is non-pathological and represents a balanced immune response, distinct from highly inflammatory environments seen in primary influenza infection or allergic sensitization. We observed eosinophil enrichment in …

Our latest manuscript on #eosinophils in the #influenza breakthrough infection model. What started as an unexpected observation in flow cytometry data for alveolar macrophages was a source of fun for many years now in the lab. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41190814/

Lesser Ury - "Nollendorf Platz, Berlin" (1922)

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization SARS-CoV-2 variant booster vaccination broadens human B cell responses through the germinal center reaction.

Read the latest from us here:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#antibody #cryoEM

Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article) As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 1,514 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A Conversation with New York Governor Kathy Hochul | 2025 Concordia Annual Summit YouTube video by Concordia

“States like New York have an opportunity to position ourselves as real leaders in so many different areas.” @governor.ny.gov

Like her, we believe NY is ready for revitalization—by launching a state-wide biomedical institute that boosts jobs, the economy & cures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVtF...

The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀

Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities.

Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

Angry and determined to win this time: Dulle Griet leads her army of women through a fiery world to plunder at the gates of Hell. As wonderfully conceived by Pieter Bruegel, whose day is today.

Edward Hopper, House at Dusk (1935)

✨ In collaboration with Ian Wilson, Bernie Moss, @carolilucas.bsky.social, @mschotsaert.bsky.social @vivianasimonlab.bsky.social, that’s exactly what we did!
We now have highly potent A35 human mAbs, in vitro and in vivo. They are protective both before and after mouse infection.
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Human monoclonal antibodies targeting A35 protect from death caused by monkeypox virus @cellcellpress.bsky.social @carolilucas.bsky.social @vivianasimonlab.bsky.social @mschotsaert.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

FDA warns of H5N1 avian flu detection in raw cat food

FDA warns of H5N1 avian flu detection in raw cat food www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet.
Please share
#ScienceSavedMe

The labs of George Shaw, Peter Kwong, Lawrence Shapiro and colleagues define—in rhesus macaques —the structural and genetic basis of #HIV-1 V2 apex recognition and demonstrate unprecedented structural plasticity of a highly selected immunogenetic element: rupress.org/jem/article/...

#Virology

Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.

The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy 402nd birthday Pieter Janssens Elinga. Because one should always remove one's shoes before sitting down with a good book.

An image showing the ARTIC and Pathoplexus logos connected by blue lines, with the text "Hiring: post-doc/software engineer" and "Global open-source pathogen tools" and "Join Swiss TPH, Work on ARTIC2 and Pathoplexus, Basel, Switzerland"

📢New job posting!📢
Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬

My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on!

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Edward Hopper, Two houses on the Dunes, Cape Cod

Inderdaad. Herzele.

Goedemorgen.
Regenwolken. Na de middag vanuit het westen enkele opklaringen maar ook (hevige) buien.
MaxT rond 20 graden.
ZZW-wind 3-4 Bft