'All Colours Will Agree in the Dark' There is a painting I came across some time ago while I was doing research on the history of colours for my new novel — a subject that has held me in quiet thrall for so many years.

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Happy to be back at the session of Physics of Immunology at the APS meeting. This time in Denver!

When Science Funding Becomes a Lottery or, how Europe’s funding schemes turned evaluation into ritual

"Here Borges appears once again, this time as a lottery. In The Lottery in Babylon, chance slowly colonizes everything: rewards, punishments, careers, meaning itself.(...) At first, it is a lottery with rules; eventually, the rules dissolve and only ritual remains."
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Transient disruption of T cell help impairs germinal center dynamics and memory responses Germinal center responses can recover from transient loss of T cell help, but the sustained reduction in TFH cells impairs recall responses.

Work led by Louise Webb now out www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A huge team effort: Helena Carslaw, Jess James,
@emae-watson.bsky.social, Silvia Innocentin, Jayalini Assalaarachchi, Sigrid Fra-Bido, Isabel San Martín Molina, @smguillaume.bsky.social , Sam Woolliscroft, Alice Burton & Grant Kennedy

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Is thinking in phase space rather than real space one of the most characteristic traits of a physicist?

Last May, we were thrilled to host the 2nd edition of #EESTCBio 🦬📖

Meet the poster prize winners!
⭐ Roberto Morán-Tovar @rmorantovar.bsky.social r.bsky.social
⭐ Juan Pablo Muñoz Díaz
⭐ Josep Mercadal @josepmercadal.bsky.social

Read more here: www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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🚨 #Hiring now! The group of @boztugk.bsky.social from the newly found Clinic of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology is looking for a

Postdoc: Mechanisms of autoimmunity and autoinflammation in inborn errors of immunity (m/f/d)

Go to our website: www.immunosensation.de/opportunitie...

This work looks fantastic, Max. Congrats!
Will definitely find the time soon to read the preprint!
¡Saludos desde Colonia!

🎉🏅We congratulate 🌟Roberto Morán-Tovar (University of Cologne, Germany), on winning the FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the recently held EMBO/EMBL Symposium 'Theory and concepts in biology' #EESTCBio! 🎉👏👏👏

We wish you all the best, Roberto!

@rmorantovar.bsky.social @events.embl.org

Se nos fue Pepe :( Gracias por la revolución. Gracias por la dignidad. Gracias por las enseñanzas. Tu espíritu vivirá en Latinoamerica y en el mundo entero. Descansa en paz viejo ✊️

This week, I attended my last conference as a PhD student @events.embl.org
4 days of "Theory and concepts in biology", with new topics, new questions, and an amazing community. I was awarded the prize for best poster sponsored by @febsletters.bsky.social 😊

The final day of the excellent Theory and concepts in biology EMBO | EMBL Symposium is about to begin! 🔬Looking forward to a final morning of talks on the dynamics of animal behaviour, unsupervised exploration of morphology from microscopy data, and more.

#EESTCBio
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I think a failure in how we talk about vaccines is in how we don't communicate how they don't all work exactly the same. Some vaccines (like polio vaccine) prevent most individuals from getting polio for life. Others, like covid or even MMR prevent severe disease and foster herd immunity.

I want to tell you a story about computers, creativity and art. (1/N) 🧵
Sydney Brenner once said in 2012 that “nobody has actually read the human genome. I mean, computers have processed the human genome, but we all know computers are stupid.”
(Summary of a talk I gave at the Sanger last week)

New over here! I will start posting about the immune system, viruses, and biophysics. Occasionally, about literature and road cycling.