Balthasar Heesters

Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.

A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow.

With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement
#AcademicSky 🧪
#womeninSTEM

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interested in germinal center regulation?
Should we coddle our immune system?
Two more weeks to apply!
3 year funding

Postdoc to investigate Follicular Dendritic Cell (FDC) Stimulation Join our team to unravel the complex effects of PRR stimulation on FDC functionality and its consequences for FDC interactions with immune cells in the GC.

We have an exciting postdoc position for 3-years!
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Apply or sent me a message if you have any questions. Work @uuuips.bsky.social with wonderful colleagues such as @luckrimp.bsky.social and others without bluesky ;)
More information: heesters.gitlab.io/postdoc_hire/

Welcome Vicente to the Lab! We have some exciting news! Starting next Tuesday, February 4th, we’ll be welcoming Vicente to our lab.

I’m very happy to welcome Vicente to the Lab! heesters.gitlab.io/vicenteferna...
He will be working with Petri on B cell survival factors :)

Proud of my 3 PhDs @luckrimp.bsky.social, Martijn and Petri!
Good job team(s)!
Next year I’ll join again.

Always great to be at the Dutch immunology conference (NVVI)!

Ben lehner’s talk

Very inspiring talks at the 10th anniversary science for life conference @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Impressed by other fields, such as Ben Lehner’s talk.
Great venue in the Beatrix theatre. Science as art.

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From the Dark Zone to Bluesky Although I've been on bluesky since May 2023, I just moved my entire activity there, join me in the lightzone(.bsky.social)!

Old news to everyone here, but I wrote a little post on why I've moved here:
From the Dark Zone to Bluesky heesters.gitlab.io/bluesky

Great thanks! Can I be included?

GitHub - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge: Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. Instantly find and follow the same users from your X(Twitter) follower on Bluesky. - kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge

For all the Twitter/X immigrants, I highly recommend github.com/kawamataryo/...

A few yrs ago we spent $10K on trialing antibodies. Only a few worked well. The good news is we got refunds for everything that didn’t work! Just need to push the companies. Don’t suffer in silence!

Great to see more effort/avenues for improving reliability and reproducibility of Abs! #immunosky

Hello #immunology community!
Happy to join Bluesky for some great ad and bs free scientific discussions!
Let me know if you like germinal centers and follicular dendritic cells.