Emily Thornton

Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

It’s out! Over the past few months, my colleagues and I at @unbreaking.org have been working to document the political, legal, and economic maneuvers the US administration has used to undermine medical research funding. We hope you’ll find it useful!

Read it here:

The content for #SuperbOwlSunday is so good and nerdy and pure 🤓🥰 Give yourself a break, and check it out.

Since I last posted here I moved to the US and joined Ensocell, an exciting startup with amazing people! UK #immunology #immunosky folks, we are searching for a Senior Scientist, Immunology to join the Cambridge team! Tell your friends!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

So excited to share our work on Treg microniches out today! Amazing group effort from Yisu Gu and Raquel Bartolomé-Casado with Powrie and Teichmann labs! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Universal recording of immune cell interactions in vivo - Nature A paper reports the development of a universal tool for studying cellular interactions in biological systems, and demonstrates its coupling with single-cell transcriptomics methods to provide insights...

Universal recording of immune cell interactions in vivo

Also, dang that’s a lot of collagen!!! 👀

Gorgeous! But a surely now it’s a germinal center.

It is a bit annoying to open the account in that first place because I think you needed an address to open the account and an account to get a lease. It’s worth planning ahead with your workplace or coworkers to use a temporary address if this might be an issue.

No, you can get an overdraft that will allow you to exceed your balance, and they would charge interest on the overdraft. The app works well for transferring money to other individuals or paying bills, instantaneously and for free. US banking is a hot mess compared to the UK system.

I bank at Barclays and am generally happy with them. Do you have any specific issues you’re wondering about?

Nothing makes you appreciate how much work went into a project quite like collating the source data. 📈📉📊

Just wrapped up the @bsicongress course "Omic data analysis and visualisation using R." 12/10 would recommend to a friend! The instructor, John, is GREAT! If you have wanted to get up to speed on R basics, sign up for the next round!

www.immunology.org/events/omic-...

The first author, Dana, has been known to to dabble in musical theater. Will suggest a crossover and get back to you.

In 2020, the Thornton lab came into being, but things did not go as I’d planned! With the pandemic raging, Dana Costigan and I took to the CL3 to understand what was going on with the mucosal immune response to SARS-CoV2. Out now in Mucosal Immunology!!! www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Mentoring practices predictive of doctoral student outcomes in a biological sciences cohort bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

"We asked students several questions about the scheduling structure, frequency, and helpfulness of their individual meetings with their advisors. Frequent meetings were a positive predictor of nearly every aspect of well-being and productivity measured in the survey."

Anyone else going to Regulation of Barrier Immunity? Abstract deadline is tomorrow, and I would love to see you present your work!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Hello, BlueSky 👋

Let’s try a thread.

We need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university.

American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀

First up: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

Why are tenured women feeling pushed out of the career they worked so hard for??? I expected most of the results in this paper, but that bit sucks. So. Much.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

Super fun summary of research interests. Make your word cloud at scholargoogler.com.
PS when it says I study “Cells” I’m pretty sure it means T cells.

In addition to immunology, I enjoy nerdy baking. This an mRNA vaccine jelly in honor of the Nobel Prize awarded today.

Katalin Kariko is such an inspiration! Her tenacious dedication to the dream of using mRNA in vaccines has changed the world.

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...