Ok, here we go: Much of my work concerns the history and return of scientific racism. I’ve written extensively about attempts to resurrect the shuffling corpse of race science and eugenics for many years. Bigotry dressed up as biology. 1/n

My name is Bernard, living in Ireland. I have stage 4 stomach cancer. My medical consultants recommend Immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Despite best scientific and clinical evidence, my Irish healthcare insurer won't fund this. Am I alone?

Why do some inflammatory bowel disease patients benefit from anti-TNF therapy whilst others do not? Our new Nature Immunology resource paper investigates this question by following patients before and after treatment: nature.com/articles/s4159… 👇

We did it ! Maternity leave law in Ireland has now been changed to allow mothers postpone maternity leave if they are seriously ill 💛 I am so grateful to Averil and all the Irish Cancer Society team for their unwaivering and relentless work on this over the past 2 years.

Super excited to share my PhD work, out now in nature. Here, myself, Lydia Lynch, and all my wonderful co-authors explored the link between circadian rhythms, energy homeostasis and innate T cell function. A thread: 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am so proud!! we discovered a unique case in the literature! Thank you so much Denis Barry, Claire Lewis, Michela Vincis, to the donors❤️ of AnatomyTCD I thank you so much, Claire Murphy, Idvaldo Favaretto, and Gavin Mc Manus, Kevin Christopher Conlon, Philomena Mc Ateer

📢 Exciting opportunity! Applications now open for two four-year, full-time PhD Studentships in Animal Immune System Origins and Evolution Deadline is 30 November 2024. Find out more 👉 ow.ly/ISsk50U4fSU #jobalert #phdopportunity

Huge congrats to @dannyjohnston2 🤩who has been successful in this year’s FHS Dean’s Awards 🏆for his proposal “Multi-omic mapping of tissue vulnerability to understand the initiating events of the inflammatory skin disease" 👏 #hidradenitissuppurativa Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) Ireland School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin

Female researchers and those from outside the European Union are paying a particularly heavy price to live in Dublin go.nature.com/3Z5claM

Delighted that our infographic has made the COVER of the November edition of the BJD! Well done to Ciara and all the other authors, we hope our piece in the potential of inflammasome inhibition in #hidradenitissuppurativa is stimulating! Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) Ireland Skin Research Ireland

Absolutely delighted to see our review outlining the effects of obesity on cancer treatment highlighted on the cover of the December issue of Nature Reviews Endocrinology JL AnatomyTCD School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin GI Translational Oncology Research Group @cancer nature.com/nrendo/

🥳Delighted to share our new Anatomy paper: The first report of so numerous rare abdominal aorta variations in one subject. Anatomy is crucial for successful invasive procedures! Thanks to Denis Barry (so much) and his AnatomyTCD Team! 💪 Trinity College Dublin sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The outgoing government has agreed that universities are under-funded and that students need better supports. We need the incoming government to #InvestInHigherEd #GE2024

Was delighted to talk about my research on the use of nature-based solutions for flooding and water quality with the fine people at 10ThingstoKnowAbout. Have a look on the RTE player Special thanks to Kathriona Devereux, EPA Research News, Dr Mary Bourke @megafloods.bsky.social rte.ie/player/series/…

Hidradenitis suppurativa: TLSs take the center stage dlvr.it/TGjPvQ

Today I’m joining 30+ colleagues in taking an unusual step: calling for a halt to a line of research I was excited about, the long-term effort to build “mirror life”. We’re sharing our findings in a Science Magazine paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/6

Now online! Intermittent fasting triggers interorgan communication to suppress hair follicle regeneration dlvr.it/TGrYcV

📢Preprint alert! Very excited to share the first preprint from the lab spearheaded by stellar postdoc Eloïse Marques. An inherited mtDNA mutation remodels inflammatory cytokine responses in macrophages and in vivo. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…