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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

www.nature.com/articles/d41... The reporting I did for my latest story convinced me that if you can be getting screened for lung cancer, you need to be getting screened for lung cancer...Sadly, (surprise surprise) a lot of people who could benefit from screening can't access it.

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AI and simple blood tests could catch lung cancer earlier

Lung cancer screening is not currently available to a lot of people in the United States who could benefit from it. But new tools and data could soon broaden the tests’ reach.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Immune imprinting," "original antigenic sin (#OAS)" In my latest work, I attempted to lay out what these terms really mean and what these phenomena mean for our immune responses in the context of #flu. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Immunological sin: how a person’s earliest flu infections dictate life-long immunity

Researchers are striving to understand the impact a phenomenon known as original antigenic sin has on immunity to the virus.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I just mistyped "immunoglobulins" as "immunoglobulings" and somehow I feel like my whole life may have followed a different trajectory if the latter, more charming term was the correct one.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

“In the NICU, a few hours could mean the difference between unnecessary procedures and targeted, life-saving treatment..." scitechdaily.com/scientists-s... Whole-genome sequencing takes one more step toward becoming standard-of-care for sick newborns.

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Scientists Set New World Record for Fastest Human Whole Genome Sequencing

Boston researchers sequenced a full human genome in record time, under four hours. The advance could speed life-saving diagnoses for newborns in intensive care. Boston Children’s Hospital, in collabor...

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Interesting study that looks at dynamics of B cell responses in the lymph nodes to vaccination against SarsCov2 (COVID). This shows that B cell responses are broadened in the node germinal centres enabling wider responses to variants 🧪 #ImmunoSky

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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.

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Ramin Skibba @raminskibba.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Does using generative AI, like ChatGPT, affect our critical thinking? Check out my new piece, where I sift through initial research and figure out what we know and don’t know. undark.org/2025/09/12/c...

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Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots?

Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is an excellent, point-by-point response to the claims being thrown around about mrna tech and covid #vaccines. I've heard some of these innacurate claims come from doctors and nurses! It's vital that folks with actual understanding of these topics speak up. theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...

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How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims

Chaos at the CDC and the sharp move away from mRNA vaccines has public health experts alarmed.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Someone needs to make the lab parody song, "While my pipette gently weeps." Seems like it would capture the current moment pretty well.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I fell down a rabbit hole one day following my curiosity about a surprising (to me) link between mental health and #eczema. Then I got a chance to take a deep dive. What I found: It's complicated. But some undaunted researchers are slowly untangling these connections. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Explaining the mental-health burden of atopic dermatitis

People with the inflammatory skin disease are at greater risk of neuropsychiatric conditions. Researchers are trying to find out why.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Unfortunately vaccine guidance from US health agencies is compromised for the foreseeable future. Expert led organizations are stepping up to fill the gap. ICYMI the vaccine integrity project presented reassuring data for the upcoming respiratory virus season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSuv...

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“We don’t really talk about the hygiene hypothesis as much anymore because we now understand that it’s not really about how hygienic you’re living..." Love this focus on farm animal interaction. "Hygiene hypothesis" dose not = sharing drinks, getting sick a lot, etc. bit.ly/4mOSkyA

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Allergies seem nearly impossible to avoid — unless you’re Amish

One Amish community living in northern Indiana is considered one of the least allergic populations ever measured in the developed world.

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Amanda Keener, PhD @amandabkeener.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

"The papers themselves often contradict the compilation’s framing." Truly! It's an at-best lazy, at-worst manipulative list. I am so interested in how some of the authors on the studies in this list feel about their work being used this way.

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