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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Need help! The most cost effective sequencing service for ready libraries for single-cell ATAC-seq? Share your best tips! Have money, just not lots of it. #sequencing #singlecell #atacseq

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Erittäin kannatettava aloite ja allekirjoitin

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Very few things in life are more boring than ice fishing.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Finland just won against Switzerland in Olympic icehockey quarter finals. This guy made the winning goal. Here he is giving an interview. Note the emotional range. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Been a busy few lonths so a bit late: new manuscript out from the lab! We created and evaluated healthy reference ranges for pediatric deep immunophenotyping, aiding clinicians diagnosing inborn errors of immunity. Great effort from 1st authors Elli & Anssi ❤️. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Evaluating Pediatric Reference Ranges for Extended Immunophenotyping from a Finnish Cohort against Published References - Journal of Clinical Immunology

Flow cytometric immunophenotyping of lymphocytes and dendritic cells, and functional lymphocyte mitogen response tests are used in the diagnostics of inborn errors of immunity (IEI), especially in ped...

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Today we got our new imaging system for automated spatial proteomics installed! Maria Semenova is already eager to image thymuses. Thank you @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social - we are excited to be the first users in Finland for the new system integrating imaging and fluidics. Funded by @erc.europa.eu

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

WE ARE HIRING 💥 Do you want to become our new project coordinator? More details on the University of Helsinki webpage. Application period until September 10th - be quick! 🧪🧬🦠🧫🔬https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-PROJECT-COORDINATOR/828168902/

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Adam Braithwaite @braithwaiteat.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Stimulating immune cells in vitro is a common experimental lab model. We profiled 150K blood immune cells treated with 11 different stimuli to compare the effects. The data are freely available for researchers. See the preprint for our findings and to access the data 🧪 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Unpaid advertisement for the Finnish 🇫🇮 tourism agency: if it is unbearably hot where you are now (like New York), come to Finland. It is nice and chilly at 14 degrees of Celsius (57 F) now. #chillescape

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Äidit huutakaa. Kehtolaulujen asemesta huutakaa. Huutakaa suoraa huutoa kaikkialla maapallolla yhteen ääneen. Naiset huutakaa. Pysäyttäkää liikenne, tehtaat, aseitten valmistus, unet. Seisokaa keskellä toreja ja teitä ja huutakaa.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

OK, everything is not done, I give up. It is not raining, garden needs tending, and today it is 20 hrs of daylight so must move my focus there. Hyvää juhannusta 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥! 🇫🇮

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In Finland 🇫🇮 we have this thing called ”everything must be done before midsommaren”. I have three days. Bring it on.

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David Usharauli @davidusharauli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I agree the thymus likely presents all key epitopes for T cell tolerance. But studies based only on transcriptional data without testing each mimetic cell’s role should be viewed cautiously and given lower priority. #thymus #tolerance #immunology

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Developmental trajectory and evolutionary origin of thymic mimetic cells - Nature

In mice, tissue-mimetic cells appear in thymus in two distinct waves, creating two distinct pools of mimetic cells, each expressing antigens characteristic of different cell types.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Teamwork makes the dream work! Kekäläinen lab participating to the #HelsinkiPride month (a bit late to the game but our office was under renovation). #PrideMonth 🧪

Team members raising the pride flag to our office door

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Found pinned to the notice board at Dept. of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki. Finnish academics supporting the good fight by Harvard University. The North Stands with You. 🧪@harvardcellbio.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Harvad T shirt and a note pinned to a notice board with text: We stand with our collegues against the trumpists’ attacks on freedom of speech and academic liberty. The trusth will prevail!

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Personal news: I have been appointed by the rector of @helsinki.fi to a tenure-track associate prof position in Clinical Microbiology and Immunology! My affiliations are with the Faculty of Medicine and HiLIFE, Institute of Life Sciences @helsinki.fi . Humbled and excited to start this new journey!

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Postdoc opening in Pia Dosenovic's lab at Karolinska Institutet, "B cell-mediated immunity with a focus on basic immunological questions related to vaccine development" #Immunology #ScienceJobs #ImmunoSky ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Postdoctoral studies in Immunology (scholarship)

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research? The Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet conducts research and teaching within immunology, inf

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

These times have proved that it is good to have something like Section 16.3 of Finland's Constitution: 'The freedom of science, the arts and higher education is guaranteed'.

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Tuure Kinnunen @tuurekinnunen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Interested in translational human immunology? We are currently recruiting a PhD student or a post-doc to work on an exciting project to to study immune changes leading to the development of type 1 diabetes. #immunosky #sciencejobs uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher, Translational Immunology

The University of Eastern Finland is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Doctoral Researcher/Project Researcher (Translational Immunology) position in Kuopio. The position will be fill

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

LLMs and open science are not meant to flood the already congested scientific literature with junk but should help us to be more creative. #immunosky #medsky 🧪 Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Low-quality papers are surging by exploiting public data sets and AI

Paper mills are also likely contributing to “false discoveries”

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Life of a Northener: in the winter you barely are alive, just doing the minimum and would preferably just sleep. Spring arrives and you have started 12 new projects at home and work, barely sleep and dig in the garden untill wee hours.

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a black banner that says we the north

ALT: a black banner that says we the north

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Majority of Finns does not approve of the planned tax cuts for the highest income percentiles. I disapprove the planned cuts even though these cuts would and will benefit me directly. I won’t work any more because of them. It is more important to me that my society is equal and supportive. 🇫🇮

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just in time for Eurovision. 🔥❄️ from 🇫🇮 dr. Sulo Roukka

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EFIS_Immunology @efis-immunology.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚨 Happening TODAY! Join us for the special #DayofImmunology 2025 Live Webinar 15:00–18:00 CEST 🗓️ Explore how the immune system shapes brain health + new insights in #NeuroImmunology 🔬✨ 🔗 Register now — immunohub.iuis.org/iuis/2024/we... @yefis-immunology.bsky.social @iuis-online.bsky.social

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Mikael Niku @mikaelniku.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Postdoc / MSc project available (8/12 months by 8/2026; welcome to apply more with us)! If you're interested in host-microbe interactions and (ideally) both wet lab and data, let me know! Example of our research - now working also with pigs and fish: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Impacts of maternal microbiota and microbial metabolites on fetal intestine, brain, and placenta - BMC Biology

Background The maternal microbiota modulates fetal development, but the mechanisms of these earliest host-microbe interactions are unclear. To investigate the developmental impacts of maternal microbi...

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Gather 'round Bluesky, while I tell the hoary tale of epidemic vs. endemic. How can it be that pandemic interventions that were vitally important in 2020 are marginally effective in 2025? Science will give us the answers! Follow me... 1/

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

My kid started his societal studies in school this year and study voting and the tenents of democracy. I love the way Finnish educators use the student council as an example how children can take part in decision-making. They also had their own communal elections. Good discussions with kids 🇫🇮

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hey everyone— @healthsciences.mcgill.ca is thinking of ditching X Their Bluesky account is still empty, but if we can rally some followers, it might help them make the switch. Give them a boost? Thank you!!🙏

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Julien Resseguier @julienresseguier.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🐠 Atlantic cod thymus. The thymus is a crucial organ of our immune system that ensure the education of T lymphocytes. Actin is in orange, nuclei are in blue. #art #sciart #science #scicomm #research #fish #immunology #microscopy #Marinebiology @uio.no @biovitenskap.bsky.social

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Democracy in action - we have local, communal elections this year. In 🇫🇮 we can vote in advance for several days before the actual election day. Everyone living in this city are eligble to vote, you don’t need to be a citizen, only parliamentary or presidental elections require that.

People queing to a voting station in a local supermarket.

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yEFIS @yefis-immunology.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

👉 Apply now for the Computational Immunology Summer School (July 28–Aug 6, 2025, Tartu, Estonia)! 👩‍💻 Hands-on AIRR data analysis, expert-led training, and cultural events await! 🗓️ Deadline: April 30 (Early-bird: April 15) Info & application: ut.ee/en/content/c...

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

T-cell-derived IFN-γ suppresses T follicular helper cell differentiation and antibody responses www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... @iannaconelab.bsky.social

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity in Europe, consider the EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship: ec.europa.eu/info/funding... I am happy to host if the human thymus, immunoregulation, myasthenia gravis or allogeneic HSCT are topics that interest you. DMs are open! ImmunoSky MedSky 🦠🧪

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today is the international day for transgender visibility! Important now than ever when there are significant polical forces limiting freedom for people to be who they are and live their life true to themselves.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Remember: Finland is the happiest country.

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Mel Vazquez Hernandez @melvazquezh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

What is up Bluesky! I'm an Associate Editor working at #PLOSBiology with everything related with #Microbiology and #Immunology Looking forward to all #science posts! Also, if you wanna book a meet-the-editor zoom meeting with me and talk about your work, just click scheduler.zoom.us/melissa-vazq...!

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Zoom Scheduler

Zoom external booking management

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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My Saturday morning coffee I must be the most trustworthy scientist ever, since I say fuck very frequently 🤣

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Frank Martela @frankmartela.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yesterday, President Zelensky’s delegation got a parking ticket here in Helsinki, just when he was speaking on the phone with Trump. This may sound like a small incident, but it explains why Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row: open.substack.com/pub/frankmar...

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Zelensky's parking ticket in Helsinki explains why Finland is so happy

President Zelensky’s delegation got a parking ticket in Helsinki. It is a symbol of what makes Finland such a great country.

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tomorrow @helsinki.fi we have the honor to host Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy and our own president Stubb. www.youtube.com/live/jJKVCgH...

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Europe Standing with Ukraine - March 19th | University of Helsinki

YouTube video by University of Helsinki

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WHO @who.int · 14/03/2025

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

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bioRxiv Immunology @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Coordinated changes in thymic stromal and hematopoietic cells that define the perinatal to juvenile transition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Eliisa Kekäläinen @eliisakekalainen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I need to use this algo. After all, I believe I have all my muumis in the valley.

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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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