Emma Hamilton-WIlliams

Even among healthy people, immune systems operate at different baseline levels.

In our new Cell paper, we show that these immune states are stable over time and are associated with the gut microbiome. 🧵
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#Immunology #SystemsImmunology

Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis @cincyresearch.bsky.social @babiesresearch.bsky.social @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don't miss out! Register for the IDS 2026 meeting in Brisbane, Australia. Early bird registration pricing ends 9 March 20206.
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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH.

Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs.

🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New—Autologous and allogeneic stem cell-derived islet therapy in three recipients with type 1 #diabetes and complete loss of endogenous pancreatic β-cell function pretransplant www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D
#FREE to read

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Human Milk, Infant Gut Microbiome, Infant Fecal Metabolome, and Child Blood Pressure This cohort study investigates associations of human milk feeding and infant gut microbes, including Bifidobacterium longum subsp infantis, with infant fecal metabolites and childhood systolic blood p...

New in @jama.com: "In this cohort study of 1324 Canadian children, we identified early-life interactions between human milk feeding and several gut microbes with respect to the infant metabolome and childhood SBP." #pediatrics #breastfeeding #microbiome #cardiosky
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Continuous ketone monitoring for people with diabetes: international expert recommendations on the application of a new technology The ability to reduce the risk of developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) remains a major care gap for people with diabetes, particularly those on intensive insulin therapy. The anticipated availabilit...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (#DKA) is an acute complication associated mainly with type 1 #diabetes, but can occur in type 2 & other forms of diabetes, & is one of the most preventable causes of morbidity and mortality for individuals with diabetes www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D #T2D
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And finally ... camps.
#IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

Medical Research Matters

Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly.

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Such a loss for the field

You asked, we listened! Abstract submissions for IDS 2026 have been extended!

Life gets busy and we don’t want you to miss out on the opportunity to be a part of this year’s conference.

NEW Deadline - Friday 23 January at 11:59 PM (AEST)
www.ids2026.com.au

Good news: there is still time to submit you abstract for the 2026 Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane

Abstract deadline extended to Friday 23rd January

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#type1diabetes

One week left to get your abstracts submitted for the Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane, April 2026!

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#type1diabetes

Abstract submissions for the Immunology of Diabetes Society - IDS 2026 are closing soon! IDS is the conference for #type1diabetes research in 2026...

Students and early-career researchers can apply for a travel award or a Rising Star award.

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Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.

The government can’t claim that medical research is a priority while failing to treat it as one. Nine in 10 leading researchers in Australia are missing out on government support for world‑class proposals, leaving exceptional talent uncertain about their future.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Type 1 diabetes is associated with impaired T cell effector differentiation and regulatory T cell dysfunction, both of which may contribute to immune imbalance and loss of self-tolerance
@natcomms.nature.com @adaptiveimmunity.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This scientist found a new trick of the immune system by digging through cellular rubbish Yifat Merbl is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

This is absolutely amazing. #Science 🧪

The proteasome, cleaving proteins into antimicrobial peptides. Biology is a amazing

“There’s something that we thought is so familiar and so well understood, and then boom — something totally unexpected and exciting comes out of it.” — Medzhitov

Super proud that my PhD mentor being awarded the #Burnetmedal at #ASI2025 in Perth, Frank Carbone and the discovery of cross-presentation, and its role in priming killer T cell responses, using his original lecture slides from late 80’s #classicfrank

Joint chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic profiling of human and mouse pancreatic lymph nodes uncovers distinct features of CD4 T cells in T1D @sciimmunology.bsky.social @vahedilab.bsky.social
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Are you interested in #type1diabetes research? The Immunology of Diabetes Society Congress in Brisbane, Australia is coming up fast. April 20-24 2026

Abstract submission deadline: January 16h 2026
Early bird registration deadline: March 9th 2026

www.ids2026.com.au

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AlphaDIA enables DIA transfer learning for feature-free proteomics - Nature Biotechnology An open-source platform for data-independent acquisition proteomics adapts predicted libraries to experimental settings.

Excited to share AlphaDIA's publication in Nature Biotechnology!
Our open-source DIA framework brings deep learning directly to raw MS data with feature-free processing, transfer learning for any PTM, and performance matching top tools.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

▪️ “There was a time when politicians did not use defamation laws. Most believed they had platform enough to defend their reputations... You & the govt you served in played a big role in changing that. Imagine the consequences.”
- Sat Paper Editorial ⤵️

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21849/...

As screening and early treatment for type 1 #diabetes become more widespread, the European action for the Diagnosis of Early Non-clinical Type 1 diabetes For disease Interception (EDENT1FI) consortium highlights the need for clearer, more consistent terminology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D

A new soft plastics recycling scheme is replacing Australia’s failed REDcycle. Will it mean consumers have to pay more? A consortium of manufacturers aims to fund the sorting and processing of soft plastics for reuse – but critics say it will pass costs on to consumers * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Almost three years after the collapse of the national soft plastics collection and recycling program REDCycle, the consumer regulator is set to greenlight an industry-led replacement scheme. But there are concerns product manufacturers and the major supermarkets will shift the program’s costs onto consumers rather than change their own behaviour of producing and stocking vast quantities of soft plastics that mostly end up in landfill. Continue reading...

A new soft plastics recycling scheme is replacing Australia’s failed REDcycle. Will it mean consumers have to pay more?

A screenshot of the landing pages of PubMed and Europe PMC.

🚨 The US government has stopped the funding PubMed, one of the most comprehensive databased of biomedical literature.

Try using Europe PMC (europepmc.org) — the European alternative to PubMed with 46M+ articles.

The segregation crisis in schools funding In the Albanese government’s first term, Education Minister Jason Clare observed that Australia has one of the most segregated education systems in the OECD. What is deeply shocking – though not surpr...

#JaneCaro comments on the absurdity that sees all taxpayers fund private schools while underfunding public schools
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Gift article

#Auspol failure #AusLabor fail

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Minimum effective low dose of antithymocyte globulin in people aged 5–25 years with recent-onset stage 3 type 1 diabetes (MELD-ATG): a phase 2, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlle... In young people with recent-onset, clinical type 1 diabetes, 2·5 mg/kg and 0·5 mg/kg ATG reduced loss of β-cell function, showing the potential of an affordable, repurposed agent, ATG, in a low and sa...

In The Lancet @thelancet.com:
Minimum effective low dose of antithymocyte globulin in people aged 5–25 years with recent-onset stage 3 type 1 #diabetes (MELD-ATG): a phase 2, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, adaptive dose-ranging trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #T1D

Prediction of progression to type 1 diabetes with dynamic biomarkers and risk scores Identifying biomarkers of functional β-cell loss is an important step in the risk stratification of type 1 diabetes. Genetic risk scores (GRS), generated by profiling an array of single nucleotide pol...

Prediction of progression to type 1 #diabetes with dynamic biomarkers and risk scores thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#T1D

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Video circa 2022....
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