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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:

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Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · 22/05/2025

📢Today Pathoplexus announces the inclusion of 2 new viral pathogens: RSV (A & B) and HMPV. These respiratory viruses cause a serious health burden, particularly in infants & the vulnerable, & Pathoplexus aims to support sequence sharing to improve understanding & response. 1/4

Screenshot of the homepage of Pathoplexus, showing tiles to navigate to the supported pathogens CCHF, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire, HMPV, Mpox, RSV-A, RSV-B, and West Nile virus.

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Edinburgh Infectious Diseases @uoe-eid.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Delighted to see launch of ARTIC-2 project - colleagues @aineotoole.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and @rmcolq.bsky.social working with @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @articnetwork.bsky.social to develop low-cost pathogen genome sequencing 🧪🦠🧫 edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

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Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham

Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

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Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential. Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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sarah-c-hill.bsky.social @sarah-c-hill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!

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Jayna Raghwani @jraghwani.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Please share widely! We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the RVC to develop new methodology to infer epidemic dynamics from wild animal viromes sampled across changeable environments. Further details: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline Feb 9th

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Twas the weeks before Christmas when all through the lab, not a beaker was stirring, not even a culture-of-Pseudomonas. The meetings have lessened (kinda), the textbooks are closed.. & I found myself reflecting on how we get things done in academia (1/4)

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Congratulations to my dear friend & colleague Placide Mbala at INRB in Kinshasa! 🎉 He is one of Nature's 10 people who shaped science this year He is an incredible scientist and person who has dedicated his career to fighting diseases like Ebola, COVID, and #mpox. 🙌 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This doctor raised the alarm about a deadly mpox outbreak that went global

Placide Mbala is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.

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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Really exciting development from the @pathoplexus.org team, with a new curated database for mpox genomic data. Glad to see these rapid data sharing efforts taking shape, guided by consistent, transparent governance and an ongoing commitment to equity and fairness.

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Áine O'Toole @aineotoole.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

@pathoplexus.org now accepting MPXV genomes. I've played around with it's upload interface and it's genuinely so intuitive to use and has a lot of great error catching functionality!

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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Fabulous work with colleagues in Burundi, who took up Mpox sequencing to understand the situation AND are willing to share pre-publication, shows the expanding tree, and evidence for several introductions not taking off. In progress virological.org/t/preliminar...

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Preliminary analysis of 98 genomic sequences of MPXV clade Ib cases from Burundi, July to September 2024

Preliminary analysis of 98 genomic sequences of MPXV clade Ib cases from Burundi, July to September 2024 Introduction A large mpox clade Ib virus outbreak started in the province of South Kivu in th...

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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

A REALLY big flavi-like virus...https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.08.574764v1.full.pdf

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 20/12/2023

Just finished some new moon ornaments for my tree! Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, Triton, and the Moon. Hope you like them! 🐡🔭🧪

7 hand-painted glass ornaments in a plastic tray

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