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Erin Barnett

@eeb222.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in the Blanco-Melo lab UW | Fred Hutchinson | Seattle, WA Historical viruses!!!

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵
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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026! This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution. To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca @sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky
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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨 Save the Date! We’re thrilled to announce #SPAAM8 – a gathering of experts in ancient metagenomics research! 🌎 📅 When: June 22nd 2026 📍Where: Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 (and online) Stay tuned for updates and registration details!
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thank you for all your support, María!
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Thank you, Nicole!!!
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WHO @who.int · 18/12/2025
It’s #InternationalMigrantsDay Migration has always been a part of human history, with people moving to seek better opportunities and escape conflicts, violence and climate-related impacts.
Migration? it's part of human history.
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to be a part of SMBE this year! Submit your abstracts 🤩
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My comments with @cnn.com @reportergoodman.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
My comments with CNN
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up. Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We got this. But it is going to take a lot of coffee.
Picture of dozens of full coffee cups with each cup saying “You can do it.”
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
This is the kind of wall I like!
Cartoon showing a wall of vaccines around a virus to protect kids
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Proud of my partner in crime for finally publishing his undergraduate thesis work! Well done Jerome! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Ebolavirus transcriptional regulatory signal equilibrates between two structural conformations to affect VP30 binding
The transcription of ebolavirus (EBOV) genomes is a major checkpoint in the viral life cycle. Altering the transcriptional regulatory signal (TRS), an…
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...
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Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2025
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 SeasonTHIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned. “No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”. He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.
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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Wow. What a way to close out the scientific content of #SMBE2025! Qiaomei Fu takes us through ancient DNA's contribution to our understanding of #HumanEvolution over the past couple of decades, culminating in her revelation this month that we now know what #Denisovans looked like.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires
During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He co-founded the field of paleovirology and consi...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/07/2025
Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC
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Democrats stage a science fair of canceled grants to show what’s been lost
Partisan fight over Trump cuts heats up as Congress works on 2026 spending bills.
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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 @thevirologist.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Good cover @economist.com
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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding" Meanwhile, private foundations:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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Tamanash Bhattacharya @tamanash.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Our study exploring the evolutionary mechanism of alphavirus opal codon retention is now online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A conserved opal termination codon optimizes a temperature-dependent trade-off between protein production and processing in alphaviruses
Alphaviruses optimize viral polymerase production and polyprotein processing at distinct temperatures via a premature stop codon.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 21/04/2025
With a heavy heart, postponing my USA travels due to the current political situation. Still deeply value and support USA science, the brilliant researchers and their important work. I will miss my colleagues and hope to reunite when times change. Science transcends borders, even when we cannot. 🧪 🌎
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p... via @statnews.com
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Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...
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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢📢One more day to submit your abstract to the Ancient Pathogen Genomics Symposium 🧬🦠🦴📢📢 Great program and community 💚 🔗 Details: liigh.unam.mx/apg/ 🇲🇽 ¡Nos vemos en Querétaro! 🌮🪅
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Well caring deeply about politics turned out to be a mistake. Time to instead become emotionally invested in a field where I’ll never be let down: sports
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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Seattle showed up to #standupforscience today. It has been really lonely in science lately. We've been facing flurries of changes, cuts, censorship, and all kinds of bad news and rumors of worse. And no clue what to do with all of it. 1/2
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Justin Gill @justin-gill.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
My message to those that aim to sow distrust in science & healthcare: You picked the wrong group to dismiss and discount. We do not yield to misinformation and lies! #standupforscience2025 @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
#StandUpForScience Empowered by my science community!
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Patrick S. Mitchell @psmitchej.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Joining colleagues and concerned citizens across the US and around the world today who are Standing Up For Science. Why? ✔️research creates cures ✔️science grows the economy ✔️for my colleagues, our trainees, and the future of research and healthcare ✔️because science is for everyone
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 06/03/2025
Science, research & public health face unprecedented attacks in the U.S. We stand with our American colleagues & support the Stand Up for Science call. Join the global march tomorrow, incl. in Paris! 🧪✊ 📍 March 7, 13:30 – Place Jussieu 🔗 More info: standupforscience.fr #StandUpForScience
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“We’re going to get it one way or another” -Trump on Greenland at the SOTU The rhetoric is clear.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So the Mexico-US-Canada World Cup is going to be interesting, huh
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A year ago today, my grandfather passed away. Truthfully, I don't think I have let myself fully grieve this loss. He was my biggest mentor and gave me a voice I did not know I had. Thank you for all the books on the histories of infectious diseases. Thank you for the adventures. I love you GPA.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/02/2025
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link nyti.ms/41yWNgN
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article)
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Patrick S. Mitchell @psmitchej.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hope to see you next week #Seattle. This isn't just for scientists. Science is for everyone. Biomedical research benefits everyone. @standupforscience.bsky.social March 7 12-3 PM Seattle Center
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Erin Barnett @eeb222.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Tell me why it’s a priority to cut UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children??? Infectious diseases like polio, HIV, and TB will rebound (yes even in the US) in the wake of program cuts abroad.
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WHO @who.int · 27/02/2025
#mpox remains a public health emergency of international concern The announcement follows the third meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox. The Director-General concurred with the Committee’s advice. More: bit.ly/4bgz4p3
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today is a devastating reminder that infectious diseases don’t care what your ‘beliefs’ are. Everyone is likely to be affected directly or indirectly. Serious challenges require serious people at the helm. Protect your loved ones. Educate. Advocate. The cost of not doing so will be too much to bear.
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Nature @nature.com · 25/02/2025
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Paleogenomics - María Ávila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🌍 Hello #AncientPathogens community! 🦴🧬🦠 APG's Preliminary Program is up! Registration waivers for LMIC trainees (thanks to Novogene & Twist Bioscience)! 🙌Abstract deadline extended! ⏳ 🔗 Details: liigh.unam.mx/apg/ 🇲🇽 ¡Nos vemos en Querétaro! 🌮🪅 Please RT!
Program for the Ancient Pathogen Genomics symposium between April 12-13 2025.
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