Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started 790235557050
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzJonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Well, this aged well (like we all knew it would) 1263
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzBF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025From @danielrigden.bsky.social & @xosegb.bsky.social in an #Editorial in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...academic.oup.comThe 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collectionAbstract. The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue has 182 papers from across biology and neighbouring fields. Eighty-four of these papers describe n 086
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzBF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025From @elliot-bhm.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenData #Taxonomy #Proteomics #OpenScience #Genomics 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...academic.oup.comVirus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of VirusesAbstract. Taxonomic classification underlies all biological science and is the basis for comparative analysis of biological organisms and therefore our und 031
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I continue to be amazed at the imagination of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s mind, and thank the SF gods for his prolific output. I may need to retire simply to keep up with his forthcoming books (and catch up on the few I have missed)! 110
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere: “Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged” doi.org/10.1128/msph...nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.comVirus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged | mSphereThe International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV; https://ictv.global/) is a committee of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiology Societies that provides oversight and... 142
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar... Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 0107
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzKristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025A.M. - Oh, shit, China can science too? [US stocks crash]. P.M. - Fuck it, let’s halt all of science in the U.S [🤪😵💫📉… 🤷♂️]. Nice one. wapo.st/4gfgcHQwapo.stWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 07020
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is not just mere stupidity, it is a death wish for the world’s population: www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-com...cbsnews.comCDC staff ordered to cut off communication with WHOThe directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order. 020
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 12/01/2025We will be publishing a paper to explain the difference between virus names and taxon names. But this has been a decades-long battle. 210
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzPeter Simmonds @psimmond.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I know that Eddie and likely those following this thread are intelligent and reasonable biologists, but I don't quite understand this comment and the seemingly endless difficulty and misrepresentation in any discussion of virus species names here and on other sites. 241
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Thanks. Yes, we will look at doing that. The complication will be to return the results to a separate page. 100
Reposted by Elliot LefkowitzMart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Before this hysteria spreads any further, a graphical explanation of what ICTV does and doesn't do. None of the virus names have been changed or will ever be changed by ICTV (it's outside the remit). Only species names have changed. This has been explained so many times... doi.org/10.1007/s007... 2238
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Please provide specific examples of what can be improved. 100
Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The ICTV web site has an app, “Find the Species” that will provide the formal taxon name, given a common name: ictv.global/taxonomy/fin...ictv.globalFind the Species | ICTV 010
