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Daniel Goldhill

@influenzal.bsky.social
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Scientist. Lecturer in Virology at RVC. Likes experimental evolution, influenza, coronaviruses, desserts. Main life goal: never running a western blot.

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France
I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…
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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
baltic v1.0.0 is live! Get it via pip or clone from Github repo. Now with documentation (baltic.readthedocs.io) & a gallery of tutorials & examples (phylo-baltic.github.io/baltic-gallery, still WIP). Huge thanks to @barney-potter.bsky.social for all the initiative & help along the way. #ViroSky
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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have measured 47,851 neutralization titers of current human sera vs current influenza strains to inform vaccine update & analyses of viral evolution. New H1N1 strains (eg, D.3.1.1 + G155E) have reduced neutralization, as do some H3N2 subclade K descendants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Near real-time data on the human neutralizing antibody landscape to influenza virus in summer of 2026 shows antigenic advance of H3N2 subclade K region D mutants and H1N1 D.3.1.1 Sa mutants
Human seasonal influenza evolves rapidly, necessitating twice yearly decisions about whether to update the strains in the vaccine. To help inform this decision, we have been using high-throughput sequ...
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What a lovely email to receive this morning. Our perspective paper on the importance of microbial interactions for antibiotic resistance evolution was one of the most viewed papers in Microbiology (the society journal) in August. Shameless plug here 😉: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Microbial interactions as key players shaping the emergence and spread of de novo resistance mutations
Antibiotic resistance and the microbiome are two of the most prominent and highly active research areas currently in microbiology. However, these studies are commonly siloed. Research into antibiotic ...
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Chris Ruis @chris3ruis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We have a new preprint examining the mutational signatures of hantaviruses: biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that mutagens and host antiviral proteins are key factors shaping hantavirus mutagenesis With @andresfloto.bsky.social and @julianparkhill.bsky.social
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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Professor in Bacteriophage Biology & Evolution at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Closing date 1 October, with an expected start date no earlier than January 1, 2027, and a salary within the range of $200,000 to $270,000 per year. For details: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...
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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A fourth transmissible cancer this time in fish. The other known types are in dogs, tasmanian devils and clams. There will surely be other examples to be found in nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.
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Jason Nomburg @jnoms.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ad forthcoming, but I am hiring for a postdoc or staff scientist to advance related investigations of the virus-host conflict. This position is ~80-100% computational, but with opportunities for experimental work if desired. If interested, shoot me an email with your CV! Reposts appreciated! 15/15
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨New Pre-Print!🚨 Want to search for variation in influenza A virus sequences, but find the amount of data overwhelming? Wondering if new avian flu strains have signs of mammalian adaptation? The #Flu-MutationExplorer, a new online tool, can help (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
An image in the style of an Andy Warhol screen print showing influenza virions in a variety of colours. (Image credit Ed Hutchinson and Naina Nair, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Check out my minireview published as part of JVI’s New Voices in Virology collection on why translation shouldn’t stop at “bench to bedside.” Some of the most important insights on zoonotic spillover come from closing the loop between the laboratory and the field. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Going wild: prioritizing experimental models of rodent-borne viruses to decode zoonotic spillover and pandemic risk | Journal of Virology
Rodents have been a cornerstone of medical research since the 17th century, with their use formalized alongside the development of fancy mice into familiar inbred mouse strains in the early 1900s (1)....
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thanks to funding from the Gates Foundation - and all the great work led by Josh and Karthik in the lab - we have an opening for a postdoc position in AI and Data Science. Come join us here in San Diego and do some great science! ☀️🏄‍♂️🧗‍♂️🏜️🌵⛰️🌊. Learn more: andersen-lab.com/about/
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About | Andersen Lab
Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Question for @ukhsa.bsky.social folks: Is ENA the only place that UK SARS-2 genomes are available? If so, how does one go about finding recent sequences? There's no way to search. Zero seqs from UK since Feb 1. Hoping they'll be released via @pathoplexus.org & this prompts mass exodus from GISAID.
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Absolutely extraordinary work from Hui Gao, John Briggs and co @mpibiochem.bsky.social on the structure of the influenza matrix protein in situ, particularly in filamentous virions. It's beautiful, and answers questions I've been wondering about for twenty years www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A reconstruction of part of the M1 helix of influenza A virus (looking from the outside of the virion, down onto the top of the N terminal domain of M1), showing a helix of M1 protomers (blue) bound to phosphatidyl inositol (green), and a 'seam' of M1 protomers placed every fourth unit in a distinct conformation (pink) which allows them to bind to the C-terminal domains of the NA tetramer (yellow).
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Pathoplexus @pathoplexus.org · 09/05/2026
1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports the Andes variant of Hantavirus (ANDV). ANDV is the variant identified in the recent MV Hondius cases, & the Hantavirus variant previously identified as having occasional human-to-human transmission. pathoplexus.org/andv #hantavirus #hondius
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
First genome sequence from Andes hantavirus strain from ongoing ship outbreak posted on Virological: virological.org/t/complete-s... courtesy Swiss National Reference Centre for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Zurich
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Complete sequence of Orthohantavirus andesense virus: Swiss resident 2026
Posted on behalf of the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals and the Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich (Partner Laboratory Natio...
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚨New paper!🚨 Our study showing that H5N1 influenza viruses can remain infectious in unpasteurised milk for, basically, as long as you are likely to encounter that milk has now been published: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
A drawing of a Fresian cow whose markings resemble influenza viruses (image: Ed Hutchinson, 2025)
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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪
Leeks Lab is recruiting. We study social evolution in viruses. We're recruiting for two fully funded PhD or MSc positions, starting from September 2026. Evolutionary theory / experimental microbiology / viral bioinformatics. Experience optional / enthusiasm essential. asherleeks.com/apply
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Ulad Litvin @ulad-litvin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
1/ Use multiple seeds. Run predictions several times rather than relying on a single output - think of it as sampling different areas of conformational space. You'd be surprised how much predictions can vary.
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Project on developing ethnicity-stratified transmission models with me and Neil Ferguson. Please get in touch with any questions! Limited to home fees eligible students.
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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Excited to advertise a fully funded PhD with @socialinfluenza.bsky.social investigating how influenza virus evolution differs between different avian hosts (and how this impacts pandemic potential). Joint between @pirbrightinst.bsky.social + @cvrinfo.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Ben Hale @benhale.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🔬 We’re hiring in Zürich🇨🇭! My lab is recruiting a new PhD student in molecular immunology (interferons, autoantibodies & viral disease). Position is fully-funded. Starting date anticipated to be late 2026/early 2027. Further details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/IMVPhD2026 Deadline 1st May 2026.
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PhD Studentship in Molecular Immunology (interferons in health and disease)
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are recruiting 1-2 postdoctoral fellows to investigate the specificity of human anti-influenza virus antibodies, and to determine how these antibodies impact global antigenic drift of influenza viruses. Join our lab at Penn in Philly. Reach out if you are interested in applying! Please repost!
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Sergey Kryazhimskiy @skryazhi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It looks like there will be an open postdoc position in my lab soon. I'll be looking for someone with substantial wet-lab experience in microbiology / microbial ecology / evolution / physiology. If everything goes well, an ad will be coming. But if you know someone, ask them to reach out already.
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Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is my favourite cow flu story! Love to see it out. I contributed very little to this so all credit to first and senior authors.
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Do you like microscopy? Do you think viruses are cool? Do you want to advance our understanding of one of the world's most important pathogens? Come and do your PhD with myself and the fantastic @peacockflu.bsky.social, at @pirbrightinst.bsky.social and @cvrinfo.bsky.social 🤓🦠🐓
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FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
So pleased to contribute to this preprint on H5N1 spillover from birds to dairy cattle from the Moo Flu Crew, led by the excellent @jevp.bsky.social. We traced both B3.13 in Texas and D1.1 in Nevada and Arizona to look at how the virus evolves and what changed👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
First virus from aquaculture in humans! Hope no-one has to rewrite their risk assessments...
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!
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Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
1/ 🚨 Hiring: Postdoctoral researcher at Uni of Warwick working with Matt Keeling & Mike Tildesley #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪 ❓ Use modelling approaches to study historic spread of H5N1 in US dairy industry. Consider future outbreak dynamics for US & UK cattle industry. 📅 Apply by 23:55 UK time, 15 Apr 2026👇
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Research Fellow (111466-0326) - University of Warwick
Title: Research Fellow (111466-0326). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What love language is this? When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn
In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.
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AJ te Velthuis @ajtevelthuis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Transient RNA structures play a key role in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses! Great to see this collaboration with Mathis Funk, Mathilde Richard, Stephen Cusack, and others in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Polymerase trapping as the mechanism of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus genesis
Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) derive from H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs). Although insertion of a furin-cleavable multibasic cleavage site (MBCS) in the...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 11/03/2026
New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Looking to dip your toe into editorial waters? JGV is a great journal! Disclaimer: I am biased and a current editor.
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
1/5 Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬 Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome (Work with my student, Keno Strotjohann!) 📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl
A figure showing a 'Simplot' which plots the similarity of a genome to other genomes across a graph, with similarity on the Y-axis and the genome position on the x-axis. Many coloured lines show the sequences being compared - those closest to the top (similarity of 1) are the closest matches in different parts of the genome.
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John Tregoning @prof-tregoning.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
PhD opportunity in my lab. Working on RSV, genomics, viral escape and evolution www.imperial.ac.uk/infectious-d...
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Funding
Funding is often secured through Wellcome Trust or MRC DTP Fellowships. Further information about this and specific projects studying under the supervision of Departmental supervisors who have obtaine...
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🚨New Influenza Tool🚨 Interested in IAV mutations? Looking for markers of mammalian adaptation? Frustrated by converting between IAV numbering systems? The #Flu-MutationExplorer, a new tool from @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social and @royalvetcollege.bsky.social, is here to help: flu-gdb.cvr.gla.ac.uk (1/n)
A 3x3 grid of coloured images of influenza virus particles in the style of an Andy Warhol screen print. Image credit Naina Nair / Ed Hutchinson (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research)
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Daniel Goldhill @influenzal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... If your school is taking your child's class to the bat cave- do not sign the consent form! Very cool supplemental video 1 showing potential spillover routes.
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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Postdoc position on phage-bacteria coevolution available in the @aburmeister.bsky.social lab at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee #phage #evosky #MicroSky #VirEvol 🦠 🔬 #microbiology arburmeister.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
Ad for Postdoctoral Scientist Position in Burmeister Lab on Bacteria-Phage Coevolution. Full document available here: https://arburmeister.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/9/9/19990727/burmeister_lab_postdoc_position_2026.pdf
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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Help me out #MicroSky - what are your favourite microbial/viral genetics practical classes for undergraduates that can be run across just two sessions?
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Penny Sarchet @pennysarchet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My jaw dropped at the first paragraph. By Alice Klein www.newscientist.com/article/2511...
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Melatonin gummies as sleep aids for children: What are the risks?
To eliminate bedtime struggles, a growing number of parents have turned to melatonin gummies, but these hormone supplements are largely unregulated. Columnist Alice Klein digs into the evidence on the...
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🚨New Pre-Print🚨 Although H3N2 subclade K has multiple mutations in HA, neutralisation assays with pre-epidemic human sera show only moderate antigenic drift, and vaccines used in the 2024/2025 flu season induced cross-neutralising immunity www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
A data figure showing a phylogenetic tree of H3N2 with 2025-K highlighted, the structure of the HA trimer with mutations characteristic of K highlighted, and box and whisker plots showing % neutralisation of the 2022 H3N2 vaccine strain, and of 2025 clade K, by various human antisera
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Registration is open for the inaugural GRC conference in the Function of Evolving Systems. Aug 9-14, 2026, Waterville Valley. Truly stellar speaker lineup. Student/postdoc fellowships are available! Please come join us! www.grc.org/function-of-... @joybergelson.bsky.social
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Melissa Hart @melissa-natalie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Excited about parasites? Love watching movies? Come join our Wellcome-funded project! Parasitology friends, please do share far and wide.
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Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Beautiful work from @efodor.bsky.social and Jonathan Grimes' labs - the first full structure of the influenza A virus NEP protein, and a clear indication that its role in viral replication is more nuanced that first thought www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Regulatory hotspot on the influenza A virus polymerase revealed through the structure of the NEP-polymerase complex
Structural studies reveal how influenza virus switches between making new RNA genomes and exporting them from the host nucleus.
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Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Really excited our paper about how H5N1 rapidly adapted to cattle (and how these adaptations also increased its ability to infect cells from the human respiratory tract) is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Polymerase mutations underlie early adaptation of H5N1 influenza virus to dairy cattle and other mammals - Nature Communications
Avian influenza jumped from wild birds into dairy cattle. Here, the authors report that two mutations in the viral polymerase helped the virus to quickly adapt to cattle. Mutations increased the polym...
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Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Interested in high containment work on viruses? We have an opening at the Pirbright Institute, working on high consequence viruses of livestock and humans in the core CL3 team. isw.changeworknow.co.uk/pirbright/vm...
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CL3- Research Assistant
The Pirbright Institute The Pirbright Institute delivers world-leading research to understand, predict, detect and respond to viral disease outbreaks. We study viruses of livestock that are endemic a...
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our eLetter github.com/caseywdunn/s... responding to a recent Science paper was just posted. The paper found more genes with consistent support for sponge-sister than ctenophore-sister. We found several technical issues that, when corrected, reverse the conclusions and recover ctenophore-sister.
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