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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Honored that our latest study was chosen as Paper of the Week by IPVS. It was spearheaded by student Jonathan Shin with the help of great collaborators 😄

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

📢New job posting!📢 Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬 My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on! 1/5

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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Does anyone know of an immigration lawyer in Pennsylvania who may be willing to do some pro bono work for a student who is being detained by DHS? This student was finalizing their green card application and was taken a week ago. Please hit me up.

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Exciting news: Carla Saleh is now Chair of Virology at Pasteur! Congrats to Carla and all who will benefit from her exceptional leadership!

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What he said... ✊ Rage against the machine

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 15/06/2025

Good morning to those USA military personnel who are looking to file as a conscientious objector. You don't have to obey unlawful orders, and in fact you must not. There's a website for you. I hear the phone line is pretty tied up right now, because you are not alone.

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GI Rights Hotline: Military Discharges and Military Counseling

Are you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487. Call for yourself or someone you care about Free and c...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Just as every cop is a criminal And all the sinners saints

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 14/06/2025

The Autocrat's parade, by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

editorial cartoon that says happy birthday dear leader, and shows tanks, imperial troopers from Star Wars, and people throwing money at Trump

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 12/06/2025

Dogme: A nextflow pipeline for reprocessing nanopore RNA and DNA modifications pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40501581/ 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/mortazavilab...

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Here is the official posting for a faculty job in Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center! Feel free to DM or email with questions. roswellpark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Ext-RP...

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Assistant Member, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Title: Assistant Member, Pharmacology & Therapeutics Job Type: Regular Company: Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Department: Pharmacology & Therapeutics Time Type: Full time Weekly Hou...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My HPC team at UC Davis is hiring! Looking for an experienced sysadmin to help build and maintain clusters (hardware and software). HPC experience great, but if you’re an experienced sysadmin and willing to learn, please apply! careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucdavis/...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

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AlphaFold Unofficial @alphafold.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

AI can simulate millions of hypotheses in seconds, but only science can tell us which ones matter. We can automate analysis, but not imagination. The scientific spark is still, and always, human.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses. vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682

Job opportunity: Research Technician at VIDO

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Consequences...

The Geordi LaForge meme
The top panel says: "Your best university faculty are constantly being recruited by other institutions."
The bottom panel says: "Don't treat your faculty poorly."

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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The median number of Measles deaths among children in the US for the last 50 years has been 0. That's the benchmark. ANY more is a failure of policy. Bobby is currently a failed Secretary. You cannot yadda-yadda the life of a child that should not die.

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Eva Kowalinski @kowaeva.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Are you a postdoc ready for transition to an independent position? You connect infection biology with cutting-edge structural biology or multimodal imaging? Are you aware of such a colleague? I am seeking speakers for "The Next Generation in Infection Biology" microsymposium on June 6 2025.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/05/2025

We know we've been going in on some Star Wars rebellion quotes lately but this one really sings to how we want to fight. Gnight folks! This one by Rose Tico, in The Last Jedi

Image of Rose Tico from The Last Jedi, saying, "That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, but saving what we love".

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Terry Dermody and I wrote an op-ed about chronic diseases ("Make America Healthy Again"), the role of viral infections, and how virologists can help. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

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Terrence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer: To tackle chronic disease, turn to the virologists

Despite the United States being a global leader in many areas, Americans are not healthy. Life expectancy is lower than in other industrialized nations,...

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Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

🧪👩‍🔬🧠 I don’t know the cartoonist (and will credit when I know!) But this is exactly how I feel these days.

Black and white cartoon showing how reading news on your phone destroys your day

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Credit where it’s due, Jeff Taubenberger is a great choice for the head of NIAID. He’s been at NIAID for years & is a terrific scientist who has done pivotal work on influenza virus, most notably reconstructing 1918. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Researcher of 1918 flu virus takes over NIAID

Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It beggars belief that epidemiologists and modelers are actually having to do these studies. The legacy of the antivax frauds and schysters at HHS and NIH…. And the enablers in the press.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 24/04/2025

Wow! Amazing resolution at Northwestern “In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative‬ body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic‬ ‭ freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”

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Northwestern Faculty Vote to Protect Students, Safeguard Academic Freedom from Unlawful Trump Edicts.pdf

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Patrick Cramer @handle.invalid · 22/04/2025

Institutional independence and academic freedom are not national issues — they are global ones. I wrote this open letter to President Garber at @harvard.edu to express my support and solidarity. Let’s speak out together when science and its core values are under threat.

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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Yet there is a growing amount of scientific evidence that supports Zoonosis (animal to human transfer). This posting is just vengeance against Fauci and science. Therefore, I repost this article that I am proud to have co-authored. It's quite readable by everyone. doi.org/10.1128/jvi....

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The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence | Journal of Virology

On Monday, June 3, 2024, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a dedicated public health professional for over 40 years, testified volunt...

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Larry Miller, PhD @larrymillerphd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🧪 Hiring Alert--At last some good news!: 9 top Biotech & Pharma companies are hiring in Massachusetts, including Moderna, Takeda, Intellia, & more. Roles range from scientists to directors—remote too! Check out the latest openings in the Genetown hub. 🧬🔬 #LifeSciences #Jobs #Hiring #STEM.

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9 Companies Hiring in Massachusetts

Looking for a biopharma job in Massachusetts? Check out the BioSpace list of nine companies hiring life sciences professionals like you.

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Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

See the thread by @davidimiller.bsky.social‬ -- posted yesterday.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Is it really too much to ask media outlets reporting on invading Greenland & Canada to lead with "THIS IS WILDLY ILLEGALLY UNDER BOTH OUR NATO AND UN TREATY COMMITMENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO PART OF US LAW"? The normalization of this is wildly inappropriate & there is no excuse for it.

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Dan Udwary @danudwary.secondarymetabolism.com · 01/04/2025

Long shot that the right eyeballs see it, but whoever is scraping SMC for the last few weeks: I will literally give you the data. We don't think we're in any danger of imminent shutdown. You don't need to generate this many 404/405 error messages on my server. #secmet

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Who would have thought it? Oh yeah everyone. Except 50 senators.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy trans visibility day! Trans friends and colleagues, I see you and appreciate who you are.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Proud of this work, led by the amazing Jeannette Tenthorey (now Assistant Professor at UCSF), demonstrating the adaptive power of single indel mutations in host-virus arms races, but a little sad that this is the coda to her amazing postdoc in the Malik & Emerman labs. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

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Indels allow antiviral proteins to evolve functional novelty inaccessible by missense mutations

Tenthorey et al. compare the effects of missense and indel mutations on the acquisition of functional novelty by the rapidly evolving antiviral protein TRIM5α. They find that single indel mutations al...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Seeing personal stories about stuff like PhD cancellations due to illegal funding cuts and it's not much comfort but I hope you know some of us boring suits who don't know our way around a lab nonetheless consider these to be acts of piracy & privateering that warrant the traditional punishments.

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WHO @who.int · 14/03/2025

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

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Rajini Rao @madamescientist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Cutting funds for science and research will save you a penny on the dollar but may one day cost you a life that you love.

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Andrew (Andy) Broadbent @drandybroadbent.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Hi everyone, to counter the doomscrolling, I would like to put out there that I am looking to recruit a postdoc to start this spring/summer- preferably someone with prior virology experience. Please forward. Thank you! #virologysky #lovevirology #sciencesky umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

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Postdoctoral Associate

Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement: Andrew Broadbent, DVM, PhD, in the department of Animal and Avian Sciences at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, is recruiting a po...

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Gabe Starrett @starrett.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If anyone is looking for a lab technician/manager with nucleic acid isolation, library prep, and sequencing analysis experience preferably in the DMV, my former biologist is looking for a job. She was unfortunately terminated in Feb as part of the probationary employee firings. DM me for her info

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

👇 I'm not a fan of the "March of Progress" image, but... I'm willing to make an exception for this Banksy.

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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A massive loss to the virology community. Ann was an amazing scientist and mentor, whose service to UW and the virology community in general will be sorely missed. www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/a...

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Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D Obituary February 20, 2025 - Cress Funeral and Cremation Services

View Ann Carol Palmenberg, Ph.D's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

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