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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Check out this amazing work on reassortment of H3Nx viruses from the Moncla lab!

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.

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Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists

The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Check out this awesome work on reassortment in Hantaviruses headed by @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social and @punkrockscience.bsky.social. Great privilege to be involved!

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In collaboration with Nicola Muller, and led by @lambod50.bsky.social, we have a new preprint out that's all about reassortment! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Using TargetedBeast, we built massive (9000 tips!) Bayesian phylogenies of North American H5Nx viruses, and inferred the host...

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Check out the preprint of a project I had the pleasure of working on with Nicola Mueller and Louise Moncla on North American H5 reassortment! Feel free to reach out with questions or thoughts!

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Amidst all the craziness in the world it's great to see folks like Dr. Legall providing critical perspectives on microbiology and the state of science. Please consider subscribing! substack.com/@noahlegall?...

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Noah Legall | Substack

I write about Bioinformatics and Microbiology. Follow along as I develop these ideas using AI/ML

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Dr Liam Brierley @liambrierley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

What makes bird flu spill over to humans? 4y funded PhD in the genomics and molecular virology behind zoonosis of avian influenza A virus, working with @tompeacock.bsky.social and others between Liverpool, Pirbright, and Uppsala! open to applications until next week!

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature

The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Our lab's first paper is out! Led by Jordan Ort, we developed NextClade datasets that enable rapid H5 clade assignment via NextClade. We deployed these during the start of the H5 cattle outbreak, and we finally published the paper in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

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Development of avian influenza A(H5) virus datasets for Nextclade enables rapid and accurate clade assignment

Abstract. The 2022 panzootic of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) viruses has led to unprecedented transmission to multiple mammalian species.

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Check out this cool preprint on Dengue epidemiology in Colombia! It was a pleasure to work with Ricardo on some of these interesting phylodynamic analyses!

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

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US Applicant Week

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 30/03/2025

Please watch. Powerful and chilling. 1: ‘Do not obey in advance.’ 20: ‘Be as courageous as you can!’

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S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

1/3 How long do you think it takes for highly pathogenic avian flu H5N1 sequences to be uploaded to GISAID after collection? How long should it be? In this commentary, we find a median delay of 228 days, with half the countries taking more than 6 months. rdcu.be/eeZGU @naturebiotech.bsky.social

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Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID

Nature Biotechnology - Lengthy delays in H5N1 genome submissions to GISAID

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm hopping on the market for postdocs outside the US... ...as soon as I finish some new analyses for a manuscript. Lmk if there are any good leads! I've been collecting random ones here and there, but it's more daunting now that my home country appears to be off the table.

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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In study led by @ckikawa.bsky.social & Andrea Loes, we use new assay to measure ~10,000 neutralization titers to recent influenza strains & show titers correlate w evolutionary success of viral strains Similar data could help forecast evolution for vaccine selection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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High-throughput neutralization measurements correlate strongly with evolutionary success of human influenza strains

Human influenza viruses rapidly acquire mutations in their hemagglutinin (HA) protein that erode neutralization by antibodies from prior exposures. Here, we use a sequencing-based assay to measure neu...

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Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Postdoc Opportunity Got a PhD in disease evolution, or something similarly hardcore? Know your way around phylodynamics? Good. We need you. If you’re up for real-world research getting hands-on with fieldwork, sequencing, and making sense of viral evolution, apply here: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25456.

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Postdoctoral research project: Phylodynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in complex ecosystems H/F

ContextHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses are rapidly crossing geographical boundaries, threatening poultry, wildlife and potentially evolving into global pandemics1,2. In South-East Asi...

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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Immune history shapes human antibody responses to H5N1 influenza viruses - Nature Medicine

H5N1 strain-specific antibodies are higher in older individuals and correlate more with birth year than with age, suggesting that younger individuals are potentially more likely to benefit from H5N1 v...

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Highly suggest folks read up about Lysenkosism because it feels like that is where we are heading.

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Check out some really cool work on canine influenza that was just published! Awesome collaborative team and looking forward to learning more about this very understudied pathogen!

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Timely work on data integration for flu spillover prediction from @haileyrobertson.bsky.social and collaborators: "Understanding ecological systems using knowledge graphs: an application to highly pathogenic avian influenza" 🔓 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Figure 2. Visualizing a knowledge graph ontology. (a) Representing subject–predicate–object (SPO) triples in a graph format. (b) The current data
ecosystem; each dotted box represents a type of tabular dataset that may contain many of the individual SPO triples. (c) A domain-specific ontology to
represent an outbreak. Nodes (circles) represent instances of a class, with the bolded text above or below as labels with the node classes. To the left or
right of each node are the properties of that node. (d) The full ontology and schema for the zoonotic risk knowledge graph. The graph schema adheres to
the ontology.

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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

stopover duration of waterfowl predicts HPAI infection probability in backyard poultry from waterfowl, but ttiming has no effect. virulence and immunity impact the transmission risk to backyard poultry. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ricardo Rivero H. 💻🧬 @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New research alert! 🚨 Our paper describing the first evidence of the novel H18N12 Flu in Albiventris bats is out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports. Huge shoutout to my friend and colleague Daniel for leading this work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Genomics of novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in bats, Caribe Colombia - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Genomics of novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in bats, Caribe Colombia

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

New paper led by Rohan Simkin exploring global patterns of zoonotic hosts in the wildland-urban interface. WUIs are a complex and expanding contact zone with many potential host species that are likely to be consequential for spillover transmission on a rapidly urbanizing planet. bit.ly/WUI-zdx

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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface

In the wildland–urban interface (WUI), where human settlements abut or intermix with wildlands, people may encounter animals that host zoonotic pathogens, which can spillover to cause human disease. ...

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Dr. July Pilowsky @pilowsky.me · 05/02/2025

Preprint out by me, Greg Albery, Barbara Han (@bahanbug.bsky.social ), and Amy Sweeny about how coinfection dynamics affect our ability to measure parasite/pathogen diversity. This research was funded by @viralemergence.org. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🧪🧵(1/4)

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Coinfection interactions systematically influence parasite diversity estimates in simulated host populations

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We get data *from* the WHO. Without this, we're flying blind with data regarding evolution of infectious agents globally, putting us behind if we need to develop vaccines & treatments, just for one aspect. This puts the whole country at risk.

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Call your senators! Do it today! It's better than wallowing

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Very excited to see this paper out in the world. Absolutely monumental effort by @gorkalasso.bsky.social et al. to predict which filoviruses are likely to infect which bat species. Check out the thread below for details!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Caroline Cummings @carolinecummings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hi! I'm new to blue sky, and I have a new preprint out! 🥳🥳 This work is the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The study was completed with the @viralemergence.org with support from @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, and Amanda Vicente-Santos ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩‍🔬 (1/5)

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James Hay @jameshay.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hello influenza enthusiasts! You may be interested in our recent publication linked below. We used multi-strain serology to figure out who got infected with which A/H3N2 influenza strain and when, allowing us to reconstruct epidemiological patterns back to 1968 stratified by time, age and location.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

New preprint 🦠‼️ How do you tell apart dengue, chikungunya, and Zika? Big findings in 19 years of pediatric cohort data: lots of afebrile cases of dengue and Zika, which would be missed by most case definitions, and look very similar; plus, big differences by age. 🔓👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Graphs showing clinical presentation % by age for dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, shown for 30 symptoms or case features

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Nathan Grubaugh @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you do dengue virus sequencing +/- phylogenetic analysis, check out our new system for classifying lineages. Led by Verity Hill, this was a large collaborative effort by dengue researchers from 14 countries. Paper -> journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Website-> dengue-lineages.org

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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great program by Alexey Markin et al.!

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Last week, a teenager in British Columbia contracted H5N1, the first human case acquired in Canada. The BC CDC and and Canadian Food Inspection Agency have released sequences from this infected person and domestic and wild birds sampled in BC, which we've just added to Nextstrain. A thread:

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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Have you been wondering what's going on with avian influenza in North America? Check out our lab's @nextstrain narrative on phylodynamic analysis of H5Nx evolution and transmission here! nextstrain.org/groups/moncl...

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