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Peter Simmonds

@psimmond.bsky.social
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Virologist, interested in virus evolution and innate immunity (and how they are linked). A member of the ICTV and striving to bring greater virus community engagement and understanding of virus taxonomy. www.utu.fi/en/people/peter-simmonds

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Peter Simmonds @psimmond.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Very excited to let you know about the ICTV's new publication format for taxonomic changes and developments. These are summaries of all of the ratified changes in virus classification in the previous year summarised in this overview article: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
microbiologyresearch.org
Virus taxonomy proposal summaries: a searchable and citable resource to disseminate virus taxonomy advances
Taxonomic classification of cellular organisms requires the publication of descriptions and proposed names of species and the deposition of specimens. Virus taxonomy is developed through a different s...
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Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The 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...
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Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged | mSphere
The 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...
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Peter Simmonds @psimmond.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Extraordinary and terrible, an eye opening summary of what's currently going on in US science by Paul Bieniasz: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
We are witnessing the destruction of science in America | Paul Darren Bieniasz
If we stay on this administration’s course, future life-saving medicines may never be invented
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Elliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Join 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...
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