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Daniel Hurdiss @danielhurdiss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited to share that our norovirus NS3 study is now online in Nature Communications! 🎉 These enzymes, found across an entire order of RNA viruses, have long been molecular motors in search of a function. We think we’ve uncovered their role. (🧵) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #virology #cryoEM

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Emmottlab @emmottlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

While Ed can’t make #Nido2026, the lab is well-represented by Max Erdmann, and @rebee.bsky.social ! They will be sharing some of the labs findings on coronavirus replication! Catch Max’s talk tomorrow (Wed) at 3:25, and Rebee’s poster C-0036

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British Science Association @britsciassoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We're hiring! The British Science Association is looking for a Grants and Learning Manager (fixed term until Dec 2027) to join our Grants Team in delivering The Ideas Fund. Applications close at midnight on Sunday 5th July 2026. All the details: www.britishscienceassociation.org/grants-and-l...

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Grants and Learning Manager

The British Science Association is seeking to appoint someone on a fixed term contract to the end of December 2027, to join our Grants Team in delivering The Ideas Fund, an exciting programme which lo...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New preprint out today lead by collaborators at Zürich!

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

How every day should start 😻🌞🌳☕️

Rebee and her tuxedo cat Todd sitting in the sun

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Reminded of someone trying to "train" LLMs to do "sorting", to prove LLMs can "solve problems". Not only a) are LLMs not reliable, but also b) sorting is a computationally easy to solve task, c) we have many efficient algorithms for it, and d) LLMs unnecessarily bloat the resource consumption.

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Forgotten my joy for tissue culture and audio books! Good job I just did three time courses back to back to remind myself 🤣🦠

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

what will it take for our universities to start abandoning genAI

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Valeria Lulla @valerialulla.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

🚨 New paper from the lab! 🚀 We explore “The dynamics and strategy of RNA replication in astroviruses”, now out in NAR Molecular Medicine. Many thanks to all co-authors and congratulations to David Noyvert on his first first-author paper🎉 doi.org/10.1093/narm...

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The dynamics and strategy of RNA replication in astroviruses

Abstract. Astroviruses are positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that cause significant disease across avian and mammalian hosts, yet their replicatio

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

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Clive McKimmie @clive-mckimmie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Happy to share new preprint is now on bioRxiv: "Ultraviolet exposure conditions skin to enhance arbovirus infection and mosquito probing" Led by our then PhD student now Dr. @ailishmccafferty.bsky.social this work asks how UV-exposed skin shapes mosquito-borne virus infection. (1/4)

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Baric, who is among the most-cited coronavirus researchers in the world, says his lab’s work played pivotal roles in helping companies bring COVID drugs and vaccines to market, saving millions of lives. “My payment for this is to be debarred?” he asks. “I’m being strung out for being a scientist.“ 🧪

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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding

HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

AI is coming up a lot in current day to day conversations atm. Naturally. Has anyone come across balanced publications/research about the impact of AI as a research tool? Researcher perspective? Changes in learning and education?

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Emmottlab @emmottlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

New preprint! Current T7-based MNV reverse genetics can be performed by co-transfecting plasmids encoding T7 RNA polymerase and vaccinia capping enzymes. We see a further 100-1000-fold boost in titres by incorporating CD300lf-expressing BSR-T7 cells into this system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that

ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning

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Emmottlab @emmottlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Congrats to Dr @stephenholmes.bsky.social on passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to examiners Al Darby and @mtrost.bsky.social!

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Fellowship application unsuccessful! First of many I am sure. Might be worth looking to leave Liverpool - if anyone in my network is looking for lecturers/junior group leaders. Hit me up. Virology, informatics, sequencing, RNA mods etc. 🦠🧬🧑‍💻

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

As much as my heart’s truest answer to the rhetorical question kicking off this thread was, “nope!” it’s an important read for those of us in the broader emerging virus research space.

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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This might be the thread that gets me to quit all together because what the actual fuck.

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We have landed at Festival of Genomics! 🧬 First stop at Alida Bio! One of the companies to keep an eye out for if you’re interested in RNA mods… and if you’re not. Why?! Also big thanks to Jerome for giving me the special alida tube stand 🤩 favourite colour and everything! #FoG26 #RNAmods

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The future is RNome 🧬 New publication out today summarising the ECR experience of the Human RNome consortium meeting in Frankfurt last August! Thanks to coauthors @bennetthenzeler.bsky.social @ramibechara.bsky.social et al for getting this across the line!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Conversations at the crossroads of the Human RNome project: a collaborative reflection by the RNome early career Researcher (ECR)

Published in RNA Biology (Just accepted, 2026)

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It’s happening again…. Used to be straight on this kind of message during the pandemic. Going back there is kind of difficult… how would you handle this… basically. Help. 🦠

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I'ah Donovan-Banfield @idb-virology.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The absolute highlight of my 2025 is now available on YouTube! Check out the "making of" mini-documentary and full performance of Antiviral Roller Skating at the @britsciassoc.bsky.social Festival earlier this year. My New Years resolution will be to do it all again in a different city! 👀

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 11/12/2025

In this Perspective, Ryan Langlois hypothesizes that antiviral genes are evolutionarily selected for their function at fever temperatures yet are commonly studied at basal temperatures, a potential blind spot in our understanding of antiviral gene mechanisms. rupress.org/jem/article/... #Virology

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Qiyun Zhu @zhuqiyun.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

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Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis - Nature Methods

Nature Methods - Scikit-bio: a fundamental Python library for biological omic data analysis

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Congratulations again to the excellent @idb-virology.bsky.social for this amazing science communication piece. Please go and watch the videos and keep the vision alive! Yes it is the viral lifecycle being explained by roller skaters…

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Jase Gehring @skyjase.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

big moves! so that's Parse -> Qiagen Scale -> 10X Genomics Fluent -> Illumina next-gen single-cell cell omics, capable of processing 10^6 to 10^8 cells i wonder if what the near term looks like - will commercial kits stagnate while the buyers rebrand?

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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸7x🩹🛡️ @gringene.org · 05/11/2025

Te Tiriti obligations don't disappear just because the government claims they're not necessary. He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi are the foundation on which Aotearoa stands, and continue to have legal authority. Without them, there is no kāwanatanga. www.archives.govt.nz/discover-our...

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PastelBio @pastelbio.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Identification of Capture Phases in Nanopore Protein Sequencing... arxiv.org/abs/2511.0... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint

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Ingrida Olendraite @ingrida.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min

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CLAE: A High‐Fidelity Nanopore Sequencing Strategy for Read‐Level Viral Variant Detection and Environmental RNA Virus Discovery

High-fidelity Nanopore sequencing offers a cost-effective, portable path to uncovering viral dark matter in complex environments—but suffers from severe read-length bias, low throughput, and limited ...

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 31/10/2025

🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇 Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex... #Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️

Photograph of mounted great false vampire bat (Vampyrum spectrum) against light green background in the collections of the Cole Zoology Museum (University of Reading). Its wings are fully extended and it has sharp teeth. It looks very scary.

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Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences @livuni-ives.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks. bit.ly/3KKlGQP #TeamLivUni

A news title card that reads ’First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika’ with an image of an aegypti mosquito on a person’s skin.

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Rebee @rebee.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Something not so sciencey… off to Barcelona next week to screen a documentary my partner has produced and I’m excited! Any Nick Garrie fans? 🎸🎥

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Roni Odai @rodai.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances ~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes

VAD is a Viral AlphaFold Database of protein monomers and homodimers from viruses infecting hosts across the tree of life.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 08/10/2025

Following recent decisions by pharmaceutical companies to scale back investment, the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is seeking written evidence on the competitiveness of the UK’s life sciences sector.

Image shows a background with the United Kingdom flag with a vaccine in the foreground.

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Luis Pedro Coelho @luispedrocoelho.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out! Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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APPG on Diversity & Inclusion in STEM @stemdandiappg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Our year-long project on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (#EDI) strategies in the UK’s science and tech sectors has drawn to a close with a new report exploring data collection, analysis and insight. Read our findings and recommendations >> www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/report-...

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Report highlights disconnect between data collection and action on EDI in UK science and tech sector

A year-long project on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategies in the UK’s science sector – led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diversity and Inclusion in STEM – has drawn to a clos...

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Is there anyone here at one of the universities in Wellington, NZ, who would want to host me to give a talk around November 10th?

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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🧬 Fresh RNA modifications newsletter out now: viral tRNA hijacking, hidden rRNA mods, dynamic Ψ, antibiotic resistance & more. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/rnamodif... #RNAsky #Epitranscriptomics #microsky #ribosome

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✨ RNA Modifications Newsletter – September 15, 2025

issue #3

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Antiviral Roller Skating @antiviral-rskating.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We are still buzzing from our show! Here’s some snaps of what you missed… in case you were wondering…. Huge thank you to the whole production team and the people who made this happen! @microbiologysociety.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @emmottlab.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social #BSF25

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