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Rebekah Honce

@rrhonce.bsky.social
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virologist that dabbles in immunology and ecology | assistant prof @ UVM | WVWC ‘16 & UTHSC ‘20 | ask me about being knighted in West Virginia | member AFT-AAUP Local 3203

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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Excited to present our recent minireview on all things of mice and viruses 🐁 🦠
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
~3,000 miles + so much food = summer roadtrip
Robert Webster’s stained glass of influenza spillover located at St JudePlate of fries, BBQ sandwich, and baked beans on a plastic green checked table cloth. A glass of sweet tea sweats in the background. Maple the dog walks through the 
 South Main Arts District in MemphisThe front neon sign of Ernestine and Hazel’s bar.
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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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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Latest read featuring Apple (also shoutout Crow Bookshop) Rating: 👻👻👻⚫️⚫️ 3.25/5 ghosts
A hand holding George Saunders latest novel, Vigil. There is a judgemental tabby cat in the background.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
2025 reading wrap-up and noticing I started and ended the year with cats 🐈
StoryGraph wrap-up 2025Collage of book covers read in 2025
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Looking forward to contributing to (and reading!) this collection in 2026 as part of the inaugural New Voices in Virology minireview collection! 🐀🦠 journals.asm.org/journal/jvi/...
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New Voices in Virology
Annual competition for early-career virologists to publish a minireview in JVI. Their minireviews will be peer reviewed & published in a collection.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When you've been in the cell culture hood all day and finally get to take off your gloves:
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Elise is great (can vouch) and Burlington is great (can also vouch)👇
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Looking if anyone has a CAT ELISA source as my go-to from Roche was discontinued. Currently doing some revisions and need this or a work-around to quantify CAT in a reporter assay. Any advice welcome! www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/produc...
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Enjoying(?) the snowy weather since it has finally warmed up from feeling like it’s below zero
Maple, a southern shepherd-lab mix dog at heart, gears up for a winter walk wearing her fashionable rubber boots and an orange puffer coat.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
2024 reading wrap-up powered by #Storygraph Favorite literary reads this year are Small Things Like These, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Never Let Me Go
StoryGraph wrap up showing my reading stats for the 2024 year
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
final (?) read of the year and got me over 10,000 pages 🥣
A hand holding up a red and brown book titled One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Proud and honored to be the inaugural Botten Lab Mario Kart tournament/holiday party champion 🏎️
A plastic champion cup sitting on an above desk shelf
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Took nearly 2 months to finish this book, mainly because I set it down for two weeks in the middle of Imelda’s section 🐝 #iykyk
A white female hand holding a light blue paperback book titled “The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray. The title is written in large hot pink capital letters and there is a small illustration of a bee on the cover.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Tree is up and Maple has decided that she is the gift.
A shepherd lab mix cozies in a tan furry dog bed underneath a scantily decorated Christmas tree.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
May have proved to myself that Boston is indeed a *very* walkable city with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social
Screenshot of Apple fitness step count reading 33,117 steps and 15.59 miles walkedView of the Paul Revere statue in sunlight with fall colored trees lining the sides and the Old North Church steeple against a blue skyOld gravestones in near rows, some with moss and lichen and others nearly toppled overJohnny Blue Skies aka Sturgill Simpson and his band playing with green and white lights illuminating a smoky stage
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Ryan Langlois @langloislab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Excited for my first bluesky post announcing TWO openings for tenure track positions in virology! I am chair of the search committee and with a new department head Mike Gale we are in an exciting building phase. Please share with anyone who might be interested: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Not so patiently waiting for the rain to subside
A lab shepherd mix named Maple is sitting on a dark green couch and solemnly looking out a window to the grey and rainy day.
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Dr John @drjohndev.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trust in Scientists 🧪 Public confidence in scientists edged up slightly in 2024, according to a recent Pew Research Study, but still remains 10 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels. The confidence rise is split along party lines (88% vs. 66%), but notable that Republicans edged 5% higher YoY.
2024 Pew Research Study on public trust in scientists.  The data suggests a rise of 3 percentage points YoY.
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History of Vaccines @historyvaccines.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📢 Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates for Heart Health Did you know? A study in Denmark found that simple electronic reminders focusing on the heart-health benefits of flu vaccines helped more people—especially heart attack survivors—get vaccinated. buff.ly/40Qbv3b #HeartHealth #PublicHealth
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More people, especially those with heart disease, get flu vaccine when heart-health benefits are underscored
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Just finished my first classroom visit with @skypeascientist.bsky.social and wow! the questions these 3rd graders asked were impressive. Highly recommend signing up as a scientist (and donating!)
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A good week to be a Catamount 💚💛
A college basketball gym with the Vermont catamount logo at half court. UVM is playing the Buffalo Bulls. A chilly night at the UVM soccer stadium illuminated by lights. Catamounts are playing UMBC in the America East semifinal game and go on to win in the second overtime.
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Jesse Erasmus @jesseerasmus.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list! go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Happy to be back at the old stomping grounds for WV Wesleyan homecoming festivities (and the highlight of Maple getting blessed by the Dean of the Chapel)
A slightly cross eyed taxidermy bobcat mounted on a piece of WV hardwoodA white woman in a tan sweatshirt and white man in a green sweatshirt kneeling in a grassy field and petting a medium sized brown lab-shepherd mixed breed dog
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Eeeep! y'all! My book is temporarily on Kindle Unlimited! GO GO GO THE RATS NEED YOU www.amazon.com/Pests-Humans...
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Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains , Brookshire, Bethany - Amazon.com
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains - Kindle edition by Brookshire, Bethany. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
UVM is searching for its first Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs Deatils: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37680735...
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Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs - Burlington, Vermont
The University of Vermont Assistant Dean and Manager of Postdoctoral Affairs Graduate College Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to m...
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
A little late on sharing this, but some final studies from graduate school finally over the publication hurdle #TeamFerret www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Diet-induced obesity affects influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics in ferrets
A diet-induced obese ferret model can elucidate mechanisms of influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
Glad to see this finally out as it was truly a labor of love in many ways…one of them being first publication with @rchrisskinner.bsky.social ❤️ rdcu.be/dE6i0
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Diet switch pre-vaccination improves immune response and metabolic status in formerly obese mice
Nature Microbiology - Diet switching from high-fat to standard diet before influenza vaccination affects the metabolic state of T cells, restores their responses and improves vaccine efficacy in mice.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
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What Happens When a Poor State Guts Its Public University
Do West Virginia kids of modest means deserve the humanities?
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Some memories from a very hectic October 🧬
Maple, a shepherd lab mix, enjoys a walk in the fall foliage on a rainy overcast dayCue Uncle Baby Billy: “Just two little country kids out here misbehavin’” Halloween outfits inspired from The Righteous GemstonesMaple and her kitty sister Nokona, a brown tabby, soak up some fall sunshine on the back of a tan couch. They have absolutely wrecked the pillows.The culmination of 10 weeks of work is just a few spots on an ELISpot plate 🥲
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Snuck away from NYIC a bit this afternoon to visit the Baseball HOF
Roberto Clemente’s plaqueThe uniform worn by Phil Coyne, legendary event staff of the PiratesExhibit highlighting the 1998 homerun raceBat used to record Clemente’s 3000th and final hit
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Looking for something to do today in Burlington, VT? Stop by Science on Tap at Burlington Beer Company tonight at 6:00pm! btvscienceontap.wixsite.com/science/even...
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Science on Tap - October 2023 | Science On Tap
Our October session will feature Andrea Etter, PhD, assistant professor of Nutrition and Food Sciences at UVM. Dr. Etter works on food safety and food microbiology, specifically with bacterial genetic...
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Excited for my first trip to the Upstate New York Immunology Conference in a rainy but still beautiful Cooperstown. Stick around for the last talk on Thursday to hear about the work in the Botten Lab @ UVM 🐱💚
A view of overcast skies above Lake Otsega from the pavilion at the Otsega Resort
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Opportunity for students interested in physiology and nutrition! (I can vouch for the guy 😅)
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Brian Wasik @brianrwasik.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Cheers to Yoshi and Jim Paulson for *stubbornly* working out a genetic background in MDCKs to best grow seasonal human H3N2s (and avoid egg adaptation). Extending N-glycan LacNAc branch length in SIAT1 cells is the winner. Influenza ViroSky ☣️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
2,000 miles in 5 days may be too many, but the pit stops were nice
Celebrating in TennesseeImpromptu hike at Buttermilk Falls State Park in Ithaca
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
Parents in Vermont version 3.0 = lots of sightseeing, home improvement projects and complaining that restaurants are too dark
Parents laughing about posing at Gardener’s SupplyAgain, laughing about posing in WinooskiAnd again, laughing about posing in BristolDistressed that the brewery had poor lighting
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
One of the worst things we could imagine as far as vaccine hesitancy in the pre-pandemic era was that it would get politicized. Once it becomes part of a political identity, it's so much harder to change minds--and that's exactly what happened, first with COVID vax and now moving to others.
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Rebekah Honce @rrhonce.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
First post here at the ~other place~ and latest pre-print from some PhD-era work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Diet-induced obesity impacts influenza disease severity and transmission dynamics in ferrets
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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