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Priya Shah

@whatthefugacity.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Joe & Essie Smith Endowed Chair at UC Davis, and dog lover. Integrates virology and engineering to study virus-host interactions in shahlab.ucdavis.edu

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 1h
A searchable mapping between NIH study sections and program officers that doesn't suck. (Claude one-shot) sashagusev.github.io/po-study-sec...
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you discover something cool in cells, viruses probably did it first and did it better!
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GEValT @gevaltcrispr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Infectious transgenesis in arthropods
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the development of in vivo germline genetic editing technologies in arthropods, first pioneered by the Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
IMO, the solution should not be to browbeat people into an old standard, but rather allow people to wear whatever they want. If someone can wear ducky pajamas in public, you can wear tailoring in any cut, color, and material. As options open up, dress can then be a source of pleasure.
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Mart Krupovic @mkrupovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why did some #viruses evolve to be #giants while others did not? Our perspective piece on this topic with Eugene Koonin. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why did some viruses evolve to be giants while others did not? | PNAS
Viruses are ubiquitous mobile genetic elements that are obligate symbionts of cellular life forms and replicate exclusively within host cells. The ...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*clears throat* Baby Gaga
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Exclusive | Lady Gaga welcomes first baby with fiancé Michael Polansky
The singer previously spoke about wanting to become a mom someday.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Powassan Virus NS5 Antagonizes TYK2-Mediated Immune Signaling Pathways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Feeling this very much after sending a draft to collaborators. You’ll get there, babe. As I tell my trainees, a shitty draft is better than no draft. You can’t edit a draft that doesn’t exist.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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NIH Simplifies Grant Scoring To 👍 🤷‍♂️ 😂
BETHESDA, MD—The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would replace its 50-year-old numerical scoring system with a streamlined three-emoji format, in which grant applications will ...
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026
The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last night was a watershed moment for me as a parent. My daughter asked me for help debugging her Python code. As you correctly predicted, it ended in her hating my (correct) advice.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
States receive more funding because they submit more applications. I.e. there is not ZIP Code bias.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s completely legal to edit the horrible default charts provided by Excel.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
still slaps
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
To be paired with this excellent post from Jennifer Troyer - they are complimentary and this one provides additional context substack.com/@jennifertro...
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NIH Funding: What Does the Unified Funding Strategy Actually Change?
There have been substantial changes at NIH since the new administration came to power, and many of them have to do with how NIH funding is allocated.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a must-read for anyone interested in NIH. formernih.substack.com/p/nih-direct... NIH_Leadership™ held a session full of half-truths about the "unified funding strategy" while they and HHS continues to play politics with NIH grants. Chilling, but a call to action! @standupforscience.net
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NIH Directors Decide, Except When HHS Says No
A June 2026 Nature report revealed that mandatory reviews by top officials, checking for a list of 235 disfavored terms, have left hundreds of meritorious NIH applications in administrative limbo (Koz...
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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Our vole preprint is officially published in Cell Genomics @cellpress.bsky.social as part of the T2T special issue! www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Lead author @mabuelanin.bsky.social also built this amazing website that we hope will be a useful resource to the vole community: voles.dennislab.org 🐭
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Single-library chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of vole genomes resolve a species-specific duplication implicated in pair bonding
Abuelanin et al. combine PacBio HiFi with low-coverage CiFi proximity-ligation reads in a single library and sequencing run to generate contiguous, near-telomere-to-telomere, accurately phased diploid...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15/08/2026
It took nine years, a New York times bestseller for people to dig into his work enough to suggest that Dan Ariely & co manipulated the data on his landmark 2012 paper on dishonestly
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Fraudulent data raise questions about superstar honesty researcher
Dan Ariely denies fabricating data, but can’t produce records to clear his name
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Anne Whitesell @annewhitesell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” Author
A group of services, often connected to pricey college counselors, has arisen to help high schoolers carry out and publish research as a credential for their college applications. The research papers ...
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Holy shit. “the final overall impact score or percentile on which the categorization was based would not be released to any of these parties. “
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Ruth Huttenhain @rhuttenhain.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My lab at Stanford University School of Medicine is recruiting! We are looking for a postdoc at the interface of quantitative proteomics, structural biology and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Ruth Huttenhain | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's been 7 hours and 13 days, since you left #asv2026 For this #throwbackthursday we highlight some of our favorite #lovevirology trading cards from the #asv2026 Communications Table!
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Tom Buckley @tombuckleylab.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Over-the-top great department. Faculty jobs don't get much better than this if you're a planty person.
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s summer in Davis! That means it’s also time for the annual Shah Lab water gun fight! You might be asking yourself, is that a Shah Lab branded shield made from a plastic lid? The answer is 💯
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue: the K99/R00. Devastating news for the international research training community, who strongly contribute to US biomedical research. All will feel this great loss! www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
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NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This seems…bad
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We had a great pool of submissions for our first #asv2026videoabstract competition. Topics spanned basic to translational research. Participants were from all career stages, from undergraduates to faculty. There were so many great videos, and it was hard to choose just a few winners. 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Today, after Plenary Symposium IV, we announce our #asv2026videoabstract winners! There were so many great entries and unfortunately we can't recognize them all on stage. We'll be reposting the winners and other entries here and to our other social media channels next week.
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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called #asv2026 Our Keynote speaker, Stephen Goff, kicks things off at 2:15 with “A Life with Retroviruses — Advances Driven by Technology.” Minneapolis, let’s go crazy. 💜
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Global Scholar Satellite Symposium: Virology in One Voice #asv2026 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Satellite Symposium: Prokaryotic Virology: Bacteria did it first: Innate Immune Systems against Phage Predation with Eukaryotic Homologs #asv2026 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Satellite Symposium: Applied Virology: Research Experiences in Industry #asv2026 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Satellite Symposium: Evolution and Ecology: Virus Evolution and Emergence Across Scales — Insights from the Field, Bench, and Model #asv2026 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Satellite Symposium: Animal Virology: Methods and Concepts towards Understanding Dynamic Viral Processes #asv2026 1/n
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Today's the day! Get your #asv2026 appetizer with the Satellite Symposia this morning before today's Keynote by Stephen Goff at 2:15pm.
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The ASV VIRO committee is pleased to host Temple Grandin for a workshop on neurodiversity in science. Please note a small correction from the official program: registration is NOT required and dinner will be served! #asv2026
Information on Temple Grandin workshop at ASV 2026
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The ASV Communications Committee is thrilled to host Janet Iwasa for a workshop that integrates science and art to visualize viruses! Wednesday 7/29 at 11:30am, lunch is provided! 💜
Information on Janet Iwasa Communications Workshop for ASV 2026.
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Priya Shah @whatthefugacity.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Purple shirt ✅, old lanyard ✅, and ASV workout clothes ✅. It’s the #asv2026 essential wardrobe.
Picture of PURPLE and ASV tshirts, lanyard and suitcase
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research (LRP-PR) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-082: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research (LRP-PR)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research (LRP-PR) NOT-OD-26-082. OD
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Facilitating Opportunities in Cutting-edge Science (LRP-FOCUS) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-083: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Facilitating Opportunities in Cutting-edge Science (LRP-FOCUS)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Facilitating Opportunities in Cutting-edge Science (LRP-FOCUS) NOT-OD-26-083. OD
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I-75 Scientist @flscitriguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NIH Loan Repayment Program Notices have been published. There are 3 of them: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-081: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR) NOT-OD-26-081. OD
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American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Monday 7/13 is the last day to submit your #ASV2026videoabstract and compete for $1000. Winners will also be invited to join the Communications Committee and broaden the impact of virology research everywhere! www.asv.org/comms-compet...
Graphic comic describing benefits of entering the ASV 2026 video abstract competition
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