In the last few days, I built a citation maps plugin for #Zotero to track how papers connect and cite each other. Thus, it can also suggest papers you might have missed and reveal the root of an idea. (Free and open source) Check it out and share! Feedback welcome 🙏 github.com/schulzedanie...

The lecture hall is packed already for the very first session (>900 participants registered!) 😳 Prof. Wendy Barclay is kicking off the scientific session with insights into Influenza virus host range. #gfv2026

🚨New Influenza Tool🚨 Interested in IAV mutations? Looking for markers of mammalian adaptation? Frustrated by converting between IAV numbering systems? The #Flu-MutationExplorer, a new tool from @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social and @royalvetcollege.bsky.social, is here to help: flu-gdb.cvr.gla.ac.uk (1/n)

Das IFG Berlin würde durch die geplanten Einschnitte von einem der besten zum möglicherweise schlechtesten #Informationsfreiheitsgesetz Deutschlands fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...

Nach Fördermittelaffäre: CDU will Transparenz beschneiden

Vor wenigen Monaten stolperte die Berliner Union über einen millionenschweren Förderskandal. Nun will die Landesregierung genau das Gesetz einschränken, das die Details zum Skandal ans Licht gebracht…

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📣Ihr forscht und arbeitet in einem richtig guten Umfeld? Euer Team ist einfach super? Dann bewerbt euch bis zum 01.03. für die Auszeichnung "Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2026". Gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de suchen wir nach inspirierenden Vorbildern! www.diejungeakademie.de/de/projekte/...

Pandemic Preparedness braucht Translation: Wissenschaft → Praxis. PREPARE-EU Workshop „Translating European Expertise to Pandemic Preparedness“ am 28./29.4. (EU-Projekt #PCR4ALL). Wir freuen uns über eingereichte Abstracts! Anmelden: www.helmholtz-hzi.de/media-center...

Are you doing a PhD or research Masters in Virology? Want to be part of a community of like-minded researchers from across the UK and Ireland? We're excited to announce the first annual conference run by and for postgraduate research students in Virology. Please sign up, and please spread the word!

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Registration for our 2025 meeting is now OPEN! To register for the meeting (£50 per person, includes buffet lunch and refreshments on both days) please use this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postgradua...

SAVE THE DATE! The 2025 Influenza Update Meeting will be held ‪@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on the 15th and 16th December - ‪@nicolerobb.bsky.social‬ is leading the organisation for this year's event. We hope you'll join us there - please repost! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Back from the “Emerging Viruses and New Vaccines” symposium in Geneva by @gcevd.bsky.social. Highlights: Martin Beer on zoonotic influenza, @firefoxx66.bsky.social on enterovirus evolution, @kischober.bsky.social on COVID‑19 hypervaccination, and David Heymann on poxvirus eradication. Great event!

The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread... 🧪 #IDsky www.gov.uk/government/n...

Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire

Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.

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What research is important to prepare and respond to #H5N1 influenza outbreaks? Join the WHO webinar TODAY at 13:00 CET as experts explore: ✅ Knowledge gaps & priority research areas ✅ Regulatory pathways for mRNA vaccines & novel approaches ✅ Therapeutic options Register now 👉 bit.ly/4iT0nrS

Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.

If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while. So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet? Story here, 🧵 to come: 🧪#IDSky

Why hasn’t the bird flu pandemic started?

Some scientists examining mutations found in H5N1 viruses fear major outbreak is imminent but others says pathogen remains unpredictable

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