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@davidlrobertson.bsky.social

Viruses, evolution, computational biology & other stuff, David L Robertson @robertson_lab (in the other place) based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, the University of Glasgow.

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Stuart Neil@tetherin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fantastic article about the life and work of Bob Garry that highlights both the personal and scientific costs that the conspiracy theory industry has had on Global public health and the scientists who have dedicated their lives to fighting infectious diseases www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake

The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

bloomberg.com

Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 4w ago

In 2026, there is no longer any lab leak hypothesis you can state consistently with the available evidence. Despite this, it has been the dominant media narrative for six years. Read my new data-driven investigation: www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-med...

Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory

Gain-of-function fearmongering and blame gets the glitzy NYT visual treatment as Republicans weaponize the lab leak theory again in attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci

protagonist-science.com

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Delighted to be involved in this recent preprint led by our friends at @cvrinfo.bsky.social @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social @davidlrobertson.bsky.social Protein language models learn underlying mutation biases alongside fitness landscapes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Protein language models learn underlying mutation biases alongside fitness landscapes

Protein language models (PLMs) score the effects of amino acid replacements as pseudo-probabilities, which are widely utilised to map protein fitness landscapes. However, because their training data r...

biorxiv.org

Spyros Lytras@spyroslytras.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come work on exciting AI for biology projects in Paris!! 🇫🇷 Details and application below, deadline sept 1st!

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are very excited to be hiring the lab's ✨very first postdoc✨! Work on new AI technologies for decoding antigen protein evolution in a fresh research environment, at the heart of Paris 🇫🇷 Details & link to apply: research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd... Deadline: Sep 1st

Kristian G. Andersen@kgandersen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Important post on the ongoing Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC/Uganda. The clock appears to be fairly well-calibrated by now, even if a little slower than what we might have expected. Timing ~early-mid March and a bit of uncertainty re. 1 or possibly 2 intros. virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Conte...

virological.org

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Inaugural post! We are a brand new lab @pasteur.fr studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @spyroslytras.bsky.social below! 😁 www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

Predicting viral evolution with AI

Spyros Lytras is one of four young scientists selected in 2025 to lead new research groups at the Institut Pasteur. He has headed the “Antigen Evolution & Design laboratory” 5-year Group (G5) since Ju...

pasteur.fr

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UK research at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm, says British Academy head. Susan Smith urges next prime minister to commission review of higher education and research. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

UK research at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm, says British Academy head - Research Professional News

Susan Smith urges next prime minister to commission review of higher education and research

researchprofessionalnews.com

Mahan Ghafari@mghafari.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’ve posted a preliminary molecular evolutionary analysis of the current Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in DRC and Uganda, using 10 available BDBV genomes to reconstruct outbreak mutations and explore rate-conditioned tMRCA/growth estimates. virological.org/t/molecular-...

Molecular evolutionary analysis of the current Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in DRC and Uganda

Authors: Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg and Mahan Ghafari Note on data use This is an informal analysis and is not intended as a formal preprint or manuscript in its current form. The aim of this post is to p...

virological.org

WHO@who.int · 4mo ago

As of 27 May, a total of 906 suspected cases and 223 deaths among suspected cases have been reported in the #DRC. As of 29 May, a total of 134 confirmed cases, including nine in Uganda, with 18 deaths among the confirmed cases, have been reported across both countries. More: bit.ly/4wYz7jJ

Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus, Democratic Republic of the Congo & Uganda, 29 May
Mahan Ghafari@mghafari.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our two-part analysis of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak is now live, including reconstruction of the outbreak molecular clock dating of the closest known ancestors of the outbreak lineage. Part 1: outbreak sequence reconstruction and rooting virological.org/t/molecular-...

Molecular evolutionary analysis of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak

Preliminary reconstruction of the current MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak sequences Note on data use This is an informal analysis of currently available consensus sequences and is not intended as a fo...

virological.org