baltic v1.0.0 is live! Get it via pip or clone from Github repo. Now with documentation (baltic.readthedocs.io) & a gallery of tutorials & examples (phylo-baltic.github.io/baltic-gallery, still WIP). Huge thanks to @barney-potter.bsky.social for all the initiative & help along the way. #ViroSky

My lab is HIRING - we have an opening for a #postdoc focused on marine invertebrate symbioses & evolution (heavy focus on microbial -Omics and bioinformatics, but lots of fun fieldwork opportunities too!) Full position info here: www.biklab.org/join-the-lab Please help spread the word! #SymbioSky

Are you a potential Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Ecology or Evolutionary Biology? The School of Biological Sciences at Monash University is recruiting careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🚨VIROMICS WORKSHOP 2026🚨 Application is now OPEN for the 8th International Viromics Workshop, Oct. 14-16, 2026, in-person at Ohio State University. Application closes Aug. 7. Apply: forms.gle/pJFLDCNEBvAe... Full details: u.osu.edu/viruslab/vir... #viromics #viruses #ecology #workshop

New review out! At @annualreviews.bsky.social for Virology! Check out the summary thread below 👇👇👇

Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

First paper with the lab's affiliation!! ✨✨ summarising some of the cool concepts that the Antigen Evolution & Design Lab will be working on! Together with amazing collaborators @mghafari.bsky.social and @grovearmada.bsky.social www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

New preprint!! 🎉 A cool collaborative work with @copabio.bsky.social and Chase Beisel teams on the phage editing technology. @sarshad.bsky.social led the work from our side to validate & characterize the lib. #phage #phagesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work supported by: phagefoundry.org

Targeted DNA nicking enables efficient, single-step and counterselection-free editing of bacteriophage genomes

Genetic manipulation of bacteriophages is essential for interrogating phage biology and advancing antimicrobial therapies. However, current genome editing approaches can be inefficient, require multip...

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Congratulations to the #ViBioM2026 award winners! 🥇Best ECR Talk: Dr. Emma Harding, University of Oxford 🇬🇧 🥇Best Poster: AistėŽidonytė, Vilnius University 🇱🇹 Sponsored by Viruses (MDPI)🙏 Thank you to all the speakers and poster presenters!

🌟 Day 1 of #ViBioM2026 at Vilnius University 🏛️ with a warm welcome by Manja, Gytis, and Ingrida – we already feel at home! Excited to start a full programme of talks, posters, and discussions on computational approaches in #virology. #viralgenomics #datascience #virusevolution

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

New paper out today with @josephguhlin.bsky.social where we did penguin GWAS to better understand disease risk and found that these penguins represent three deep evolutionary lineages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Population genomics of yellow-eyed penguins uncovers subspecies divergence and candidate genes linked to respiratory distress syndrome - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Whole-genome data from 249 yellow-eyed penguins (hoiho) identify three lineages with high geographical and genomic divergence, and candidate gene variants associated with differential susceptibility t...

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Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Some bat alphacoronaviruses can exploit an entirely different receptor to enter human cells. This could lead to crossover events could be the first step in future epidemics, though we are not there yet and there would be many more barriers to overcome also. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells - Nature

Human CEACAM6, which is widely expressed in the lung, is identified as a receptor used by the spike proteins of Cardioderma cor (heart-nosed bat) alphacoronaviruses to enter cells.

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A new family of rolling-circle replication endonucleases widespread in archaeal viruses and plasmids. This family is unrelated to the HUH superfamily Reps, but distantly related to the bacterial Rep_trans enzymes. @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Job posting - Junior Specialist at @ucdavis.bsky.social in the labs of Jay Stachowicz and Rachael Bay. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605

Jr. Specialist - Stachowicz/Bay Lab

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Have you heard of Jamestown Canyon virus? New work by @ebourgikos.bsky.social and @nathangrubaugh.bsky.social lab + friends explains the natural history of one of the rarest diseases in the United States, including a puzzlingly-slow evolutionary rate: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share! My lab has an open fully-funded PhD position at Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center in Lithuania. The PhD project will involve identifying missing orthomyxovirus segments from public sequence data. Applicants must hold an MSc by June & have bioinformatics experience. 1/2

Why forest conservation is also public health by Rhett Ayers Butler news.mongabay.com/2026/04/why-... highlight of of the teams work lead by Elise Paietta (ASU) and Rachel Johnston (Zoo New England)

Why forest conservation is also public health

In a lowland forest in southeastern Madagascar, what was missing proved as telling as what was found. Researchers trapping small mammals in the Manombo Special Reserve caught tuft-tailed rats in the i...

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Dan Weinberger and I @yalesph.bsky.social are hiring multiple research positions in microbial/virus sequencing and bioinformatics workflows with respiratory pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, RSV, and/or hMPV. See 👉 forms.gle/xpmzTtNqHFqK...

Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures? @oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky

🐧🌎🦉🧪💻 Tune in on Thursday, April 9th! Point Blue’s Chief Science Officer, Grant Ballard will be giving a virtual presentation on Adélie #Penguins: Their Past, Present and Future in a Changing #Antarctica. Learn more: shorturl.at/q7YkT

Thing I learned today: Seal Lice vector seal heart worms! I don't know of another louse species that vectors a nematode. Do any other entofriends? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AMP thought of as one-off in Drosophila may have moved around a lot…much like genes encoding antiparasitoid proteins fand pore-forming toxins in insects (see karger.com/jin/article/...). Extremely cool. A challenge is that short peptides present a very hard problem—discerning convergence from HGT…

Pore-Forming Toxin-Like Proteins in the Anti-Parasitoid Immune Response of Drosophila

Abstract. Introduction: Species of the ananassae subgroup of Drosophilidae are highly resistant to parasitoid wasp infections. We have previously shown that the genes encoding cytolethal distending to...

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Pleased to finally share this fun collab that began at #Ento23 @cedricaumont.bsky.social presented & I had seen NCBI annotated some cockroach genomes as "contaminated." Turns out NCBI & I were wrong (much more fun). Horizontal transfer of an #AntimicrobialPeptide across insects bit.ly/DrsHGT 1/🧵

Deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus, they can travel inside it to infect news. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus”🤯@viroscope.bsky.social @karimaj.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @cellcellpress.bsky.social

Viroscope@viroscope.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Trojan Horse is real, and it’s microscopic! 🐴🦠 Our paper is out today in @cellcellpress.bsky.social! We discovered that deltaviruses physically hide INSIDE helper viruses to sneak into new cells. And to prove it, we had to image them from every angle. 🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to report that we submitted a new manuscript this week. The manuscript is abour our work untargeting wastewater sequencing as a technique for monitoring viral pathogens from wastewater. @lennijusten.bsky.social 1/ medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Deep untargeted wastewater metagenomic sequencing from sewersheds across the United States

Wastewater monitoring enables non-invasive, population-scale tracking of community infections independent of healthcare-seeking behavior and clinical diagnosis. Metagenomic sequencing extends this cap...

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With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Congratulations to Sonomi Yamaguchi for her paper at @nature.com. Sonomi discovered Clover defense and explained how nucleotide signals control each step of viral sensing, immune regulation, and viral restriction – named for her beautiful "four-leaf" structures 🍀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Best consideration date: 3/14 Job Ad: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... Department: biology.umd.edu/people

I am excited to share our latest preprint - An evolutionarily divergent herpesvirus with a giant tail. Featuring symmetry breaking and genome annotation from structure using ModelAngelo. doi.org/10.64898/202...