Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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This is today's America on display. Ignorant, anti-science, anti-education, misinformed, disinforming, weak, bullying, without a functioning opposition, and divided beyond visible repair.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 7d ago

In his opening statement to the Senate Homeland Security Committee about the Covid pandemic, Dr. Fauci pointed to Sen. Rand Paul’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me” and his decision to publicly release the doctor’s personal journal.

Flu B viruses: why not H-something-N-something? [more flu, this time from 2019] virologydownunder.com/flu-b-viruse...

Flu B viruses: why not H-something-N-something?

Influenza A viruses are knonw as "H-something-N-something" but FluB, FluC and FluD viruses are not. Is it a global conspiracy or is the answer in the genes?

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Get excited :) PhyloSpec is coming! A shared standard + modelling language for phylogenetic models. Write a model once, run it across engines like BEAST X, BEAST 2.8 & RevBayes. Easy and reproducible. Built by @tochsner.bsky.social & collaborators (ETH Zürich, Auckland, LMU). phylospec.com

Klawitter & @alexeidrummond.bsky.social introduce novel and efficient methods for estimating the credible level of individual tree topologies using tractable tree distributions, specifically conditional clade distribution (CCD). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag141 #societyjournal #compbio

Bayesian credible sets for phylogenetic tree topologies with applications to coverage analysis and cross-model comparison

Abstract. Credible intervals and credible sets, such as highest posterior density intervals, form an integral statistical tool in Bayesian phylogenetics, b

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

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

We’re hiring!! Interesting in fieldwork and working with cute mice? See below for further information

📣 📣 📣 We’re looking for two field techs to support wild rodent fieldwork in the UK and join a collaborative team across RVC, Oxford, and Glasgow. NB: Candidates must already have the right to work in the UK. Full details: bit.ly/4pKY2nF Please share widely! 🐭 Video credit: Elise Ringwaldt

In new study led by @bdadonaite.bsky.social, we show many influenza HAs (H5, H7, H9, H1, H2, H3) can use avian or human MHC-II to enter cells. We then use novel combo of deep mutational scanning & cryoEM to define how H5 HA binds to avian MHC-II. Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

'Whole-genome sequencing of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues revealed that tumour mitochondrial and nuclear genomes are more closely related to each other than to their hosts or unaffected fish.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature

Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.

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In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

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

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

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...

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Lab account is official! go follow @antigenevo.bsky.social 👇👇👇 research.pasteur.fr/en/team/anti...

Antigen Evolution & Design - Research

Most pathogens have proteins on their surface which are recognised by our immune system and prime it to make antibodies that protect us from future infection. Vaccines contain these proteins to activa...

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Antigen Evolution & Design Lab@antigenevo.bsky.social · 4w 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-...

Deadline is this Friday, don't be shy to ask any of us about the opportunity at #SMBE2026

Susan Johnston@susanjohnston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

1/4 Excited to share our new preprint on phage genome editing: Targeted DNA nicking enables efficient, single-step and counterselection-free editing of bacteriophage genomes Preprint: lnkd.in/dv4g5kW6

So I build something fun for my book website. An interactive chronology with 330+ events that influenced the pandemic origin discourse; both scientific papers and disinformation campaigns. Check it out: www.lab-leak-fever.com/interactive-...

Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · last mo.

Ever wonder how the lab leak narrative ended up dominating origin discourse and public imagination despite being false? I plotted most key moments; papers, news articles, viral tweets, political statements on one interactive map. Watch the narrative actually form. 🧵 youtu.be/F2WANnGq6EI

Masters by Research at @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho... these are *funded* - covering home tuition fees, a research/training support grant and a prog of cohort activities. Lots of projects available (including one w/ me!) - pls share!

Important paper in Nature Health documenting transmission of Marburg virus through sex. Two women infected through condoles sex with a known male Marburg virus disease survivor. while this is well documented for Ebola viruses , this is a first for MVD. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Evidence for sexual transmission of Marburg virus during the 2024 outbreak in Rwanda - Nature Health

Two probable cases of sexual transmission of Marburg virus are reported from the 2024 outbreak in Rwanda, both following condomless sexual contact with male partners who recovered from the disease, bu...

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This started in 2019 as daydreamy PhD student musings with Tatsuya Araki. We're as excited as ever about germinal centers as a platform for experimental evolution. Many thanks to PIs @victora.bsky.social @matsen.bsky.social, co-1st authors Ashni Vora and Tatsuya, and many other key collaborators!

Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape

Antibody affinity maturation results from a somatic evolutionary process that takes place in the germinal center. A “parallel replay” experiment on germinal center B cells reveals the evolutionary for...

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On the plus side…ivermectin is actually a treatment!

Dave Baltrus 🦦@surtlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rumors on the street are that screwworm has been in the US for longer than a couple days and people just weren’t reporting bc of fear of triggering <waves around> (Decently sure there’s been at least one unreported case in AZ)

For the last three years, we have gathered ALL available Hantavirus and Arenavirus surveillance data. Today, we’re glad to share the largest database ever assembled for these viruses. We hope it helps address questions from the recent ANDV outbreak and guide surveillance.

David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/7 New #ecology preprint out. We’ve spent half a century searching for Arenavirus and Hantavirus reservoirs, but it turns out global surveillance is essentially just us looking under the nearest streetlight. It is decoupled from actual host biodiversity.🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...

340 dipteran genomes reveal the origin of Muller elements and sex chromosomes in Diptera https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.01.729285v1

I think I made it, y'all 🥲 A thank you gift from my student Aistė Židonytė (who's looking for a PhD in public health related fields!) featuring Changua, our trash goblin of a dog.

🌎 🧬 🖥️ logan-search.org the tool to query all SRA sequences (Dec 2023 snapshot) — just got major updates. Here's what's new. 🧵 1/12

The ARTIC Primer Foundry is now live and will soon begin shipping BDBV primers on request primalscheme.com/orders

Thanks to funding from the Gates Foundation - and all the great work led by Josh and Karthik in the lab - we have an opening for a postdoc position in AI and Data Science. Come join us here in San Diego and do some great science! ☀️🏄‍♂️🧗‍♂️🏜️🌵⛰️🌊. Learn more: andersen-lab.com/about/

About | Andersen Lab

Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.

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Introducing openRxiv Labs! 🔬 Growing from the strong foundation of bioRxiv & medRxiv, Labs is an experimental space for working with collaborators to push the boundaries of open scientific communication. 👉 Check it out and learn more: openrxiv.org/openrxiv-lab... #OpenScience #Preprints #Scicomm

Launching openRxiv Labs - openRxiv

Over the last thirteen years, bioRxiv and medRxiv have grown into widely used infrastructure for rapid research sharing in biology and medicine. The reliability and researcher-first values that have d...

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The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb... Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...

We had an amazing time at #ViBioM2026 last week in Vilnius 🇱🇹🤝 Researchers from around the world shared insights on virus #metagenomics, #phylogeny, protein & RNA biology, and #ML approaches. Huge thanks to all organizers, helpers, and our sponsors (GoVilnius, Viruses/MDPI, @febsopenbio.bsky.social)!

The Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh is a wonderful thing. And its version of Pooh himself is one of the great animated characters. The artists didn't take from Disney's version. They aimed for an "absolutely new bear" -- and they pulled it off. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-absolu...