Still open for applications until end of this month! @ukhsa.bsky.social

Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab@vibelab.co.uk · 2w ago

Does your PhD DTP allow 3-month placements? Excited by computing, bioinformatics, software dev? Interested in translating academic research into real world health protection? Apply to this UKHSA internship in collab with us on early bird flu pandemic warnings! gla-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/person...

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

PhD internship applications are open until 31st July!

Viral Informatics, Biostatistics, and Evolution (VIBE) Lab@vibelab.co.uk · 2w ago

Does your PhD DTP allow 3-month placements? Excited by computing, bioinformatics, software dev? Interested in translating academic research into real world health protection? Apply to this UKHSA internship in collab with us on early bird flu pandemic warnings! gla-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/person...

10 years since I first did science stand-up comedy!! (and I still did 1 or 2 same jokes in this new set) If you like this, come see Bright Club Glasgow live this Mon eve!! Only £5 with code BRIGHTCLUB: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/... #GlasgowScienceFestival @glasgow.ac.uk @cvrinfo.bsky.social

Bright Club Glasgow - Liam Brierley

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Science stand-up is so in right now - namely, in #GlasgowScienceFestival! How many ways you can probe bowels? Why did Hamilton's rival histori-musical fail? Find out at our special Bright Club show, Mon 8th June! Code BRIGHTCLUB for discounts! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/... @glasgow.ac.uk

📢 Registration is now open for the first UK Virome Forum meeting! This two-day event will bring together UK-based researchers using genomic approaches to study viromes. Whether you are investigating viral communities in soil 🌱, the human gut 🦠, or whales 🐋, this is your space!

Followed by another @vibelab.co.uk member Dr Jamie Herzig showing how to tease apart genuine 'host signatures' in viral genomes from phylogenetic signal, also with graph neural nets! #ViBioM2026 @evbc.bsky.social

Dr Haley Stone opening #ViBioM2026 showing our work to predict virus-tissue compatibility using graph neural nets! @evbc.bsky.social

Out now! We used exciting T-cell receptor sequences to show you can treat custom amino acid alphabets for kmers as another model parameter to optimise, giving better predictions. In future we could diagnose chronic disease or past viral infection just from a T-cell sample!🤯 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Sorry, coffee breaks where??

What is this, the Pokémon Global Trade System circa 2011?

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did you see the part where the prompt asked to detect negative language, and instead of using the Large Language Model Claude *literally fucking is*, it puked up a 2000's style forum regex of assorted cuss words

my gut microbiome:

a man is standing in front of a sign that says this is audrey

ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says this is audrey

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Michael Marshall@mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RFK Jr: "The advantage of glyphosate is unlike the other poisons, it doesn't harm organic tissue, but it goes after plants, not animal tissue. Your stomach microbiome is plants. And so, you know, there's, you know, it may contribute to the celiac disease and all these gluten allergies."

Hello all my fellow microbial ecologists who have suddenly found themselves transmogrified into botanists this week.

Michael Marshall@mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

RFK Jr: "The advantage of glyphosate is unlike the other poisons, it doesn't harm organic tissue, but it goes after plants, not animal tissue. Your stomach microbiome is plants. And so, you know, there's, you know, it may contribute to the celiac disease and all these gluten allergies."

Babysitting in the 16th century sounds great

If you want to forget about current affairs for a bit and listen to us make jokes about.. um.. current affairs, then, oh look I am doing some panel(?) comedy(??) in Glasgow on Saturday. www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com/events/the-s...

Sometimes you stumble upon a species where there must be a cracking story behind the name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard...

Bastard big-footed mouse - Wikipedia

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Five persistent “Zombie Facts” that should be allowed to finally die | Sean Slater 'Zombie facts' are myths, ideas and factoids that continue to spread long after they have been comprehensively debunked.

The Skeptic@skeptic.org.uk · 5mo ago

🦅 What’s driving the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) across Europe? Using machine learning and wild bird ecology, a new study from @L_Brierley & colleagues reveals a shift towards year-round risk in cold, low-lying regions of NW Europe. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild birds across Europe - Scientific Reports

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents a threat to animal and human health, with the ongoing H5N1 outbreak within the H5 2.3.4.4b clade being one of the largest on record. However, it rem...

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A study funded through a partnership with CSL Seqirus has been published in Scientific Reports. The research maps #BirdFlu risk across Europe using environmental AND wild bird data. Read more: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/study-u... @liambrierley.bsky.social #AvianInfluenza #H5N1

🎙️🤣 I wrote about why and how researchers should think about comedy as a way of public engagement via @uofgpe.bsky.social! There's a couple of routes to do this in Glasgow, and if you're interested to see how it works you can come see Bright Club TONIGHT at The Stand! linktr.ee/brightclubsc...

What do epidemic viruses and laughing at stand-up comedy have in common?

Dr Liam Brierley is a Research Fellow at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research. In today’s guest post, he talks about the value of using comedy as a tool for communicating r…

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I am ridiculously excited for this next set of Glasgow scicomm comics. This coming Monday!!

University of Glasgow@glasgow.ac.uk · 7mo ago

Bright Club is back! Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians. 📅 Mon 2 February 📍 The Stand, Glasgow Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4r0gxDX

Two weeks til 🎙️COMEDIC ACADEMIC🎙️time!! Feat. everything from how much you can electrically stimulate someone to the psychology of stroppy astronauts! Want to dip your own toe in or hear about scicomm-comedy training? Get on that mailing list! eepurl.com/jr69Zg 👀 also don't miss the discount code⬇️

University of Glasgow@glasgow.ac.uk · 7mo ago

Bright Club is back! Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians. 📅 Mon 2 February 📍 The Stand, Glasgow Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4r0gxDX

We've a computational PhD project available AI-DRIVEN DISCOVERY OF VIRUS–HOST MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... as part of the University of Glasgow's MVLS Futures Themes PhD Programme. Deadline for applications is this Monday, 12th Jan 2026. Please apply!

"[neurodivergent] behaviors .. need not be changed for properly functioning research environments and demanding conformity of autistic scientists is actively harmful to their mental health" Many important and stunningly relatable points in this piece. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

“Why can’t you be normal?”: an urgent call for social and institutional inclusivity of neurodivergent scientists in STEM workplaces | mBio

Autism is a neurodevelopmental phenotype characterized by challenges with socialization (1). Officially classified as an intellectual disability (2), the term “neurodivergent” (antonym: “neurotypical”...

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Spectra of mutation patterns across the influenza A phylogeny are informative of not just differential host adaptation, but differential tissue adaptation too!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Mutational spectra reveal influenza virus transmission routes and adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690773v1

Conservation, genomics, ecology, *and* bats all in the same PhD!

Bat Conservation Trust@batconservation.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇 Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter. Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Some things, like foxes, really are upside down in Australia

What makes bird flu spill over to humans? 4y funded PhD in the genomics and molecular virology behind zoonosis of avian influenza A virus, working with @tompeacock.bsky.social and others between Liverpool, Pirbright, and Uppsala! open to applications until next week!

🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on: 1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology 2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐 www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...