New primate species. Congratulations to my YPM colleague Prof. Eric Sargis and coauthors. news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/m...

Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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New preprint out on bat (and human? 👀) filoviruses in Ghana, leveraging a decade of serological data across species and sites ⬇️🔓 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Serological evidence of exposure to filoviruses in bats and humans in Ghana

Filoviruses, including the likely bat-borne Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV), cause severe hemorrhagic fevers in humans. The 2013-2016 EBOV outbreak caused >11,000 human fatalities in Guine...

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Our lab website is updated with a new postdoc opening! This is a 2-year, in-person position looking at the relationships between climate change, pandemic risk, and policy choices over the 21st century. Please reach out (not on here)! www.carlsonlab.bio/join

Opportunities — The Carlson Lab

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@mayajuman.bsky.social is giving a seriously cool talk on using museum collections to detect pathogens @mammalogists.bsky.social

we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.

I barely understand immune systems, and it's my job... so how would you talk to an aspiring young scientist about them? Something we've had on the @viralemergence.org wish list from the start, now in Frontiers in Young Minds 🦇🧪 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Do Bats Get Sick From the Viruses They Carry?

When you think of bats, you might picture mysterious creatures flying around inside caves and drinking blood in the night, but bats are much more than that! Did you know that bats are the only mammals...

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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...

Hi all! The Brook lab is hiring a new lab manager, ideally starting sometime in summer 2026. Please submit a CV and cover letter to the linked application on our website to apply: brooklab.org/join. Application review begins on June 9 and will be rolling thereafter!

Join our next MEPA session! Maya Juman (@mayajuman.bsky.social, Cambridge University) will present "Museum collections expand the spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scope of known host–virus associations". 🗓️ Wednesday - May 6 🕒 3pm US Eastern Time #science #pathogen #virus #museumcollections

Really excited to finally share this preprint on using museum specimens @alaskamuseum.bsky.social to study the origins of borealpox in small mammals! 🦠🐀 🔓⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pandemics don’t start in hospitals. They often start in animals. That’s why university vet schools matter so much for public health and pandemic preparedness. I’ve written about the proposed closure of Cambridge Vet School and why it has national consequences. open.substack.com/pub/dannycha...

We created a database of all published paramyxovirus detection attempts in pteropodid bats! Lots of sampling gaps and avenues for future study ⬇️ Excited to share this PhD chapter with @danjbecker.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org, out last month in @plos.org 🦇🦠🔓 journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Paramyxoviruses in Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae): An open database and synthesis of sampling effort, viral positivity, and coevolution

Author summary Paramyxoviruses are a family of viruses that include the human measles and mumps viruses as well as emerging zoonoses like Hendra and Nipah henipaviruses. These henipaviruses spill over...

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Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🔬 Join us over pizza for our second @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term on 24 Nov, 12 - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building! Register to attend for free: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...

Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🦇🦠 New preprint - in a long-term effort led by the amazing @mayajuman.bsky.social, we've shown that the ML tools developed by @viralemergence.org let us efficiently screen museum collections for pathogens with pandemic potential 🎉🔓 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠