Nathan Grubaugh
@nathangrubaugh.bsky.social
Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Studies 🦟🦠 🧬transmission, evolution, and emergence. PI of http://dengue-lineages.org. Will sequence for 🍺. Lab website: https://grubaughlab.com/
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 "Deconstructing empirical fitness seascapes across scales of granularity" published in #G3 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) 1/2 The fitness landscape has been among the most influential instruments in evolutionary theory for nearly a century. But we often treat them as fixed and static.
The US owes the Pan-American Health Organization $135 million in past dues. Trump's budget proposal cuts funding for PAHO entirely, even though our contribution is 0.001% of federal spending. The result will be even weaker defenses agst measles, dengue & more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...
Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization
The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
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I'm excited to share a preprint that's been years in the making: the idea took shape during the COVID pandemic. Anecdotally, people would sometimes spread COVID at work but not at home, and vice versa. Why? One explanation would be if infectiousness is fleeting...
How bursty infectiousness shapes epidemic dynamics
An epidemic’s expected course is determined by the magnitude and timing of a typical person’s infectiousness — captured, in turn, by the basic reproduction number and the generation-time distribution....
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🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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
This is so important - allowing individual uses of data to be tracked as citations will be so useful for demonstrating impact and reach of genome data. When you use data from Pathoplexus, create a SetSet & DOI for the sequences used and cite it in your paper.
Pathoplexus@pathoplexus.org · 2w ago2/ 📄 SeqSets/DOIs now show citations! We've integrated with @crossref.bsky.social so you can see which scientific publications have used a SeqSet - on the SeqSet page *and* on individual sequence pages. Using seqs in a paper? Don't forget to cite the DOI! 👉 pathoplexus.org/about/citation
"Jamestown Canyon virus may not be an emerging pathogen in the usual sense. It has been here for centuries. The emergence is in our awareness of it." Such a great summary of our JCV work by John Drake!! Would highly encourage giving it a read! 🦟 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
A Virus That Predates The Republic Has Been Hiding In American Mosquitoes. Scientists Just Decoded Its History
A mosquito-borne virus circulating since the 1700s went unnoticed until genomic sequencing revealed its centuries-long history and unique two-cycle transmission.
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C.J. Peters, one of the legendary virus hunters of decades past, has died. In 2018, I traveled to his home in Galveston, Tex., where he told me jaw-dropping story after jaw-dropping story. He had an extraordinary brain and was hugely curious. Such a loss. www.statnews.com/2018/02/20/v...
The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules
A legendary scientist reflects on why he became so successful: He got out of the office — and away from bosses.
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We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org
STAND UP FOR YALE
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@yale.edu bows down to fascism. President MacInnis and the trustees show what it means to obey in advance. A sad day for my alma mater. What cowards. #VichyYale www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
Yale Seeks Trump Administration Deal as It Faces Sprawling Investigation
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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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Are you a computational immunologist or bioinformatician interested in impactful vaccine research? We're hiring a postdoc to join @psioxford.bsky.social work in vaccine immunology and evaluation, working on the ChAdOx1 Nipah vaccine. Please get in touch! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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It seems like it was a mistake to let Jon Scheyer coach the Spurs last night.
kind of appropriate for Duke to play in a baseball stadium given the number of blown saves they've had recently
Matt Norlander@norlander.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEWS: Duke and Michigan are going to play each other next season, just days before Christmas, at a Major League Baseball stadium, sources told CBS Sports. The game was supposed to be at MSG. A broadcast rights dispute forced it out of the northeast and down to South Beach. More details here:
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
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New preprint from us! 🦠 Clinical metagenomics is great for sequencing pathogens directly from patient samples but for some protocols sensitivity for RNA viruses lags behind bacteria & fungi. We have shown why, and how to fix it. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Library preparation strategy critically impacts RNA virus sensitivity in clinical metagenomics
Clinical metagenomics uses sequencing for culture-independent identification of pathogens directly from clinical specimens. While a number of protocols claim to be pathogen agnostic, sensitivity for R...
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IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models
Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih
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Could you power a house with the radioactivity from bananas? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! youtu.be/BnGqPxnQh9A
Could you power a house with the radioactivity from bananas?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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Eight Yale faculty members are among 252 leaders elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The new members will join previously elected Academy fellows in helping to “advance the common good.”
Eight Yale scholars elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The new members, who have made key contributions in a range of fields, join previously elected fellows in helping to “advance the common good” across the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.
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The global wildlife trade is driving the spread of disease from animals to people, according to a new study by Prof. Colin Carlson and colleagues. https://ow.ly/XJ8j50YLm7B
Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease From Animals to People
Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.
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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...
🚨 We're hiring! A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov
Postdoctoral position in mosquito population genomics at Institut Pasteur in Paris - Research
The Insect-Virus Interactions Unit is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the genomic variations underlying a mosquito’s capacity to transmit human arboviruses. Description Our resear...
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Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines
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Incredibly excited to see our work on Jamestown Canyon virus published in Current Biology!! I have grown with and loved this project for 3 years and couldn’t be prouder of the final paper 🩵🧬 Read it here to see how phylodynamics reveals JCV's complex life cycle! www.cell.com/current-biol...
