This seems…bad

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · yesterday

🤯🤯🤯 “Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job” A Big Pharma executive & lab leaker, what could possibly go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

We had a great pool of submissions for our first #asv2026videoabstract competition. Topics spanned basic to translational research. Participants were from all career stages, from undergraduates to faculty. There were so many great videos, and it was hard to choose just a few winners. 1/n

Today, after Plenary Symposium IV, we announce our #asv2026videoabstract winners! There were so many great entries and unfortunately we can't recognize them all on stage. We'll be reposting the winners and other entries here and to our other social media channels next week.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to get through this thing called #asv2026 Our Keynote speaker, Stephen Goff, kicks things off at 2:15 with “A Life with Retroviruses — Advances Driven by Technology.” Minneapolis, let’s go crazy. 💜

Global Scholar Satellite Symposium: Virology in One Voice #asv2026 1/n

Satellite Symposium: Prokaryotic Virology: Bacteria did it first: Innate Immune Systems against Phage Predation with Eukaryotic Homologs #asv2026 1/n

Satellite Symposium: Applied Virology: Research Experiences in Industry #asv2026 1/n

Satellite Symposium: Evolution and Ecology: Virus Evolution and Emergence Across Scales — Insights from the Field, Bench, and Model #asv2026 1/n

Satellite Symposium: Animal Virology: Methods and Concepts towards Understanding Dynamic Viral Processes #asv2026 1/n

Today's the day! Get your #asv2026 appetizer with the Satellite Symposia this morning before today's Keynote by Stephen Goff at 2:15pm.

The ASV VIRO committee is pleased to host Temple Grandin for a workshop on neurodiversity in science. Please note a small correction from the official program: registration is NOT required and dinner will be served! #asv2026

The ASV Communications Committee is thrilled to host Janet Iwasa for a workshop that integrates science and art to visualize viruses! Wednesday 7/29 at 11:30am, lunch is provided! 💜

Purple shirt ✅, old lanyard ✅, and ASV workout clothes ✅. It’s the #asv2026 essential wardrobe.

Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research (LRP-PR) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Facilitating Opportunities in Cutting-edge Science (LRP-FOCUS) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NIH Loan Repayment Program Notices have been published. There are 3 of them: Extramural Loan Repayment Program for Clinical Researchers (LRP-CR) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Monday 7/13 is the last day to submit your #ASV2026videoabstract and compete for $1000. Winners will also be invited to join the Communications Committee and broaden the impact of virology research everywhere! www.asv.org/comms-compet...

The submission deadline for the ASV Video Abstract Competition is just two weeks away! Submit by July 13! Details at asv.org/comms-competition

91 years ago today, Wendell M. Stanley reported the crystallization of tobacco mosaic virus. Stanley showed that viruses exist at the edge of living and non-living, and biology was never the same. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus

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inpreparation.substack.com/p/frances-ar... I love satire!

Frances Arnold Demolishes Alexi Lalas During Otherwise Normal Plenary

SAN DIEGO, CA—Nobel laureate Dr.

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“He wiped a tear from his eye. “You can’t make this up.””

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · last mo.

Perfect.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just start writing. My new post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

The #ASV2026videoabstract competition is live! More details below: www.asv.org/comms-compet... www.tiktok.com/@lovevirolog...

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TikTok video by LoveVirology

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“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Open Postdoc Position - Giant E3 ligases: mysterious mechanisms & non‑protein substrates. Interested? Join us to uncover how these molecular giants tag lipids, RNAs, sugars beyond proteins, on organelles and pathogens, to defend the cell. Details & Application here www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...

Our favorite protein, ANKLE2, is conserved from worms to humans. We know it’s essential for brain development, but we wondered what we could learn about its molecular and cellular functions by looking across ANKLE2 orthologs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sequence and structural alignments reveal insights into ANKLE2 evolution and function

ANKLE2 is an enigmatic protein with emerging roles in cell division, development, and virus replication. While ANKLE2 orthologs are present in all animals, its domain composition has evolved over tim...

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