Experts are getting chronic fatigue syndrome from having to explain that hantavirus is NOT Covid 2.0

My ANDV #Hantavirus @nextstrain.org phylogenies now pull directly from @pathoplexus.org to incorporate all seqs I'll continue to improve them, & will keep them updated Change the Tip Labels in the left-hand menu. You can see links to all builds, plus tanglegrams at: nextstrain.org/groups/hodcr...

Fantastic to see expert-curated and transparently governed pathogen sequence databases move so quickly to meet this moment.

Coincidentally, our paper on the first SNV genomes is out now in EID led by Grant Rickard and @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social More soon, including a massive synthesis effort on hantavirus and arenavirus surveillance that's been 3-years in the making... wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

What. www.cbsnews.com/news/thermos...

Nice summary of MTB surveillance in the United States and detection/response to large outbreaks. The US sees almost 10k domestic cases each year, and a number of large outbreaks or clusters. AMD Platform is the bioinformatic engine that drives this genomic surveillance. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

A lovely tribute to a giant in the field of influenza. She taught so much to so many of us. open.substack.com/pub/tomfried...

Lovely tribute. Nancy was an incredible public health scientist and mentor to so many in the field. She will be deeply missed. www.statnews.com/2026/04/25/n...

Sobering talk from Timothy Walsh from Oxford, UK on the rising antibacterial resistance even to the NOVEL agents For example we are already seeing growing reports of Cefiderocol resistance - and we have barely started using it. As usual we are being outrun by the bacteria #EscmidGlobal2026

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

San Francisco public health officials have confirmed the city’s first case of clade I mpox in an unvaccinated adult who was in contact with someone who had traveled internationally.

ICYMI: New online! Mpox emergence, epidemiology, biology, clinical features and control

NASA has much better swag.

Federal science programs rock.

The Artemis II crew emerges after a safe splashdown off the coast of California, concluding a historic journey around the moon. https://cnn.it/41qt7BW

Turnstile guy is my spirit animal

Amazing!

Still holding my breath.

Request for Information: Suspected mpox clade 1b cluster detected in Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan with neonatal ca... https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=e49d4837-a3fa-4a40-be0f-2c10b33ac9dd&eventid=d6fde3a5-ff63-484d-9dc6-9218e53e7baf&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost

Really cool.

Everything gas is fire.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has officially declared the end of the mpox epidemic Read more at: https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=2d6eb9e8-5390-422a-b16b-df49f5613a8b&eventid=12e5dd59-09db-45e8-b279-910c56a82d76&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost

Finding yourself at a Waffle House without a clear explanation of how you got there is actually a pretty common experience.

Interesting (to me at least!) to see what goes on under the hood of some of the newer frontier AI models — particularly those that can run off-network and with modest computational specs. Here’s the brand new gemma4 (e4b), reasoning through a clear request to violate bio security guardrails.

This seems weirdly pro-lice. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years.

Update on SARS-CoV-2 BA.3.2 in the US. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Timeline cleanse.

New research article Lineage dynamics of invasive Escherichia coli isolates in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2021: a retrospective longitudinal genomic analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

Our special bacteriology lab would nerd out so hard over this.

Thanks for the great response to last week’s job post. We have another opportunity to share. This one is a Senior Research Technician role at the University of Birmingham, helping us build the ARTIC primer foundry facility: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Tuxedo lab coat!?

Fascinating cluster of a devastating disease.

This is fantastic!

Decades of therapy. gizmodo.com/hasbro-celeb...

No notes. Have a happy and safe valentine’s day.

This seems on brand. apple.news/AS8JmvJ_zRLy...