Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now out in @nejm.org : Between 2023–2024: Sixteen human infections with A/H5N1 in Cambodia. Six deaths. Most in children. All exposed to sick or dead poultry. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Our lab's first paper is out! Led by Jordan Ort, we developed NextClade datasets that enable rapid H5 clade assignment via NextClade. We deployed these during the start of the H5 cattle outbreak, and we finally published the paper in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:

Cambodia reports second fatal human #H5N1 case in 2025 in a 2 y/o child from Prey Veng province on Feb 25. Exposure to sick and dead chickens near his home. #Avian #influenza remains a serious threat. Strengthening #OneHealth surveillance and response is critical. #BirdFlu

Seems population immunity should be useful for forecasting flu, right? Using cross-sectional, age-representative neutralizing titers measured in the summer of 2017 in Philly, we find that the clade to which we infer the greatest susceptibility dominated the next season. Even more, we found...

Our article 'The episodic resurgence of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 virus' has been published in Nature. Please read the paper here: rdcu.be/doT6Y.

Really excited to see our perspective piece on the different ways Omicron lineages have evolved over the last 1.5 years is out now! Really nice collaboration between variant trackers and academics (including a lot of the Pango team).

Are you interested in SARS-CoV-2 evolution but struggle to recall the huge Omicron family tree (reminiscent of the Bible/Silmarillion: ‘HK.1 son of EG.5 son of XBB son of BA.2’) Check this gorgeous Sankey diagram in @UKHSA bi-weekly variant update 🤩 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Excited to see our investigation into the evidence that global sequencing data contains evidence of molnupiravir usage (including potential clusters of onward transmission) published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...