Very excited to let you know about the ICTV's new publication format for taxonomic changes and developments. These are summaries of all of the ratified changes in virus classification in the previous year summarised in this overview article: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The promised ICTV paper on species names and how they differ from virus names is now published in mSphere: “Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged” doi.org/10.1128/msph...

Extraordinary and terrible, an eye opening summary of what's currently going on in US science by Paul Bieniasz: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar... Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...