New online! Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches

Infectious diseases do not magically disappear just because you stop tracking and reporting. This is dangerous. When diseases spread in silence, outbreaks go undetected for much longer and containment is more difficult. All of this means more avoidable deaths. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

ICE observers recording with phones are heroes, and are the reason we know the truth about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. In public health, we make observations by collecting and analyzing data. But RFK Jr. is taking the equivalent of our “phone”. Without data, he can lie with abandon.

Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social

🚨Job Alert🚨 Looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists. The postdoc will collaborate with world-class structural biologist Peijun Zhang to understand everything about HIV capsids and how they work via host interactions. Spread the word!

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

New online! Tick-borne viruses: discovery, clinical aspects, influencing factors and control

Our new paper is out in Nature 🎉. We show that m1Ψ in mRNA vaccines doesn’t just quiet immunity, it also directly enhance translation by reshaping ribosome dynamics in a sequence-dependent way 🧬 Full paper : rdcu.be/eY5gx

Nature research paper: Language model-guided anticipation and discovery of mammalian metabolites go.nature.com/4b1vrFk

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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....

Across scientific disciplines, US university departments are cutting the numbers of PhD candidates they plan to accept in the current application cycle, for students due to begin in 2026, according to a Nature news article. Some plan to pause admissions altogether. #Academicsky 🧪

"A river doesn't argue with rocks, it flows around them" Public health, Science and evidence based medicine much like a river will find a way to keep flowing during this time. Sad it's coming to this, but alternatives are important and needed right now. www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

I'm honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. As always, I extend my sincerest thanks to all my wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators, admins, and trainees who make this work possible. #MacFellow

Our most recent editorial explains why the @natmicrobiol.nature.com team attend conferences. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Its also time for us to start planning our 2026 travels, so if you are organising or attending any microbiology conferences next year, please let us know! 👇 #microsky

Check out our paper on intricate nested interactions between viruses and virus satellites of haloarchaea and their nanosized DPANN symbionts. Excellent collaboration with @deemteam.bsky.social, @anagtz.bsky.social and Michail Yakimov Free access link: rdcu.be/eLtCH 🧵 by @yifanzhou.bsky.social 👇

New pro/con perspective piece by @drneilstone.bsky.social & yours truly Joining the X-odus: Contrasting perspectives on whether infection specialists should leave X (formerly Twitter) That I'm sharing it here belies where I stand on the issue www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295... #IDSky

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meet our virology editor Julie Tai-Schmiedel at the Keystone meeting “Predicting and Responding to Emerging Viral Infections” next week! @julietai.bsky.social

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

ICYMI: New online! Fusobacterium nucleatum: ecology, pathogenesis and clinical implications

#Resource Sequencing the genome and microbiome of about 1,500 tick samples from regions across China revealed host–microbe associations in ticks that could have implications for controlling ticks and tick-borne diseases. #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky 🪲🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NewResearch HIV infection triggers transcriptomic remodelling and a quiescence programme via KLF2 and the p53 pathway leading to proviral silencing. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Editorial If you have ever been surprised by seeing an editor at a conference and wondered what they are doing there, this month's editorial has all the answers you need. #MicroSky #AcademicChatter www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ConsensusStatement A consortium of microbiome scientists discuss current sequencing data sharing policies and propose the use of a Data Reuse Information (DRI) tag to promote equitable and collaborative data sharing. #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky 💻🦠📄🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#News&Views Epstein–Barr virus is associated with cancer and implicated in autoimmune diseases. Three studies reveal desmocollin 2 and R9AP as receptors for Epstein–Barr virus infection, highlighting new avenues for targeted therapies. #MicroSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Perspective Estrela and Huang discuss nutrient starvation in the context of the gut microbiome, outlining what is known and highlighting key questions for future research to address knowledge gaps. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some keen Observations in Our October issue! 🦠 Cancer microbiome 🌊 Marine microbes in warming oceans 🌐 broad-range phages 🧬 genetically minimised Salmonella 🔧 Viral infection mechanisms 🧪 Oxaloacetate antiviral defence and more, here: www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

🎉 Congratulations to Max Kellner, former PhD student in the Penninger Lab, who was presented with the ÖGBMT Life Sciences PhD Award Austria. The award recognizes Kellner’s PhD research on how dangerous viruses emerge from natural reservoirs like bats. More: https://imba.science/3KiRYSN

A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data by The Data Reuse Consortium @natmicrobiol.nature.com

📢 A new collection 'Climate Change and Infectious Diseases' is open for submissions! A joint project with @natcomms.nature.com @nathealth.nature.com & @commsmed.nature.com, with @julietai.bsky.social as the lead editor for Nature Microbiology #MicroSky 🦠 More info: www.nature.com/collections/...

Savour the fine flavour of our September issue, featuring... 〰️Bacterial prions in phage defence 💊Antibiotics from archaea 🔺Spike complexes in Sabiá, Junin and Machupo viruses 🛡️Aggresomes and mRNA protection 🤝A call for early-career teams ...and more, here 👇 www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v...

Get inspired to scale the challenges with our August issue! Read about: 🦟Fighting malaria 🕹️Remote controlled probiotics 🍄Antifungal resistance 💉mRNA vaccines against bacteria ⚕️Yellow fever vaccine 🫧Archaeal ribosomes 🦠giardia-host interactions and more. www.nature.com/nmicrobiol/v... #MicroSky

Some really cool papers in this month's special issue that focuses on overcoming infectious diseases. #MicroSky

I have some BIG NEWS to share today! Today I begin my next adventure as Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!! (a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Tracking Bird Flu Through Poop 💩 In Places No One’s Looking @drleshan.bsky.social #BirdFlu #influenza #virology

Guess who's the coverboi for @natmicrobiol.nature.com this month? 💁 A huge shout-out to Dr Rachael Lappan for entrusting me to carry out the sampling for this incredibly cool atmosphere microbiome project on her behalf, & to Braydon Moloney for capturing this moment in Antarctica last summer. [1/2]

#NatMicroPicks With a vaccine being approved against Chikungunya, this study explores the global burden of disease and potential lives that the vaccine can save. 💉 #MicroSky #Vaccines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NatMicroPicks Vertical transmission of Clade Ib Mpox virus 👀 New evidence that clade Ib MPXV can be vertically transmitted, resulting in pregnancy loss or congenital infection #Microsky 🦠 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

💥 Couldn’t be more stoked our study identifying a completely new CMV virion surface complex involved in cell entry is now published at Nature Micro 🦠 H/T @paramyxologist.bsky.social + Lauren Henderson, Erica Ollmann Saphire Chris Benedict @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICYMI: New online! Building networks for biodiversity and food system transformation

“A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the NIH to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning — virtually, in their entirety”.” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"In a competitive academic world, building bridges instead of walls may be our most powerful tool to accelerate discovery and rebuild public trust in science." I'm very happy with this article piece! 🥳 www.the-scientist.com/science-thri...

I am so happy for the CDC folks who got their jobs back, but also just so angry at the complete incompetence that led to their unnecessary and thoughtless termination in the first place.

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump