Kicking off 2026 the best way we know how: together! 🥐👑 Our annual Galette des Rois brought the team together, and Mori Yoshida claimed the crown for the 4th year running! 🎉 But the real treasure? These moments that unite us before another year of discovery. Here's to an incredible 2026! 🔬✨

Regensburg is a lovely place and a great Uni!

Today I made a small but momentous start to work in 2026 by changing a single number. I renamed the file “Papers to write and submit in 2025” to “Papers to write and submit in 2026”. Stay tuned for more file updates on 1st January 2027.

Novo Nordisk is hiring for 4 new positions! Individual job details below!👇 #ScienceJobs

Feeling festive? Why not deck the halls with @cvrinfo.bsky.social's papercraft #VirusSnowflakes and celebrate the science of viruses and the fight against viral diseases. Download for free: cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl... #scicomm #sciart #decorations

What a day! Another one flies the nest with a brilliant PhD defense. Congratulations Doctor @castellosanjuan.bsky.social ! I am so proud of you!!! #PILife #ProudMentor #PhD

So happy to be part of #ImmunoCambodia 2025! Magnificent setting, great Science. Master classes in the morning, art of grant writing in afternoon. Such a range of nationalities between students and instructors. What energy! Everyone is here to learn and to be inspired. #ImmunoEducation #IUISCourse

Tempted to uncover the secrets of mosquito microbiota? Join us! We're hiring! 👇

So happy to see this in print! Led by the brilliant (almost Dr.) @castellosanjuan.bsky.social, with the amazing guidance of @rubengonzalez.bsky.social & @jarednigg.bsky.social. We used to think persistent infections were harmless… but our latest work shows otherwise. Read it to learn more!

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

climate change - it's a thing. and it affects more than just the climate and weather www.science.org/content/arti...

This #WorldMosquitoDay, @salehlabparis.bsky.social is proud to be part of the fight against mosquitoes and the viruses they transmit. 🦟🔬 #ResearchForHealth #ScienceInAction Photo credit: our own Annabelle Henrion-Lacritick 👩‍🔬

Did you know that malaria used to be endemic in the UK, and that there are still several species of malaria-capable Anopheles mosquitoes in the country? Read more answers to #WorldMosquitoDay questions in this new @sangerinstitute.bsky.social blog post: sangerinstitute.blog/2025/08/20/h...

We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free) Through @GetGenome scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward. medium.com/p/why-you-sh...

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Smiling as I attend the @amersocvirology.bsky.social meeting in Montreal - my first as Chair of Virology at @pasteur.fr. The hall is packed with 1,600+ brilliant minds. Great to reconnect with colleagues and to see first hand so much emerging talent. #LoveVirology

Great project, great PI, and great team. Apply now!!! You won’t regret it.

congrats @sheilaroitman.bsky.social ! :-) Nice to seeing you celebrated.

Thrilled (and humbled!) to share that since today I am the Chair of the Virology Department at @pasteur.fr. Grateful to my colleagues for their trust. Now let’s push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! 🦠🔬 #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur

Congrats @geroldlab.bsky.social and all the best for the future!!! I am convinced the IVI will drive and shine under your direction! Cheers for many collaborations in the near future!

Great science yesterday at the @ibeidlabex.bsky.social meeting at ENVA at Maisons Alfort with fantastic talks from our guest @drrachellowe.bsky.social and many others! @salehlabparis.bsky.social @fernando-batista.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @anses-fr.bsky.social @inserm.fr @ap-hp.bsky.social

A pleasure to have @fernando-batista.bsky.social, IBEID’s grantee from @gloverlab.bsky.social , presenting his project on the dynamic relationship between Trypanosoma brucei and the tsetse fly. @pasteur.fr

Let’s move to TBEV pathogenesis and neurological outcomes using innovative mouse models with our Seed Grant laureate Caroline Manet. @institutpasteur.bsky.social

How to prime mosquito immunity with fungus? A potential strategy to reduce vector competence by Christian Mitri, group leader in Anna-Bella Failloux research unit. @pasteur.fr

🧬 Don’t miss the inspiring keynote by Manu Prakash about #frugalscience and #innovation, renowned biophysicist and innovator during our Adapting to Change conference 👇 @pasteur.fr @prakashlab.bsky.social @ibeidlabex.bsky.social www.labexibeid.fr/en/keynote-m...

Let’s start our 14th edition of the Labex Day with a keynote lecture by @drrachellowe.bsky.social on how to improve surveillance, preparedness and response to climate-sensitive disease outbreaks & emergences. @ibeidlabex.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @bastinlab.bsky.social @salehlabparis.bsky.social

conferencing in the woods 🤩 #TCTeAC @sheilaroitman.bsky.social @salehlabparis.bsky.social @helenajambor.bsky.social @itaiyanai.bsky.social

Grand opening of #TCTeAC @woodstocknightsci.bsky.social by @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @odedrechavi.bsky.social in #Prague Lucerna cinema.

... stay tuned ... 😉 #theconferencetoendallconferences

Less than 24 hours now!!! Can’t wait #theconferencetoendallconferences

Another one featuring @cassandrakoh.bsky.social from @pasteur.fr @salehlabparis.bsky.social talking about virus -virus host interactions in #mosquitoes. thenode.biologists.com/lipids-and-l... #infectiousdiseases #immunity #dengue #wolbachia

Blurring the lines between retrotransposons & viruses! sORF2 enables direct transmission of retrotransposons challenging our understanding of mobile genetic elements. #preprint @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social Lab #preLight from Ally Simpson & Alyss Humphrey! 👉 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/d...

🆕 Today, UKHSA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes collected in the UK. There is currently no evidence of wider circulation in birds or mosquitoes, and the risk to the public remains very low. 📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Stop for a second and try to imagine this: a heat shock protein relocalizes to the cell surface and mediates dsRNA binding and internalization! Intrigued? Read our newly minted paper in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congrats to all the authors and thanks to reviewers and editor!

If you're in the area and want take a look at ageing the other way around

Our paper is now published in its final form: rdcu.be/elV6u @biomedcentral.bsky.social @salehlabparis.bsky.social @merklinglab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr

Fungi can protect the environment, grow food and even develop new medicines. 🍄 But they can also cause disease. As climate change spreads pathogenic fungi to new places, more people worldwide will be at risk. Learn more in our explainer ⤵️ wellcome.org/news/will-cl...

colony), so I don’t know what to change. I need to use parafilm because it’s the only material I can sterilize. Any advice?

Mosquito people I have a problem: I am trying to blood feed mosquitoes using parafilm as a membrane, but the mosquitoes are not able to feed. They probe a lot (=they can sense the blood) but can’t really feed.. I’ve done this before and it wasn’t a problem (although mosquitoes were from another

Thrilled to receive @anrs-mie.bsky.social grant with @lambrechtslab.bsky.social & @retrogenomics.bsky.social! Making mosquitoes intolerant to arboviruses. Thanks @pasteur.fr, @inserm.fr & @cnrs.fr for support. Exciting times for #ARBORETRO project! Stay tunned.

It's published! The largest research work I've ever undertaken: Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz 1/x

Excited to finally announce this work which has been in the pipeline for 5 years: Layers of Immunity. Faustine et al. made a set of immune mutants covering 4 major immune modules in #Drosophila, deleting melanization (ROS), phagocytosis, and both Toll & Imd NF-kB responses. What did we find? 1/n 🧵

I made the jump over to BlueSky! For my first post I’m going to highlight a recent publication - a review of #mosquito pollination! A fascinating topic that, unfortunately, tends to be overlooked without direct data being collected. #mosquitoes Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Le mot du mois #Recherche 📚 Les travaux sur les gênes sauteurs offrent de nouvelles perspectives sur l'évolution et la génétique humaine, avec des applications potentielles pour le diagnostic et le traitement des cancers. swll.to/genessauteurs @insermpacacorse.bsky.social

Interested in doing a sabbatical at EMBL, at one of its 6 sites in Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg or Rome? Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July. www.embl.org/about/info/s...

Hey fellow Drosophila researchers - if you haven't heard, the UMGC is offering ultra low-cost genome sequencing! See here to learn more: z.umn.edu/UMGC-MOSS #Dros25

Today we released Dfam 3.9 with many new community submissions and the result of a thorough curation and update of the Drosophila Melanogaster library. www.dfam.org (release notes: www.dfam.org/releases/Dfa...)

Here we go again!!! Thanks to @rubengonzalez.bsky.social a brilliant postdoc in the lab, I made my first baby steps into the aging field... Be kind and supportive 😀 I find the results totally exciting! and so much to do now! #ProudPI #LoveVirology

For #IWD2025, the men from @salehlabparis.bsky.social share #ForAllWomenAndGirls: We celebrate women’s strength, resilience, and achievements. Let’s honor those who fight every day, and stand united against discrimination and violence—equality is a right, and together we can build a fairer world.