We are looking for an Assistant or Associate Professor to join us at the @utrechtvirology.bsky.social. Interested in building an independent research programme in a collaborative #virology environment? Please take a look and share with anyone who might be a good fit! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Folks in the #QVEU have been busy! We recently published two reviews in #JVI @jvico-eics.bsky.social! Check them out to learn more about the tools we use in the lab and the questions we are excited to pursue in the coming years… 🧵

Tomorrow! You can still register!

#PostdocRecruiting: My group at the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Postdoc in virology and structural biology. Please see more details here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Informal inquiries are encouraged, and see more lab info here: zunlongke-lab.org

Voting for ASV (American Society for Virology) president ends next week, and I only now learned that @szparalab.bsky.social is in the running! Moriah is one of the most caring people, especially for trainees, in our field, and I can't recommend her enough ❤️

NEE Focus issue on "Evolution in medicine", including a comment article from @alisonfeder.bsky.social and me.

Second- or third-year PhD student in biological or biomedical sciences? Get ready — applications for our #GilliamFellows Program open Sept. 1! Robust research support, incredible scientific community, & tailored professional development that can transform a PhD journey. 🧪 bit.ly/4bjdTmr

Thinking about a #virology #postdoc in academia, industry, or government? Register now for @amersocvirology.bsky.social #ASV365 webinar on finding the right fit for your postdoc! Register: albany.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Fill out our presurvey with your questions: forms.gle/TzK73NUWRUqZ...

A ribozyme mass extinction at the RNA-cellular boundary and its potential imprint on the genetic code https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.05.709948v1

CDC issued a Global Polio Level 2 Travel Health Notice advising enhanced precautions Tragic. We had polio almost eradicated, but disruption to vaccination campaigns due to COVID, global instability, defunding & vaccine hesitancy have led us here #VaccinesWork 🧪 wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notic...

🚨VIROLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS 🚨 Are you looking for a postdoc? We have a webinar Just for you We hope you come

Thinking about a #virology #postdoc in academia, industry, or government? Register now for @amersocvirology.bsky.social #ASV365 webinar on finding the right fit for your postdoc! Register: albany.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Fill out our presurvey with your questions: forms.gle/TzK73NUWRUqZ...

A reminder that we are actively recruiting a geneticist to the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine careers-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

Happy 38th birthday to the #LTEE! #BOTD in 1988. Keep on evolving! #science #evolution #microbiology

Postbac positions available in experimental and computational biology working on #virusevolution, tick-borne viruses and computational drug discovery! Reach out if you’d like to discuss projects in the #QVEU at NIH-NIAID. Please share with any talented undergrads or MS students you know!

Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com! 📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We compare the mutational tolerance of enteroviruses A & B across their full proteomes, mapping distinct host interaction strategies 🦠 and identifying mutation-resistant regions that could inform antiviral development 💊

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Excited to have this collaboration from #QVEU and @rongellerlab.bsky.social lab out in the world! After publishing our own #DeepMutationalScanning studies on two related viruses, we asked what we learn from comparisons of such datasets. The answer is a lot!

Hepatitis C virus replication fitness as a determinant of antiviral therapy outcome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.03.703674v1

Some good news. And on a Friday afternoon no less.

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

We're looking for a full-stack developer! Help us build the best open data platforms for pandemic prediction in the world. Probably a short-term contract, but if you're looking for a full-time gig, let's talk. Inquire within: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...

Registration deadline is fast approaching for the "Host adaptations to viral infections” Meeting May 10th-13th, 2026, at the CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France! JOIN US and the many amazing speakers! JOIN US! sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Went to school for 20+ years. Just spent 30 minutes trying to assemble a door lock incorrectly because I didn’t realize “dn⬇️” was actually “⬆️up”.

Post-doc job alert! Please share with anyone who might be interested! @amersocvirology.bsky.social #virology #virosky #evolution

My first #QVEU postdoc, William @williambakhache.bsky.social is off to start his group at labex-netrna.cnrs.fr/presentation... in Strasbourg, FR. We’ll miss his leadership and friendship, but I’m so excited to see what he’s got planned. If you want to book a ticket on this rocketship, reach out! 🦠🧪

My first #QVEU postdoc, William @williambakhache.bsky.social is off to start his group at labex-netrna.cnrs.fr/presentation... in Strasbourg, FR. We’ll miss his leadership and friendship, but I’m so excited to see what he’s got planned. If you want to book a ticket on this rocketship, reach out! 🦠🧪

Open rank search in MB&B in the areas of computational biophysics & biochemistry (purely computational or mix of wet/dry lab). Review of applications begins on 1/2/2026.

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... Out now in its ultimate form! Congrats to Nathânia and the rest of the team! 🦠 #virosky

Thrilled to finally share the magnum opus of my PhD that focuses on the genetic basis of evolutionary change! Specifically, we know we can map the genetic basis of a trait, but can we tell which genes will underlie the trait shift when it evolves? doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Great to see this exciting perspective by young evolutionary biologists lead by the amazing @mbrasovives.bsky.social out!

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

📖Latest from the lab: Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶‍♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An empirical approach to evaluating the prevalence of long-lived balancing selection in humans--and important limitations. Work by @hannahmm.bsky.social

I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.

Conrad Hal Waddington was born OTD in 1905. His “epigenetic landscape” is a diagrammatic representation of the constraints influencing embryonic development. On his 50th birthday, his colleagues gave him a pinball machine on the model of the epigenetic landscape. 🧪 🦫🦋 🌱🐋 #HistSTM #philsci #evobio

I want to do this PhD!!

Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳 Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence? 👇

New in ‘Virus Evolution’ from #QVEU! PhD student Jack Dorman used deep mutational scanning to measure evolutionary constraints on the Envelope protein of West Nile Virus in human, mosquito, and bird cell lines, doing a lot of work to put it into a structural context #VirEvol

National Guard giving out Halloween candy at the U street metro if you are interested!

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

We are searching for a lab manager! If you are detailed oriented, like southern california, HSV-1, sequencing and microscopy, please get in touch :)

🚨 Systems Virology Journal Club – 8th Series! 🚨 #BillSchneider and I are delighted to announce another round of cutting-edge talks in #SystemsVirology! 🦠💡 Join us and an outstanding lineup of speakers, starting Oct 30. Free registration: shiraweingartengabbay.com/systems-viro... 🔬✨

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪 careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

New #QVEU preprint! @williambakhache.bsky.social used our #EV71 mutational scanning library to dissect replication complex function with a collection of inhibitors against specific host and viral factors. Then used the data to validate structural predictions! Super cool #virosky #virus #evolution

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

First ever #QVEU lab “field trip” during group meeting as @orrwalk.bsky.social told us all about his summer research on powdery mildew! Fascinating!

The constant barrage of terrible news on bluesky has made me feel weird about promoting papers, but people in the lab have been doing so much amazing work over the past few months that I want to share a few brief teasers/links: