WE'RE BACK BABY LET'S GOOOOO 🎉

Our discovery of novel viruses in invasive camelids in Australia leads us to propose a simple idea: RNA viruses may repeatedly evolve functional modules at the 5′ end of their genomes. #Virology #RNAvirus #VirusEvolution #Picornavirus #VirusDiscovery doi.org/10.64898/202...

Don't mind me just finishing off my #GSBC2026 talk <2 hours before I'm presenting 😅 Come check out today's ECR Showcase if you wanna hear all about my groovy collection of soil RNA viruses!

Been a pleasure to work with you all! Can't wait for next year 🤩❤️

Lilsebastian narna-like virus never gets old

Fantastic lightning talk @lrnlm.bsky.social 👏👏

Soil !!!!

Your #MicroSeq2025 committee - @mozztacular.bsky.social , Asad Prodhan, @royalfizzbin.bsky.social , Mozammel Hoque, @wytamma.bsky.social , Rebecca Roach, and @rhyshparry.bsky.social - are all here and ready to go! 🫡 Please feel free to reach out to any of us w/ questions or concerns at any time ♥️

So excited to hear from Jackie tomorrow! 🤩 (Don't tell the others but I specifically gave myself no responsibilities for Jackie's session so I can listen with full attention 😇)

✨🥳🎉MICROSEQ STARTS TOMORROW!!🎉🥳✨ It’s finally here! #MicroSeq2025 officially kicks off tomorrow at 10:30am AEST. Registration is open until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT so this is your last chance to get involved! Don't miss out! 👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

✨#MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight!✨ Dr Peter Mee is a senior research scientist in the Veterinary Virology group at Agriculture Victoria Research, focused on diagnostic techniques that strengthen agricultural biosecurity & enhance pathogen detection. Register👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

✨#MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight!✨ Dr Rose Collis’ fascinating research involves applying different genomic methods to assess levels of antimicrobial resistance and waterborne pathogens. Register👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

✨#MicroSeq2025 Plenary Highlight!✨ Dr Leah Roberts is an NHMRC emerging leadership fellow working on mobile genetic elements (eg plasmids) and their impact on bacterial evolution and the transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes. Register👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Pretty stoked to see this year's space for #MicroSeq2025 ! 🤩 (Currently building it. Right now. So actually very stoked to see it coming together.)

Two weeks to #MicroSeq2025! Speakers have been notified and session scheduling is officially underway! Get excited, this is going to be a good one 😎 Registration remains open until September 2nd 👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

You’re in luck! 🎉 The deadline for #MicroSeq2025 abstract submission has been EXTENDED by one week! New deadline: ✨11:59pm, Friday August 15, 2025✨ Don’t miss out! Register right here to submit your abstract 👇 trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

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You can have microbiology, you can have sequencing data, but then what? #MicroSeq2025 giving some much-deserved love to bioinformaticians developing the brilliant tools that keep our field moving! ❤️💪

Can vouch for the merch, its really cool

⏱️ Closing THIS FRIDAY! ⏱️ Register for #MicroSeq2025 below to send through your abstract: trybooking.com/events/landing/1424679

Get those abstracts in! Stoked for this year's lineup already 🤩

Soil is home to nearly 60% of all species and stores vast amounts of carbon. Yet, it’s being lost faster than ever. Why and what can be done? This article breaks down the threats and solutions: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Glad to be here 😊 Can't wait for September! I shouldn't spill too much... but I'm getting really excited about the #MicroSeq2025 lineup so far!

Our study on SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and long COVID in Nepal has made it to preprint 🎉 Huge thanks everyone from BNMT, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal (CMDN), and the Centre for Pathogen Genomics at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity 👏👏👏 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I highly recommend volunteering to chair a session at #MicroSeq2025, especially if you've never done it before. Super low stakes, chill environment with lots of support from the committee. Great place to learn this pretty valuable skill!

#MicroSeq2025 has many opportunities for medium and lightning talks. Submit your abstract by August 8 and take advantage of this valuable opportunity to present your work to a welcoming community of fellow ECRs and PhD students! 👇 www.microseqconference.com/registration...

🚨Abstract submission & registration for #MicroSeq2025 is OPEN! 🚨Get in quick! The first 50 registrations are FREE for PhD students and ECRs who are current ASM members, thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social. Head to our website to register now 👇 www.microseqconference.com/registration...

Happy Friday! A reminder that abstract submission for MicroSeq2025 opens on Monday, July 21st and will remain open until August 8th! Have a great weekend and can't wait to start checking out those abstract soon 🤩 #MicroSeq2025

📣Calling Australian/NZ ECRs and PhD Students 📣 Abstract submission and registration for MicroSeq2025 opens July 21! Abstracts for both medium-length and lightning talks will be welcome.

🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟 #MicroSeq2025

What a title! "This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates" Biodiversity declines really concerning. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Measles are contagious. Measles cause 1 in 4 people to be hospitalized. Measles can be deadly especially in children. Measles can cause blindness & deafness. Measles can cause brain damage yrs later. Measles can cause "immune amnesia". Measles are preventable with MMR vaccine. #medsky #IDsky 🛟 😷🧪

The abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌 Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the #ViBioM2025 in Portugal? Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions! More info: RdRp.io

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries. These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide. Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz 1/5

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Today was my 800th adventure with Atticus. Couldn't recommend Finch enough, so many habits and routines I struggled with are effortless now. Gamifying works 🤩

Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology

🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk

Help restore my faith in the world. Who loves a good bog? Make yourselves known! For bogs are - time keepers, death defiers, artifact protectors, carbon trappers, water purifiers, food providers, beautiful mysterious places

New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors. Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

FUN FACT: Measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps, rubella and tetanus are six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades, saving many millions of lives.

The ICTV are a committee who have given themselves the power to do this without broader consultation. The far larger community of virologists should have the power to ignore them.

Sure googly eyes in the lab are fun, but have you considered the biblically accurate 96-well plate?

Thanks Creswick (+ Ballarat)! It's been fab 🤩 #AVS12

And that’s a wrap…great meeting as always #AVS12

Alright y'all we're getting even weirder now with @marypetrone.bsky.social exploring what we can learn about viral origins from... tunicates?

Welcome to the last day of #AVS12 Kicking off our Virus evolution session is our invited speaker Erin Harvey @erinharvey.bsky.social discussing the Macro-scale evolution of mammalian viruses. Aussie Marsupials are one of the basal lineages within mammals and are an interesting group for discovery.