Machine learning enables scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy - @sullivan-lab.bsky.social go.nature.com/4qoPli9

It’s happening again…. Used to be straight on this kind of message during the pandemic. Going back there is kind of difficult… how would you handle this… basically. Help. 🦠

The absolute highlight of my 2025 is now available on YouTube! Check out the "making of" mini-documentary and full performance of Antiviral Roller Skating at the @britsciassoc.bsky.social Festival earlier this year. My New Years resolution will be to do it all again in a different city! 👀

In this Perspective, Ryan Langlois hypothesizes that antiviral genes are evolutionarily selected for their function at fever temperatures yet are commonly studied at basal temperatures, a potential blind spot in our understanding of antiviral gene mechanisms. rupress.org/jem/article/... #Virology

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

Congratulations again to the excellent @idb-virology.bsky.social for this amazing science communication piece. Please go and watch the videos and keep the vision alive! Yes it is the viral lifecycle being explained by roller skaters…

New preprint: Viral protease-mediated polyprotein processing in human astroviruses Great collaboration with Lulla lab. And the first of @leandroxneves.bsky.social proteolysis stories. More coming soon! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from the lab, and joint first authors @biomarkella.bsky.social and @stephenholmes.bsky.social! Single-cell phenotypic analysis and multiplet detection through incorporation of microscopy data into cellenONE-based single-cell proteomic data analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

big moves! so that's Parse -> Qiagen Scale -> 10X Genomics Fluent -> Illumina next-gen single-cell cell omics, capable of processing 10^6 to 10^8 cells i wonder if what the near term looks like - will commercial kits stagnate while the buyers rebrand?

Te Tiriti obligations don't disappear just because the government claims they're not necessary. He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi are the foundation on which Aotearoa stands, and continue to have legal authority. Without them, there is no kāwanatanga. www.archives.govt.nz/discover-our...

Identification of Capture Phases in Nanopore Protein Sequencing... arxiv.org/abs/2511.0... --- #proteomics #prot-preprint

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min

🦇🩸⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛🩸🦇 Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895! Here's a more recent study: www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sex... #Halloween #HappyHalloween #histsci #histbio #STS #GLAM #queer #lgbtq #queernature #PrideInSTEM 🌈🗃️

First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks. bit.ly/3KKlGQP #TeamLivUni

Something not so sciencey… off to Barcelona next week to screen a documentary my partner has produced and I’m excited! Any Nick Garrie fans? 🎸🎥

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances ~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Following recent decisions by pharmaceutical companies to scale back investment, the UK Parliament’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is seeking written evidence on the competitiveness of the UK’s life sciences sector.

Full thread will come later, but @annacusco.bsky.social's preprint on the dog pet gut microbiome is out! Using ONT+Illumina, we get better MAGs than to corresponding species representative in public databases doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our year-long project on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (#EDI) strategies in the UK’s science and tech sectors has drawn to a close with a new report exploring data collection, analysis and insight. Read our findings and recommendations >> www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/report-...

Is there anyone here at one of the universities in Wellington, NZ, who would want to host me to give a talk around November 10th?

🧬 Fresh RNA modifications newsletter out now: viral tRNA hijacking, hidden rRNA mods, dynamic Ψ, antibiotic resistance & more. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/rnamodif... #RNAsky #Epitranscriptomics #microsky #ribosome

We are still buzzing from our show! Here’s some snaps of what you missed… in case you were wondering…. Huge thank you to the whole production team and the people who made this happen! @microbiologysociety.org @britsciassoc.bsky.social @emmottlab.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social #BSF25

The British science festival 2025 has started in Liverpool and @idb-virology.bsky.social and the team are looking forward to welcoming visitors to the Unity theatre this evening for some antiviral roller skating! @antiviral-rskating.bsky.social www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/ant...

Looking forward to @antiviral-rskating.bsky.social this evening @unitytheatre.bsky.social! In partnership with Liverpool Roller Birds, a team from @livunihls.bsky.social will demonstrate how antivirals are designed... on wheels! Book your tickets now! bit.ly/46jQ4Zs. #BSF25 Photo: @reebeesnaps

TODAY! #BSF25

I‘m on social media duty today 😇 Keep your eyes peeled for updates… and if you’re free and in Liverpool… come to the show!!! #BSF25

Happy DAY 1 of the British Science Festival to all who celebrate! What activity are you kicking it off with? 🤩🧬🦠🧪🔭🔬🥼🧫🔭⚗️!! #BSF25 #scicomm #microsky #sciart that also means its just TWO DAYS until ✨️🦠🛼Antiviral Roller Skating🛼🦠✨️ hits the stage @unitytheatre.bsky.social Tickets still available!

THIS WEEK!!!!! Come learn about viruses 🦠😍 @antiviral-rskating.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @britsciassoc.bsky.social

I am excited to share my graduate work in the Sabatini and @bartellab.bsky.social labs. Since their discovery, we have known lysosomes possess RNase activity; however, their substrates were not known. Surprisingly we find specific RNAs are targeted for degradation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The human RNome project meeting report is now live! Prepared by myself and fellow ECRs @bennetthenzeler.bsky.social and @ramibechara.bsky.social Check it out 🧬 humanrnomeproject.org/2025-worksho... #RNAmodifications #MassSpec #nanopore

CoBRA: Compound Binding Site Prediction using RNA Language Model doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🛼 BSF25 presents Antiviral Roller Skating! Explore viruses & immunity through science + skating fun @liverpooluni.bsky.social Fri 12 Sept 18.30 - 19:15 Unity Theatre - Unity One @britsciassoc.bsky.social Free/Book now 👉 britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Antiviral roller skating! It's the sports / science crossover event we've been waiting for! Part of British Science Festival, Liverpool Roller Birds will show you just what Coronavirus can do, and how science stops it. 12 Sept britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... #BSF25

Just over ONE WEEK to go and things are really coming together! Here's a look at some fun we've been having preparing for #BSF25 next week! 🎀🧬🦠✨️ 📸: @rebee.bsky.social @britsciassoc.bsky.social @livuninews.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.bsky.social #scicomm #rollerderby #rollerskating

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How are people formatting/writing about their public engagement activities on their academic CVs? Looking for some inspo #publicengagement #sciencecommunication

New method from my former lab - combining targeted RNA-seq and DNA-seq from the same cell on the @missionbio.bsky.social platform. Congrats! It can also be combined with targeted methylation profiling and clonal tracing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A researcher is looking for participants to take part in research about improving access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people living with chronic illness. Please see the poster for more information. If you would like to participate, please email him directly [email protected] #LGBTQResearch

Spatiotemporal NAIL-MS analysis shows that ALKBH5 does not affect global m6A turnover in human mRNA across subcellular compartments under standard growth conditions bit.ly/4lvVtC6

If I wanted to translate all the ORFs of a herpesvirus with a good annotated RefSeq into amino acid sequences, which tool would I use - any suggestions? Need something scalable before I manually eyeball and correct...

Just published — LJI researchers reveal the first 3D structure of a protein from a human endogenous retrovirus. Your cells make this protein by expressing ancient viral DNA. And it's unlike anything seen before... www.lji.org/news-events/... #health #medicine #SanDiego #biology #virology #science

Increasing evidence that innate immune pattern recognition receptors do not sense productive infections. DeRisi lab finds that RSV does not induce IFNs in productively infected cells. Only bystander/non-productively infected cells produce IFNs. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Led by @idb-virology.bsky.social, the lab is contributing to #BSF25 with a performance of antiviral roller skating! Working with Liverpool roller birds, and supported by the BSF and @microbiologysociety.org

Excited to wear my scientist and photography hat on this project 🦠📸 3 weeks to goooo 🛼🦠💊

New paper: collaboration with Cambridge on EMCV 2B* now published journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Simultaneous detection of RNA modifications using In Vitro Transcription and Direct RNA Nanopore sequencing doi.org/10.1101/2024...

📸 It’s World Photography Day! We asked our photographer, Debbie, to select her favourite photos from the past year. No 1: our busy Annual Conference 2025. No 2: our member-led microbe-themed drag show! We would love to see your best Society snaps from the past year! 🤗

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