Very pleased to have our new work out where we perform a structure/function study on the bornavirus polymerase complex with fantastic coauthors. Have a read www.nature.com/articles/s41... @warwicklifesci.bsky.social @loiccarrique.bsky.social @franziskaguenl.bsky.social

How can we handle lab waste more sustainably? Saroj Saurya (@dunngogreen.bsky.social) and colleagues just published this interesting new piece! Have a read! 🌿 academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

🆕 Study evaluates three vaccine candidates for one of the world’s most dangerous viruses, the Nipah virus. An international team of scientists led by The Pirbright Institute achieves a breakthrough in controlling a deadly virus with pandemic potential ⬇️ #Zoonoses #Zoonotic #OneHealth

Half way through the decade of action for road safety, and I can't say I feel massively safe cycling on Oxford's streets. Maybe #worldbicycleday should be introduced here to raise awareness and direct our collective energy towards increasing the safety of non-motorized traffic?

Excited to share our new @science.org paper! Led by postdocs Ruchao Peng and Xin Xu, we used cryo-EM/ET to reveal the influenza ribonucleoprotein complex structure and its strand-sliding mechanism for RNA synthesis, paving the way for new antivirals. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ANP32 proteins from ticks and vertebrates are key host factors for replication of Bourbon virus across species journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

“This is what I was expecting — an executive order banning gain-of-function research but defined in such a way that it bans all virology research,” says @ggronvall.bsky.social. Yup. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Exciting job opportunities! Two postdoc positions are available in the Fodor Lab at @dunnschool.bsky.social to study influenza virus transcription, genome replication, nuclear export and assembly. More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Super important piece on how structural issues in German academia enable toxic behaviour of only few people — and how that impacts the entire research culture. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Support: www.netzwerk-mawi.de/en/

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

If you're a scientist at the NIH or another HHS agency who was affected by today's RIF, I'd love to hear about the work you were doing and how important it was for our nation's health! I'm a staff writer at Fierce Biotech, and I can be reached through DM on BlueSky or securely on Signal at dinc.49

A must watch documentary on the original Nipah outbreak in pigs in Malaysia youtu.be/YyNdOQ-GFCM?...

The peer-revied version of our paper on the structure of the Nipah virus RNA polymerase in complex with RNA is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social. Congratulations to first-author @salafernanda.bsky.social and many thanks to the reviewers for their constructive comments! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.

Personally, I love it here 🦋 - and for science 🧪 its wonderful! And its also increasingly getting better & better for other diverse and interesting random posts (non-science) as more and more join - lets hope the overall engagement and positivity remains! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our new paper is out: "Mapping the complete influenza A virus infection cycle through single vRNP imaging". Combining newly-developed single-molecule imaging approaches with in situ viral transcriptomics, we identify numerous non-canonical infection pathways. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

Time to share our organelle proteome paper out in @cellcellpress.bsky.social: doi.org/nzwz We created a spatial map of human cells using organelle immunoprecipitation at scale. Locate your fav protein among the 7,600 we mapped across 19 subcellular compartments: organelles.sf.czbiohub.org/ 1/3 🧪

We are happy this work by Melina Vallbracht et al, a great collaboration with Thomas Hoenen and his team is finally out.

The last days of 2024 but hey: I am happy to share that our new paper is out! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Excited to share our work describing a series of structures that allow us to propose a new model for Hantavirus genome replication by the viral L-protein. Another great experience with @loiccarrique.bsky.social @ben-nilsson-payant.bsky.social @efodor.bsky.social Jon Grimes. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Just published - pandemic influenza PB1 genes of avian origin reduce polymerase activity and virulence in low-pathogenic avian influenza viruses. Insights into host adaptation and zoonotic risk. www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...