If you're interested in viruses — you kinda gotta be, if you're following me — this podcast may appeal. Deep dive into how viruses work, hosted by Florian Krammer, one of my go-to experts for flu. Lotsa detail, but the episodes are a manageable length. Enjoy! virological.podigee.io/episodes

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Hooray for Donna!

Tomorrow at 11 am CST: join in-person for the latest #cancerbiologyseminar of the semester. Sponsored by #mcardlelab

ATTENTION ASV TRAINEES! The NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award is a great opportunity to showcase your research and practice your science communication. Details below www.science.org/content/priz...

Wrapping up the semester with our last RNA Maxigroup talk featuring Blake Wiedenheft! Thanks to @bmolchem.bsky.social @uwbiochem.bsky.social and @rnasociety.bsky.social for sponsoring!

I’m amazed. It’s really true: BA.3.2 (new COVID lineage) is infecting children at a much higher rate than previous lineages. I’m late to this party, but I couldn’t really believe it was true until I did the analysis for myself. 1/

🎉 Congrats to 2026 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recipient Judith Kimble of @uwbiochem.bsky.social! Her work has built an entire field and inspired generations of scientists through her mentorship and leadership. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/0yzHXvk

Knuckle tattoos that on one hand says “necessity” and the other “sufficiency”

Are you excited by virology? Would you like to do a PhD? Three fantastic opportunities are available to do joint PhDs between @cvrinfo.bsky.social and @pirbrightinst.bsky.social Details in the thread below - please share! Deadline 8th May 2026, fully funded for UK Home students (1/4)

This flu season I've learned... 1. Home tests are readily available, including combined flu/covid tests. 2. Antivirals need to be taken within 48 h. 3. Xofluza is better than Tamiflu (one dose; more effective against flu B) but few know about it. 4. Antivirals can be taken as prophylaxis. 1/4

Congratulations to the newly elected ASV Council!

Just like clockwork. It's paddlefish season again.

Notification of the end of continuous submission and updating the late submission policy. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

You can now read the Society's full tribute to former President Professor Robin Weiss FRS. Robin was an Honorary Member and, in addition to serving as President from 2006 to 2009, was the winner of the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture in 2015: https://microb.io/4dRe7Ei

Best wishes to Cancer Biology student Amanda Shea (Morris lab) as she defends her dissertation this week!

🚨 Postdoc position open - please repost! Join our lab in Lausanne🇨🇭to study KSHV, virus–host interactions & RNA decay + great quality of life right by Lake Leman and the Alps ⛰️ Apply here 👉 sites.google.com/view/muller-...

ASV congratulates Dr. Felicia Goodrum, the 2026 Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Awardee. Thank you very much for your many years of service to ASV, Dr. Goodrum! This post corrects Dr. Goodrum's affiliation to Dartmouth College. Apologies for our oversight.

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

ASV congratulates Dr. Felicia Goodrum, the 2026 Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Awardee. Thank you very much for your many years of service to ASV, Dr. Goodrum!

Happy to share our latest work on the previously uncharacterized splicing factor Cwc15! Importantly, all of the people who did this work are/were undergrads! S. cerevisiae Cwc15p Tunes the Spliceosome Active Site for 5' Splice Site Cleavage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A great tribute to a pioneering researcher who discovered fundamental insights into signaling, gene function and cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

Go Badgers!

Come work with me at Penn State on the dynamics of pathogen elimination. We're hiring up to two positions to support our work on measles/rubella and foot and mouth disease elimination @ciddpsu.bsky.social

We are recruiting! If you are passionate about technology development, protein engineering, computational design, directed evolution, chemical biology - please reach out! (The setting is pretty nice too…)

Annual reminder: if you’ve been accepted to multiple graduate programs and are still deciding, please let the ones you’re definitely not going to know as soon as possible! -Someone who got into his PhD off the waitlist the day after the deadline

My main priority, as always, is finding a way to support my trainees through this crisis and ensure they are able to move on to the next stage. My heart is just broken for all young scientists right now.

Yesterday was my sobriety anniversary, won’t say for how long because when I was first in the program people who had two whole weeks gave me hope, but I figured people with a year or more couldn’t be as alcoholic as I was. If you’re new, though, trust me: have hope.

No-cost workshop opportunities for grad students, postdocs, & trainees! Our Janelia Research Campus is accepting applications for 3 specialized, intensive workshops with presentation & networking opportunities. Accommodations, meals, & travel expenses covered: bit.ly/4roghP6. 🧪

If you want to join a team making pathogen sequencing and analysis for public health, surveillance, and research more accessible, more equitable and more ✨awesome✨ - look no further - come join us on this mission at ARTIC! #openscience #opendata #opensource

Please share with junior faculty working on HIV/AIDS cure topics: researchscholars.gilead.com/hiv_us/about

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to report that we submitted a new manuscript this week. The manuscript is abour our work untargeting wastewater sequencing as a technique for monitoring viral pathogens from wastewater. @lennijusten.bsky.social 1/ medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Ughhhhh

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

I've written a review on what I think is an extremely exciting direction in cryo-EM: Cryo-EM of endogenous membrane proteins in their native lipid bilayer Open access in Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics: doi.org/10.1017/S003...

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...

"Brian looks for enzymes that have evolved to harness them for new, industrial uses, like the deconstruction of biomass for use in biorenewable chemicals and fuels," says Jennifer Gottwald, WARF director of licensing.

It is a great sadness to hear of Robin’s passing. He was one of the finest virologists of all time and contributed immeasurably to the field of HIV/retrovirology. He was a key mentor for a vast number of leading virologists and cancer researchers. And great fun! So many of us owe him our careers

Congrats, Ahna!

We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD. www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism

Best wishes to Cancer Biology gradaute student Zach Kauffman (Lang lab) as he defends his dissertation this week!

See you next Saturday, Pittsburgh!

We have an open position for a #PhD student (last week to apply!) & a lab technician/TA. For more information see: www.beuschlab.org/join-us Interested in understanding post-transcriptional regulation and how #RNA #splicing decisions are made? Then take a look or share with people who might be! 🧪🧫

Most viruses rely on the host to provide the entire translation machinery. However, giant viruses have evolved to encode part of the machinery themselves. Latest discovery: mimivirus (APMV) encodes its own initiation factor (vIF4F) and specifically promotes translation of viral mRNA!

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

Nodavirus protein A's interdomain elbow controls RNA replication organelle formation and function pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41755640/ #cryoem

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!

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇