So very proud of my friend @jimalwine.bsky.social for providing accurate information among a sea of misinformation.

🚨ATTENTION EARLY CAREER VIROLOGISTS🚨 We have a webinar on how to get a faculty position! Hear from Jean Lim, @drsprggs.bsky.social and @tylernstarr.bsky.social. Check your email for registration link and form to submit questions in advance.

Interested in shaping ASV decisions? Do you know someone who is? Nominations for ASV President-Elect and a number of Virology Councilors are due on November 21. Look for the nomination form in your ASV member email!

This year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering how the immune system distinguishes friend from foe. https://scim.ag/3Wt5rdi

New CNN story about clinical trials damaged by the funding freeze at Northwestern. www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h... 1/n

2 in a row in the Journal of Virology. A new paper from our group & the new Johnson lab at UTMB. Here, we find multiple variant mutations in the SR rich domain of N facilitate improved infection with #SARS2. A brief thread since this didn't get preprinted journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

"If NIH and HHS leadership comply with these orders, as a cisgender bisexual man I am forced to ask myself what support, if any, I should expect to receive when this administration decides to unfairly and irrationally target other populations within the LGBTQ..." - Me January 29 to Acting NIH Dir.

Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.

Congratulations to @rmokry.bsky.social on her first pub from the lab. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...