Tick-borne viruses surge globally, driven by climate change and ecological shifts, challenging public health with rising infection complexity and control hurdles. by Ye RZ, Li YY, Wang XY and Cao WC in Nat Rev Microbiol #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

Mosquitoes, a photo gallery:

Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!! We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project. #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids Thread with links below 🧵 1/4

what the actual hell, arbovirology

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I am advertising for a PhD position in my group. We'll be investigating how pathogenic RNA viruses replicate in the nucleus. The project will teach cryoEM/ET, virus culture, and in vitro assays. If you're interested reach out and I'd be happy to have a chat.

Looking for an illustrator for a potential book project.

Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.

“As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new parts of the country.”

Curious about tick virology? Read my latest piece in @uk.theconversation.com where I explain findings of my latest research article www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hope it will helps people to understand the importance of studying tick and their pathogens #ScienceforAll #WomenInScience #Arbovirose

Only 2.5% of animal biomass is human. Still, that fraction is reshaping the fate of the whole 🌍.

⚡️Thrilled that #VirtualLab is published in @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We created a team of AI agents to mirror my Stanford lab 🤖. Led by a PI agent, the AI scientists ran their own group meetings and discovered effective binders to new CoVID variants that we validated.

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Infection and Immunity is now welcoming nominations for highly promising scientists at the assistant professor level (or equivalent) to submit research to the next New Voices in Microbiology Collection! Please nominate by the August 18 deadline using the below link: app.asm.org/account/logi...

SFTSV is a deadly tick-borne virus. In this study, Petit et al. used a multi-omics approach to reveal antiviral responses in SFTSV-infected tick cells @virotick.bsky.social @brennanlab.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social @uniofsurrey.bsky.social

“Volume is a bad driver,” [Sir Mark Walport] said. “The incentive should be quality, not quantity. It’s about re-engineering the system in a way that encourages good research from beginning to end.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thrilled (and humbled!) to share that since today I am the Chair of the Virology Department at @pasteur.fr. Grateful to my colleagues for their trust. Now let’s push the frontiers of virus research together. The sky is the limit! 🦠🔬 #Virology #Science #TeamPasteur

Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

The mere thought of ticks makes our skin crawl. And the diseases they spread are only getting more common. Here are some simple tricks for preventing tick bites and techniques for removing them if they do bite. nyti.ms/4jsK6Km

OMG! I can finally share my joy to see my SFTSV work published in @natcomms.nature.com! This adventure started by the award of my MSCA grant and my move to the Kohl and @brennanlab.bsky.social at @cvrinfo.bsky.social. Let's chat about how we discovered novel tick anti-viral effectors!

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

“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...

"Science is an investment. We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world." — President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

We are sharing this networking event for Black researchers in the UK that is being organised by one of our trustees. It’s an excellent opportunity shorturl.at/MnP82

It's finally time for some #bunyavirales and #tick borne viruses with Ben Brennan from @cvrinfo.bsky.social and his much anticipated talk, this THURSDAY 17th. All welcome! Please help us with a re-post. 🕷️🦠🧫

A huge thank you to @microbiologysociety.org for an incredible meeting! This was the first chance for all members of the Petit Lab to showcase their work! #TickVirology #ProudPI #NewPI

www.nature.com/articles/d41... So let me get this straight 1. Academics spend decades building the PDB openly 2. A company trains AlphaFold on it, releases limited code under pressure 3. Academics work hard to create fully open versions 4. Companies then use the open models to build closed products

US women deserve better

🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Work with us to develop supervised learning and graph analysis of the evolutionary and genomic links between viruses, the tissues they can infect, and the hosts that can be infected. 3y role based at @cvrinfo.bsky.social, apply by 18 Mar: vibelab.co.uk/blog/25-02-1...

An excellent (that is to say, accurate) post about some of the shit that is happening. I’m leaving the fucking curse words in. Worth a read and a good reminder at the end.

We just can't stop recruiting! Associate professor in cell and molecular biology @dunnschool, with a preference for immunology, inflammation and/or infection - all defined broadly Come and be our colleague Deadline 28 Feb, please spread the word www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Leading Edge is celebrating a milestone: 100 (actually 102!) new assistant professors!!! 🎉🥳🎊 Learn more about them: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/ Applications are now open for the 2025 Leading Edge cohort! (Deadline Feb 3). You do NOT need to be ready for the job market to apply.

As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do? Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used. Add your pet peeves ⬇️ #HiddenCurriculum #Research

For the dev bio crowd : there is a call for junior group leader at Institut Pasteur in Paris and one of the axis covered is related to development. Come and join us in this exciting place and become one of our colleague @devstempasteur.bsky.social Please RT !! research.pasteur.fr/fr/call/call...

My very first post for open positions at the amazing APHRC. We are looking for African researchers in Data Science and health systems. More details at aphrc.org/careers/ Please share within your networks 🙏🙏

The best part of being a PI? Moments like this: running into Yasu Suzuki (not yet in BS) and @virotick.bsky.social, former Saleh Lab alumni, at #MBSJ2024 in Fukuoka. They're both PIs now, and I was so proud, I nearly burst out of my clothes! 🥹 #FullCircle #LoveScience #WomenInSTEM #LoveVirology

So here is a starter pack of African scientists and researchers across disciplines. It will continue to grow as I find more people and more migrate to this platform but gotta start somewhere 😊. go.bsky.app/GixA4xP

🚨Travel awards for Early Career Researchers to attend ASM Microbe🧫 1. Awarded through ASM Branches 2. $1650 per award, 3 per branch 3. Apps open now! 4. Named for Peggy Cotter, ASM past president & advocate 5. A proud accomplishment when I was COMS Chair 6. Apply / share! asm.org/Travel-Award...

Join us! Collaborative project between 3 labs at Institut Pasteur on tick-borne flaviviruses research.pasteur.fr/en/job/post-...

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

We're hiring a Group Leader in Infection Biology! 🧬 Apply now to join us at the IRIM in Montpellier, and lead cutting-edge research in pathogen virulence, host-pathogen interactions or drug resistance, and shape the future of infection biology! 🦠🧫 Please RT (and follow us!) 🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025

🔔Job alert! Join our team to to strengthen research on the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) . Please apply at [email protected]

A starter pack for all virologists out there on the blue side ! Might be missing some people but it’s a good start ! go.bsky.app/DmphBCT