A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

Please take care of yourselves.

✨️🦠🛼✨️ As the final few days of prep for #BSF25 "Antiviral Roller Skating" draw closer, I thought I'd share this video of some of the wonderful Liverpool Roller Birds volunteers who have made it possible! 🦸‍♀️ Come & see their antiviral alteregos in action this Friday 12th Sept @unitytheatre.bsky.social

It's almost time for the British Science Festival - 10-14 Sept in Liverpool! Can't join us? Science Café on BBC Radio Wales has a #BSF25 special show tonight, with lots of our amazing speakers, incl. science rapper Jon Chase. Listen from 6.30pm or online afterward: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Let's gooooo! 🦠✨️🧬🎭

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

🛼 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/...

There's just two weeks (and a day) to go until the British Science Festival #BSF25 arrives in Liverpool! Here's 10 of the many reasons you should join us at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social and venues across the city from 10-14 September: theguideliverpool.com/10-reasons-t...

Health misinformation and disinformation are the biggest and most under prioritized threats to public health in the 21st century. They are eroding decades of progress in the control and spread of diseases in real time. If we do not address this like the existential threat it is, we risk everything!

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

Just less than 3 weeks to go until this weird and wonderful production makes it's debut at the British Science Festival in Liverpool this September! #BSF25 Excited (nervous/scared) for my first foray into theatre production! 😄🎭🛼✨️ Please give the page a follow and share 🙏🏽 🖤💜

👨‍🔬Scientific Advisors Drs. Max Edrmann & Ed Emmott @edemmott.bsky.social 🎭 Inspiration: "Bus Regulation: The Musical" by Ellie Harrison @ellieharrison.bsky.social 💷 Funded by @microbiologysociety.org & @britishscienceassociation.bsky.social #bsf25 #scicomm #sciencecommunication #skating #sciart

📣 Introducing "Antiviral Roller Skating"! ✨️🦠🛼✨️ Debuting at the British Science Festival 2025 #BSF25 in Liverpool! Exploring viruses & antivirals through movement & play! Friday 12 Sep, 18.30 @unitytheatre.bsky.social FREE tickets: britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

🤝 A collaboration between @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool Roller Birds ✍️🎬 Written, Directed & Produced by Dr. I'ah Donovan-Banfield @idb-virology.bsky.social 👯‍♀️Choreographed by Ani Bosco 📸 Director of Photography Dr. Rebee Penrice-Randal @rebee.bsky.social 📹 Videography by Paroketh Films

Manuscript preprint out today! Assessing the utility of nanopore sequencing at point-of-care for rapid insight into the host response to infection 🦠 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

#BlackInChemWeek #STEM #Chemistry #Science #BlackSky

📢New job posting!📢 Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬 My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on! 1/5

🚨Our study on characterising the within-host SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent infections is now out in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social! 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨📆⏰ EXTENDED DEADLINE 🧬🦠🧫 Still working on some cool data? No sweat! The ECR symposium abstract call has been extended by TWO WEEKS! 🤩 Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by July 22, 11.59PM EST! #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

In a year filled with uncertainty for the future of science, we’re choosing to lead with HARMONY.💛🧫 We believe in the power of community, in raising our voices, and in caring deeply for one another. This October, join us as we create a space rooted in hope. #BlackInMicroWeek #BiM2025

It's LIVE! #BSF25 I can now announce that I have created "Antiviral Skating" 🛼🦠✨️ A collaboration with @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & Liverpool Roller Birds Friday 12th September. 18.30 at @ Unity Theatre FREE tickets 👇🏾 britishscienceassociation-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

🚨📆⏰ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REMINDER 🧬🦠🧫 The ECR symposium abstract call closes in less than ONE WEEK! Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by July 8, 11.59PM EST! #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

Was put onto this book by a @novaramedia.com Downstream episode - absolutely loved it. Highly recommend to anyone working in public health / microbiology! Hopefully I can get down to the London event! #Booksky #PublicHealth #BlackinMicro

Hands up #BlackInMicro Early Career Researchers!! 🙌🏾👩🏽‍🔬👨🏾‍💻🧑🏾‍🔬 We are now accepting abstracts for the ECR Symposium on Wed. October 15, on Careers & Research Day. Submit your abstract at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst...#BlackInMicroby July 8, 11.59PM EST! #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

Ahem (clears throat). We are pleased to announce: ✨ 🧑🏾‍🔬 Black In Micro Week Returns 🦠 Get ready for October 2025!! Stay tuned for *abstract* submissions and full *program* info released this summer. COMING SOON. We're Baaaaaack #BlackInMicro #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology

Thrilled to discuss advocacy for Black scientists at the Annual Conference opening session, thanks to @microbiologysociety.org! 🎉 Drs. Donovan-Banfield, Pittman, and Taylor presented for co-awardees Drs. Scott and Spriggs. #BlackInMicro is honored to receive the Inaugural EDI Award! 🌟

@blackinmicro.bsky.social thank you for everything you do 👏 Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for introducing the EDI prize, it’s great to see these conversations take place at scientific conferences. If you missed it, check out this blog post: microbiologysociety.org/news/society... #MicroBio25

Where to find me at #MicroBio25 this year 🤓 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-lgbtq-...

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 2025 winners from the @blackinmicro.bsky.social are presenting their lecture, "If Not Now, When? Building a Community to Empower Black Microbiologists" at #Microbio25 at 14:05 BST. Read more about their work: microb.io/EDIPrizeWinn...

What a fantastic and highly relevant way to start #Microbio25 with a wonderful presentation by the Black Microbiologists Association as our EDI prize winning lecture.

The Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph is at it again! Continuing our cluster hires with tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Immunology and Virology (1 position each)! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Still some spaces available… sign up sign up! #microbio25 #queerinstem #queerinmicro 🏳️‍🌈🦠🧫

Registration for our networking event is still open! #microbio25 It features performances by a brilliant queer collective that combine drag performance with microbiology! Don't miss this chance to learn about innovative ways to communicate science 🦠🌈 microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Really excited about our next (fourth already!) LGBTQ+ networking event in the next @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference 2025! Always a pleasure to organise this one more time with my friends from the Society's Queer in Micro Working Group! Join us, we're planning exciting things this year! 😍🏳️‍🌈

Meet the Prize Winners! Dr Beatrice Achan interviews one of our 2 EDI Prize Winners. Find out more about their work embedding EDI into their undergraduate curricula. @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🔗https://microb.io/PrizeWinners2025

Had a lovely time being interviewed by a dear friend and colleague @rebee.bsky.social about @blackinmicro.bsky.social winning the inaugural @microbiologysociety.org EDI Prize! Come along to the lecture tomorrow at #Microbio25 to hear about making microbiology more equitable for Black scientists.

Dr. Rebee Penrice-Randal interviews the 2025 winner of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Prize, The Black Microbiologists Association before their prize lecture. Find out more here: 🔗https://microb.io/PrizeWinnersEDI

We have a packed programme of social events during #Microbio25. Members are organising events for EC microbiologists, Disabled or Neurodivergent members, and the LGBTQ+ community. Also, join us for our Quiz Night! Get your tickets now - microb.io/AC25Social

Does anyone know of a database to search for epistatic linkage for SARS-CoV-2 mutations?

Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, ASV highlights Dr. A. Oveta Fuller, a trailblazer whose work on viral entry mechanisms and advocacy for HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 education made indelible contributions to human health.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Happy BHM! Celebrating our history and taking pride and joy in the contribution of Black Americans to this society has been and will continue to be a form of resistance

Very proud that this article is finally out. It details the culmination of 3 years of hard work from the @microbiologysociety.org Members Panel. This work can sometimes go under the radar, but big thanks to Anjam for leading on this, allowing us to share our successes and hopes for the future.

Statement from @blackinmicro.bsky.social that attacks on DEIA are "weak arguments...fueled by the familiar underlying assumption that people from Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized identities cannot be excellent and therefore have not "earned" our place... My story on what sparked this in 🧵

I’m particularly proud of the work that is being done by @microbiologysociety.org. We have a duty as a scientific community to advocate for diverse science.

Come and meet with fellow queer microbiologists at our LGBTQ+ Networking Event on Tuesday 1 April 20:30 GMT, with a Trans and Nonbinary pre-meet. For further information and to secure your place, visit our website: https://microb.io/Microbio25 #Microbio25

Our @commsbio.bsky.social interview with Rachael Dangarembizi from the CryptoLab, studying brain injury mechanisms caused by fungal neuroinfections: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @blackinneuro.bsky.social @blackinmicro.bsky.social

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not