We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White @moru-mip.bsky.social Nick was a visionary in #malaria treatment whose work transformed global health. He will be remembered with great respect and affection Read our tribute 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...

Our January issue is now online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #influenza #H5N1 #AMR #Bordetella #pertussis #Yaws #Treponema #MDA #Hpylori #SARS-CoV-2 #IDSky #ClinMicro #OA

Gonna use this in my immunology lecture

A travel associated CHIKV case in Mexico belonging to the ECSA lineage. Mexico hasn't had a CHIKV outbreak since the 2015/2016 Asian lineage epidemic. Is local transmission occurring? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Los nuevos casos del virus de chikungunya en México están asociados al linaje ECSA, el cual no se había detectado en el país, pero es el responsable de un brote extenso en Brasil y, probablemente, en Cuba. Nuestro estudio al respecto. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very much looking forward to my fireside chat with @syramadad.bsky.social next Thursday at 1pm PST at the Belfer Center @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on "Genomic Surveillance & Pathogen Data Sharing: A New Era for Scientific Diplomacy". Virtual, so come join us! harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New research article #SARS-CoV-2 infectious shedding and rebound among adults with and without oral #antiviral use: two case-ascertained prospective household studies www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #OpenAccess #OA

"She and Chen sent GISAID three emails in the weeks after, but never received any response. (GISAID says the emails came from Chen, whereas its agreement was with Stadler.)" www.science.org/content/arti...

#TEsky Anuran genome size evolution is driven by relatively recent retrotransposon activity and by life history doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Just in time for Christmas, here is the latest paper from the lab! Great work from @leagaucherand.bsky.social and Hugo Marie, with help from Julie Cremaschi. Funded by @frm-officiel.bsky.social, @agencerecherche.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plospathogen... @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @unistra.fr

A new Double Take video reviews evidence-based recommendations on measles prevention and management and explores commonly asked questions about the measles virus and infection. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/PI6M680p9i0

🧵 Thread on our new @natcomms.nature.com paper: TLDR -- ADP-ribosylation inhibits viral replication and represents a previously under-appreciated arm of innate immunity during flu infection. Read along for the details…. (1/11) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to see our latest publication on neglected orthoflaviviruses been published today. Great team work led by Rosie Steck and stay tuned for more soon... journals.plos.org/plosntds/art... @utmbnews.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social

Love this! (Thanks to @blongdon.bsky.social for altering me!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Scientists crossed a cheetah with a crab. It didn’t go well, things went sideways real fast

Genomic Evidence for a Novel Introduction and Intra-host Diversity of DENV-2 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688789v1

New online! Insights into infectious diseases through ancient pathogen genomics

I'm excited to introduce our new workflow for detecting endogenous viral elements - HI-FEVER. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧵 Big thanks to @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social, @humanceae.bsky.social, José Gabriel and Cormac for bringing this from conception to fruition!

Is there a hashtag for STEM internships? Merck is accepting applications for internships in cell biology and assay development, immunogenicity, protein metabolism, biostatistics, vaccine communications, DMPK, and discovery and process chemistry.

A US citizen filmed federal agents smashing his car window, as authorities begin a surge of immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina. The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go.

Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why surveillance is important? 4 years ago we predicted a CHIKV outbreak by detecting its silent circulation (lnkd.in/gx7-4ZeQ). Today, the team @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social provided a genomic and clinical time map of the massive CHIKV outbreak of 2024 in the area. #FAMERP #SBV #ASTMH #UTMB #ACAV

A new approach to pandemic preparedness: 1️⃣ Stop preparing for pandemics 2️⃣ Rewrite history of the last major pandemic 3️⃣ Go to the gym Simple - 🤷‍♂️. www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...

Nice looking review by @ben-parker.bsky.social Paul Rozo-Lopez "Heritable Viruses as Hidden Drivers of Insect Phenotypes and Evolution" doi.org/10.1146/annu...

📖Latest from the lab: Evo. characterization #antiviral #SAMD9/9L across #kingdoms🚶‍♀️🦍🦠🧫🖥️: ancient #convergence + #adaptations @natecoevo.nature.com Led by amazing Alexandre Legrand +major contributions by Rémi Demeure & Amandine Chantharath @ciri-lyon.bsky.social 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student @nadiahaghani.bsky.social and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up: shorturl.at/NE65A

We are looking forward to welcoming Maria Avila Arcos @paleogenomics.bsky.social to #HEASVienna for a #HEASSeminar in #AncientGenomics next Monday at the later than normal time of 11:45 CET. @peregx9.bsky.social Registration for online and in-person participation in on our website 👇🔗

Happy to share my review in Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social! Wrote about systems virology, G2P-Japan, pandemic preparedness & responsive science in pandemic. It covers about G2P-Japan from its inception to its role in pandemic & my future perspective www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

TEs aren’t just genomic parasites, they’re also engines of genomic novelty. Our new study with ~2,000 Z. tritici genomes shows repeated TE mobilization waves during global expansion. With @danielcroll.bsky.social & @guidopuccetti.bsky.social 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEworldwide

Latin America’s genetic diversity is underrepresented in research 🌍 We spoke with Patricia Possik about boosting research equity, building capacity and her acral melanoma work. https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/11/five-questions-on-genomics-in-latin-america-with-dr-patricia-abrao-possik/

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...

On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

If you read and watch one thing today it should be this pice accompanying @agawande.bsky.social documentary. "As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis, oral icotrokinra led to a skin-clearance response in 50 to 65% of patients at week 16, as compared with 4 to 8% with placebo. The incidence of adverse events was similar in the two groups. Full ICONIC-LEAD phase 3 trial results: nej.md/3WDM6qg #MedSky

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

Interesting that there has been absolutely no communication with submitters/users of the system, and no statements from the scientific governance or compliance boards on what would seem to be a fairly significant change to GISAID data access policy and platform operations. gisaid.org/about-us/gov...

Monumental effort led by Peter Simmonds and Jens Kuhn to reorganize the Family Flaviviridae based on analysis of RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) hallmark gene sequences is finally out. Enjoy reading. #ICTV @utmbhealth.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @sbvirologia.bsky.social

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

@andersonfbrito.bsky.social and I are seeking input from the community on hosting/sharing arbovirus sequencing data (DENV, CHIKV, OROV, ZIKV, & YFV) on @pathoplexus.org. Please consider filling out this VERY SHORT survey about your interest and/or concerns. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK

And now NextStrain as well. Next up, will GISAID start charging open-source community tools to have access? That would completely shaft users who contributed to GISAID, where we never agreed to that and assumed GISAID would be good custodians of the data we contributed. They're not.

Really cool mechanisms here.

Flamenco plasticity tunes somatic piRNAs, rewiring host isoforms and opening a route to heritable transposon spread https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.13.681963v1

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘦𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘪 mosquitoes spread chikungunya, dengue, and Zika. In a trial in Mexico, targeted indoor residual spraying led to lower mosquito levels but not lower disease risk. Full trial results: nej.md/46J4e7O #MedSky #IDSky

The role of climate variability in shaping the 2023/24 outbreak of Dengue in Brazil (📉 in north regions; 📈 in southern populous regions). Brazil recorded the largest outbreak on record which coincided with the warmest ever reported temperatures in the Americas. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

so here it is folks, with one day to spare the complete #SciArt collage of critters for #invertober2024 by @fossilforager.bsky.social and now I have a fresh clean slate to start the 2025 list! which hopefully is done before September 2026...