An early 20th century bat roost, erected in San Antonio for the purpose of malaria control. Bats of course eat mosquitoes. Dr. Charles Augustus Rosenheimer Campbell stands on the cross beam. It was his idea. Photo by Bain News Service. (Library of Congress)

I am hiring an associate scientist (non-PhD). If you have interest in #glycotime and antibody de novo sequencing please consider applying: regeneron.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...

🚨 A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov

Not enough UK dads are engaging with this consultation! A short survey could help make the world a slightly better place. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

Final call to submit your abstract for #OptionsXIII in #Washington, DC 🗓 Deadline this Friday 10 April Submit now: buff.ly/M0XfKjt #Influenza #RespiratoryViruses

Master's student in Germany and looking for potential PhD positions? Interested in viruses, evolution or virus-host interactions? But haven't found the right lab or project yet? Writing your own project proposal and applying for a PhD scholarship might be on option for you.... Then get in touch

In February 2021, a town in Brazil showed up for a groundbreaking randomized Covid vax trial, providing evidence of population effects of mass vaccination in a pandemic. My latest @plos.org post digs into this exciting precedent & why it matters: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/03/28/a...

📢We’re hiring! 3 Research Associates to join Professor Arthur Kaser's lab at #CITIID to investigate FAMIN, a core enzyme we discovered that prevents inflammation and autoimmunity. ➡️https://buff.ly/Gtbb6ss ➡️https://buff.ly/W4cr9xC ➡️https://buff.ly/kDv7VdI Apply by 9 April.

💥 Paper published 💥 Curious how #SARS2 has changed since jumping into humans? We were too! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 🧵 🧵 🧵

How diverse is bacterial immunity ? We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems. 👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie... Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

Great tribute to Robin from the Microbiology Society.

AND this understates the problem as many submissions are initially rejected with an invitation to resubmit. This often makes the gap between 'Received' and Accepted appear way shorter than it actually was.

Monthly median Received to Accepted time (days) at Nature Genetics

We are excited to share our new paper in Molecular Cell uncovering how the viral lncRNA RNA2.7 reshapes host cell biology! sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S1097276526001565/20260324T143400Z/1?md5=16c84051c2f253c4665427f837a529d3&dgcid=author A thread 🧵

Delighted to highlight our new publication re. CCHFV hijacking of lipid metabolism!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Congratulations to all a the HEAL team and to our collaborators! @solene-denolly.bsky.social @ciri-lyon.bsky.social @crcl-research.bsky.social

𝘈𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘦 is a newly discovered species of wingless #fly from China that lives in a very specific home: the base of a horseshoe bat's ear! 🦇 Access the full study here: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1273.183551 @ucph.bsky.social #bat #parasite #endoparasite #morphology

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

Do you want to move to Oxford and join our lab? There is a computational biologist position open atm to develop and implement tools to analyse TE expression in single cell long read data and more. Apply! #TEsky #UniversityofOxford #postdoc

Wow. Black tree frogs and radiation-loving fungus?! A fascinating look at how wildlife has adapted in Chernobyl over the years. Worth a read: www.sciencefocus.com/nature/5-ser...

🔬 We’re hiring in Zürich🇨🇭! My lab is recruiting a new PhD student in molecular immunology (interferons, autoantibodies & viral disease). Position is fully-funded. Starting date anticipated to be late 2026/early 2027. Further details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/IMVPhD2026 Deadline 1st May 2026.

Someone suggested BA.3.2 might preferentially infect kids. I think they're right. Ages of SARS-2 sequences since Dec 1 in Ireland: non-BA.3.2 6/66 (9.1%) age 0-19, (0/1 hospital tests) BA.3.2 43/91 (47.3%) age 0-19 (1/3 hospital tests) 1/4

Great to hear our @lab-rihn-th.bsky.social & Ravi Gupta speaking last night alongside @thav-lab.bsky.social on preparing for the next pandemic. Important insights on future zoonotic coronaviruses, viral evolution under immune pressure & next-generation interventions.💡 @cambridgefestival.bsky.social

Prof Jon Butterworth of University College London, described the level of cuts as "existentially threatening" to UK particle physics. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#PostdocRecruiting: My group at the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Postdoc in virology and structural biology. Please see more details here: utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/... Informal inquiries are encouraged, and see more lab info here: zunlongke-lab.org

Interesting read: The Great Horse #Flu of 1872 and How It Brought North America to a Screeching Halt open.substack.com/pub/phnights...

Transient RNA structures play a key role in the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses! Great to see this collaboration with Mathis Funk, Mathilde Richard, Stephen Cusack, and others in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating some of the women across @medcambridge.bsky.social who are advancing research, improving patient care, and shaping the future of healthcare. Read along to find out more: buff.ly/5RArf1F @vpd-hlri.bsky.social #CITIID #PACE @cuh.nhs.uk @cam.ac.uk

Another great article featuring our research published in @nature.com Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org

Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you! 1/n

Applications are now open for the 7th ISRV School of Respiratory Viruses, hosted by the School of Public Health at The University of Hong Kong. Program details: isrv.eventsair.com/7th-isrv-sch... Apply here: isrv.eventsair.com/Presentation... Applications close: 30 April (UTC+8) 🦠🐓🧪😷🥼💉🔬

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 been lucky to know many great scientists, but Robin was really way up there as a creative thinker, intellect, pioneer - yet, unusually, managed to combine this with being utterly kind, generous, warm. We’ll miss him

This is a huge loss for UK virology, and for the whole scientific community

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

With Eugene Koonin, we propose a concept of “the selfish ribosome”, under which evolution of life is viewed as a ribosomal takeover, where the ribosome evolved to consume most of the cell’s resources, while other cellular componentry ensures the propagation of the ribosome. arxiv.org/abs/2602.23268

Registration and abstract submission for the international Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors (a UK Microbiology Society event), Liverpool 1-2 September 2026, are now open! Link: microbiologysociety.org/event/full-e...

Two great 4y positions up for grabs with us and Ross working on his BBSRC MosquitoNI project, with collaborators in GB. Deadlines in a week (research fellow) and 2 weeks (RA). Lots of vector ecology and modelling but also looking at what viruses can we find in our 🦟!

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team! Interested in herpesvirus latency? Apply here: www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...

Out now in Cell Systems: We develop a technique to visualize influenza A virus in live cells with single viral RNA resolution. Combined with precise readouts of viral transcription, we map the whole influenza A viral life cycle and identify key bottlenecks in infection. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

Such a good example of cross-species transmission. Very cool story (apart from the poor mangabeys).

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🚨 New paper from the lab! 🚀 We explore flexibility and modulation of IRES-dependent translation in enterovirus genomes through upstream ORFs. Many thanks to all co-authors from the @campathology.bsky.social, CIMR and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute! dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

In a new article with Kevin Groen, we review the most recent scientific developments relating to autoantibodies targeting type I interferons and their impacts on severe viral disease: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham. Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...

This is finally out. Very short take home. All the variation in spike that produced the immune escape characteristics of Omicron can occur in one single persistently infected individual over the period of a year. This is why persistent infections matter www.cell.com/cell-reports...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...