BatResearch - A.Prof. Aaron Irving
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Understanding bats through research. Host-Pathogen responses/Comparative Biology/Immunology. opinions my own. A. Prof @ZJE_institute Zhejiang University
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it’s bat friday! im working on this piece of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (fun fact: arizona bark scorpions are the most venomous scorpions in north america! but these bats can eat them no problem 😊) #science #bats #bugs #arthropods #sciart #illustration
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
it’s bat friday! im working on this piece of a pallid bat swooping down to eat an arizona bark scorpion (fun fact: arizona bark scorpions are the most venomous scorpions in north america! but these bats can eat them no problem 😊) #science #bats #bugs #arthropods #sciart #illustration
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There are 1500 described species of bat in the world with more being added all the time. Each species is unique in its requirements and the role they play in the ecosystem. In the UK we have 18 resident species www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
November 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
There are 1500 described species of bat in the world with more being added all the time. Each species is unique in its requirements and the role they play in the ecosystem. In the UK we have 18 resident species www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
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November 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Supporting the hatred of Ibis' everywhere!
“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Supporting the hatred of Ibis' everywhere!
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After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025
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August 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
After 11 years, Aaron and I tag teamed a joint seminar on Genotype to Phenotype: Bat immunity at #IBRC2025
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Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-...
Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot
The man's illness was found during monitoring contacts of his father who recently died from a Nipah infection.
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July 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Nipah virus infects another in India's hot spot www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/nipah-...
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#SMBE2025 Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity
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July 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#SMBE2025 Symposium 20: Thematic symposium: evolution of immunity
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🔗 smbe2025.scimeeting.cn/en/web/program/25070
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Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down.
Never a dull moment these days.
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Never a dull moment these days.
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CDC vaccine advisory committee to review long-approved immunizations
A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.
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June 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yesterday #CDC posted an extraordinary (also thorough & very useful) pre-buttal of claims about thimerosal in flu vaccines that will be made tomorrow at #ACIP. #HHS made CDC take it down.
Never a dull moment these days.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
Never a dull moment these days.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
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Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
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Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
Kurt-Jones et al. examined IFN-ε, a hormone-responsive type I IFN expressed by genital
epithelial cells, during Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Ng) infection. They demonstrated that
mice lacking IFN-ε exhibit ...
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June 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Interferon-epsilon, an estrogen-induced type I interferon, is uniquely exploited by Neisseria gonorrhoeae via effects on sialic acid metabolism
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A crazy week. One MSc student successfully defended. A PhD TAC agrees the student can submit. AI (student)-assignmemts marked and the Center for Infection, Immunity & Cancer symposia successfully concluded..
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A crazy week. One MSc student successfully defended. A PhD TAC agrees the student can submit. AI (student)-assignmemts marked and the Center for Infection, Immunity & Cancer symposia successfully concluded..
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⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:
Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !
These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !
These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A thread 1/14
May 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:
Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !
These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A thread 1/14
Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !
These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A thread 1/14
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Recombination between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
A positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus acquired a negative-sense open reading frame through recombination
Author summary The discovery of brine shrimp virga-like virus 1 (BSVV1) challenges the conventional view that positive- and negative-sense RNA viruses are evolutionarily independent. Through genomic a...
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April 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Recombination between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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We look forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Sampson's webinar on "Developing Research Capacity inAfrica: Focus on Pathogen Bioinformatics and Vaccine Development". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We look forward seeing you tomorrow for Prof. Sampson's webinar on "Developing Research Capacity inAfrica: Focus on Pathogen Bioinformatics and Vaccine Development". Register: www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
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CONFERENCE announcement: Two upcoming bat meetings. Come join us to learn all things about bats in Chicago and Cairns.
March 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
CONFERENCE announcement: Two upcoming bat meetings. Come join us to learn all things about bats in Chicago and Cairns.
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Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...
Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak
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March 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Measles cases top 350 in Texas-New Mexico measles outbreak www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...
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Never having worked in the US, I never realized that indirect costs could escalate to 70% of direct costs. Personally I think this is insane and a gross miss-appropriation of funding by administration. That being said, 15% is not enough by any means. It certainly cannot be implemented
February 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Never having worked in the US, I never realized that indirect costs could escalate to 70% of direct costs. Personally I think this is insane and a gross miss-appropriation of funding by administration. That being said, 15% is not enough by any means. It certainly cannot be implemented
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Despite carrying lethal pathogens, bats rarely develop disease — a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for decades
https://go.nature.com/4hBWzL0
https://go.nature.com/4hBWzL0
Viral tolerance enabled by a bat-specific genomic tweak
Comparative genomics reveals how virus-carrying bats resist disease.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Despite carrying lethal pathogens, bats rarely develop disease — a phenomenon that has intrigued scientists for decades
https://go.nature.com/4hBWzL0
https://go.nature.com/4hBWzL0