Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks Michelle! This preprint is now published in Virus Evolution academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...

Validate User

academic.oup.com

1 1 3

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Aug 14

I've always loved Ted Chiang and his writing

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · Aug 14

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

6

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

Alexey Markin @alexey-markin.bsky.social · Aug 11

TreeSort is out at MBE! Fresh off the press so DOI below is not yet working, but you can find the article here: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

💡If you want to apply it to your data - please see the tutorial here github.com/flu-crew/Tre...

1 3 6

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Jul 25

Emma is great, and leading the way on making better ways to share and aggreggate data. This is an awesome opportunity!!

Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢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

An image showing the ARTIC and Pathoplexus logos connected by blue lines, with the text "Hiring: post-doc/software engineer" and "Global open-source pathogen tools" and "Join Swiss TPH, Work on ARTIC2 and Pathoplexus, Basel, Switzerland"

4

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

Katherine Xue @ksxue.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Junior, Assistant, or Associate Specialist – Xue Lab

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ap.uci.edu

110 120

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Jun 18

Congrats @alisonfeder.bsky.social !!! This is so great to see!!

1 2

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

67 170

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · May 24

congrats @joeyzacks.bsky.social!!!! awesome to see

1 1

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · May 15

I'm so sorry Michael. This is awful

4

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Apr 3

I'm so sorry

1

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Mar 21

What the actual F. I'm so sorry. You're great, and these people are idiots.

5

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is so useful! Very good to know that someone is looking

David Bacsik @dbacsik.bsky.social · Mar 19

1/ How has H5N1 affected this year’s flu season in Seattle? Despite ongoing outbreaks in birds & cattle nationally, we detected zero H5N1 cases in 675 influenza A-positive specimens tested at UW Medicine.

7

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · Feb 25

The Virology Unit at IPC has 3 positions open in #OneHealth:

*Postdoc – Reconstructing Past Outbreaks

*Postdoc – Environmental Surveillance

*Clinical Manager

These aren’t just jobs. They’re front-row seats to global health in action. Ready?

tinyurl.com/57rvxcau

#ViroSky #IDSky 🦠🔬🧬🥼🧪

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on LinkedIn: The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: -…

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: - 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 – 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥…

tinyurl.com

10 8

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you!! This is helpful

1

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 28

degrees of surveillance and varying lag times between detections and depopulation. Does anyone know of good studies of actual, estimated mortality rates in chickens in non-laboratory settings? The people asking this question earnestly wanted good, real information and I'd like to help them get it.

2

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 28

and this is supported by experimental infection studies like this one. However, I'm having a hard time finding actual data/publications on estimated CFRs/mortality rates from the field. Theoretically, this should be knowable from past outbreaks and from comparisons between US states with varying ...

1 1

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 28

One common question from producers is why entire flocks need to be culled when one positive is detected on the farm. For farmers, this can look like these birds are healthy, and it's unclear why all birds are depopulated. My understanding is that H5N1 has essentially a 100% CFR in chickens...

2 2

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 28

This week @scottehensley.bsky.social and I briefed the Pennsylvania state House Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Health committees on H5N1. It was super interesting and useful, and we got some great questions. www.youtube.com/live/yRxdeG9..., we got one question that I would like to crowd source:

YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

www.youtube.com

1 2 14

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 24

Has anyone ever been to a MEEGID meeting, and if so, what did you think? www.elsevier.com/events/confe...

Meegid XVII | Elsevier

17th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutional Genetics of Infectious Diseases

www.elsevier.com

1 1

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 24

edit: Jonathan Pekar

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 24

Really lovely work here lead by Janathan Pekar, @worobey.bsky.social @peacockflu.bsky.social @influenzal.bsky.social and many others.

Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · Feb 24

Our analysis of the second incursion of H5N1 viruses (genotype D1.1) into dairy cattle in the US is now posted to virological virological.org/t/timing-and...

Timing and molecular characterisation of the transmission to cattle of H5N1 influenza A virus genotype D1.1, clade 2.3.4.4b

Jonathan E. Pekar, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Thomas P. Peacock, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK, GU24 0NF; Department of Infectious Disease, Imper...

virological.org

1 5

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · Feb 17

What is happening in the USA, including U.S. government censorship of research, is unacceptable. The least we can do is to state our opposition publicly. Please have a look at this declaration and--if you agree--put your name to it.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Declaration To Defend Research Against Government Censorship

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky....

docs.google.com

11 14

Reposted by Louise H. Moncla

American Society for Virology @amersocvirology.bsky.social · Feb 13

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

ASV Statement for our Members | American Society for Virology

Our American Society for Virology (ASV) promotes the study and combatting of viruses, more than ever recognizing their importance and responding to them with research and education. Our academic…

asv.org

1 32 64

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 13

It made me so happy to see that MMWR is back!

Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · Feb 13

An H5N1 serosurvey paper was released in MMWR Weekly today . Three of 150 vets had detectable neutralizing or HAI antibodies.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Notes from the Field: Seroprevalence of Highly ...

This report describes evidence of recent highly pathogenic avian influenza infection among three veterinary practitioners.

www.cdc.gov

9

Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · Feb 5

theoretically, yes, but the sequences have not been released yet

1 1