Dr Liam Brierley
@liambrierley.bsky.social
Virologist, statistician, and science presenter.
Runs @vibelab.co.uk
Research Fellow at @cvrinfo.bsky.social
Ambassador for @royalstatsoc.bsky.social
Five parts emerging virus epi, two parts R/compsci, ten parts caffeine.
he/him 🏳️🌈♾
Runs @vibelab.co.uk
Research Fellow at @cvrinfo.bsky.social
Ambassador for @royalstatsoc.bsky.social
Five parts emerging virus epi, two parts R/compsci, ten parts caffeine.
he/him 🏳️🌈♾
Pinned
An AI for an AI: identifying zoonotic potential of avian influenza viruses via genomic machine learning
Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...
www.biorxiv.org
🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted!
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.
Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
www.cdc.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.
It's Trans Awareness Week and @rssdiversity.bsky.social and @rainbowr.org's event tomorrow! 🏳️⚧️
Please join me from 17.30GMT at www.youtube.com/@RSSDiversity (stream will be up on homepage) to hear from Dr Voigt and Dr Webster on data on trans identities, barriers in trans lives, and better advocacy.
Please join me from 17.30GMT at www.youtube.com/@RSSDiversity (stream will be up on homepage) to hear from Dr Voigt and Dr Webster on data on trans identities, barriers in trans lives, and better advocacy.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's Trans Awareness Week and @rssdiversity.bsky.social and @rainbowr.org's event tomorrow! 🏳️⚧️
Please join me from 17.30GMT at www.youtube.com/@RSSDiversity (stream will be up on homepage) to hear from Dr Voigt and Dr Webster on data on trans identities, barriers in trans lives, and better advocacy.
Please join me from 17.30GMT at www.youtube.com/@RSSDiversity (stream will be up on homepage) to hear from Dr Voigt and Dr Webster on data on trans identities, barriers in trans lives, and better advocacy.
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My 1st first-author paper is out as a preprint! Excited to share the fascinating story of marine-feeding vampire bats 🌊🦇 We found that marine-diet bats were exposed to #H5#AvianFlu 🦠 from marine wildlife and could potentially spread it to livestock via blood feed🩸
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.09.686930
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
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...
Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature
The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️⚧️
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️⚧️
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
TONIGHT! Don't miss out on Glasgow's best* science comedy evening!
* within 95% confidence interval
* within 95% confidence interval
In two weeks! Live stand-up comedy from 100% real in-the-flesh researchers and scientists including me (am real last time I checked). This time we got everything from Scottish philosophy & saintspeak to astrophysics & mystery diseases!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
TONIGHT! Don't miss out on Glasgow's best* science comedy evening!
* within 95% confidence interval
* within 95% confidence interval
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
Bright Club is back!
Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians.
📅 Mon 10 November
📍 The Stand, Glasgow
Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4hivOMZ
Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians.
📅 Mon 10 November
📍 The Stand, Glasgow
Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4hivOMZ
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Bright Club is back!
Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians.
📅 Mon 10 November
📍 The Stand, Glasgow
Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4hivOMZ
Join us at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians.
📅 Mon 10 November
📍 The Stand, Glasgow
Get your tickets for £4 using discount code "BRIGHTCLUB": gla.ac/4hivOMZ
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
🧬 Thrilled to share our latest paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 📄
A collaboration to give the Flaviviridae (home to Zika, Dengue & HCV) a much-needed taxonomic re-think.
Our at-scale AI structure prediction gave a complementary perspective on viral evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A collaboration to give the Flaviviridae (home to Zika, Dengue & HCV) a much-needed taxonomic re-think.
Our at-scale AI structure prediction gave a complementary perspective on viral evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flaviviridae - Nature Microbiology
Analysis of RNA polymerase hallmark gene phylogenies supported by protein structure relationships of flaviviruses and ‘flavi-like’ viruses underpins the taxonomic expansion and reorganization of Flavi...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🧬 Thrilled to share our latest paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com 📄
A collaboration to give the Flaviviridae (home to Zika, Dengue & HCV) a much-needed taxonomic re-think.
Our at-scale AI structure prediction gave a complementary perspective on viral evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A collaboration to give the Flaviviridae (home to Zika, Dengue & HCV) a much-needed taxonomic re-think.
Our at-scale AI structure prediction gave a complementary perspective on viral evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In two weeks! Live stand-up comedy from 100% real in-the-flesh researchers and scientists including me (am real last time I checked). This time we got everything from Scottish philosophy & saintspeak to astrophysics & mystery diseases!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
October 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In two weeks! Live stand-up comedy from 100% real in-the-flesh researchers and scientists including me (am real last time I checked). This time we got everything from Scottish philosophy & saintspeak to astrophysics & mystery diseases!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
👀 discount code: BRIGHTCLUB
🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted!
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An AI for an AI: identifying zoonotic potential of avian influenza viruses via genomic machine learning
Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...
www.biorxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted!
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
Experimental infections reveal unexceptional viral tolerance in bats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672855v1
September 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Experimental infections reveal unexceptional viral tolerance in bats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.28.672855v1
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
Virus researchers! Please consider participating in this project - it would be a huge help to our lab, and we think it'll lead to some really exciting synthesis. Plus, you'll get an invitation to participate in a workshop later in the project! 🦠😷
🧬🦠🌍 What are the big, cross-scale questions shaping the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses?
@torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
@torrelavelle.bsky.social and I are building a list of 100 questions + want your input. Help map the future of EEID — fill out & share our short survey!
🔗 airtable.com/appTW4ZoSFjR...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Virus researchers! Please consider participating in this project - it would be a huge help to our lab, and we think it'll lead to some really exciting synthesis. Plus, you'll get an invitation to participate in a workshop later in the project! 🦠😷
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
We have a job going for a bioinformatician / computational biologist at the CVR in Glasgow. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/computat...
Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician
Computational Biologist/Bioinformatician COLLEGE OF MVLSSchool of Infection and Immunity Job PurposeThe post holder will join the Bioinformatics group at the School of Infection and Immunity, MRC-U...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
We have a job going for a bioinformatician / computational biologist at the CVR in Glasgow. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/computat...
If I had a nickel for every consecutive year we've had janky 3D-rendered big cats, I'd only have two nickels but it's weird it's happened twice.
May 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If I had a nickel for every consecutive year we've had janky 3D-rendered big cats, I'd only have two nickels but it's weird it's happened twice.
I'm only able to join ViBioM virtually (thank you @evbc.bsky.social for making this available!!) but some fantastic talks from the @systemsvirology.bsky.social lab who are innovately retraining protein language models to infer virus evolution, antigenicity, and epi! おめでとうございます
May 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm only able to join ViBioM virtually (thank you @evbc.bsky.social for making this available!!) but some fantastic talks from the @systemsvirology.bsky.social lab who are innovately retraining protein language models to infer virus evolution, antigenicity, and epi! おめでとうございます
So much #scicomm in Glasgow in the next month!
Talks in a pub? ✔️ - @pintofscience.uk: pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow
Family activities? - ✔️ Glasgow Science Festival: www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien...
and my (biased) fave - Science comedy??? - ✔️ Bright Club: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Talks in a pub? ✔️ - @pintofscience.uk: pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow
Family activities? - ✔️ Glasgow Science Festival: www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien...
and my (biased) fave - Science comedy??? - ✔️ Bright Club: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
May 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So much #scicomm in Glasgow in the next month!
Talks in a pub? ✔️ - @pintofscience.uk: pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow
Family activities? - ✔️ Glasgow Science Festival: www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien...
and my (biased) fave - Science comedy??? - ✔️ Bright Club: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Talks in a pub? ✔️ - @pintofscience.uk: pintofscience.co.uk/events/glasgow
Family activities? - ✔️ Glasgow Science Festival: www.gla.ac.uk/events/scien...
and my (biased) fave - Science comedy??? - ✔️ Bright Club: www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Last day for abstract submission to present your work at the 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗴𝗼𝘄 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 and connect with researchers across all directions of virology! We would love to have more representation and contributions from ECRs and students!
Abstracts info in link below!
Abstracts info in link below!
📅 Glasgow Virology Workshop (5 Sep, c/o @cvrinfo.bsky.social ): www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
An informal and friendly workshop in all aspects of virology interactive discussions throughout the day. Undergraduates and Masters students welcome!
An informal and friendly workshop in all aspects of virology interactive discussions throughout the day. Undergraduates and Masters students welcome!
University of Glasgow - Research - Research units A-Z - MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research - Engage - Events & Seminars - Glasgow Virology WorkshopSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon ...
www.gla.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Last day for abstract submission to present your work at the 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗴𝗼𝘄 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 and connect with researchers across all directions of virology! We would love to have more representation and contributions from ECRs and students!
Abstracts info in link below!
Abstracts info in link below!
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
🎓Big Congratulations to Dr Hollie French for passing her Viva yesterday! 🎉
📄Thesis: ‘Genomic Surveillance and Biogeography of Vampire Bat Rabies in Central America and Mexico.’ 🦇🦠and thank you to her supervisor:
@danielstreicker.bsky.social
📄Thesis: ‘Genomic Surveillance and Biogeography of Vampire Bat Rabies in Central America and Mexico.’ 🦇🦠and thank you to her supervisor:
@danielstreicker.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🎓Big Congratulations to Dr Hollie French for passing her Viva yesterday! 🎉
📄Thesis: ‘Genomic Surveillance and Biogeography of Vampire Bat Rabies in Central America and Mexico.’ 🦇🦠and thank you to her supervisor:
@danielstreicker.bsky.social
📄Thesis: ‘Genomic Surveillance and Biogeography of Vampire Bat Rabies in Central America and Mexico.’ 🦇🦠and thank you to her supervisor:
@danielstreicker.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in a single sheep in Yorkshire following repeat positive milk testing.
To my knowledge, this is the first time the virus has been detected in sheep.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
To my knowledge, this is the first time the virus has been detected in sheep.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire
Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.
www.gov.uk
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in a single sheep in Yorkshire following repeat positive milk testing.
To my knowledge, this is the first time the virus has been detected in sheep.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
To my knowledge, this is the first time the virus has been detected in sheep.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️
Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and @cvrinfo.bsky.social supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and @cvrinfo.bsky.social supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Comparative study of tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses using AI-powered text mining at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Comparative study of tropism and emergence of virulent companion animal viruses using AI-powered text mining at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️
Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and @cvrinfo.bsky.social supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and @cvrinfo.bsky.social supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
We love to hear about about the amazing work of our William Guy Lecturers in bringing stats to young people!
Want to inspire the next generation with a talk about stats and AI?
There's still time to apply for our 2025/26 lectureship 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Want to inspire the next generation with a talk about stats and AI?
There's still time to apply for our 2025/26 lectureship 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Had a really enjoyable morning @ri-science.bsky.social doing an extended workshop version of my @royalstatsoc.bsky.social William Guy Lecture. It’s a great way to finish my activities for #BritishScienceWeek!
March 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We love to hear about about the amazing work of our William Guy Lecturers in bringing stats to young people!
Want to inspire the next generation with a talk about stats and AI?
There's still time to apply for our 2025/26 lectureship 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Want to inspire the next generation with a talk about stats and AI?
There's still time to apply for our 2025/26 lectureship 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Don't forget this is tonight! Last tickets available below!
Join us on Monday 10 March at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians for Bright Club, the academic stand-up comedy night!
Get your tickets now ⬇️
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
@emilynordmann.bsky.social
Get your tickets now ⬇️
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
@emilynordmann.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Don't forget this is tonight! Last tickets available below!
yes yes yes yes yes yes!!
Get them tickets if you want some dazzling academics tickling your funny bones with tales of asexuality, booze, saints, sensory stimulation, and more!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Get them tickets if you want some dazzling academics tickling your funny bones with tales of asexuality, booze, saints, sensory stimulation, and more!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Join us on Monday 10 March at The Stand Glasgow for a night of laughs as our researchers and academics turn into stand-up comedians for Bright Club, the academic stand-up comedy night!
Get your tickets now ⬇️
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
@emilynordmann.bsky.social
Get your tickets now ⬇️
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
@emilynordmann.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
yes yes yes yes yes yes!!
Get them tickets if you want some dazzling academics tickling your funny bones with tales of asexuality, booze, saints, sensory stimulation, and more!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Get them tickets if you want some dazzling academics tickling your funny bones with tales of asexuality, booze, saints, sensory stimulation, and more!
www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...
Reposted by Dr Liam Brierley
🎺 PhD studentship available at @lshtm.bsky.social and RVC! @influenzal.bsky.social and I are advertising for a project to investigate the unexpected phenomenon that mutagenic antiviral drugs can give rise to viruses with hundreds of mutations which are still viable. 🧵
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
2025-26 Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentships | LSHTM
The Bloomsbury Colleges group was set up in 2004 and consists of five institutions: Birkbeck, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), the School of Or...
www.lshtm.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🎺 PhD studentship available at @lshtm.bsky.social and RVC! @influenzal.bsky.social and I are advertising for a project to investigate the unexpected phenomenon that mutagenic antiviral drugs can give rise to viruses with hundreds of mutations which are still viable. 🧵
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...