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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · 14d

Jesse Lazear died of yellow fever Sept. 25, 1900. Along with other research by the Yellow Fever Commission, his demonstration that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes provided the basis for efforts to control this devastating disease.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_W...

Portrait of Jesse Lazear, photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, image of Jesse Lazear’s fever chart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear
CDC Public Health Image Library ID#9257
Fever chart for Jesse W. Lazear, September 19, 1900, Box-folder 3:47, Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

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Celeste @celeste-robles.bsky.social · Aug 7

I wish you guys could've seen my jaw hit the floor when I got the email! So honored to be a part of the 2025 Gilliam Fellow cohort!! 😄

HHMI @hhmi.org · Aug 7

Congratulations 2025 Gilliam Fellows and Advisors! 🎉

The Gilliam Fellows Program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.
Through this program, HHMI supports both graduate students and their faculty thesis advisors.

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · Aug 8

So proud of Celeste Robles @celeste-robles.bsky.social for being selected as a 2025 Gilliam Fellow! Thrilled to be joining the Gilliam community @hhmi.org
www.hhmi.org/programs/gil...

2025 Gilliam Fellows program announcement highlighting graduate student Celeste Robles from UNC Chapel Hill (advisor Helen Lazear)

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · Jul 20

UNC Virologists at #ASV2025
Thanks @amersocvirology.bsky.social for a great meeting!
@joelrc.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @mdedloff.bsky.social @ascone.bsky.social @dapontediaz.bsky.social

Group photo of UNC virologists attending the 2025 American Society for Virology conference in Montreal. They are standing in front of a brightly colored mural, wearing their conference name badges, with bright smiles because of all the virology.

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Lazear Lab at #ASV2025 - great to see all these folks present their cool work on so many different viruses! @amersocvirology.bsky.social
@mdedloff.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @joelrc.bsky.social

Group photo of the Lazear Lab at ASV 2025 in Montreal. We are wearing our name badges and everyone is smiling because our presentations are done and went great!

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Margaret Dedloff @mdedloff.bsky.social · Jul 15

@amersocvirology.bsky.social

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Margaret Dedloff @mdedloff.bsky.social · Jul 14

Come see me chat about congenital ZIKV infection tomorrow! This project has been a labor of love and I’m so excited to share the progress we’ve made! 🦠 #ASV2025

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · May 6

So many accomplishments to celebrate as we close out this academic year! I'm so lucky to get to work with these awesome folks in the Lazear Lab!
@mdedloff.bsky.social @nigelmgo.bsky.social @abbieweight.bsky.social @viralvibes365.bsky.social @monicareece.bsky.social

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Mar 25

My OpEd in @elife.bsky.social

“It feels as if we are trying to fight a series of attacks on science with one arm tied behind our back and our lips half sewn shut.”

“Yet we are not beaten, and some of us are downright energized.”

elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Science Under Threat in the United States: Feeling abandoned but energized

Many individual researchers are frustrated by the response - or the lack of a response - from universities to a growing crisis.

elifesciences.org

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · Mar 3

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · Feb 14

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Feb 12

Live footage of the average NIH-funding academic as we cycle between maybe no longer having a job and court rulings allow NIH to resume evaluating and funding grants.
I do not recommend this life style, it sucks
Most of us just want to do important science unpeturbed.

an elderly woman is riding a roller coaster with her mouth open .

ALT: an elderly woman is riding a roller coaster with her mouth open .

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · Feb 11

🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Hey science friends?

I know that many of you are concerned about the perceived neutral and apolitical role of science in decisionmaking.

But scientists are being targeted. We didn't start it.

And advocating *for the role of scientific evidence in policymaking* is not unprofessional advocacy.

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Margaret Dedloff @mdedloff.bsky.social · Oct 22

If you’re at the Positive Strand RNA Viruses Keystone Symposia, come visit my poster (number 1037) tonight! I’m super excited to be presenting some new microscopy data that’s been in the works for several years now 😎🔬🦠

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Helen Lazear @lazearlab.bsky.social · Sep 30

New from Margaret @mdedloff.bsky.social in Annual Review of Virology: Antiviral and Immunomodulatory Effects of Interferon Lambda at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Dedloff 2024 Ann Rev Virol Fig 2: diagram summarizing the antiviral and immunomodulatory effects of IFN-L at the maternal-fetal interface

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Margaret Dedloff @mdedloff.bsky.social · Jun 25

I absolutely love this work & feel so lucky to be doing it. I’m so grateful I got to share it today! 🦠 #ASV2024 #LoveVirology

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Southeastern Regional Virology Conference @servc.bsky.social · Feb 13

Registration for the 2024 Southeastern Regional Virology Conference is live! Visit tarheels.live/servc for more details - abstracts are due March 1!

Southeastern Regional Virology Conference – April 12-14, 2024 Atlanta, GAsearchexpand

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