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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 7d

UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Details - Assistant Professor - Virology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 6d

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

Book cover of “The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking” by Thomas A. C. Reydon, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 10d

New #QVEU preprint! @williambakhache.bsky.social used our #EV71 mutational scanning library to dissect replication complex function with a collection of inhibitors against specific host and viral factors. Then used the data to validate structural predictions! Super cool #virosky #virus #evolution

Genotype-by-Inhibitor Interactions to Dissect Enterovirus Replication

Replication organelles of positive-sense RNA viruses are essential to virus biology, yet their molecular mechanisms remain poorly defined. While deep mutational scanning (DMS) measures the impact of m...

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 16d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 20d

First ever #QVEU lab “field trip” during group meeting as @orrwalk.bsky.social told us all about his summer research on powdery mildew! Fascinating!

Walker shows us powdery mildew on plants at NIH

Walker shows us a mutant arabidopsis that is susceptible to many other host species’ powdery mildews.

Lab on their field trip to find mildew specimen across the walkway from our building.

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 29d

The constant barrage of terrible news on bluesky has made me feel weird about promoting papers, but people in the lab have been doing so much amazing work over the past few months that I want to share a few brief teasers/links:

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Ron Geller @rongellerlab.bsky.social · Sep 8

New study! We compared the first two full-proteome Enterovirus DMS datasets and found both shared and unique selection pressures—plus conserved druggable pockets. Great collaboration with @ptdolan.bsky.social ’s team!
dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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Comparative Analysis of Deep Mutational Scanning Datasets in Enteroviruses A and B Identifies Functional Divergence and Therapeutic Targets

Deep mutational scanning (DMS) can define functional constraints acting on viral proteomes by quantifying the effects of mutations on viral fitness. However, DMS analyses do not discern type-specific ...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congratulations to the great Kanta Subbarao—the unanimous choice of the awards committee to receive the Edward Jenner Award! Nobody is more deserving for her contributions to developing vaccines for bird flu & other emerging respiratory pathogens. #19vaccinecongress

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Alison McBride @hobbesmcb.bsky.social · Sep 7

Latest work from our lab from Ashley Della Fera 😀

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Sep 6

Chromatin assembly by the histone chaperone HIRA facilitates Human Papillomavirus replication https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674520v1

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Kranzusch Lab @kranzuschlab.bsky.social · Sep 5

How can we understand the earliest events in evolution of eukaryotic immunity? @yao-li.bsky.social reports incredible molecular fossils of complete bacterial-like operons in eukaryotes that illuminate how animal immunity was first acquired from anti-phage defense

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gill, @lemeylab.bsky.social et al. develop Bayesian infinite mixture models for phylogenetic inference, finding that infinite hidden Markov models best capture complex patterns in large datasets; they implement this framework in BEAST X.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf199

#evobio #molbio

Infinite Mixture Models for Improved Modeling of Across-Site Evolutionary Variation

Abstract. Scientific studies in many areas of biology routinely employ evolutionary analyses based on inference of phylogenetic trees from molecular sequen

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N.S. Vitek @nsvitek.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.

#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs

apply.interfolio.com/171403

(I love being here. Come join!)

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

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VIB Training & Conferences @vibtrainconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Calling all #Microbes25 enthusiasts, it’s time to show off your finest science. Do not leave it trapped in your lab. Submit your abstract by September 4 & have a chance to win the Nature Microbiology Poster Prize: vibbio.tech/3UQkrkN.

@natmicrobiol.nature.com

#MicrobialBiotech #MicrobialEcology

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · Aug 18

Faculty search announcement 2025: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (some preference may be given to bacterial pathogens). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

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Amy Weeks @amyweeks.bsky.social · Aug 13

New preprint: we developed a method that uses phosphoproteome-derived peptide libraries (PhosPropels) for deep specificity profiling of phosphatases and phospholyases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out (and support!): “The Orphan Race”, the Illustrated Science Fantasy Debut by #friendofthelab and fellow virologist, Jenny Jones, on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/jen...

The Orphan Race: Illustrated Science Fantasy Debut

Robots, alien dragons, and one badass space detective converge in the limited edition to this debut. Illustrations by the author.

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · Aug 11

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AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 10

ROI on investment now in maintaining the pipeline has never been higher.

If we don't maintain the pipeline, ROI on future investment will be lower than ever before.

One doesn't need a PhD in economics to figure out that withdrawing pipeline funding here and now is either foolishness or cowardice.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 10

Three months ago I wrote about how there has never been a more important time for private philanthropy to support the junior scientists and invest in maintaining the talent pipeline previously supported by federal funding.

Here's the thread: bsky.app/profile/carl...

But instead:

Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · Aug 9

200 days in, checking in on HHMI funding opportunities:

Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program - not accepting applications

Gilliam Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program - not accepting applications

Investigator Program - not accepting applications

Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · May 17

This is not some small foundation -- HHMI has a $24 billion endowment. It is the world's 2nd richest biomedical research foundation.

If any funder can double down on their support for science right now, it's HHMI. But they are doing the opposite.

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Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Time’s running out!

We’re hiring 1 Scientist + 2 Postdocs at @PasteurCambodia’s #Virology Unit to work on emerging viruses & #zoonoses.

If you want to do real-time science that matters—this is your chance.

Apply now. Start soon.
🦠🔬🧪🐓💉🦇😷🥼

#academicjobs #OneHealth #Virology

Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · Jul 11

**JOBS ALERT**

The Virology Unit at @PasteurCambodia
hiring 1 Scientist and 2 Postdocs to join our fast-moving, field-connected, research-driven team on emerging viruses and zoonoses.

🧪🧬🥼🦠🔬🐓💉🦇😷

Limited time to apply — and we need people to start ASAP.**👇

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DermodyLab @dermodylab.bsky.social · Aug 5

New JCI paper led by postdoc Mikal Woods Acevedo shows immune cell infiltration—not viral load—drives paralysis in mice infected with enterovirus D68. Points to new targets for AFM treatment.
🔗 doi.org/10.1172/JCI1...
#Virology #NeuroImmunity #PostdocSpotlight #AFM

JCI - Immune cells promote paralytic disease in mice infected with enterovirus D68

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · Aug 4

A or B? Yes!

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ioannidis is a too-clever-by-half idiot.

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Just to sort of drive this home, I think we can critique science without embracing folks vibing its value like Ioannidis, and esteemed guest at #metascience 2025.

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hi #EvoSky #evobio - @biomedcentral.bsky.social BMC #Ecology and #Evolution is currently accepting submissions to a Special Collection “Evolution of disease: From pathogens to proliferating cells”. Please consider submitting your work! Deadline is March 16th. www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

Call for papers - Evolution of disease: From pathogens to proliferating cells

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · Aug 2

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

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