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Samira Mubareka
@smubareka.bsky.social
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Infectious diseases and virology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and Research Institute, University of Toronto. Studying viral zoonoses & One Health; Wild EPI. CIHR-PHAC Applied Public Health Chair. A keeper of Q. Quarantino (Born to be Alive)
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d
Autumn in Algonquin
Arthur Lismer
1914
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 6d
Opeongo Ridge, Clear Lake
Charles Comfort
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 9d
Our short summary of the 11th International Symposium on Avian Influenza is now out - a part of the conference proceedings published in CJM.
👉 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 23d
Differential tissue tropism and transmission efficiency of two dominant influenza D clades with overlapping but distinct receptor binding fine specificities in ferrets

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Differential tissue tropism and transmission efficiency of two dominant influenza D clades with overlapping but distinct receptor binding fine specificities in ferrets
Author summary Although no human infection is reported, genome fragments of bovine influenza D virus and its antibodies were detected in humans. To evaluate the zoonotic potential of IDV and to gain a...
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Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social · 23d
Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host.

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First Sin Nombre virus (Orthohantavirus sinnombreense) genome sequences from the Northwestern United States
We report the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern United States and the first SNV sequences recovered from voles. Analysis of samples collected from 189 individual rode...
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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · 25d
#idboardreview mail sorter recently exposed to unknown powder in envelope and now in ICU with respiratory distress, widened mediastinum, blood cultures gram
Positive rod. What #isolation precaution is needed? #idmeded #meded #idsky #idfellows #IPsky
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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 27d
The National Ballet of Canada
Heather Ogden and Ben Rudisin
Balanchine's “Diamonds”
Photographer Karolina Kuras
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28d
O-Canada - Watch Yer Snacks
Timothy Wilson Hoey
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 28d
Ebola virus’ hidden target: virus transmission to and infection of skin journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Ebola virus’ hidden target: virus transmission to and infection of skin | Journal of Virology
Ebola virus (EBOV) remains one of the World Health Organization’s top 10 threats to global health, despite the availability of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine. EBOV spreads throug...
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Samira Mubareka @smubareka.bsky.social · Aug 27
Bravo! Congratulations @kayla-king.bsky.social
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UBC Science @science.ubc.ca · Aug 27
Congratulations to Dr. Kayla King who was awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture by the Royal Society for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology & genetics of infectious disease. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social @royalsociety.org bit.ly/4lGJrWB
Dr. Kayla King awarded Royal Society’s Francis Crick Medal
Evolutionary biologist Dr. Kayla King has been awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society of London for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology and genetics of i...
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Craig McCormick @craigmccormick.bsky.social · Aug 27
Locked out for 1 week so far.
Not a peep from employer.
Annoyed by their interference with our teaching and research mission (in my case, virus research for pandemic preparedness). Research grant deadline looms - Sept 10th.
Grateful for my @dalfaculty.bsky.social colleagues!
#KeepDalStrong
Exhausted sea captain at a bar, says "What a week, huh?". Young man in trench coat says "Captain, it's Wednesday"
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Dalhousie Lettuce @keepdalstrong.bsky.social · Aug 26
Six days.

Six days with no news for students or locked out faculty, counsellors, and librarians.

Six days with no news for other staff, community partners, or research collaborators at other univs.

Six days of the senior admin doing nothing.

15 days since the admin was at the bargaining table.
The Dal "Labour Relations" page indicating that the "latest news" and "latest updates" were all August 20 when they locked out DFA members.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Aug 25
I think about this quote a lot...
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Dr. Keith R. Brunt @profbrunt.bsky.social · Aug 26
Medical students should be learning today, in anatomy labs, getting curriculum maps, receiving lectures and engaging with Faculty. Next week ALL students will be as behind in ALL programs, engineering, law, biology, EVERYTHING!!!
Dalhousie is a Canadian U15 institution - an unprecedented lock out
DMNB DFA members in New Brunswick raise their fists in solidarity with colleagues, wearing DFA shirts in front of the medical school that they are locked out of. DFA members in New Brunswick point to their backs, where #KeepDalStrong is printed on their DFA T-shirts They stand looking at the medical school they are locked out of, and so can't teach medical or graduate students there.
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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · Aug 25
Solidarity and support, Thank you !

More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you!

Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts!

Keep Dal Strong
Dalhousie Faculty Association
#keepdalstrong
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 25
Landing
Christopher Pratt
1973
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Tom Peacock @peacockflu.bsky.social · Aug 21
Really excited to have been a part of this study, lead by @willharv.bsky.social on how reassortment of H5N1 in birds has lead to a 'specialist' genotype that thrives in seabirds and drives summer/spring (rather than winter) waves of poultry outbreaks www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genetic reassortment and diversification of host specificity have driven evolutionary trajectories of lineages of panzootic H5N1 influenza
Since 2021, subclade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) viruses have undergone changes in ecology and epidemiology, causing a panzootic of unprecedented scale in wild and domes...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 19
Jelly Shelf
Mary Pratt
1999
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 11
Beautiful Storm
Nicki Ault
2019
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Jul 27
Montagnes de Gaspésie
Claude Picher
1992
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Jul 26
Afterglow, Moose Lake
A.J. Casson
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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · Jul 26
#idboardreview A teenager rural SW Colorado w/ fever, fatigue, emesis x2d. 3wks ago exposed to crawl space & dusty chicken coop w/ mouse droppings. 4d ago buried a dead squirrel. Confusion, DIC, R inguinal/femoral tender lymph nodes. Dx? #medEd #idmedEd #IDsky #idfellows #idfellowship
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Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Indiana University @iuidfellowship.bsky.social · Jul 26
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Antimicrobial Treatment and Prophylaxis of Plague: Recommendations...
CDC considered individual expert input while developing these guidelines, which provide recommended best practices for treatment and prophylaxis of human plague for both naturally occurring disease an...
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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · Jul 21
🦇 NEW RESEARCH: Our 3-year study of Australian flying foxes identified six co-circulating coronaviruses, with highest rates of infection and co-infection in young bats, and evidence of circulating recombinants 🧪🌏 🧵

Available open access in @natcomms.nature.com

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Synchronized seasonal excretion of multiple coronaviruses coincides with high rates of coinfection in immature bats - Nature Communications
Bats harbor diverse coronaviruses but temporal dynamics are less well studied. Here, the authors analyzed coronaviruses in Australian flying foxes over 3 years showing peak shedding and co-infections ...
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