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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14h

I am more confused now that I have made the phylogenies. Life was easier in 2016 when there were fewer genotypes in GenBank 😅

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks for the tip!

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14h

Emma Davies did her third year undergraduate project in the lab I was working in (Team Wills!) and she was obviously on her way to great things in virology. Her upwards trajectory continues!

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Huge congratulations to Emma Davis, the winner of 2025's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize! We agree with Emma that all of the finalists' talks were brilliant and a massive well done to everyone involved!

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 20h

Does anyone know of any software for genotyping adenovirus directly from a FASTA, without making phylogenies?

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 8d

There's also a theory (beloved of Harald zur Hausen, of the HPV-cervical cancer link) that there's a class of common human viruses causing colorectal cancer. Probably wrong, but with a similarly muddy evidence base to UPFs...

Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 8d

Now now, Kate, less of this sensible discussion, that doesn't generate clickbait.

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 8d

Can someone at the BBC please pay me to write a news piece about common cold cases rising? It'll be evergreen, they can trot it out every September, I can even predict what day to publish it based on when English schools go back... www.gov.uk/government/s...

National flu and COVID-19 surveillance report: 25 September 2025 (week 39)

www.gov.uk

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 8d

I know the letters are hard to pronounce, BBC, but no one serious is ACTUALLY calling them Nimbus and Stratus, stop pandering to the silly naming! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Covid cases rising with new variants 'Nimbus' and 'Stratus'

Unwell with a bad throat and temperature? You may have one of the new Covid strains circulating this autumn.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 8d

They used to do decent pizzas.

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 9d

One paper in revision. Two papers under review. What's the betting they all end up back on my desk at the same time? #AcademiaSky #MicroSky #VirologySky

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 9d

I miss both romcoms and disaster movies.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

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Yet another way LLMs damage the social fabric
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Chart showing that AI-generated work causes people to think less of each other’s creativity, capability, reliability, trustworthiness, and intelligence

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

Human viruses, this is human Adenovirus B. I can't write that Latin name in a paper

a police officer says mother of god while wearing a checkered hat

ALT: a police officer says mother of god while wearing a checkered hat

media.tenor.com

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

Mastadenovirus faecale - sure, fine. Mastadenovirus caesari, Mastadenovirus dominans - what are we doing here kids?

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

ictv.global/report/chapter/adenoviridae/adenoviridae/mastadenovirus Mastadenovirus blackbeardi - really?

a man with long hair and a beard is wearing a black leather jacket

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is wearing a black leather jacket

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

Did a cat write this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ratmageddon: Why rats are overrunning our cities

Rats are multiplying at speed in urban areas. So, what's really behind the boom - and is it now unstoppable?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

There's a lot of rhinovirus about, especially in littlies. SARS-CoV-2 signal looks like 85+ might be driving it. Over 75s vaccination campaign starts Monday www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 12d

No one *wants* to know that answer, Willem...

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 13d

ME (actually no, but I have wanted to, and the thin veil of social civility keeps me from buying a pack)

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14d

Biolegend are so cheap for some reagents, I wonder if they are using them as loss leaders, or else other companies are just price-gouging [I am a big fan of Biolegend antibodies, it doesn't seem they reduce costs by reducing quality...]

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14d

Merci!

Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 14d

AAV5 viral vector - viruses to the rescue!

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Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social · 15d

Be right with you

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