H5N1 in cows.....crazy. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

Does anyone happen to know where the idea that opossums can't get rabies bc of their low body temperature actually came from? I see it absolutely everywhere online but haven't found an obvious source

It seems like a good opportunity to release {phyloshapeR}, a new R package 📦I developed to create the cover! It is meant to be used to plot phylogenies using map contours (or any other figures) Check how to use it here: github.com/iramosgutierre…

New reasearch supports that leprosy passed between humans and red squirrels in medieval England, with fur trade and pet keeping playing an important role in the spread of the disease. This is the first time that an animal host of leprosy is found in the archaeological record.

An isolated case of BSE (Mad cow diseas) found on farm in Scotland - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

If you work on pandemics, global health security, disease ecology, or conservation, I hope you'll read and share our new preprint. 👇 (Or, just take this statistic: For every hour you travel from a clinic, the lifetime odds of detecting an outbreak goes down by one third.)

DECODING GENOMES - from sequences to phylodynamics: We are proud to present our book on how to analyse genomic sequences with an evolutionary perspective. See decodinggenomes.org for a free pdf, Amazon links for print orders, and further information. Great team effort 1/2

🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Want to come work at MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues? Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July! #bioinformatics UofG Sii

Rabies news: Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals. #rabies #unitedagainstrabies  Read more via the The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Bad news: type 2 poliovirus found in Gaza sewage. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Great to be back in Swansea this past week for The International Statistical Ecology Conference! Lots of interesting talks and cool people ☀️

Do I know any mustelid people on here who can help me figure out what this is? I can’t decide between otter and mink- seems too dark to be an otter but not pointy enough for mink? inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Applications still open until Monday for a three-year funded postdoc position within my startup lab group exploring new directions in computational virology, informatics, and macroevolution! #hiring #researchjobs

Had an amazing time at the UofG computational biology conference last week, and was super pleased to receive the best presentation award! Thanks to the organisers for putting on a great event 💻🌿

New Research Associate/Assistant post in Glasgow, using computational and statistical approaches to study virus infection, evolution, and transmission. Funded until Mar 2028. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJO681/res… Opportunity to pioneer new directions in virus research and develop a career.

NEW: It’s baaaaaack…! Winter season is coming and so has the UKSHA weekly respiratory surveillance report resumed its weekly publication. Headline: respiratory viruses are on their way up, led by rhinovirus (common cold) followed by COVID-19. gov.uk/government/sta…

And just over 3.5 years later, I submitted my PhD thesis yesterday! 🐕🦠