If you don't watch InfoWars (yes, that one) regularly, you might have missed my star turn in the antivax world. To cement the academic cliché, I wrote a Guardian piece about it... theguardian.com/commentisfree/… ... and thought I'd put a few more thoughts here 🧵 1/n

Great to see Prof. Carlo Palmieri Carlo Palmieri and team on BBC 10pm News BBC News discussing plans to study Secondary Breast Cancer at Liverpool"s iconic new Clatterbridge Hospital. A dreadful disease borne bravely by so many of our friends and family. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-588106…

I must admit that this annotated Nature abstract remains a useful recipe for constructing a summary paragraph. I show it to my students every time we get started.

Why are some people irresistible to mosquitoes? We applied behavioral analysis, genetics & metabolomics to gain new insight into this widely pondered question, which has important public health implications. Follow the thread below to see what we found. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Quick explainer on some of the key findings in our recent paper. nature.com/articles/s4158…. We find Omicron spike binds ACE2 better than Delta. Both variants replicate similarly in nasal cell cultures, but in airway cells high in TMPRSS2 there was significant impairment for Omicron

Do you love ~20 MYO #retroelements, #HGT, #virus #evolution, #transposons & parasitic #worms as much as I do?! 🥁 I present Atlas virus, an endogenous virus in the human hookworm with a phlebovirus-like env/Rift Valley fever virus M segment! 👩🏼‍🔬🪱🦠#junkDNA science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Huge thanks to Peter Openshaw 🙌 Peter Openshaw for taking the time to speak to our London Infection Postdoc Network @LondonPostdoc on all things RSV and human challenge 👏🏻

Day 1 of #Bunya2022 is done. Thanks to all the great speakers, including all our fabulous Flash Poster presenters. Thanks also to our sponsors Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Microbiology Society Robinson College Biochemical Society Pathogens MDPI #JGenVirol On to day 2 for more enthralling #lovevirology talks!

I am so glad I participated and been invited to give (my first ever!!) talk on pseudotyping viruses at the #Bunya2022 conference! Thank you so much for two days of incredible talks and posters. I feel lucky to have met so many incredible scientist!

Opportunity to join the team and develop your career at MHRA. civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

📢Posizioni da Ricercatore aperte per Genomic researcher/Data scientist/Structural biologist/Microscopist e altro ancora, in Area Science Park a Trieste, all'interno di entusiasmanti progetti PNRR e PNR. Aiutate a far circolare con un re-tweet, grazie! areasciencepark.it/wp-content/upl…

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Arrived in Birmingham and so excited to attend #microbio23 ! With @DAYara1991 and Carl Winn 🤗

What an interesting talk on #Chikungunya and serological response by @DAYara1991 🤩 today at #microbio23

Finally out in full today! Correlation between pseudotyped virus and authentic virus neutralisation assays, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

The Emerging Viruses 2024 website is live: lpmhealthcare.com/emerging-virus… #EmergingViruses #EVOx24 #Influenza #zika #ebola #vaccination #Immunology Professor Nigel Temperton 👨‍🎓🎧🇪🇺 Simon Scott Edward Wright @VisMederiGroup

More and more abstracts are coming in every day 🥳 I look forward to these three days of discussion and networking. Please remind that there are three days left for abstract submission. #prpconference2024