Jana Batovska

I highly recommend volunteering to chair a session at #MicroSeq2025, especially if you've never done it before. Super low stakes, chill environment with lots of support from the committee. Great place to learn this pretty valuable skill!

This Researcher Wants Your Photos of ‘Gulls Eating Stuff’ A community science project examines how gull diets are shifting amid population declines.

Nice mention of our Communications and Public Affairs Director @susierabin.bsky.social in this article from @audubon.org about the Gulls Eating Stuff citizen science project 👇

www.audubon.org/magazine/res...

#GullsEatingStuff #CitizenScience

⚠️ Discovery of a new mode of viral transmission:

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse !

These viral satellites that do not encode their own glycoproteins, are in fact physically encapsulated within their helper virus particles!

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

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Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes - Nature Reviews Genetics In this Review, Roux and Coclet outline current viromics approaches and discuss how they have contributed to our growing understanding of viral genomic diversity, focusing on uncultivated viruses of m...

Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Understanding the evolutionary dynamics of Monkeypox virus through less explored pathways - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Understanding the evolutionary dynamics of Monkeypox virus through less explored pathways

Just published! Our latest research sheds light on the evolutionary dynamics of #Monkeypox virus, looking at previously underexplored pathways. Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#research #publichealth #virus #mpox #bioinformatics #metagenomics #biology

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠
🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Registration and abstract submission for MicroSeq2025 is open. Abstract submission closes August 8, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com. MicroSeq2025 is an online meeting being held on September 3rd and 4th, focused on research being conducted on sequencing data generated from microbiological samples (bacteria, fungi, and viruses). MicroSeq2025 is supported by The Australian Society for Microbiology, the Australasian Virology Society, and Microbial Genomics.

🚨Abstract submission & registration for #MicroSeq2025 is OPEN! 🚨Get in quick! The first 50 registrations are FREE for PhD students and ECRs who are current ASM members, thanks to @aussocmic.bsky.social.

Head to our website to register now 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

The Australian/New Zealand eDNA/eRNA best practice guidelines are a collaborative effort developed with input from diverse stakeholders; they reflect the collective expertise of the region's eDNA communities.

👉 bit.ly/3TyLIZ2

#eDNA #research #Science #DNA #Environment

The ERGA Knowledge Hub The ERGA Knowledge Hub is live! The main goal of this new portal is to gather and share educational materials on genomics and related topics, lowering access barriers and promoting knowledge exchange ...

Have you explored the #ERGA Knowledge Hub? 🧠🧬
It's your go-to destination for curated #biodiversity #genomics educational materials. Browse the available links and contribute your own!

👉 Learn more: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/the-erg...

@ebpgenome.bsky.social @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

When are environmental DNA early detections of invasive species actionable? Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling provides sensitive early detection capabilities for recently introduced taxa. However, natural resource managers str…

How can #DNA enter into decision-making?

Here is a research based on two case studies using eDNA sampling and its potential integration into an early detection rapid response program.

👉 bit.ly/3IRlYRR

Do you know of any similar study or experience?
Let us know!

#Policy #Science #Biodiversity

Semi-automated sequence curation for reliable reference datasets in ITS2 vascular plant DNA (meta-)barcoding - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Semi-automated sequence curation for reliable reference datasets in ITS2 vascular plant DNA (meta-)barcoding

"Typically, reference datasets are constructed with sequences downloaded from general public databases, which can carry taxonomic and other relevant errors"

Researchers have tried to address this issue by curating datasets.

Read more👉 bit.ly/3PUEKeU

#eDNA #DNA #Data #Dataset #Genomics

Trailer: Genomic Connections Genomic Connections · Episode

Introducing #GenomicConnections 🧬🎙️- a new podcast by #ERGA and @iboleurope.bsky.social exploring the science, stories, and people behind #biodiversity genomics.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2n6t...

📢 Stay tuned for the first episode later this week!

#Connections #Science #Podcast #genomics

ARDC Research Vocabularies Australia

The ARDC’s Research Vocabularies Australia is a national vocabulary service that brings together defined vocabularies across the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. Defined vocabularies are sets of standardised terms that ensure the research community describes and understands data in the same way.

Maximise the impact of your research with Research Vocabularies Australia.

Researchers don’t always speak the same language. 💬
ARDC Research Vocabularies Australia is a national service bringing together standard vocabularies across the sciences and HASS.
Browse, search, access or publish vocabularies now > bit.ly/ardcrva

#research #data #vocabulary #FAIRdata

Review of avian influenza viruses in pigeons, birds which have direct contact with livestock and poultry. Diversity of subtypes recovered.
👉 www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17...

Overview of HPAI panzootic, with species affected and nice analysis of virus movement across the different phases of the panzootic.
👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11910

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

The overlapping global distribution of dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever - Nature Communications Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes have an expanding global distribution and identifying areas at risk is important for public health planning. Here, the authors present global disease maps f...

The overlapping global distribution of #dengue, #chikungunya, #Zika and #yellowfever

#IDsky ⚕️ #EpiSky 🦟

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great piece on HPAI, with a nice feature of both B3.13 and D1.1 and the dairy cow epizootics, and some insight into pathogenicity in humans.
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

AI biosecurity tool could help save farmers time Scientists are developing a new webtool which will use Artificial Intelligence to give time-pressured farmers tailored advice on how to protect their livestock from disease.

SRUC and @moredunfoundation.bsky.social are developing an AI web tool to give farmers bespoke advice on protecting livestock from disease. It will summarise official biosecurity guidance, delivering the most relevant info when needed. Join our webinar to see how it works!
buff.ly/IIOwQ2b

We continue with our work with GRIIS checklists to
🟢Enhance & deploy automated publication workflows of GRIIS checklists in Cyprus, Belgium, Portugal & Romania
🟢Aggregate checklists into a European list, with automatic matching of scientific names to GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

#GuardiasOnestopKickoff

The 2025 March issue of the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology bit.ly/2N9R8Es explores blood feeding impact on vector-borne diseases #sandfly #aedes #bloodfeeding I love the cover!

Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger? How climate change shapes mosquito immunity.

Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions

Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

A promotional banner for the One Health Computational Network Symposium 2025. On the left, a blue background contains white text reading "One Health Computational Network Symposium 2025" alongside the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) logo. On the right, a researcher wearing a lab coat, gloves, a mask, and glasses is using a pipette to load a sample into an Oxford Nanopore GridION sequencing device. The bottom of the banner features logos of partnering institutions, including the University of Glasgow, CVR, The Pirbright Institute, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh.

📢 Join us at the upcoming @ukri.org One Health Computational Network Symposium #OHCN2025, we'll be discussing surveillance, AI's potential, genome epidemiology & public health.

Connect with experts and help advance pandemic preparedness.

Register now: bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/one-health-c...

People of Brisbane and Melbourne we need your help! We are trying to develop a new diagnostic for Long Covid and so we are asking people with Long Covid to kindly join our study - please DM me if you have any questions about the study or Long Covid in general! Please repost!

Online activity on social media (Twitter) and search engine (Google) trends can detect avian influenza outbreaks, providing alerts earlier compared to official reports
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2503.09725

The University of Malta hosts EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory for research and training | EMBL EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) is stationed at the University of Malta for one month, to provide advanced technology, expertise and training to Malta’s scientific community.

EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) has reached Malta, bringing its cutting-edge field equipment to support local scientists.
The Mobile Laboratories team will work with the University of Malta for one month, providing advanced technology, expertise, and training.
www.embl.org/news/connect...

GitHub - rrwick/condaenvlist: a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions a simple tool for listing conda environments with descriptions - rrwick/condaenvlist

Do you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them?

If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...

Enhance your research collaborations with the ARDC BinderHub Service.

BinderHub enables you to turn your code, data, and computational environments into shareable and executable packages.

“BinderHub is key to the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) because it makes our text analytics tools more accessible to researchers ... In the future, we aim to make ATAP a platform for collaboration, and BinderHub will be the key to that also.” – Dr Ben Foley, Applications and Training lead for ATAP at the University of Queensland.

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New preprint by Joseph Tsui (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/josep...) on the detection of viral importations of emerging infectious diseases under low sampling regimes.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Critical work for more accurately estimating the timing and intensity of lineage movements.

Smart surveillance really coming into its own. Air, water, and surface sampling in bird markets w NGS can outperform traditional swab based approaches in detecting in a diversity of viruses, including avian influenza. Amazing work by @E_A_Karlsson + team
👉 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...