agar art logo with 2025 contest theme, "Microbes Make the World Go Round."
Last call! 🧫🎨 Show us how “Microbes Make the World Go Round” in ASM’s Agar Art Contest.
🕛 Deadline: Oct. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
👉 Enter here: asm.social/2Es
@daniel-schulze.bsky.social
virology and synthetic biology enthusiast | 1/8 of iGEM TU Braunschweig 2023 | M.Sc. student in Biomedicine @ki.se
agar art logo with 2025 contest theme, "Microbes Make the World Go Round."
Last call! 🧫🎨 Show us how “Microbes Make the World Go Round” in ASM’s Agar Art Contest.
🕛 Deadline: Oct. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
👉 Enter here: asm.social/2Es
Are you doing a PhD or research Masters in Virology? Want to be part of a community of like-minded researchers from across the UK and Ireland?
We're excited to announce the first annual conference run by and for postgraduate research students in Virology. Please sign up, and please spread the word!
An art-deco inspired logo reading 'Influenza Update Meeting' in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh format
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2025 Influenza Update Meeting will be held @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on the 15th and 16th December - @nicolerobb.bsky.social is leading the organisation for this year's event.
We hope you'll join us there - please repost!
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The venue with “Welcome-Slide” projected. Hosts having the opening talk.
Photo of the campus biotech hall.
Talk by E. Hodcroft on Enterovirus phylogenetics with slide projected
Talk by K. Schrober on COVID-19 hypervaccination with slide projected
Back from the “Emerging Viruses and New Vaccines” symposium in Geneva by @gcevd.bsky.social. Highlights: Martin Beer on zoonotic influenza, @firefoxx66.bsky.social on enterovirus evolution, @kischober.bsky.social on COVID‑19 hypervaccination, and David Heymann on poxvirus eradication. Great event!
09.04.2025 12:23 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread...
🧪 #IDsky
www.gov.uk/government/n...
H5N1 Join the webinar today at 13.00 CET
What research is important to prepare and respond to #H5N1 influenza outbreaks?
Join the WHO webinar TODAY at 13:00 CET as experts explore:
✅ Knowledge gaps & priority research areas
✅ Regulatory pathways for mRNA vaccines & novel approaches
✅ Therapeutic options
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Image with text that reads: It's happening now: I know it's totally overwhelming but here are just a handful of things happening in US Science & public health RIGHT NOW. I need you to know, so you can realise how you are being defrauded from a healthy, disease free future, with thriving science. I need you to know, so you can tell others.
Huge thanks to my sister for helping put these together.
02.02.2025 15:48 — 👍 245 🔁 143 💬 10 📌 20If an #H5N1 pandemic starts tomorrow or in three months, there will be little mystery as to how it happened. The conditions are all there. They have been for a while.
So in some ways the more interesting question to me at the moment is: Why aren’t we in a pandemic yet?
Story here, 🧵 to come:
🧪#IDSky