🚨 Save the Date!
We’re thrilled to announce #SPAAM8 – a gathering of experts in ancient metagenomics research! 🌎
📅 When: June 22nd 2026
📍Where: Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 (and online)
Stay tuned for updates and registration details!
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Thank you for all your support, María!
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Thank you, Nicole!!!
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Migration? it's part of human history.
It’s #InternationalMigrantsDay
Migration has always been a part of human history, with people moving to seek better opportunities and escape conflicts, violence and climate-related impacts.
18.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 125 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 1
Excited to be a part of SMBE this year! Submit your abstracts 🤩
10.12.2025 22:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My comments with CNN
My comments with @cnn.com @reportergoodman.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
20.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 177 🔁 65 💬 6 📌 3
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
14.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 1111 🔁 314 💬 34 📌 8
Picture of dozens of full coffee cups with each cup saying “You can do it.”
We got this. But it is going to take a lot of coffee.
27.10.2025 12:21 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon showing a wall of vaccines around a virus to protect kids
This is the kind of wall I like!
24.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 107 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 0
Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As RFK testifies in front of the Senate today, ASV wants to emphasize the risks posed by his decisions related to virus outbreaks and the public health of Americans. Together with our partner organizations, we call for RFK's resignation: asm.org/press-releas...
04.09.2025 19:24 — 👍 138 🔁 56 💬 5 📌 5
PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season
THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
31.08.2025 17:04 — 👍 27092 🔁 8297 💬 477 📌 799
Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH Director, thinks that if science isn’t popular it should be abandoned.
“No matter how elegant the science, a platform that lacks credibility among the people it seeks to protect cannot fulfill its public health mission”.
He is unfit for his job in every imaginable way.
12.08.2025 22:11 — 👍 2255 🔁 553 💬 122 📌 64
Wow. What a way to close out the scientific content of #SMBE2025! Qiaomei Fu takes us through ancient DNA's contribution to our understanding of #HumanEvolution over the past couple of decades, culminating in her revelation this month that we now know what #Denisovans looked like.
24.07.2025 04:27 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Democrats stage a science fair of canceled grants to show what’s been lost
Partisan fight over Trump cuts heats up as Congress works on 2026 spending bills.
Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC
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Good cover @economist.com
22.05.2025 15:41 — 👍 872 🔁 292 💬 13 📌 11
"NIH funding is gone, so you should pivot to private foundations for funding"
Meanwhile, private foundations:
17.05.2025 16:32 — 👍 167 🔁 69 💬 4 📌 1
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
08.05.2025 12:25 — 👍 34457 🔁 10634 💬 1047 📌 672
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.
1362 Days to go...
29.04.2025 21:31 — 👍 53689 🔁 11476 💬 1706 📌 498
With a heavy heart, postponing my USA travels due to the current political situation. Still deeply value and support USA science, the brilliant researchers and their important work. I will miss my colleagues and hope to reunite when times change. Science transcends borders, even when we cannot. 🧪 🌎
21.04.2025 08:21 — 👍 169 🔁 21 💬 5 📌 1
📢📢One more day to submit your abstract to the Ancient Pathogen Genomics Symposium 🧬🦠🦴📢📢
Great program and community 💚
🔗 Details: liigh.unam.mx/apg/
🇲🇽 ¡Nos vemos en Querétaro! 🌮🪅
13.03.2025 01:55 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Well caring deeply about politics turned out to be a mistake. Time to instead become emotionally invested in a field where I’ll never be let down: sports
11.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 8416 🔁 682 💬 279 📌 73
My message to those that aim to sow distrust in science & healthcare: You picked the wrong group to dismiss and discount. We do not yield to misinformation and lies! #standupforscience2025 @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Historian. Studying historical epidemics & pathology collections
at Roskilde University and PandemiX (Center of Excellence) in Denmark.
Acting Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine at UW. Functional genomics and molecular epidemiology to study syphilis. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
🇲🇽 Biologist interested in ancient biomolecules, biodiversity and evolution | Postdoc working in palaeoproteomics at @welkergroup.bsky.social
Professor, anthropological geneticist, gardener, mom of 1. I dabble in stained glass, embroidery, and print making in my copious free time.
Opinions my own
PhD student studying bird evolution 🦜🦋🧬evolution, genomics, conservation
Structural virology / Structure-based vaccine design
mclellanlab.org
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
Senior Editor at @plosbiology.org; Scientist, Humanist, Optimist and Recovering Academic. All opinions my own.
Immunity, insects, viruses, idealism and everything else.
Institut Pasteur
Paris
Postdoctoral fellow | Villa lab | UCSD | Genomics | Emerging Scientist and Photographer | 🌱🪴🪻😍🤟🏼 |
Official account of the Evolution Meetings
SMBE fosters communication among molecular evolutionists and advances the field.
🔗 smbe.org
💬 smbe2026.org • smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-esp
👥 @smbe-idea.bsky.social
📙 @molbioevol.bsky.social • @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Joe & Essie Smith Endowed Chair at UC Davis, and dog lover. Integrates virology and engineering to study virus-host interactions in shahlab.ucdavis.edu
Emeritus Professor at Fred Hutch in Seattle. My lab studied HIV and other viruses. My main account is on Mastodon: @memerman@mstdn.science where I post about virology, hiking, biking and gardening. Here, mostly to follow virologists and other friends.
Professor at UCLA in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology as well as Human Genetics.
Traffic Ninja. Occasional runner...
https://lohmueller.eeb.ucla.edu
Infectious disease ecology and evolution, pathogen genomics, environmental DNA, ancient DNA/RNA
Young and dynamic research group @LMU working on innate immunity against retroviruses and cancer; www.viirallab.com
The American Society for Virology is committed to growing and supporting a diverse and inclusive community of virologists, to promote research and education on viruses, and to foster engagement and open communication of discoveries.
Microbes & mucus 🤩 | Gut Microbial Ecology | Wageningen University, NL
