Sabrina Sadiq

Get those abstracts in! Stoked for this year's lineup already 🤩

Soil is home to nearly 60% of all species and stores vast amounts of carbon.

Yet, it’s being lost faster than ever.

Why and what can be done?
This article breaks down the threats and solutions: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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Glad to be here 😊 Can't wait for September! I shouldn't spill too much... but I'm getting really excited about the #MicroSeq2025 lineup so far!

The geospatial phylodynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Nepal and clinical phenotype of long COVID during the Delta-Omicron waves The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in global emerging infectious disease preparedness, particularly for countries with high levels of economic migration, such as Nepal. The Epidemic Intelligence proje...

Our study on SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and long COVID in Nepal has made it to preprint 🎉 Huge thanks everyone from BNMT, Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal (CMDN), and the Centre for Pathogen Genomics at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity 👏👏👏

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

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!

#MicroSeq2025 has many opportunities for medium and lightning talks. Submit your abstract by August 8 and take advantage of this valuable opportunity to present your work to a welcoming community of fellow ECRs and PhD students! 👇
www.microseqconference.com/registration...

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...

Happy Friday! A reminder that abstract submission for MicroSeq2025 opens on Monday, July 21st and will remain open until August 8th! Have a great weekend and can't wait to start checking out those abstract soon 🤩 #MicroSeq2025

MicroSeq2025 is an ECR and PhD student-friendly online meeting focused on the interface between sequencing technology and microbiology. being held on 3rd and 4th September, 2025. Registration and abstract submission opens on July 21, 2025 and abstracts are due August 8, 2025. Participants can register at microseqconference.com.

📣Calling Australian/NZ ECRs and PhD Students 📣 Abstract submission and registration for MicroSeq2025 opens July 21! Abstracts for both medium-length and lightning talks will be welcome.

A call to save the date for MicroSeq2025, returning September 3-4. MicroSeq is an online meeting where microbiology meets sequencing, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

🦋Hello BlueSky!🦋 Let's get right into it. MicroSeq is back September 3-4, 2025! Stay tuned for more details on registration and abstract submission coming soon here and at www.microseqconference.com. 🌟Save the date!🌟
#MicroSeq2025

What a title!
"This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates"
Biodiversity declines really concerning.
👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Infographic on Measles in Red, light blue and yellow. It contains the timeline for measles, facts and the R0 that each person can infect 12 to 18 people in an unvaccinated population. Be Wise, Immunize with the MMR vaccine. Getting the vaccine is much safer than getting the disease.

Measles are contagious.
Measles cause 1 in 4 people to be hospitalized.
Measles can be deadly especially in children.
Measles can cause blindness & deafness.
Measles can cause brain damage yrs later.
Measles can cause "immune amnesia".

Measles are preventable with MMR vaccine.

#medsky #IDsky 🛟 😷🧪

The abstract submission & registration for #RdRpSummit2025 is NOW OPEN!!! 🎉🙌
Do you work on RNA virus discovery using RdRps? Are you joining the #ViBioM2025 in Portugal?
Consider submitting your research in one of our sessions!
More info: RdRp.io

Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

WHO statement on potential global threat to people living with HIV

🧵 STATEMENT: WHO expresses deep concern on the implications of the immediate funding pause for #HIV programmes in low- and middle-income countries.

These programmes provide access to life-saving HIV therapy to more than 30 million people worldwide.

Read more bit.ly/42yxxIz

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If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me.

Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Today was my 800th adventure with Atticus. Couldn't recommend Finch enough, so many habits and routines I struggled with are effortless now. Gamifying works 🤩

Here we provide evidence of henipaviruses in North America with the discovery of Camp hill virus in the Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama. Early release article available from EID
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #virology

🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social

We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠

viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk

Photo of a very beautiful bog.

Help restore my faith in the world. Who loves a good bog? Make yourselves known! For bogs are - time keepers, death defiers, artifact protectors, carbon trappers, water purifiers, food providers, beautiful mysterious places

Screen grab of title page from BioRxiv website

New preprint out now! The history of some RNA virus lineages that infect vertebrates might date back to our invertebrate ancestors.

Read more here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

FUN FACT: Measles, polio, diphtheria, mumps, rubella and tetanus are six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades, saving many millions of lives.

The ICTV are a committee who have given themselves the power to do this without broader consultation. The far larger community of virologists should have the power to ignore them.

Sure googly eyes in the lab are fun, but have you considered the biblically accurate 96-well plate?

Melbourne was pretty great too. Thanks for coming down to spend the weekend with me @lachyclaffey.bsky.social ❤️

Thanks Creswick (+ Ballarat)! It's been fab 🤩 #AVS12

And that’s a wrap…great meeting as always #AVS12