Barbara A. Han

TATAT: a containerized software for generating annotated coding transcriptomes from raw RNA-seq data Motivation: Many transcriptome creation workflows are not standardized, are difficult to install or share, prone to breaking as dependencies update or cease to be maintained and are resource intensive...

🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms!

We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org

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

Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team.

publicusaresearchbenefits.com

please re-post so we get more great stories in there!

Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .

❤️ Oxford

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Slashing $23B from NIH & NSF isn't fiscal responsibility—it's a $32B economic loss. Science investments return 140–210%, compounding over time. No single administration can claim the credit, but any can cause the damage. Cuts like this aren’t just shortsighted—they’re bad business. bit.ly/dogefail

Happy to announce that @alexvespi.bsky.social joined the list of amazing invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium! If you are a PhD student or Post-doc send us an abstract! The morning of the event will be entirely devoted to you! All info: www.netsci.uk/events.html

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

I love this. Let’s illuminate the reverberating impacts of our scientific enterprise.

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

NSF is stating that DOGE has the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications that experts have systematically vetted. Closed-door deliberations are being observed by DOGE 'consultants', who have accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. bit.ly/3Szvv4D

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Launch of the One Health Knowledge Nexus Community of Practice on Information and Communication Technology for One Health Intelligence. After registering, y... This project is funded with UK International Development from the UK government.

🌱📊 Join the FAO One Health ICT CoP! 🌍
Launch: 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CET 💻
🔗 Register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Connect, share, and innovate with peers using ICT to boost One Health data flow & early warning.
#OneHealth #ICT #GlobalHealth #Innovation

An interesting story about the psychology of changing people's minds, with a dash of data visualization. ♾️

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

Events detail Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to enhance On...

Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to One Health data flow and interoperability across sectors - a multistakeholder collaborative platform to enhance One Health Intelligence. bit.ly/43bI9f7

Postdoc (Washington DC, USA)
Rodent-borne virus risk in heterogeneous landscapes
with @clfaust.bsky.social @jraghwani.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social
at @ox.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @ilri.org...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2307

Choose France for Science: launch of the dedicated platform for applications to host international researchers As the international context creates the conditions for an unprecedented wave of mobility among researchers around the world, France aims to position itself as a host country for those wishing to cont...

France opens its doors to science researchers and scholars, including those fleeing the United States.

anr.fr/en/latest-ne...

Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".

Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on LinkedIn: The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: -… The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: - 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 – 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥…

The Virology Unit at IPC has 3 positions open in #OneHealth:

*Postdoc – Reconstructing Past Outbreaks

*Postdoc – Environmental Surveillance

*Clinical Manager

These aren’t just jobs. They’re front-row seats to global health in action. Ready?

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#ViroSky #IDSky 🦠🔬🧬🥼🧪

A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

@asn-amnat.bsky.social is proud to be a signature on this letter and grateful to UCS for putting this together.

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Happening this evening. Register to attend or to receive the recording.

Are there any:
1) legal funds / organizations giving aid/advice to scientists impacted by federal actions lately?
2) charities giving $ aid to recently laid off federal employees?
(Curious, not that I currently require either myself)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

A metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation @sloanfoundation.bsky.social sloan.org/programs/dig...

KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow!

Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply!

genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…

Third call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases TDR, GigaScience Press and GBIF renew their partnership for a special journal issue focused on publishing new datasets that present biodiversity data for research on vectors of human diseases. **Deadl...

📢 Call for papers: #TDR, GigaScience Press and @gbif.org announce third call for #data papers describing datasets on #vectors of human diseases 🦟🪰🕷️

Deadline 4 April 2025

www.gbif.org/news/70AuWTs...

Our next #IFEEAI webinar speaker is @lhmoncla.bsky.social , Assistant Professor @upenn.edu
Title: Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of #H5N1 #birdflu into agriculture in North America.

By linking heterogeneous datasets, knowledge graphs can help track the spread of HPAI, identify knowledge gaps, and support hypothesis generation in ecological systems.

This work included efforts from @bahanbug.bsky.social @guppy-stott.bsky.social  @jdrakephd.bsky.social