Screenshot of video from Zewald & Auersperg 2025: A white cockatoo is perched on the rim of a shallow red food dish with purple yogurt inside. The cockatoo is using one foot to hold a yogurt-covered piece of pasta up to its beak.
Scientists observe captive cockatoos dipping their pasta in blueberry soy yogurt, confirm cockatoos are actually 8-year-old human children www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧪
If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
Four years in the making, our paper is finally out! This was an enormous team effort and a great end to my time at @crick.ac.uk in @davidlvbauer.bsky.social 's lab 🧪🦠🧬
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my team under a recently funded ERC Starting Grant.
If you’re passionate about structural #virology and have experience in #cryoEM SPA and/or #cryoET, get in touch!
Application deadline: January 19th.
Please share with your networks 🙏
Job link: tiny.cc/7v33001
Liver on a bear
Whoa, we’re halfway there, whoa-oh,
Big news! We're looking for a new Professor (or Associate Professor) in Infection and/or Immunity! Come work with us in @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social, it's a collaborative and supportive environment with great resources, students and colleagues!
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
Deadline 26/1/25 (Pls RT)
Are you a #postdoc with an innovative vision for starting your own lab in #Syntheticbiology, #Genomics, #GeneRegulation, #Development, #Cancer, #Immunology or #InfectionBiology?
@IMPvienna is inviting applications for group leader positions: www.imp.ac.at/career/open-...
Pls share!
Are there any science sleuths from Africa here? Do you know any? Trying to diversify my network.
Science sleuth = anyone scanning the scientific literature for problems or potential fraud, in images, tables, statistics, etc.
Hit me in DM or here.
Thank you ❤️
PhD opportunity in our lab at Edinburgh University! Analysing CRISPR screens for proviral and antiviral factors focusing on coronaviruses and influenza A virus. Using a mix of wet lab and computational approaches (full training provided).
#ViroSky #ImmunoSky
usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-me...
Awesome starter pack! Glad to be added, too.
More details & how to apply:
🟥Postdoc (in vivo) – 13th Oct: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
🟥Postdoc (molecular) – 13th Oct: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
🟥PhD position – 5th Nov: crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
ℹ️ crick.ac.uk/research/lab...
@thecrick.bsky.social is a great place to work, with fantastic core facilities and a friendly, positive atmosphere. Don't just take my word for it:
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeCD...
There’s also a large amount of training and support for students & postdocs to develop their own careers... 2/n
Join the RNA Virus Replication Lab @thecrick.bsky.social, Europe's largest biomedical institute under 1 roof!
🔴 TWO postdocs (4-6yrs)
🔴 ONE PhD student (4yrs, fully funded, all🌍)
We’re looking for bright, motivated people, with the chance to develop & shape projects independently... 1/n
Yet another new position @dunnschool.bsky.social
Associate professor, immunity/inflammation/infection (defined broadly) especially welcome
Come and join a great community of supportive colleagues
Deadline 25 October, please spread the word
www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...
(surely in UK academia, it's always jumper season!?)
Welll.... maybe you can buy success in that case: www.marksandspencer.com/l/men/mens-k... & skip the ironing 🙃
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3... expensive but worth it! Battery life is amazing, works with Mac & PC (and can pair with multiple laptops easily)
Just to add... @TheCrick is a great place to work — filled with people from diverse backgrounds who love science. Don't just take my word for it:
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=OeCD... …
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ℹ️We're looking for a talented bioinformatician to join our team @TheCrick on a permanent contract...
🧬If you've got experience with genomic data,
🦠and an interest in working with us on cool molecular virology projects,
🗓️apply by 7 June,
👉here: crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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I went on a minor etymological odyssey (I promise this is neat but it needs a couple posts) because of immunology bc I recently found out that the Russian term for “mast cell” is «тучная клетка», and being me I inherently assumed that «тучный» shared an etymology with «туча», meaning thundercloud…
This past autumn, the UK 🇬🇧 decided to use up older bivalent COVID boosters "at the back of the fridge" before switching to the WHO-recommended XBB ones.
A pragmatic choice to start the booster campaign on time (both work, but different extents), but 💡 lessons for next year:
🧵 tinyurl.com/zhpsk32c
In new study led by Andrea Loes, we develop sequencing-based neutralization assay that measures replicate curves for hundreds of virus-serum pairs per 96-well plate (see image below)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We apply assay to characterize response to repeat influenza vaccination
Next Steps for the COVID-19 Vaccine Program.
Interesting slide deck on proposed frameworks for how COVID-19 vaccines will be updated.
It essentially follows the annual flu model. IMO useless for COVID as it does not effectively consider/counter rapid rate of evolution.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/aci...
Schematic of HsMX1 activity within an influenza A virus infected cell and IF image showing IAV vRNP clusters
Delighted to share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study, led by our former PhD student and microscopy lover Joe McKellar, shows that human restriction factor MX1 associates transiently to trafficking, neo-synthesized influenza A virus vRNPs, ...
Lasker Foundation story on Joan Steitz. #RNAbiology
ow.ly/7l3150QynQ1