Delighted to have been a part of this News & Views! Fascinating how persistent viral RNA contributes to alphaviral pathology.

Come join #WAVU it’s a great place for cool, collaborative and interdisciplinary virology!

That was fun!

It’s nice to appreciate the little things! First HSV-1 plaques in the group, well done MSc student Emma (not on here). They’re so cute. Happy weekend Bluesky!

Applications are now open for a paid Virology Research Assistant Frontrunner Internship to support on-going research in our lab!
🧑‍🔬 @dmu.ac.uk undergraduates in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences can apply!
📅 Deadline is 2 March 2026
🔗 Apply on MyGateway: my-gateway.dmu.ac.uk/user/app/job...

Exciting news! Did you hear? 🎉 The UK Glia 2026 meeting is coming up on 8–9 June. Registration open now, abstracts close 16 Jan. 🔗 www.physoc.org/events/uk-gl.... The next speaker highlight belongs to Nicola Hamilton-Whitaker from Kings College London. www.kcl.ac.uk/people/nicol...

Well done @nabinapun.bsky.social getting your Radnet @cruk-mi.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social PhD work out

Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Genome packaging as a driving force of RNA virus assembly at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Funded PhD SWBio DTP- (STANDARD) Genome packaging as a driving force of RNA virus assembly at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fantastic opportunity (available for both UK and international students) to do a PhD on the assembly of RNA viruses with @artisplicer.bsky.social - please share (and/or apply)!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Diagram showing how sand fly saliva changes fibroblast state to promote arbovirus infection.

New paper out in iScience @cellpress.bsky.social
We show that #sand_fly biting reprograms skin fibroblasts, making them more permissive to virus infection
=> #fibroblasts aren’t bystanders, they help define severity/clinical outcome to infection AND #vector biting is key
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

We all know vaccines target the pathogen, but can you also target the vector?
📢 in a new paper out today in Vaccines,
we show that a vaccine targeting mosquito salivary peptides, AGSv-PLUS, enhances human skin immune response to biting.
Open access: www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/13...
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We now have a very exciting technician post advertised as part of our long term Wellcome Trust funded team investigating the role of the glycocalyx during CNS inflammation. Supporint the lab, developing glycan analysis and research experience www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?

Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

See you Thursday 18th for our first seminar of the series with the inspiring @priyashah.bsky.social from @ucdavis.bsky.social with her talk
“Harder, better, faster, stronger: integrating virology and engineering to drive discovery”.
All welcome! email us for the zoom link.

Book cover “teach your cat Welsh”

It’s been such a pleasure working as part of @crgglasgow.bsky.social
So many amazing colleagues, collaborators and friends over the years, thanks everyone!
And how to better prepare for my next adventure as Wales Applied Virology Unit (WAVU) lecturer than with this amazing present from them.

Very exciting project, feel free to reach out if you’re interested!

Congrats @julieworrell.bsky.social and @immunememorylab.bsky.social, it’s been great to be a small part of this. Looking forward to seeing what’s next!

Can’t wait until the full results of my mouse brain spatial transcriptomics are ready, grateful to be part of this!
@mvls-srf.bsky.social have been excellent (as always), 10/10 would recommend

A @crgglasgow.bsky.social original which was a long time in the making, with @hursonhughes.bsky.social and in collaboration with @immunememorylab.bsky.social

New paper alert! Excited to share our latest work on the importance of inflammatory #chemokine receptors (iCCR, aka the best chemokine receptors) in mounting an optimal T cell response to #influenza infection.

Please share, happy to discuss!

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Top: Study area and dog population. Serengeti District bordered by Serengeti National Park (grey shading). Grey lines show village borders within the district. The spatial distribution of the estimated dog population on a 1 km2 grid at the end of 2022 is indicated by the color scale (on a log scale). The inset indicates the location of Serengeti District (blue) and Serengeti National Park (grey) within Tanzania. Bottom: Local people taking their dogs to a rabies vaccination campaign in Tanzania. Image credit: Felix Lankester

Does uneven vaccination coverage really decrease disease control? @khampson.bsky.social &co use fine-grained data of 20 years of dog #vaccination in Tanzania to show that reducing coverage gaps does indeed lower #rabies incidence; connectivity drives transmission @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k4GL4G

Join our new Wales Applied Virology Unit as a Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology / Behavioural Science!

See the advert here:

krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

And contact WAVU co-director David Gillespie for informal enquiries.

#NewPI #Lecturer #GroupLeader #Job #Opportunity

Thanks Clive! Revisions have been submitted, hopefully it’ll be accepted soon 🤞

Georgia does amazing work and even better is a lovely human being!

Science communication and baking, love everything about this!

The latest science from the amazing @gillwilson00.bsky.social is online! Give it a read if you’re into #macrophages #eosinophils and/or #chemokines !

Would love to be included please!

Could I be added please? Thanks for creating this!

Can I please be added? Thanks!