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

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...

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...

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...

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