Ricardo Rivero H. 💻🧬
@ricardoriveroh.bsky.social
Ex-wetlab Biotechnologist by training, Computational Biologist by choice.
opinions are my own (and don’t need the Dr. title to be valid)🧬
ricardoriveroh.com
opinions are my own (and don’t need the Dr. title to be valid)🧬
ricardoriveroh.com
Way to go @lambod50.bsky.social !
Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic - Nature
The panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 since 2021 was driven by around nine introductions into the Atlantic and Pacific flyways, followed by rapid dissemination through wild migratory birds, primaril...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Way to go @lambod50.bsky.social !
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m a third-gen Red Sox fan, but seeing my little town full of people wearing Mariners hats and shirts instead of handegg teams merch was beautiful.
Anyways, congratulations to the LA Dodgers
Anyways, congratulations to the LA Dodgers
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I’m a third-gen Red Sox fan, but seeing my little town full of people wearing Mariners hats and shirts instead of handegg teams merch was beautiful.
Anyways, congratulations to the LA Dodgers
Anyways, congratulations to the LA Dodgers
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🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
September 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
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Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
First Sin Nombre virus (Orthohantavirus sinnombreense) genome sequences from the Northwestern United States
We report the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern United States and the first SNV sequences recovered from voles. Analysis of samples collected from 189 individual rode...
www.biorxiv.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Excited to share our study reporting the first Sin Nombre virus (SNV) genome sequences from the Northwestern U.S., and the first ever from a vole host.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Honored to be featured in WSU’s “Q&A with a Graduate Student.” I talk about my path, current work, and the role of mentorship (special mention to my PI, @stephseifertphd.bsky.social) and collaboration in advancing my research goals. Full Q&A: vetmed.wsu.edu/qa-with-grad...
Q&A with graduate student Ricardo Rivero
WSU graduate student Ricardo Rivero is working to uncover the rules that govern how viruses evolve — insights that could one day help predict viral behavior and guide public health responses. A PhD st...
vetmed.wsu.edu
September 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Honored to be featured in WSU’s “Q&A with a Graduate Student.” I talk about my path, current work, and the role of mentorship (special mention to my PI, @stephseifertphd.bsky.social) and collaboration in advancing my research goals. Full Q&A: vetmed.wsu.edu/qa-with-grad...
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There’s been a bunch of new approaches looking at deep viral evolutionary history. We’ve put together a mini review highlighting some recent advancements in structural phylogenetics and time-dependent rate models and what they could do for the field 🦠
🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Recent advances in the inference of deep viral evolutionary history | Journal of Virology
Phylogenetic studies examining the origins, emergence, and spread of viruses have arguably been one of the most active and successful areas of evolutionary biology and form the bedrock of the flourishing field of genomic epidemiology. This, in part, reflects the ability of viruses, particularly those with RNA genomes, to evolve at rates much greater than their cellular counterparts (1). The rapid rate at which viruses evolve and accumulate mutations enables evolutionary signals to be identified through comparative genomics at short timescales relevant for outbreak investigation and response. The integration of phylogenetics and epidemiology, known as phylodynamics, has become a vital tool in response to numerous viral outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics, including Ebola (2), Zika (3), and, more recently, COVID-19 (4) and mpox (5).
journals.asm.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
There’s been a bunch of new approaches looking at deep viral evolutionary history. We’ve put together a mini review highlighting some recent advancements in structural phylogenetics and time-dependent rate models and what they could do for the field 🦠
🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
🔗 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.
August 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We may have a one-year postdoctoral position opening! We're looking for someone with experience in attribution science OR very strong skills in climate epidemiology to come help us launch a Global Burden of Climate Change Study. Remote possible for the right person; aim to raise $ for a second year.
It’s my pleasure to share our new preprint, which I had the opportunity to lead, and which has been in the making since 2022.
In this work, we used climate data, phylogeography, and antigenic profiling to uncover the dynamics of DENV spread in Colombia.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this work, we used climate data, phylogeography, and antigenic profiling to uncover the dynamics of DENV spread in Colombia.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Genomic epidemiology of dengue virus 2 and 3 reveals repeated introductions and exportations of several lineages in Colombia.
Dengue fever, a major mosquito–borne viral disease, is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and poses a significant global health burden. Despite extensive research, the spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue v...
www.medrxiv.org
August 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
It’s my pleasure to share our new preprint, which I had the opportunity to lead, and which has been in the making since 2022.
In this work, we used climate data, phylogeography, and antigenic profiling to uncover the dynamics of DENV spread in Colombia.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this work, we used climate data, phylogeography, and antigenic profiling to uncover the dynamics of DENV spread in Colombia.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
What list do I need to follow so there’s science and not politics on my Bluesky timeline?
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July 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
What list do I need to follow so there’s science and not politics on my Bluesky timeline?
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Today, I succesfully passed my preliminary exam to advance to PhD Candidacy.
Happy to enter this new chapter of my PhD journey🍾
Acknowledgements to my PI @stephseifertphd.bsky.social and my committee members for the continued support throughout this process.
Happy to enter this new chapter of my PhD journey🍾
Acknowledgements to my PI @stephseifertphd.bsky.social and my committee members for the continued support throughout this process.
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Today, I succesfully passed my preliminary exam to advance to PhD Candidacy.
Happy to enter this new chapter of my PhD journey🍾
Acknowledgements to my PI @stephseifertphd.bsky.social and my committee members for the continued support throughout this process.
Happy to enter this new chapter of my PhD journey🍾
Acknowledgements to my PI @stephseifertphd.bsky.social and my committee members for the continued support throughout this process.
I had an amazing time at @eeid2025.bsky.social
Thanks to everybody that came to see my poster, talk research, or just to say hi.
It was cool to see all the amazing research being done in Ecology and Evolution.
Thanks to everybody that came to see my poster, talk research, or just to say hi.
It was cool to see all the amazing research being done in Ecology and Evolution.
June 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I had an amazing time at @eeid2025.bsky.social
Thanks to everybody that came to see my poster, talk research, or just to say hi.
It was cool to see all the amazing research being done in Ecology and Evolution.
Thanks to everybody that came to see my poster, talk research, or just to say hi.
It was cool to see all the amazing research being done in Ecology and Evolution.
June 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you’re at @eeid2025.bsky.social
Come see my poster tomorrow, and let’s talk about viral evolution!
Come see my poster tomorrow, and let’s talk about viral evolution!
June 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
If you’re at @eeid2025.bsky.social
Come see my poster tomorrow, and let’s talk about viral evolution!
Come see my poster tomorrow, and let’s talk about viral evolution!
Funny how Bluesky was supposed to be “the place” where scientists were going to continue the academic conversations.
Yet, everybody here talks about everything except science.
At least the ML/AI community is still alive in Twitter, it might be time to go back there
Yet, everybody here talks about everything except science.
At least the ML/AI community is still alive in Twitter, it might be time to go back there
June 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Funny how Bluesky was supposed to be “the place” where scientists were going to continue the academic conversations.
Yet, everybody here talks about everything except science.
At least the ML/AI community is still alive in Twitter, it might be time to go back there
Yet, everybody here talks about everything except science.
At least the ML/AI community is still alive in Twitter, it might be time to go back there
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The previous RdRp summit manifested in the consensus statement. What the second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social brings us?:)
We just published a consensus statement (with 47 institutes) on advancing #RdRp-based RNA virus discovery! We sum up the challenges identified at the 1st #RdRpSummit and propose solutions to ensure greater interoperability. Here’s a summary-
t.ly/Uwqge
t.ly/Uwqge
Consensus statement from the first RdRp Summit: advancing RNA virus discovery at scale across communities
Improved RNA virus understanding is critical to studying animal and plant health, and environmental processes. However, the continuous and rapid RNA virus evolution makes their identification and char...
t.ly
May 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The previous RdRp summit manifested in the consensus statement. What the second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social brings us?:)
I’ve been elected a full member of @amersocvirology.bsky.social
Some days I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing — today, I’m just grateful for the honor of joining this amazing group of scientists. ❤️
Some days I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing — today, I’m just grateful for the honor of joining this amazing group of scientists. ❤️
May 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’ve been elected a full member of @amersocvirology.bsky.social
Some days I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing — today, I’m just grateful for the honor of joining this amazing group of scientists. ❤️
Some days I feel like I’ve accomplished nothing — today, I’m just grateful for the honor of joining this amazing group of scientists. ❤️
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
March 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
“It’s Saturday, don’t open Teams and Slack”
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Are bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Are bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The final version of our pseudovirus deep mutational scanning of the Nipah virus receptor-binding protein is now published.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Functional and antigenic landscape of the Nipah virus receptor-binding protein
Nipah virus recurrently spills over to humans, causing fatal infections. The viral receptor-binding protein (RBP or G) attaches to host receptors and …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The final version of our pseudovirus deep mutational scanning of the Nipah virus receptor-binding protein is now published.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Well, at least the AI won’t stop reading my article after noticing I have a hispanic last name… like some “global north” scientists do.
It’s always conflicting to me to see American/British authors citing only people with northern-european last names, even if the quality is questionable🤷🏽♂️
It’s always conflicting to me to see American/British authors citing only people with northern-european last names, even if the quality is questionable🤷🏽♂️
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Well, at least the AI won’t stop reading my article after noticing I have a hispanic last name… like some “global north” scientists do.
It’s always conflicting to me to see American/British authors citing only people with northern-european last names, even if the quality is questionable🤷🏽♂️
It’s always conflicting to me to see American/British authors citing only people with northern-european last names, even if the quality is questionable🤷🏽♂️
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🚨Excited to share our latest research published in @commsbio.bsky.social , where we've developed a predictive model that integrates both host ecological traits and viral genomic features to identify potential reservoir hosts for Orthopoxviruses, including mpox virus.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
🚨Excited to share our latest research published in @commsbio.bsky.social , where we've developed a predictive model that integrates both host ecological traits and viral genomic features to identify potential reservoir hosts for Orthopoxviruses, including mpox virus.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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A recent critique by Angus McCowan (i.e., "Nod") claims that the quantitative support for multiple SARS-CoV-2 introductions in our Pekar et al. 2022 is an “artifact” of "imbalanced" hypothesis testing.
Let’s take a closer look at why this argument doesn’t hold up.
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arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
Let’s take a closer look at why this argument doesn’t hold up.
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arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
Purported quantitative support for multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans is an artefact of an imbalanced hypothesis testing framework
A prominent report claimed substantial support for two introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans using a calculation that combined phylodynamic inferences and epidemic models. Inspection of the calculat...
arxiv.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A recent critique by Angus McCowan (i.e., "Nod") claims that the quantitative support for multiple SARS-CoV-2 introductions in our Pekar et al. 2022 is an “artifact” of "imbalanced" hypothesis testing.
Let’s take a closer look at why this argument doesn’t hold up.
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arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
Let’s take a closer look at why this argument doesn’t hold up.
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arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
New research alert! 🚨
Our paper describing the first evidence of the novel H18N12 Flu in Albiventris bats is out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports.
Huge shoutout to my friend and colleague Daniel for leading this work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper describing the first evidence of the novel H18N12 Flu in Albiventris bats is out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports.
Huge shoutout to my friend and colleague Daniel for leading this work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genomics of novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in bats, Caribe Colombia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Genomics of novel influenza A virus (H18N12) in bats, Caribe Colombia
www.nature.com
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New research alert! 🚨
Our paper describing the first evidence of the novel H18N12 Flu in Albiventris bats is out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports.
Huge shoutout to my friend and colleague Daniel for leading this work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper describing the first evidence of the novel H18N12 Flu in Albiventris bats is out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports.
Huge shoutout to my friend and colleague Daniel for leading this work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The second RdRp Summit will take place at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT NOVA) in Lisbon Portugal on 11th & 12th May 2025!
Abstract and registration details coming this week!
#RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025
Abstract and registration details coming this week!
#RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025
February 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The second RdRp Summit will take place at Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT NOVA) in Lisbon Portugal on 11th & 12th May 2025!
Abstract and registration details coming this week!
#RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025
Abstract and registration details coming this week!
#RdRpSummit2025 #ViBioM2025