Robyn Hall
@viroepivet.bsky.social
Canberra, Australia. Discoverer of things. Board certified virologist, epidemiologist, veterinarian, disease ecologist, bushwalker, greyhound mum, amateur astronomer. 🦠🐄🐇🐔👩⚕️🥾🐾🌌
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Mexico, Sept 2025, detection of 2344b H5N2 in a human patient. Reassortant bw 2344b H5N1 and LPAI H5N2 viruses circulating in Mexico.
👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Mexico, Sept 2025, detection of 2344b H5N2 in a human patient. Reassortant bw 2344b H5N1 and LPAI H5N2 viruses circulating in Mexico.
👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
I was just thinking the other day that this year would be a good year to re-do all my virus snowflakes! ❄️
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
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Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I was just thinking the other day that this year would be a good year to re-do all my virus snowflakes! ❄️
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
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🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on:
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
Available studentships| University of Surrey
18 fully funded studentships for October 2026 start: interdisciplinary infection bioscience training to address disease threats to human and animal health.
www.surrey.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on:
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology
2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential
Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐
www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
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In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎
First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎
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"..the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `other' flu story we've been following this week has been the rapid spread of a new seasonal H3N2 subcade (K) virus, which emerged in the Southern Hemisphere"
afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/11/cdc-...
afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/11/cdc-...
CDC FluView, ECDC CDT & Canada Announce Early H3N2 Subclade K Prevalence Numbers
Credit NIAID #18,947 Yesterday's announcement for the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `ot...
afludiary.blogspot.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"..the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `other' flu story we've been following this week has been the rapid spread of a new seasonal H3N2 subcade (K) virus, which emerged in the Southern Hemisphere"
afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/11/cdc-...
afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/11/cdc-...
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The suspected outbreak of a hemorrhagic vial illness in Ethiopia has now been confirmed to Marburg Virus Disease. So far 9 cases have been identified in a part of the country that shares a border with Sudan.
apnews.com/article/ethi...
apnews.com/article/ethi...
Ethiopia confirms first Marburg outbreak as WHO lauds country's fast action
Ethiopia has confirmed its first Marburg outbreak after nine cases were identified in the southern region of the country that borders South Sudan.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The suspected outbreak of a hemorrhagic vial illness in Ethiopia has now been confirmed to Marburg Virus Disease. So far 9 cases have been identified in a part of the country that shares a border with Sudan.
apnews.com/article/ethi...
apnews.com/article/ethi...
Because there are nowhere near enough aurora photos on my BlueSky feed. This was from s35.7 on the night of 12 Nov. What an incredible experience 🌌
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Because there are nowhere near enough aurora photos on my BlueSky feed. This was from s35.7 on the night of 12 Nov. What an incredible experience 🌌
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Join the ARDC team!
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November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Join the ARDC team!
Research Data Specialist (AI/ML)
📍 #Sydney
Close 26 Nov
🔗 https://ow.ly/EZwi50Xrrwo
Engagements Team Manager
📍#Sydney
Close 26 Nov
🔗 https://ow.ly/oHwh50Xrrwm
Cloud Infrastructure and Services Architect
📍#Melbourne
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🔗 https://ow.ly/FkxB50Xrrwk
#jobalert
Research Data Specialist (AI/ML)
📍 #Sydney
Close 26 Nov
🔗 https://ow.ly/EZwi50Xrrwo
Engagements Team Manager
📍#Sydney
Close 26 Nov
🔗 https://ow.ly/oHwh50Xrrwm
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📍#Melbourne
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Nice work @connorggbamford.bsky.social et al. Although such a heartbreaking finding 💔
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Nice work @connorggbamford.bsky.social et al. Although such a heartbreaking finding 💔
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Join our lab!
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology
www.sydney.edu.au
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Join our lab!
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
Amazing work by the talented Polly Hannaford revealing new insights into MCV evolution. Coolest finding for me was further indications that MCVs are capturing genes like crazy from bacteria, eukaryotes! These viruses 🤯 @roblanfear.bsky.social
Genomic analysis of Megalocytivirus genomes reveals widespread recombination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684589v1
October 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Amazing work by the talented Polly Hannaford revealing new insights into MCV evolution. Coolest finding for me was further indications that MCVs are capturing genes like crazy from bacteria, eukaryotes! These viruses 🤯 @roblanfear.bsky.social
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🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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This is exciting; a forecast system that can do climate change and climate driver attribution, as well as re-run events in a future climate.
Case Study: Australia’s Black summer fire and heat was enhanced by global heating, and far more extreme in future climate
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Case Study: Australia’s Black summer fire and heat was enhanced by global heating, and far more extreme in future climate
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is exciting; a forecast system that can do climate change and climate driver attribution, as well as re-run events in a future climate.
Case Study: Australia’s Black summer fire and heat was enhanced by global heating, and far more extreme in future climate
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
Case Study: Australia’s Black summer fire and heat was enhanced by global heating, and far more extreme in future climate
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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AFD Blog `WOAH Statement (Oct 22nd): High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Cattle' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/woah...
WOAH Statement (Oct 22nd): High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Cattle
Credit WOAH #18,922 Not quite 2 weeks ago we looked at an 11-page OFFLU technical document (see OFFLU Guidelines for High Pathogenicity Av...
afludiary.blogspot.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
AFD Blog `WOAH Statement (Oct 22nd): High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Cattle' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/10/woah...
Thanks to @duckswabber.bsky.social
Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Breaking: Deadly strain of bird flu suspected on remote Australian island
Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in elephant seals.
www.abc.net.au
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks to @duckswabber.bsky.social
Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Deadly H5 strain of bird flu suspected on sub-Antarctic Heard Island in the Southern Ocean
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Fantastic achievement from Fiji on eliminating #trachoma a complex #OneHealth challenge, congratulations to our Pacific Island neighbours!
Fiji makes history!
In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by WHO for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem.
✅ Trachoma — a neglected tropical disease (NTD) and the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness — is the first NTD to be eliminated in Fiji.
In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by WHO for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem.
✅ Trachoma — a neglected tropical disease (NTD) and the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness — is the first NTD to be eliminated in Fiji.
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Fantastic achievement from Fiji on eliminating #trachoma a complex #OneHealth challenge, congratulations to our Pacific Island neighbours!
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🔬 ASM Biofilm SIG Speaker Series – October Talks
Join us on Thursday 30th October, 1:00–2:00 pm AEDT online via Zoom for two exciting talks.
Join us on Thursday 30th October, 1:00–2:00 pm AEDT online via Zoom for two exciting talks.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
🔬 ASM Biofilm SIG Speaker Series – October Talks
Join us on Thursday 30th October, 1:00–2:00 pm AEDT online via Zoom for two exciting talks.
Join us on Thursday 30th October, 1:00–2:00 pm AEDT online via Zoom for two exciting talks.
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First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika.
Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks.
bit.ly/3KKlGQP
#TeamLivUni
Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks.
bit.ly/3KKlGQP
#TeamLivUni
October 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika.
Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks.
bit.ly/3KKlGQP
#TeamLivUni
Dr Marcus Blagrove writes for The Conversation highlighting the need for enhanced mosquito surveillance and proactive strategies to mitigate future risks.
bit.ly/3KKlGQP
#TeamLivUni
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The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Rubella elimination verified in Japan, and measles and rubella elimination verified in Pacific island countries and areas
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that the 21 Pacific island countries and areas that are part of the WHO Western Pacific Region have collectively been verified as having eliminated…
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October 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The WHO has verified the elimination of both measles & rubella in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows 2 decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage. buff.ly/EpFb7HK
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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September 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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First record of HPAI in a sheep in March 2025, identified on an infected poultry premises w ducks, chickens, turkeys and geese in Great Britain. Serological positivity across repeated sampling and the presence of viral RNA in milk samples
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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September 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
First record of HPAI in a sheep in March 2025, identified on an infected poultry premises w ducks, chickens, turkeys and geese in Great Britain. Serological positivity across repeated sampling and the presence of viral RNA in milk samples
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?
Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
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Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
www.science.org/cont...
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Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?
Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
www.science.org
September 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?
Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
www.science.org/cont...
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Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees
www.science.org/cont...
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Quick takes: Mosquito-borne illness in Europe, polio in 3 nations, avian flu hits more US poultry
France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.
France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.
Quick takes: Mosquito-borne illness in Europe, polio in 3 nations, avian flu hits more US poultry
France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Quick takes: Mosquito-borne illness in Europe, polio in 3 nations, avian flu hits more US poultry
France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.
France and Italy continue to battle chikungunya outbreaks and the spread of dengue, as Greece probes possible local malaria cases.
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Australia has approved its first vaccine designed to protect koalas from chlamydia. This single‑dose vaccine, developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast, reduces infection, prevents disease progression, and even reverses symptoms in some cases.
September 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Australia has approved its first vaccine designed to protect koalas from chlamydia. This single‑dose vaccine, developed by the University of the Sunshine Coast, reduces infection, prevents disease progression, and even reverses symptoms in some cases.