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Virus evolution | genomic epidemiology| virus origins | phylogenetics | BEAST | ARTIC Network University of Edinburgh http://beast.community http://artic.network
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Ever had to pause genomic surveillance due to enzyme shortages?🫣 Happy to share our new preprint with the solution inside 🦹‍♀️💪 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @scalene.bsky.social @chris.primalscheme.com @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @articnetwork.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Wildlife trade acts as a vast global network of unregulated natural laboratories,with ample opportunities for viruses to circulate & evolve to become more dangerous We can either turn a blind eye or try to understand & mitigate the risks My latest in @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Might be the time to finally make the switch from MacClade.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

An explosive outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone is raising fears of wider spread. The country of 9 million has seen more than 3000 cases already. “We could see very rapid geographic expansion […] if we don’t really try and get things under control quickly,” says @kindrachukjason.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Whether it comes to climate, AIDS denialism or the origin of SC2, Ridley’s ’gained function’ as a mouthpiece for the Tufton St MAGA alliance This isn’t a paper, it’s an opinion piece recycling ‘evidence’ that is either disputed by fact or conjecture based on cherry picking rumor to fit a conclusion

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months. Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us. After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent. More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Amazing work from our colleagues in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and elsewhere, making the first sequences available from the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone. More to come - for now, head over to @pathoplexus.org: pathoplexus.org/seqsets/PP_S...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments