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Sad to share news of the loss of a virology legend after a long battle with cancer. We will miss you dearly, Ann Palmenberg. www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituaries/a...

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If you're in the US, considering Europe for your PhD, and you identify as a minority, I will chat with you and review any application documents you need 🧪

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Just saying…

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Many US students don’t know how to seek opportunities outside the US. With some help from our colleagues in EU and Canada, we could put together a consolidated website of PhD opportunities and scholarships outside the US, organized by field. There might still be time for this year in some places.

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Does anybody know if there's a way to download all of NIH BioArt? Or because I don't know how, to have the internet archive hoover it up? bioart.niaid.nih.gov

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Great thread from @kgandersen.bsky.social about a new bill submitted to the US Senate that looks to ban some virology research. Its a nightmare read based on its vague description of "gain of function" and its application to live virus as well as other methods to study viral proteins.

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It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇

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Alternative splicing broadens antiviral diversity at the human OAS2 locus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.24.639105v1

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Madison peeps! 🐥 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

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Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Yo-we can't buy your products if you don't labor to reverse the funding freeze, and you'll have to close your plant in Mebane NC @milliporesigma.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

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Universities really need to pay attention to this. It's not just about the indirects and frozen funds. If these layoffs continue, which by all signs are continuing and going well beyond probationary employees, these agencies will not be functional, including NIH, CDC, and NSF

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Universities show their true colors during crises so I'm proud to read that my US employer, Yale School of Medicine, is funding faculty whose labs have been hit by political meddling In addition to bridge funding I gather Yale lawyers are directly challenging anti-science actions in Washington

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I have spent many hours over the past two days speaking with reporters from major outlets, linking them to public and not-so-public documents, and connecting them with other folks. I hope there will be lots coming out soon.

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An NIH "scientific review officer said he could describe the impact of these layoffs on the agency’s ability to review grant applications and fund research in two words: 'We’re fucked.'"

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

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A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

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Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #jcampubs

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BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

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The University of Minnesota leads the way in medical research: 700 NIH-funded projects, including advancing organ transplants, cancer treatments, and Parkinson’s therapies are now at risk. Cutting NIH funding threatens life-saving research and the future of medical innovation.

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Dear Virology Community, please see ASV’s statement to our members and the scientific community. asv.org/asv-statemen...

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This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

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Well said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”

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Snipping out this nugget to say: absolutely not. Dem cooperation on any fix for Trump's unconstitutional dismantling of agencies and suspension of funds endorses, rewards, and enables more malfeasance. Do not help the GOP out of problems they created and continue. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Making intrabodies from antibodies just got easier! Learn how we made 𝟭𝟵 intrabodies to bind and light up peptides and histone modifications in live cells. And thanks to Academia, all sequences are freely available. (video credit: Yuko Sato @YukoSatoT2) (1/15) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Short 5' UTRs serve as a marker for viral mRNA translation inhibition by the IFIT2-IFIT3 antiviral complex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.11.637299v1

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It was between this and Kyle Ren “More”.

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

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Effective in vivo RNA base editing via engineered cytidine deaminase APOBECs fused with PUF proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.04.636546v1

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Per an NIH source: “Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”

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"Vice President Harris never called a little girl cute or commented on her outfit; instead, she'd say, 'You look like the smartest person in your class.' The vice president would say, 'Let me hear you say, 'I am a leader,'' and even the youngest girls would say it back." slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Got some bad news today, didn't get a job that I really wanted. Reply with the best movie you've seen in theaters. Mine is: World War Z. I was on the edge of my seat throughout. Recently read the book. Obviously different but also good.

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Mammalian ZAP and KHNYN independently restrict CpG-enriched avian viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.23.629495v1

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Very proud of this. It’s both the end and beginning of something new for me. My last paper in @dkcortez.bsky.social lab and my first co-corresponding author. Also truly a great supergroup including @freudlab.bsky.social @tmweaver.bsky.social and Roberts lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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