lukehillary.bsky.social
Viral ecology of "brown stuff" 🏞️💩😷. Interested in how viruses impact their hosts in soils, sludge and stool. Particularly fascinated in RNA viruses. Postdoc at UC Davis working on the impacts of wildfire on soil virus communities.
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...host associated, aquatic, terrestrial, etc etc) Once we've collated all the responses and people who are interested in contributing/ want to stay updated, we'll reach out again. Also happy to answer questions here. Huge thanks from myself, @simrouxvirus.bsky.social and others helping coordinate
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We're especially interested in getting as broad a range of views from the scientific community as possible. The initial survey will be open until March 15th and we welcome contributions from anyone working on uncultured viruses (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, vSAGs...
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Oh, I came for the cow burp posts
😁😅 🐄💨
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Moyashimon sounds great! Now that I think about it, the “When the Yogurt Took Over” short story/ episode of Love, Death and Robots is pretty good too.
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Books - Virus, The Good Virus, Spillover and How to Survive a Plague (more on the human impact of HIV) are great virology options.
I Contain Multitudes is a nice microbiology option.
All the movies I can think of are horror movies. Does that say something about how people think of microbes?!
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Fantastic! Can I get added?
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This is great. Can I be added?
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Vertigo has caused me to pull out of sections of field courses on the day. Videos or photos of field sites that show any potential accessibility issues would be great. Also good to include the same information on roads/ tracks approaching the field site if they’re difficult to drive.