With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...
War, right? Shame on Israel!
cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/06/06/m...
I teared up reading this. Jake really did my story justice and understood my message, when I could have been very easily treated as "just a joke"
Let's do this, y'all
Time to fight for trans rights with the powers of science and whimsy combined! 🏳️⚧️ 🧬 💖
@beyondxandy.bsky.social
Someday,
When the madness is done,
And there is a true accounting,
Of the lives that were saved,
And those that were lost,
I know we will find the name of Ralph Baric
On the right side of the ledger.
I, for one, am grateful.
Now this is the cinema that i wanna watch.
cnnespanol.cnn.com/2026/05/21/e...
Just published! Check out our review of the Nucleocytoviricota infection cycle. Great teamwork! @mkrupovic.bsky.social @willemsenanouk.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social @puffy-virus.bsky.social
Latent endogenous giant viruses drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular algal host www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our News and Views article discussing @mfels.bsky.social et al's work on how a giant virus manipulates its host's translation during infection is out today in Nature Microbiology. PhD student Danae Stephens is a co-author.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We are incredibly excited to see our most recent story out @nature.com today:HIV triggers CD4-signaling to remodel nuclear pores and license infection!A heroic effort led by our very own @d-mesner.bsky.social & @mattvxwhelan.bsky.social! @blizardinstitute.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/HIVNup 1/11
New Work out!
A multilayered network reveals the centrality of newly discovered #Nucleocytoviricota in wastewater treatment plant communities
w/ @dominikluecking.bsky.social & @amanzanom.bsky.social
doi.org/10.64898/202...
@erc.europa.eu @univie.ac.at @dome-vienna.bsky.social
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