Ed Hutchinson
@socialinfluenza.bsky.social
Virologist | Professor of Sneezy Diseases | studies influenza @ MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research | occasionally draws things | (he/him)
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/infectionimmunity/staff/edwardhutchinson/
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The annual curve of flu cases is starting to rise sharply in the US. This would be a great week to get vaccinated, if you haven't already
October 7, 2026 at 3:03 PM
The annual curve of flu cases is starting to rise sharply in the US. This would be a great week to get vaccinated, if you haven't already
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A Kenyan man died of Ebola in Nairobi, arriving ill, after traveling from DRC via Kampala, passing screening undetected.
Screening isn't magic: most won't be febrile, and anyone who ticks "fine" and stays upright may just get through. Online/QR forms make it easier. So do strikes and understaffing
Screening isn't magic: most won't be febrile, and anyone who ticks "fine" and stays upright may just get through. Online/QR forms make it easier. So do strikes and understaffing
October 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
A Kenyan man died of Ebola in Nairobi, arriving ill, after traveling from DRC via Kampala, passing screening undetected.
Screening isn't magic: most won't be febrile, and anyone who ticks "fine" and stays upright may just get through. Online/QR forms make it easier. So do strikes and understaffing
Screening isn't magic: most won't be febrile, and anyone who ticks "fine" and stays upright may just get through. Online/QR forms make it easier. So do strikes and understaffing
Reposted by Ed Hutchinson
Today is #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Did you know that octopuses have blue blood? This graphic looks at what makes it blue, as well as other blood colours seen in different organisms: wp.me/p4aPLT-Fc
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
October 7, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Today is #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Did you know that octopuses have blue blood? This graphic looks at what makes it blue, as well as other blood colours seen in different organisms: wp.me/p4aPLT-Fc
#ChemSky 🧪
#ChemSky 🧪
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Kenya has reported its first case and death from Ebola in an individual who traveled to Kenya from the DRC. The ongoing outbreak in the DRC has killed 4000+ people and remains a threat for the region.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province
Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Kenya has reported its first case and death from Ebola in an individual who traveled to Kenya from the DRC. The ongoing outbreak in the DRC has killed 4000+ people and remains a threat for the region.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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DAY 488
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
October 6, 2026 at 7:49 AM
DAY 488
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 488 - Mesodinium rubrum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor. Sakura pen
M. rubrum is a ciliate that has the ability to steal cellular parts from consumed cryptophyte algae to perform photosynthesis
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
Enjoying this metagenomics paper doing virus discovery in ticks, carried out (I can only assume, though this is never really spelled out) by a massive fan of Victorian detective fiction
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Enjoying this metagenomics paper doing virus discovery in ticks, carried out (I can only assume, though this is never really spelled out) by a massive fan of Victorian detective fiction
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The mysterious death of a scientist at a plague institute in Siberia has sparked “next pandemic” panic.
I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...
I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...
Plague is Scary but That Doesn’t Make It the Next Pandemic.
Why a mysterious death in Siberia has captured our attention while far more consequential outbreaks struggle to do the same
bktitanji.substack.com
October 5, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The mysterious death of a scientist at a plague institute in Siberia has sparked “next pandemic” panic.
I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...
I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones.
bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...
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The dandelion and the meaning of life – G. K. Chesterton on how to live in wonder www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/03/g...
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
www.themarginalian.org
October 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The dandelion and the meaning of life – G. K. Chesterton on how to live in wonder www.themarginalian.org/2026/10/03/g...
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Had no idea how common dengue has become in Florida. Per the CDC, >1000 non-travel-associated US dengue cases in 2026, mostly Florida.
A guy I ran cross-country with in high school lost a teenage daughter to dengue last year. Can't believe this isn't big news.
www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-13...
A guy I ran cross-country with in high school lost a teenage daughter to dengue last year. Can't believe this isn't big news.
www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-13...
TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello continue their ongoing exasperation over 5 deaths in Pennsylvania associated with measles infections, the absurdity of RFK Jr.’s st...
www.microbe.tv
October 3, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Had no idea how common dengue has become in Florida. Per the CDC, >1000 non-travel-associated US dengue cases in 2026, mostly Florida.
A guy I ran cross-country with in high school lost a teenage daughter to dengue last year. Can't believe this isn't big news.
www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-13...
A guy I ran cross-country with in high school lost a teenage daughter to dengue last year. Can't believe this isn't big news.
www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-13...
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The #Ebola outbreak in DRC isn't getting much attention these days. It should be. www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/e...
An Ebola treatment center was burned down as the death toll in Congo passes 4,000
Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.
www.statnews.com
October 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
The #Ebola outbreak in DRC isn't getting much attention these days. It should be. www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/e...
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@cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group out in force at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research Dissemination Conference!
@kirstykwok.bsky.social, John Kelly &
Andrew Mwale presented their PhD work characterising resp viral, arboviral & TB virome in Malawian populations.🦠🫁🦟🧬🇲🇼
@kirstykwok.bsky.social, John Kelly &
Andrew Mwale presented their PhD work characterising resp viral, arboviral & TB virome in Malawian populations.🦠🫁🦟🧬🇲🇼
October 2, 2026 at 1:25 PM
@cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group out in force at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences Research Dissemination Conference!
@kirstykwok.bsky.social, John Kelly &
Andrew Mwale presented their PhD work characterising resp viral, arboviral & TB virome in Malawian populations.🦠🫁🦟🧬🇲🇼
@kirstykwok.bsky.social, John Kelly &
Andrew Mwale presented their PhD work characterising resp viral, arboviral & TB virome in Malawian populations.🦠🫁🦟🧬🇲🇼
Very cool!
A generalized lineage nomenclature for viral genomic epidemiology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A generalized lineage nomenclature for viral genomic epidemiology - Nature Microbiology
This study extends the Pango lineage nomenclature system beyond SARS-CoV-2, introducing a dynamic framework for tracking and communicating viral diversity, demonstrated through its application to CHIK...
www.nature.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Very cool!
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DAY 484
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
October 2, 2026 at 7:32 AM
DAY 484
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 484 - Colpidium colpoda
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor. Writech pen
C. colpoda is a single celled freshwater ciliate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
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Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV.
It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent
bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent
bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
HIV Is Not Done With Us
Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening
bktitanji.substack.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV.
It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent
bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent
bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
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Reposted by Ed Hutchinson
Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
October 1, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
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DAY 483
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
October 1, 2026 at 7:49 AM
DAY 483
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 483 - Pyrophacus steinii
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor
P. steinii (Stein's fire lentil) is a marine planktonic dinoflagellate.
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
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DAY 481
SPECIES 481 - Trachelius ovum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. ovum (Neck egg) is a large freshwater ciliate shaped like an egg or balloon with a small snout. first described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831
#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
SPECIES 481 - Trachelius ovum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. ovum (Neck egg) is a large freshwater ciliate shaped like an egg or balloon with a small snout. first described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831
#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
September 29, 2026 at 7:49 AM
DAY 481
SPECIES 481 - Trachelius ovum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. ovum (Neck egg) is a large freshwater ciliate shaped like an egg or balloon with a small snout. first described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831
#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
SPECIES 481 - Trachelius ovum
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. ovum (Neck egg) is a large freshwater ciliate shaped like an egg or balloon with a small snout. first described by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg in 1831
#sciart #paint #protistsonsky
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DAY 482
SPECIES 482 - Tintinnidium fluviatile
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fluviatile (little bell of the river) is a freshwater ciliate that lives inside a soft tube shaped case called a lorica
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 482 - Tintinnidium fluviatile
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fluviatile (little bell of the river) is a freshwater ciliate that lives inside a soft tube shaped case called a lorica
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
September 30, 2026 at 7:58 AM
DAY 482
SPECIES 482 - Tintinnidium fluviatile
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fluviatile (little bell of the river) is a freshwater ciliate that lives inside a soft tube shaped case called a lorica
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 482 - Tintinnidium fluviatile
STAGE: Protists
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek watercolor, Sakura pen
T. fluviatile (little bell of the river) is a freshwater ciliate that lives inside a soft tube shaped case called a lorica
#sciart #watercolor #paint #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
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Once symptoms of rabies set in, it is fatal.
But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters.
Here's what you need to know.
But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters.
Here's what you need to know.
September 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Once symptoms of rabies set in, it is fatal.
But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters.
Here's what you need to know.
But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters.
Here's what you need to know.
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🦠 Newly discovered virus sickening cattle in Western Europe
– transmitted by midges
– closely related to a virus infecting cattle in Africa
– not for the first time, likely to stay in Europe
– diseases globalising
Nice write-up by @kakape.bsky.social in Science:
www.science.org/content/arti...
– transmitted by midges
– closely related to a virus infecting cattle in Africa
– not for the first time, likely to stay in Europe
– diseases globalising
Nice write-up by @kakape.bsky.social in Science:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Newly discovered virus is sickening cattle in Western Europe
The pathogen, which reduces milk production, is the latest midge-transmitted virus affecting ruminants to reach the continent
www.science.org
September 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
🦠 Newly discovered virus sickening cattle in Western Europe
– transmitted by midges
– closely related to a virus infecting cattle in Africa
– not for the first time, likely to stay in Europe
– diseases globalising
Nice write-up by @kakape.bsky.social in Science:
www.science.org/content/arti...
– transmitted by midges
– closely related to a virus infecting cattle in Africa
– not for the first time, likely to stay in Europe
– diseases globalising
Nice write-up by @kakape.bsky.social in Science:
www.science.org/content/arti...
Sigh
A global pandemic killed an estimated 20 million people and still countries cannot agree to come together for the collective good. The US and EU objected en bloc to the UN declaration on future pandemics.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
US, EU object to UN declaration on future pandemics
The objections prevented UN member states from endorsing a political declaration that aims for better international coordination.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 28, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Sigh
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Hello sunshine! 🌞. Hydrozoa medusa from the genus Obelia looking stunning under polarised light.
#marineplankton 🔬🦑
#marineplankton 🔬🦑
September 28, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Hello sunshine! 🌞. Hydrozoa medusa from the genus Obelia looking stunning under polarised light.
#marineplankton 🔬🦑
#marineplankton 🔬🦑
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Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
September 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year
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I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...
How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
kamounlab.medium.com
September 27, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...