Dr Emma Hodcroft
@firefoxx66
Die Virenjägerin! 🏹🧬 Co-developer of @nextstrain! Using phylogenetics, I study viruses. I like ✈️ & 🐈 @[email protected] @firefoxx66.bsky.social
🎉The new and improved CoVariants.org is here! 🎉 We're hoping to make this a one-stop location to track not only the 'headline' variants, but many different #SARSCoV2 mutations & variants that scientists are keeping an eye on. Let's take a tour of the site! 1/12

🗓️As we close in on 11 months of Pathoplexus, we’re pleased to announce many new direct sequence uploads and some exciting new features that expand Pathoplexus’ utility! 📰 You can see our full News Item here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-07-1… 1/9
📢News update from Pathoplexus! Unfortunately Twitter's login is currently broken so we can't post directly - please see our latest uploads & features on Bluesky & Mastodon or direct on our website! pathoplexus.org/news/2025-07-1… ☁️: bsky.app/profile/pathop… 🐘: mstdn.science/@pathoplexus/1…
Are you an excellent researcher in genomics of infectious diseases for intercellular pathogens (viruses, intercellular other pathogens)? The University of Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, is opening a very attractive chair of excellence in this field! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.…
Just a heartfelt appreciation tweet to all @pathoplexus devs. This young database is already extremely valuable and keeps me gazing at data for hours. 🧬 🦠 Thanks to @firefoxx66 for putting it on my radar at VGEB2024/Hinton.
I'm honoured to have been featured in @UniBasel 's UniNova magazine! 🙏🙌In my interview, I speak about the importance of @pathoplexus, what Enteroviruses can teach us, & the damage to science (& health) from the current US administration. [German] unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/Uni…
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My American friends: I hope you join me today. To stand up for our freedom to assemble & our freedom of speech. To reject authoritarianism & dictatorship. To demand the government be accountable to the people - not the reverse. #NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest

Shout out to these lovely ladies for being my co-panelists and our multi-talented moderator you might have heard of named Vitalik. We discussed all things d/acc with lots of thoughts on user adoption and how to grow it.
@firefoxx66 on governance access. TIL i learnt how terrible building w open data in biotech is + how Pathoplexus is changing the the game d/acc @dacc_kitchen @OctantApp
Diving right in, Julian Zawistowski from @OctantApp opens with the need for new funding models - because public good funding increases value to everyone! Something that resonates in science with the many tools & resources we depend on - yet can be so hard to fund! @dacc_kitchen
