I hope the one unnamed Whitehouse source cited here is correct. Clear, official confirmation of this would be nice, 12 hours before the deadline.

No new fee for existing H-1B visas | LinkedIn A new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas that takes effect Sunday will not apply to existing holders of valid visas who are re-entering the U.S., Axios reports, citing an unnamed White House official.

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My understanding is that the situation for H1B visa holders outside the US today is urgent: if a current H-1B holder seeks entry into the U.S. after 12:01 a.m. EDT on September 21, 2025, it is too late to avoid the fee—entry will be restricted without the newly-imposed $100,000 employer payment.

Hi all - I have a couple of positions open for lab management and research!

Please pass this on to creative and enthusiastic folks who might be interested. (And repost if you don't mind.)

Ability to learn/adapt more important than specific skills!

Thanks so much.

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Ah, nice, thanks!

Hey - glad to be here!

Yeah - h/t to co-author Chris Ruis for this fine analysis!

Ha ha! Not enough sleep for me the last 12 days.

Scientist here, and the astonishment at what can be gleaned from a set of pathogen sequences still hasn't worn off for me.

And I'm sure you're interesting, but I meant to say "if you're interested..."

Part 2 of 2:

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If you're interesting in the #H5N1 outbreak in cattle in the US, please have a look at our preliminary analyses just posted.

Part 1 of 2:

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Part 2 of 2:

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Tracking bird flu virus changes in cows is stymied by missing data, scientists say Scientists are frustrated that the USDA again failed to include basic information about H5N1 genetic sequences from cows when the data were released this week.

Great to see #USDA put up a preprint of what their analysis of what #H5N1 #birdflu genetic sequences tells us about the outbreak in dairy cows. Would be even greater if they shared enough data to let other scientists help in the effort. www.statnews.com/2024/05/02/b...

Note about availability of H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species: On Sunday, April 21st, 2024, “in the interest of public transparency and ensuring the scientific community has access to this information as quickly as possible to encourage disease research and devel...

A little more background on our (re)sharing of assembled H5N1 genomes with required metadata that had to be scraped.

This is really not a model to follow moving forward. Critical data such as these - generated with public funds - must be fully open and "FAIR".

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Tom Peacock, Oliver Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Angela Rasmussen, Christopher Ruis, Lorena Mariana Malpica Serrano, Marc Suchard, Joel Wertheim, Michael Worobey

Karthik Gangavarapu, Jonathan Pekar, Florence Débarre, Kristian Andersen, Gytis Dudas, Daniel Goldhill, Joseph Hughes, Xiang Ji, Jeffrey Joy, Moritz Kraemer, Philippe Lemey, Louise Moncla, Martha Nelson, Stuart Neil,

We are sharing our high quality consensus genomes, as well as date of sampling and US state for >100 #H5N1 cases in cattle.

"We, in turn, encourage researchers globally to use these sequences to support biomedical research, public health, animal health and welfare, and safe and secure food production within the U.S. dairy industry and beyond."

"We hope the H5N1 genome sequences we have assembled from sequence read data generously shared publicly by [@usda.bsky.social] will assist in the USDA’s goal of enabling timely outbreak responses and infectious disease research."

Note about availability of H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species: On Sunday, April 21st, 2024, “in the interest of public transparency and ensuring the scientific community has access to this information as quickly as possible to encourage disease research and devel...

My colleagues and I have just posted a
"Note about availability of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species" on virological.org.

Consensus genomes and metadata.

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