This thread below is criminally under-liked and under-shared! Young #Drosophila researchers (PhDs, postdocs, and early-career Drosophilists): fill out the survey by Sept 1st to get matched with a mentor who can support you with your career. Established Drosophilists, like/share Shefali's Thread ;)

How can mosquitoes tolerate viral infections? In our latest preprint we show that mosquitoes that can regulate their metabolism after infection can tolerate viral infections better. Thanks to all the authors for all your ideas and contributions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

We have a postdoc position available in which we’re using flavivirus replication/molecular biology to make refractory mosquitoes - in collaboration with the Trevor Sweeney lab at @pirbrightinst.bsky.social. Check out the advert on LinkedIn and apply by 12/6. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

Exciting Opportunity! The Mouse Genetics Lab @institutpasteur.bsky.social is seeking a #postdoc researcher to explore the genetic determinants of Zika virus transmission in #mice and #mosquitoes. Join us in advancing public health research with cutting-edge resources! #Virology #Genetics #ZIKV 🦠🔬

It is impressive to see the lack of accountability but this is a common thing in many parts of the world sadly, not only in the Mack Planck. For future students and post-docs, inform yourself well before joining a lab, attitudes like this should not be supported

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

if you have an interest in improving the genomic resources available for mosquitoes, please fill in our google form at tinyurl.com/MosquitoReferenceGenomes. please share this with colleagues who might be interested. thank you! [3/3]

Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

Check out our paper, co-authored by @akhorramnejad.bsky.social and me. Published in @commsbio.bsky.social We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this. A 🧵 with our results (1/5) rdcu.be/d8wse

I have been visiting family and friends for the last two weeks for the holidays. So good to disconnect for a little bit and charge batteries for a new year

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

I'm advertising several positions at all levels ( #PhD, #Postdoc, #RA). If you're enthusiastic, collaborative, and interested in the #ecological and #evolutionary dynamics of #infection, please get in touch - link below. pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/open-positions ([email protected])

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers. Amanda Heidt writes Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Anna-Bella Failloux’s lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the spillover and adaptation of arboviruses to human-biting mosquitoes @institutpasteur.bsky.social. Send your application to [email protected] before Feb 28th, 2025! Come and do awesome research in Paris!

Lab lunch at fiera Milano

I have never heard of this type of fraud before.

The irony being that Science doesn't have a share to Bluesky button for article sharing! www.science.org/content/arti...

Super useful for people like me migrating here

Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2