💡 Open science boosts research and growth A new review found open access, open data, and open software make research faster, cheaper, and more innovative, but evidence is uneven across sectors. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #SciComm 🧪 #OpenAccess

#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Ever since I learned about this study enrolling I have been eagerly awaiting the results. Researchers in Uganda took a centuries-old cultural practice mothers carrying babies on their backs in cloth wraps and turned it into a public health tool. You got to love it! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Canadian researchers have developed a groundbreaking treatment for “black fever” parasitic disease! The Wasan lab is working to get a new oral medication into the hands of those who need it. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54163.html...

We're hiring! We have funding for a 1-year (to start with, but hopefully longer) postdoc working on climate change impacts on health broadly, and helping us launch gbcc.study. Strong skills in epi methods or attribution science needed. Can potentially be remote. Please share!

We are sounding the ⏰ about the potential impact of funding cuts on global #health programmes that prevent & treat #mosquito-borne diseases 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/the-me... #WorldMosquitoDay #malaria #dengue #chikungunya #Zika

New Jersey scientists are testing mosquitoes after a resident may have contracted malaria locally, which health officials said would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state.

Today, we joined the global malaria community to mark #WorldMosquitoDay2025. From India to The Gambia, malaria continues to pose a serious threat. @malaria-sam.bsky.social & Annette emphasise the importance of ongoing research in driving malaria control & bringing us closer to elimination. 📽️👀

Bilingual food labels are one of our treasures as Canadians.

My new home is pretty cool

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

I'm once again asking PCR machine manufacturers to activate a self-destruct function when the user does unethical shit. Nobody should have their SRY test result made public ever.

So glad to finally have this out with co-author @mallerybreban.bsky.social and very thankful for the many amazing people who contributed to this study and provided materials and input! 🦟🦠1/12 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We're still looking for volunteers to help us with packing and mailing GNU Press shop orders on August 1 and 11, 2025:" Can you help us with the GNU Press shop on August 11? — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software buff.ly/ELA04Ra

@who.int has recommended Lenacapavir as a new HIV prevention option—a long-acting medicine that could revolutionize the global HIV response.  But only if it’s accessible and affordable to everyone who needs it.  Hear the urgent call from communities and partners to Gilead Sciences

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro faces potential next-gen Democratic primary challenge from Attorney Damjan DeNoble www.newhavenindependent.org/article/atto...

Or in Quebec, le Jeepte chatte

What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate

New #research published in @biomedcentral.bsky.social 👉 Enhancing protection against vector‑borne #diseases in forcibly displaced communities: evaluating the efficacy of spatial repellents for cutaneous #leishmaniasis control in North‑East #Syria: rdcu.be/euMrq

Happy Canada Day!

Join us July 8 for Prof Christofferson's @rchristo.bsky.social webinar "Vectors, Virus, Visibility: Holistic Approaches to Arbovirus Research". Register www.zoomgov.com/webinar/regi.... @sbvirologia.bsky.social @amersocvirology.bsky.social @astmh.bsky.social @utmbhealth.bsky.social

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The sexual predators have unionized

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

I did not have this leftist purity test on my leftist purity test bingo card. #savethecolonel

South Africa is a medical research powerhouse, little known to people outside the field. Its scientists have been responsible for breakthroughs against major global killers, including heart disease, H.I.V. and Covid-19. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

Reducing reliance on American big-tech is the aim of Denmark's new digital sovereignty push, and #opensource software is at the heart of it.

Any bias we currently have, AI will scale it. That's it. At BASELINE, Black applicants are denied mortgages at a rate 80% higher than white applicants. Outsourcing approvals to AI will WIDEN the gap, especially for Black women who get the worst deals in home loans. This is #TheDoubleTax.

The situation is worse than I realized, wow. Screwworm was eradicated in the US via sterile insect technique (mass release sterile males) & a “barrier zone” against the endemic zone in South Am was maintained in Panama via active SIT - now, it’s rapidly spread in Mexico & approaching the border fast

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Recent funding cuts threaten a lot of the good work being done in pathogen genomics. One way you can help sustain the work is by training bioinformaticians. My colleague Alfred Simkin is accepting donations to continue training scientists in Africa over zoom. Donate here: boxwoodbioinformatics.org

After 82 hours, the flow cell that cannot be killed has a fresh library and is still cranking out data. #onlymostlydead

The KnuepferLab is hiring! Our team is looking for a highly motivated, experienced molecular parasitologist to expand our group as a postdoctoral researcher at the RVC. Follow either link below for more information on the project and the job offer: lnkd.in/eprgmaE9 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY962/p...

Transposable genetic material in fruit flies, Copia, has capsid coat & a regulatory role at synapses 📷 P. Githure M’Angale, Adrienne Lemieux & Yumeng Liu et al @briankelch.bsky.social & Thomson labs @umasschan.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2025... + @antdlewis.bsky.social

Winnipeg friends, really try to attend this. He brings so much clarity to our current situation.

The District’s second full year of sterile mosquito releases is well underway! Our successful initiatives were recently featured in an article published by the LA Times. Read more in the link below!

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

Key areas of the current measles outbreak to watch, as of April 30: 📍 The numbers in El Paso are increasing at a rapid pace — 38 cases in 26 days. 📍Kansas numbers are rising. 📍The situation in Canada and Mexico continues to grow. 1/2

New research by @tylervkent.bsky.social @samurscicop.bsky.social & D. Matute analysed 131 genomes of the globally invasive Aedes aegypti, and found high genomic resilience despite historical eradication attempts for this globally invasive vector. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #mosquitoes

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Heard from one of my heroes today!

Check out this review, which makes many new and interesting connections between human odor, skin biology, and evolution. 💯% of the insight provided comes from the independent literature sleuthing of first author @jlzung.bsky.social. I came along for the ride and learned some chemistry on the way!

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

✨🦟✨HOW DO MOSQUITOES HAVE SEX? ✨🦟✨ Join us for a wild journey into hidden female control, rapidly evolving stimulation devices, fierce species competition, and DEADLY MOSQUITOES! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is what it's all about: moving mysteries into the mainstream to make science reproducible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40236429/

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

We are #Hiring! Please share! #ImmunoSky 🧪 Join our multi-disciplinary B-cell team @Emory/ATL to lead exciting projects on human immunology funded by the Gates Foundation and the NIH (Position fully funded and not dependent on future grants). ghosnlab.science/join-us #BYourCell

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