The Women in Malaria (WiM) Workshop at BioMalPar XXII Conference will focus on this 2026 edition on recognising and addressing the Imposter Syndrome, a barrier that continues to impact the professional development of many women in science. #WiM

CALL FOR EXPERTS!!!📢 The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members on the Malaria Strategic Information Technical Advisory Group (MSI-TAG). Deadline: 15th May 2026 (Geneva time) More information can be found via the link lnkd.in/ejRhKkRj) #WIM

Did you get our first Newsletter? Yes! We sent out a newsletter for World Malaria Day 2026 and if you didn’t receive it, we’ve got you. Link to the newsletter: womeninmalaria.es/wp-content/u... Link to join our database: womeninmalaria.es/wim-database/ #WIM

In celebration of #WorldMalariaDay we bring you the next sketch in our WiM series featuring Krystal Mwesiga Birungi & Dr Federica Bernardini @targetmalaria.org Read more about their work on targetmalaria.org/profiles/spo... & targetmalaria.org/profiles/spo... Sketch: Sophia and Thorey #WIM

New research from @lshtm.bsky.social has identified new genetic markers that could help track emerging malaria drug resistance in Africa, supporting earlier detection and helping protect the effectiveness of current treatments. 🔬🌍 Read more 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

✨ This March, we are spotlighting women whose dedication, service, expertise, and leadership is driving progress in malaria research, policy, and implementation worldwide 🌐 See the vital role they play in advancing a malaria-free future 👉 shorturl.at/FMkTT

🚨New paper out 🚨 Excited to see this work from Joe Visone and me published! We dissect the molecular mechanisms behind var2csa transcription and translation. Take a look👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy International Women’s Day #IWD2026 🤩🎉 To celebrate the day we present the first WiM sketch of the year, featuring Dr Katharine Collins, the co-inventor of the R21 malaria vaccine 👩🏻‍🔬💉

📢 We are looking for enthusiastic WiM volunteers 🎉 We have at least two positions open! - 📱 Social Media Manager - 📰 Newsletter Content Creator More information on each position in the flyers below

2026 International Day of Women and Girls in Science Here’s to raising the next generation of scientists, engineers, and problem solvers. #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #STEMEducation #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #ScienceForEveryone #JuniorEinsteins

It’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 Today, we celebrate Haddijatou Mbye & Thorey K. Jonsdottir and their shared commitment to improving global health through research, mentorship, and community. Read their story: www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... #WomenInScience #GlobalHealth

⚠️ Gender bias contributes to creating and maintaining the gender gap, which occurs when quantifiable differences arise, such as a pay gap. 🔗 Read more! 👉 https://diccionario.isglobal.org/en/gender-bias/ #WordOfTheWeek #DiccionarioSaludGlobal #GlobalHealthDictionary

Today we celebrate the international day of women and girls in science 🎉👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍💻👩🏾‍🚀👩🏼‍🔧 #IDWGS2026

📣 4 scholarships are available to support women parasitologists from LMICs to attend the ICOPA 2026 conference in Montréal (August 16-21)! Application deadline 11. February & requires proof of abstract submission (deadline 2. February). Further info: www.herminthology.com/equip

Dear everyone, thank you for all your support throughout the year and special thanks to all the WiM Conference attendees and supporters - we could not have done it without you! Happy Holidays and may you all have a prosperous new year. See you in 2026! -The Committee

Research associate opportunity in P. falciparum & T. gondii to research the structure and function of complexes essential for organelle biology. Deadline 15. October, more info below ⬇️

Calling all mitochondria enthusiasts, we are recruiting for a new project (and the post will be split between Glasgow and Helsinki) www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

On this day 1897, it was discovered that malaria is transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitos 🦟 a discovery critical to our understanding of disease pathogenesis and prevention of malaria #WorldMosquitoDay #EndMalaria #GlobalHealth #ZeroMalaria

💉 Registration is open for #IVI ’s 24th International Vaccinology Course 🗓 Sept 8–12, 2025 📍 Seoul | Kigali | Stockholm (hybrid format) 🔬 Open to global vaccinology professionals Apply by Aug 1 👉 shorturl.at/xQE3P

Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

📝🤳 Become an event reporter! In exchange for a fee waiver you'll need to post social media updates from the conference and write a report summarising the meeting 📷✍🏻 ✅ All on-site and virtual conferences at EMBL Heidelberg Find out more and apply 👉🏻 https://s.embl.org/reporter @embl.org

🚨 PhD, MD & postdoc researchers: Apply for a @boehringerglobal.bsky.social Fonds #TravelGrant! ✅ Up to 3 months abroad 🧠 Learn key methods and join new courses 🌍 Open to researchers in/coming to Europe 💸 Covers travel, lodging & course fees 🔗 More info 👉 shorturl.at/S8Rnz

📣 Calling #NTD colleagues @who.int is seeking experts for the Strategic Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases. Great opportunity to contribute to global policy and strategy on #NTD control & elimination Deadline July 14th - please share www.growglobal.health/placements/c...).

✨ We’ve got a new look! ✨ Malaria No More just launched a new website to share our mission, our progress, and the people powering the fight to #EndMalaria. You’ll find stories on the latest malaria news and breakthroughs, key resources, and more. 💻 Explore the site: www.malarianomore.org

🚀 The MESA Calendar continues to grow in popularity! 🗨️ Suggest an event, grant, training or other opportunity to be added. 💡 It enables us to ensure that no important malaria dates are missed. 🗓️🔗 mesamalaria.org/grants-events/ 🗨️🔗 Suggest → shorturl.at/6xol8

🔬✨'Women in Malaria' peer-to-peer workshop at #EMBLMalaria ♀️ This informal session brought together women across the #malaria community to share experiences, challenges, and strategies for navigating their careers and shaping the field. Grateful for the openness, insights, and energy in the room 🙌🏼

My first race in many years (after 2 maternities) is for @womeninmalaria.bsky.social There we go!!

Thanks to all lab heads and group leaders who have filled out and paid invoices for a @veupathdb.org subscription! Your contributions keep our data resources open access. #data #parasites #fungi #vectors If you haven’t done so already, this is an URGENT need! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

📢 New preprint from the Gómez-Díaz lab - the transcriptome of Plasmodium malariae in the mosquito 🦟 Check it out ⬇️

Exciting work at EMBL around malaria, including our lab!

In this blog post, our @lshtm.bsky.social’s Malaria Centre Co-Directors reflect on #WorldMalariaDay and explore the role researchers must play in the fight to safeguard progress & to protect the vision of a malaria free world in a rapidly shifting global health landscape. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3YcAvQ3

This World Malaria Day, we celebrate the vital role women & other discriminated genders play in the fight against malaria! From pioneering researchers to dedicated health workers, women are driving innovation & change in malaria control globally. [Sketch by Sophia & Thorey 👩🏻‍🎨]

During last month's @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference, MMV’s Associate Director of Social Research Maud Majeres Lugand gave a presentation on malaria in pregnancy & some of the key initiatives that fall under the umbrella of out MiMBa strategy.

Thrilled to share my first paper, now out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! Huge thanks to my amazing supervisor @hakimi.bsky.social and everyone who contributed to this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌠 We're thrilled to announce our latest Hypothesis Fund awardees and their groundbreaking projects! From optimizing enzymes, to protein sequencing, and membrane 'functional hotspots', each of these projects holds the potential to be broadly transformative for science! 1/ 🧵

Thank you so much @hypothesisfund.bsky.social and Ellen for supporting us in this new venture!! We're excited to get started! 🦠🔬❄️

How can global health organizations make breastfeeding more inclusive and easier? New @plosglobalpublichealth.org paper offers concrete suggestions journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

This month, the 2nd @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference showcased contributions of women & non-binary scientists in #malaria research. Maud Majeres Lugand presented MMV's MiMBa initiative, now in its 5th year of accelerating antimalarials for pregnant & lactating women: womeninmalaria.es

Summaries of Day 2 talks from the 2nd Women in Malaria (@womeninmalaria.bsky.social) conference are available at the @mesamalaria.bsky.social website here: mesamalaria.org/reports/2nd-... #malaria #Plasmodium #vectorbiology #parasitology

The summaries of Day 1 talks from last week's @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference are available from @mesamalaria.bsky.social at mesamalaria.org/reports/2nd-... Day 2 talk summaries will be up soon! #malaria #Plasmodium #vectorbiology #womeninmalaria

It has been such an inspirational and empowering experience the 2nd @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference and a privilege to organise a new edition of our Peer Mentoring Workshop Did you attend it? How was your experience? Stay tuned to WiM new mentoring program coming soon!

Fantastic to see so many dedicated professionals coming together for the 2nd WiM Conference! Huge shoutout to our former Director, Jackie Cook, for her continued contributions to the fight against malaria. Kudos to the entire conference committee & all participants for making this event a success!

🌟Thank you all for joining us at the 2nd WiM Conference🌟 A conference like this is only possible because of the dedication and efforts of so many people coming together - Thank you everyone! 🥰 -The conference committee (Silvie, Damaris, Brook, Megan, Thorey & Nsa)

so happy I attended the @womeninmalaria.bsky.social virtual conference. I'm grateful to have made several connections & feeling really inspired for the future :) Ready to play my part in the fight for gender equality in the field of malaria 🔬👩🏼‍🔬🦟 🧪🩸

Huge congratulations to our co-founder, Professor Lilach Sheiner (@sheinerlab.bsky.social), on receiving the C.A. Wright Medal! A well-deserved recognition of her dedication and impact in parasitology. 👏 #Parasitology #Apicomplexan #WomenInSTEM

Excited to hear from @drshaziaruybal.bsky.social and her pioneering work to create a centralised repository for malaria genomic data analysis! With so many packages and so many different use-cases, this platform helps us with data standardisation and good practices!

Don’t forget to stay up to date with the WiM Conference via the MESA reports! Huge thanks to the MESA correspondents ⬇️

day 1 of the @womeninmalaria.bsky.social conference was enlightening and productive. Met great people across the globe and tuned into some groundbreaking seminars. Can't wait to do it again tomorrow 🤩

Day 1 complete of the 2nd WiM Conference! Thanks everyone for joining us today, sharing your research, knowledge and showing engagement during each session. See you again tomorrow! 🦟🧫🔬

See you at the conference! 💙💛