Are you interested in ecological restoration and rewilding? And how this may affect biodiversity and infectious disease risk? Apply for this PhD at the University of Liverpool to study how tick-borne disease risk will change in rewilding projects bit.ly/47YkQsI

If you’re looking for a epidemiology PhD project with public health impact check out this awesome project on bovine tuberculosis transmission with a great supervisory team in Dublin

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

2 x PhD fully funded studentships Are you interested in improving livestock health by developing evidence for disease control ? tinyurl.com/2tefe7u8, tinyurl.com/mw2rrm22 Join our group @liverpooluni.bsky.social, with funding from BBSRC NWD programme tinyurl.com/3jcn79dn

New joint statement from Chief Scientific Advisors from across the EU - the need to build a One Health approach to policy and action #OneHealth

Ecology-Evolution scientific societies on Bluesky: ESEB: @eseb.bsky.social SSE: @sse-evolution.bsky.social ASN: @asn-amnat.bsky.social SMBE: @official-smbe.bsky.social BES: @britishecolsoc.bsky.social CSEE-SCEE: @csee-scee.bsky.social and joining us today, welcome!: SFE2: @sfecologie.bsky.social

Thrilled to present our project on developing a one health approach to tick and tick-borne diseases through manipulation of reservoir host communities with Katie August today at @ukvbd.bsky.social #UKVBD2024

Dom Brass talking about our tick model from our TickSolve project at @ukvbd.bsky.social. @bethpurse.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

Sarah Biddlecomb, UKHSA presenting UK distribution data of dermacentor reticularis and Haemaphysalis punctata

Ben Miller acing the poster session @ukvbd.bsky.social ‘How will woodland creation affect tick-borne disease risks in the UK’

@bethpurse.bsky.social presenting an overview of our OPTICK project (co-led by @cmillins.bsky.social) at @ukvbd.bsky.social.

Jing Jing Khoo presenting Wolbachia genomic data from Culex pipiens cell lines at the Tick Cell Biobank hosted at @liverpooluni.bsky.social @ukvbd.bsky.social

@bethpurse.bsky.social presenting ticksolve research @ukvbd.bsky.social meeting in collaboration with @mayaholding.bsky.social

‘Collaborate to innovate’ Mara Rocchi from the Moredun Research Institute presents results from a stakeholder workshop aimed at developing best practice for managing tickborne diseases @ukvbd.bsky.social

Shifting gears, @ukvbd.bsky.social invasive species cost billions annually, mosquitoes are the most costly group. Economic models of mosquito interventions show investment in interventions can be good value for money

@drstevenmwhite.bsky.social presenting role of phenotypic plasticity in disease transmission illustrated by dengue virus and Aedes albopictus @ukvbd.bsky.social

@cmillins.bsky.social talking about our OPTICK project fieldwork at @ukvbd.bsky.social. @bethpurse.bsky.social

Ticksolve research on landscape effects on hosts and cascading effects on ticks presented at @ukvbd.bsky.social by Saudamini Venkatesan @livuninews.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

Looking forward to this!

We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.