One month since our book has been published and it already recieved 50,000 downloads from 115 countries!! A truly global reader interest, including a large number of developing countries where it is accessible due to OpenAccess! Get your copy link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @nicojsmit.bsky.social

Everything you always wanted to know about parasites and stable isotopes in one book chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... From the new #openaccess book on Aquatic Parasitology, edited by @nicojsmit.bsky.social & ‪@berndsures.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

When studying the complexity of ecosystems on land or in water one can not (and should not) ignore the interplay between parasites, hosts and ecosystems. In this excellent illustrated chapter, lead Clarise Louvard, the authors explain these complexities in detail. @berndsures.bsky.social

Conserving Parasites? Is that even a thing? Indeed it is!! Read all about why and how in this #OpenAccess chapter on Aquatic Parasitology Conservation lead by Marliese Truter from the North-West University's Water Research Group. @berndsures.bsky.social link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Vector of the Month: #Gnathia #Africana (#African #fish #gnat), a temporary #ectoparasitic #isopod & the vector transmitting #apicomplexan parasite #Haemogregarina #bigemina among #fish hosts in #SouthAfrica, written by Kerry Hadfield, Anja Erasmus & Nico Smit. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzle5Eb1x...

Studying or teaching Biology & Life Cycles of Parasitic Arthropoda? Then this #OpenAccess chapter in the newly @springernature.com ⁦‪book on Aquatic Parasitology edited by @nicojsmit.bsky.social & @berndsures.bsky.social is for you! ⁦‪‬ ⁦‪ link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

This is incredible! Our book has only been online for a week — and it’s already been downloaded 22,000 times! We’re thrilled to see such an amazing response from the community. Feel free to share it widely for free download! #ScienceForEveryone @nicojsmit.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

🚨 Thrilled and honoured to lead the chapter on using #eDNA for studying aquatic #parasites - a part of just-published book on #openaccess Aquatic Parasitology led by @berndsures.bsky.social & @nicojsmit.bsky.social with top parasitologists contributing! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... More ⬇️🧵

What a roler coaster ride since our Aquatic Parasitology book was published on Friday! And to top it all, today during the last day Nico Smit is visiting me we recieved the unbelievable news that within 3 days our book has been downloaded 10 000 times!! @unidue.bsky.social @nicojsmit.bsky.social

To see how we are doing in protecting or advocating for those small creatures that carry our precious ecosystems on their "shoulders"... Check out our chapter on Aquatic Parasite Conservation: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The wait is over!! Our Open Access @springernature.com book on Aquatic Parasitology was just published! 23 Chapters, 202 illustrations & 662pp with everything you ever wanted to know about the amazing world of marine & freshwater parasites. @berndsures.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Great News: Our book Aquatic Parasitology: Ecological and Environmental Concepts and Implications of Marine and Freshwater Parasites has been published online open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @nicojsmit.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

The description of our new fish parasitic isopod species, Ceratothoa nipaluna from the mouths of Little Weed Whitings in Tasmania is online! The species name is the name of the Hobart region in the language of the Muwinina people, the original inhabitants of the region. doi.org/10.1080/1745...