I don't know if they have a presence on Blue Sky, but I just want to remind people in Scotland that you can sign up for SHARE for free: www.registerforshare.org SHARE takes the excess blood from regular blood tests & uses it for research purposes. You can also sign up for further health studies. 👍🏻

In 2wks, our #VectorsGlasgow team will do #GreatScottishRun for @malarianomoreuk.bsky.social They do crucial work to raise awareness & advocate for investment in #malaria control- never more needed with recent global health funding cuts ⏬️ - ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...

At LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED event experts discussed the threat of false or misleading health information Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it. 📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2... #PublicHealth

The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hospitals ‘overflowing’ amid double outbreak of mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

also really fun to share an issue and a commentary with a big paper on Aedes aegypti 🦟🥂🦟 congrats @mariloumercedes.bsky.social and Jacob E. Crawford www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Starting to accumulate quite a few species in the mosquito gallery:

Delighted to receive some national press coverage of my Royal Society University Research Fellowship - I am trying to make upconversion nanoparticle technology more accessible for biomedical research #Chemsky #Nano www.heraldscotland.com/news/2547411...

Join us for upcoming BSP Tryps Club meetings! Schedule here ⬇️

Huge congratulations to Keele’s Dr Christine Reitmayer, who has received a prestigious fellowship from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to advance her work studying new ways of halting the spread of deadly mosquito-borne disease. 1/

Pen and ink drawing of Atypus affinis. The purseweb was one of several seen at Roydon amongst Heather roots while the actual spider was one we chanced upon in France several years ago. @andydouglas1967.bsky.social I've emailed you grid refs for Roydon.

Find me with the other “Medical Entomology” posters #Ento25 @royentsoc.bsky.social 🦟

Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026! Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission! Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟

🦟 Join the next @acreme.bsky.social webinar! 📊 Topics: • Modelling SP resistance through dhfr & dhps haplotypes - Imke Botha • Spatio-temporal agent-based modelling of malaria - Md Nurul Anwar 🌐 Online 📅 18 Sept 2025 | 07:00–08:00 CEST 🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/lVt4s

📢 The Big Push Against Malaria is accelerating global progress towards eradication. On the sidelines, the SMC Alliance — including MMV — is reaffirming the crucial role of seasonal #malaria chemoprevention in protecting children during peak seasons 👉 bit.ly/4ngUhUr

🌍🚀 Join our next Hackathon! Learn how to clean & standardize geographic names in R with sntutils::prep_geonames() 🗺️ 🗓️ Sept 24 | ⏰ 11:00 GMT 👨🏽‍🏫 Dr. Mohamed Yusuf, WHO Africa 👉 Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #Hackathon #RStats #Geospatial

Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. A study in Nature reports a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. go.nature.com/3V68MP0 🧪

It happened. The best junk email I have ever received. You bet your ahh I'll work on #malaria transmission at Weyland-Yutani! 😂🤣 @thetoiletduck.bsky.social will you guys join me?

I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.

🚨 Call open! The @ec.europa.eu invites applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 🌍🔬 💡 For excellent researchers with a PhD 🌐 Mobility, training & career development 📅 Deadline: 10 Sept, 17h CEST 👉 Apply now: shorturl.at/gv5sU

One of the consequences of this Tylenol causes autism fuckery is pregnant people are going to lose out on a pain relief option. You can’t take ibuprofen/advil when you are pregnant. So of course they are gonna force you to be pregnant and suffer the entire time as much as possible.

Taking paracetamol/Tylenol during pregnancy does not cause #autism. This is incredibly cruel. Mothers already wonder if they did something wrong when they have a child with severe autism. This is an abhorrent lie. #misinformation www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Amazing image from my MSc with @hanniepower.bsky.social. Making its debut on my Ento25 poster! @royentsoc.bsky.social #Plasmodium #Anopheles #mosquito #parasitology

A big welcome to everyone who has joined us for the @bspparasitology.bsky.social trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis meeting this week in the beautiful city of Ceske Budějovice!

Just going to get ahead of this because it seems to be the way RFK Jnr is going- vaccines are safe and do not cause autism. Autism spectrum disorders are genetic. There's no single gene, but many genes involved in brain development, which also accounts for the broad spectrum of symptoms. #autism

🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

No Dostoevsky, Hesse, Chekhov, Fosse, Tokarczuk, Levi? Arendt? Jonathan Littell's latest book? No Hegel's "Phenomonology of Spirit"? No Joyce?!!! Where's Plato?!!! Get on my level, bro! (Disclaimer: I have not attempted Hegel yet. I have been warned). 😄 #minimumconversation

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"This isn’t scientific disagreement. It’s either staggering incompetence or willful misrepresentation." www.statnews.com/2025/08/13/r...

An Amblyptilia (punctidactyla looks like) moth on my calendar tonight! I thought this wee friend should be out "on the wing" in July, with a later brood in September. Are you early or late? The hot weather is confusing me too! #entomology

RFK Jr says that "trusting the experts isn't science". No, trusting the science is science. All published science is peer-reviewed and published in extreme detail. If you are unable to understand the scientific details, it means that YOU don't understand it and need an expert to inform you.

Idiots like RFK, Jr., irresponsibly regurgitating nonsense about vaccines, don't just kill people through a lack of medicine.

EMBL is back on hiring faculty! Check out the multiple open positions: 3 PIs- 2 in Heidelberg incl. our Molecular Systems Biology Unit, 1 in Grenoble 1 Head of Unit (Cell Biology & Biophysics, Heidelberg). Closing deadlines in Sep! +3 more positions to come out then, stay tuned... @embl.org

#Chagas disease isn’t just a tropical threat. Climate change is helping kissing bugs expand their range, raising the risk for people in the US living in rural and wooded areas ⤵️ www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/c...

'The following statement was posthumously published on Anas al-Sharif’s X account, after an attack on a tent for journalists near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world may be horrible at the moment, but I am thrilled to share a preprint on our work to develop novel diagnostics and tools to study #Oropouche virus, (probably) the most important virus that you’ve never heard of: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Bluetorial follows 🟦🧵

It's time I put this here. There is some chronic health #misinformation in rural Ireland but this one takes the biscuit. On Mar 5th 1969, Michael Ryan of @rte.ie broadcasted a piece about a man in Wexford named William Deakin who claimed he could cure skin cancer. It's here: youtu.be/alS4Hljtw1w?...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Please RT 🙏 If you’re an early career researcher working in the fields of structural or synthetic biology wishing to start your lab then come join us at Imperial. We’re looking to support outstanding individuals for external Career Development Awards/Fellowships. www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperi...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Registration and Abstract submission for MPMXXXVI are now open! Abstract submission deadline is June 27th, get yours in quickly. @rmc9z.bsky.social @mjgubbels.bsky.social @omarharb.org 🔗https://www.parasitesrule.com/mpm-xxxvi

So happy to share the first preprint from our lab on post-transcriptional regulation at the VSG expression-site body in trypanosomes. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

Super proud to have this work out there! Big thanks to Joana and all the co-authors.

Read our June issue! Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Alpine Interactions field course 1st edition @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - a wonderful week learning about plant-insect interactions, altitude effects & human disturbance With @chrisleduck.bsky.social, @maisiebrett.bsky.social Harriet Foster, & the best group of engaged and appreciative students!

Thank you so much to @embl.org/ @events.embl.org & the #EMBLmalaria 2025 organisers, Wiebke Nahrendorf, @lilianamancio.bsky.social, @sturalph.bsky.social, & Yaw Aniweh for an amazing conference. Incredible #Plasmodium/#malaria research! I'll be sending emails full of tips/notes to people all week!

🦠 Opening remarks at BioMalPar XXI 🦟 Welcoming everyone on site are our #EMBLMalaria scientific organisers: 🔸Liliana Mancio-Silva, Institut Pasteur 🔸Wiebke Nahrendorf, The University of Edinburgh 🔸Stuart Ralph, University of Melbourne 🔸Yaw Aniweh, University of Ghana (remotely)

We got treated to the first keynote speech of #EMBLMalaria right at the beginning of today's programme 🤩 ⭐🎙️ Abdoulaye Djimde – Bamako University, Mali ➡️ 'Plasmodium genomics for malaria elimination in sub-saharan Africa'

Team Pasteur at the BioMalPar XXI meeting #EMBLMalaria @events.embl.org @pasteur.fr @piv-ip.bsky.social

📸 Don't forget that the photo gallery from #EMBLMalaria is available on the online event platform! Head over to check out the highlights, relive the best moments, and see if you can spot yourself in the crowd 👀✨