New map (tap link) highlights total US measles cases in 2025, including increases this past week. Map shows where measles case-counts are highest & reminds us how far the US has fallen since 2000 when the contagious infection was declared eliminated nationwide www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Perkinsus marinus is an important marine pathogen yet we know little about its biology. @macleanlab.bsky.social reports here complexome work of whole parasite and mitochondria mapping the essential mitochondrial enzymes and kickstarting future functional studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

In the latest @who.int Medical Product Alert #falsified IBRANCE (palbociclib) – a drug used to treat certain breast cancers - has been detected in Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya and Turkey #FakeMeds Read more www.who.int/news/item/15...

In addition to the big thread above, this past month I gave a talk about insect-borne diseases to incarcerated learners as part of the @celltocellscot.bsky.social initiative & during my 4th year teaching on the Diploma in #TropicalMedicine & Hygiene, we had a #trichuris egg hatch during the class!

Registration now open for the 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝗕𝗦𝗣) 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 in Glasgow: tinyurl.com/364vdxen 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 7th-9th of April 2026 (Tues-Thurs) 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 28th of February 2026 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲: James McCune Smith Learning Hub & Queen Margaret Union (QMU) at the University of Glasgow

Quality-assured antimalarials made locally are vital to reducing the #malaria burden in Africa. With MMV support, Swipha Nigeria’s SP has achieved @who.int prequalification, and the US Gov has procured 5M doses, protecting +1.6M pregnant women in Nigeria. More 👉 bit.ly/3MhXUfT

In case you missed it: last week, @novartis.bsky.social & MMV announced positive Phase 3 results for GanLum, a novel, non-artemisinin antimalarial. This milestone comes amid urgent calls to tackle emerging drug resistance. Read more in @npr.org: bit.ly/4oTKuVx

Someone give the @pacbio.bsky.social marketing team all the awards! The first image here is the PacBio Vega (yes, on a bench- they can now fit on benchtops!) and the second 2 are PacBio Vega socks. How good are these? Like, the data I just got back is also spectacular, but look at these!!! #pacbio

When your work has a Halloween event with art but you've been staring at UMAPs all day. #bioinformatics

Thank you so much to @striepenlab.bsky.social for continuing to run these free & fantastisch #Parasitology seminars! Students and ECRs- make sure you're signed up to get updates! What a great talk by Prof Manuel Llinás of @ciddpsu.bsky.social! Fascinating work on AP2-G differences in SEA & Africa!

Learn how our hunt for the native structure of top antimalarial target PfATP4🧂led to the discovery of PfABP, an unknown essential binding partner, out now! @natcomms.nature.com 👉 rdcu.be/eLRlH 🦠🔬❄️ A team effort led by @mehsehret.bsky.social & Anurag Shukla @akhilvaidya.bsky.social! #cryoEM #malaria

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This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I regularly try to brush up on my #Bioinformatics and Bioinformaticians are genuinely funny people wherever I go! I love this Burrows-Wheeler explanation. I think my brain processes information this way though. It zips stuff. 😄

We have a 3+ year post doc available in our lab to study trypanosome transmission and virulence. Combined wet lab and bioinformatics expertise preferred. Please apply via the HR link (elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...). Find out more about us in the link below.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Great work by @ukhsa.bsky.social team on 4 yrs of invasive #mosquito surveillance in UK. Sporadic detection of Aedes albopictus on transport routes in England & one-off detection of aegypti at Heathrow don't confirm establishment, but show value of surveillance journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

CRISPR cane toads y'all... www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10....

This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.

Wow- proud of Ireland, but that's a very eye-opening map. Thinking especially of the journalists in Palestine and Sudan at the moment. #pressfreedom

cleaning up our first batch of Keyence images, IMO you can't get a better test subject than a tingid

Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Quackolini wants to delay Hep B shots until age 12. Problem: the danger is vertical transmission at birth, when 9 in 10 infections become lifelong. That’s not a health plan—it’s an epidemiology experiment with your child as the control group.

The last time the administration recklessly hawked a drug as a cure-all for something it hadn’t been shown to do, numerous people taking HCQ lost access to their meds - and the HCQ harmed the Covid patients it was used on. Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur

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!