New paper out on data standards for vector traits 🦟

📣 Useful publication alert! If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you: doi.org/10.1093/giga... #FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits

Will you be at AMCA 26? Come find @vectorbyte.bsky.social and chat to us about our databases, workshops, data management, and let @samrund.bsky.social give you stickers, perhaps? #AMCA26

New @vectorbyte.bsky.social preprint: Modeling asymmetric Thermal Performace Curves for proportion data - led by Prof Leah Johnson, with Paul Huxley @phuxley.bsky.social, Cat Lippi @lippikiyay.bsky.social, and Prof Sadie Ryan @sjryan3.bsky.social. LINEX TPC: your next fit!

Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) describes✨AedesTraits✨ (zenodo.org/records/1514...) - A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!

📖Published📖 Sorek et al. present bayesTPC, an R package for fitting Thermal performance curves to trait responses using the nimble language and machinery as the underlying engine for Markov Chain Monte Carlo 🌎 🧪 👇

Our paper for bayesTPC, an #R package for #Bayesian thermal performance curve fitting is OUTTT! Special credit to lead author Sean Sorek for his splendid work on this + John Smith and Leah Johnson. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WQZEWI... Blog to follow soon: vectorbyte.org/blog

In this preprint, we describe this head-scratcher of a devs challenge, and present an information standard designed to be sufficient, not onerous, and flexible. We also illustrate (nicely done, @phuxley.bsky.social) the value of disaggregated data for parameter estimation.

This is VectorByte's first Bluesky post - we are now here for all of your vector trait and dynamics excitement!!

I’m presenting at #BES2024 today on how temperature and humidity can interact to influence population growth rate in the malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi! Come, hear about some of this project’s — led by @ecodynvplab.bsky.social — very exciting early results