Every 23rd of April I buy a book (it is Book Day in Spain). This is the one I picked this year. The pile of books is not small, but this will jump the queue for sure

New paper out! Assessing the ability of 4 RNA Pol III promoters to bias the inheritance of a gene drive element in Anopheles stephensi www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Monday morning and the first email coming in is a paper accepted and ready for publication. I wish every week started with good news like this 😁 Happy Monday!

First eggraft collected in the garden this year... 🦟🦟 #mosquitoseason

Are you a UK researcher working with insects? Take the @royentsoc.bsky.social Insect Welfare Survey and make your voice heard. 🦟🐞🐜 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... Help us shape future resources 🧐 Deadline 🚨 1st April 🚨 #InsectResearch #InsectWelfare #EthicsInScience #InsectEthic

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Sometimes the hardest part of working in Science is dealing with those things that you cannot control but impede your projects/experiments... All the hard work done and hours spent... Quite a frustrating day

🦟 #Portugal 🇵🇹: #Dengue na #Madeira. “É preciso eliminar vírus e os mosquitos antes de chegar o calor”// #Dengue fever in Madeira: "We need to eliminate both the #virus and the #mosquitoes before the heat arrives." via @publico.pt www.publico.pt/2025/02/08/s...

🦟" #Fiji declares #dengue #outbreak, 200 cases recorded"🌏 via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... Fiji MoH statement: www.health.gov.fj/wp-content/u...

#WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM Celebrate our achievements and put in the table all the obstacles women still have to face to follow a career in STEM.

First first-author paper from Mireia Larrosa-Godall, an amazing job! Very happy for her and to be part of this work. Challenges in developing a split drive targeting dsx for the genetic control of the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚨 We are recruiting for two post-doc positions!🚨 1) Development of genetic tools to study mosquito immune cells isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob... 2) Role of mosquito immune cells in immune recognition and priming isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

👩‍🔬 Por que participan máis científicos que científicas nos medios de comunicación? Entre os principais obstáculos, o 23% das investigadoras vense afectadas pola conciliación persoal e familiar. Coñece os detalles desta desigualdade no seguinte artigo 👇

Writing time means to play the HIM playlist on... For some weird reason helps me focusing 🤟

🦟 "Lack of Competence of US #Mosquito Species for Circulating #Oropouche #Virus" by Anne F Payne et al. in #EID Journal wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

🚨 🌟 Submissions & Registrations Open for #ViBioM2025! 🌟 🚨 Join us 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Present your research, connect with global experts, and shape the future of #Virology & #Bioinformatics. 📅 Details & links: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...

First week back to "normal" after Christmas for me. Re-organising experiments due to some issues in the lab, and when I thought everything was sorted, another "surprise" arises. Not a good one Seems difficult to have a chill start of the year 😕

13/01/2025 👉 L'épidémie de #chikungunya ☣️ est officiellement déclarée à l'île de la Réunion avec le passage en niveau 3 du dispositif ORSEC. 1/4 www.lemonde.fr/sante/articl...

First reading of the year. Two chapters in, and loving it! This year I'll try to read a bit more than last year (outside Entomology and Vector-Borne Diseases). Let's see how it goes ☺️🤓

Exciting - the Natural History Museum UK now have their database of pinned insect specimens - including #mosquitoes - online! Search to find where people were collecting and preserving mosquitoes 100-200 years ago; including here in Scotland #MedEnto data.nhm.ac.uk?_gl=1*1wyqcr....

See you THURSDAY 16th for this exciting seminar on the new world of GM #mosquitoes, designed to be refractory to #arbovirus infection, by Prof Luke Alphey, York. All welcome on Zoom - please help with a post!

Adding books to the "to read" pile... Some Spanish science books, and some Galician novels 🤓

Wishing a great New year's Eve and Happy 2025!

How cool is this? 🤩

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

📢Open for submissions: Global Movement and the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases: Challenges and Strategies @FrontTropDis www.frontiersin.org/researchtopi...

2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻

Oropouche Virus Outbreak in Southeast, Brazil: Expanding Beyond the Amazonian Endemic Region https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.11.24318883v1

Excited to make my debut on Bluesky with this post! I'm thrilled to present our latest work on the vectorial competence of Culex pipiens biotypes for avian Plasmodium 🦟🦠 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Looking for a #PhD on #vectorbornediseases #onehealth #epidemiology? Join online the 13th December, 12-3.30pm (UK time) to learn more about the @ox.ac.uk-led ILESLA Doctoral Landscape Award. Register here: lnkd.in/dW7TQPwS www5.open.ac.uk/stem/life-he... Share widely and contact me if interested!

🧐Looking for a #job? The #Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ( #LSTM) is #hiring for a 2-year #postdoc job applying a diverse array of ‘-omics’ technologies to understand the evolution of insecticide resistance in #malaria vectors. 🦟 Apply before 2/1/2025! app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

What a great day today at the UK VBDHub meeting

Great workshop on the new UK #Vector-Borne Diseases Hub (VBD Hub) in the run up to tomorrow's @ukvbd.bsky.social conference in Liverpool. Please check out their new website: vbdhub.org 🦟🪰🕷️

First meeting of the UK Vector-Borne Disease Hub! Lauren Cator, @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social , @hannahvineer.bsky.social (and others not on bluesky) figuring out how to share data to support disease modelling and forecasting and make the UK healthier! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/250073/...

Interesting update of CanL in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come and join the team and work on tick-borne diseases...

November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/

Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. @baylism.bsky.social payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...

If you are new here and work/be interested in VBD this starter package is brilliant!

"La ciencia es importante. Pero la educación es el vector que transmite a cada nueva generación la curiosidad, la pasión y el compromiso de reimaginar el futuro, ampliar los límites de las posibilidades humanas y lograr un mundo social más justo".

The Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant or Research Fellow to support the efforts of The Lancet Commission on Evidence-Based Implementation (EBI) in Global Health focusing on reducing gaps and inequities in health jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

For those working on European mosquito-borne diseases 🦟. www.emca-online.eu/emca-guideli...