I'm giving a free public talk asking 'How certain is certain enough?' at @lshtm.bsky.social on Monday 24th November at 5.30pm, as part of the Global Health Lecture Series. From epidemic response and clinical trials to online misinformation and AI, I'll look at how truth emerges – and why it falters.

🚨 New @who.int guidance for malaria in crisis settings 🌍 🦟 Dr Bhargavi Rao, co-author, highlights the significance of the manual for frontline workers and the need to integrate malaria control into broader emergency response. Read more: bit.ly/469Q1kd

Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

An exciting opportunity to start an independent position as a research fellow in protozoan parasitology at Christ's College, Cambridge and the Department of Pathology: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52020/

For those interested in Masters in lab and field based research in infectious disease we have 3 fantastic programmes to choose from MSc Immunology, medical parasitology and entomology and medical microbiology. They benefit from very flexible module choices and summer projects in UK and abroad!

Delighted to share the final version of Richard Zhou's study on how the CD163 scavenger receptor cleans up after toxic haemoglobin spills out from our blood cells. An amazing grabber mechanism! rdcu.be/ewPA2

From surviving malaria as a child to leading cutting-edge research on drug resistance in Africa. Dr Fitsum Tadesse @lshtm.bsky.social is fighting the parasite from both sides. A powerful story of science, and resilience 🧬🌍 Read his journey @NatureMicrobiol 📄 👉 bit.ly/4nWsb22

🦠 “An honour to present” — @leen-vanheer.bsky.social shares insights from the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Malaria. From rising resistance in Ethiopia to promising progress in SE Asia, her talk spotlighted urgent AMR trends in Plasmodium falciparum. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ef5C4o

Our latest story describes the amazing evolutionary battle between malaria parasite and human. The parasite evolved RIFINs to bind inhibitory KIR receptors and suppress immune cell function while humans have activating KIR receptors to bind these RIFINs to kill parasites!

Yes as I found providing fathers access to leave via a transferable entitlement, as UK’s SPL, exacerbates gendered parenting norms and does not provide parents means to imagine the feasibility of sharing leave / care in practice (for shorter read!: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...)

Researchers at @lshtm.bsky.social, led by @josebengoechea.bsky.social, will conduct a £2.2M study funded by UK MRC to investigate how Klebsiella pneumoniae silently colonises the gut before causing deadly infections. 🔬🦠 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4mNSreh

🇧🇼 Botswana’s Health Minister Dr. Stephen Modise visited @lshtm.bsky.social to strengthen ties in global health and infectious disease control. Discussions focused on malaria elimination and equitable access to health education. #GlobalHealth #Malaria Read more 👉 bit.ly/43PcZf1

Nawsad presented our structure-guided design of RH5top, our latest blood stage-malaria vaccine immunogen, in talk and poster at the Malaria Gordon conference. The culmination of many studies from the lab and collaborators and doing well in pre-clinical testing! More soon.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Want to be part of a diverse student community making a difference in #GlobalHealth? Our #students & recent graduates tell us why they chose to study with us, from inspiring lecturers to 1st class research, a truly global network & warm welcome 🌎 Find out more👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/intern...

@sturalph.bsky.social giving the laudatio for Dominique who receives the Lifetime Achievement Award for malariology at BioMalPar. #EMBLMalaria

It’s the most wonderful (conference) time of the year. 🎶 Happy to be a part of BioMalPar XXI @EMBL in Heidelberg (obligatory picture of the ATC below 😊). Come see me at poster number 44 tomorrow to see what we have been up to. #EMBLMalaria

Richard Wheeler keeping us all awake in the post-lunch session with a great talk about swimming in trypanosomatid parasites #EIDsymp25

Please consider applying for a post doc in our lab if you have bioinformatics and wet lab skills, and are interested in parasites! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Two weeks today (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not. Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

Come join our friendly team! Super cool parasites, an exciting project, the world’s best snacks…what’s not to love? Oh, and the people are pretty great too! 🥰

The KnuepferLab is hiring! Our team is looking for a highly motivated, experienced molecular parasitologist to expand our group as a postdoctoral researcher at the RVC. Follow either link below for more information on the project and the job offer: lnkd.in/eprgmaE9 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY962/p...

Very proud of the high and consistent mosquito infections the LSHTM MTF is getting! So vital for many of our research projects!

Ahead of #WorldMalariaDay2025, @lshtm.bsky.social ’s Human Malaria Transmission Facility reports its most successful P. falciparum / A. coluzzii infections to date—advancing lab-based research in the global fight against malaria. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lL8YiA

Join our expert panel this #WorldMalariaDay as we ask: What next for malaria research in a time of crisis? Hear from global health leaders on how we protect progress & refocus research in the face of funding cuts. 🗓️ Friday 25 April 🕧 12:30 BST 📍 LSHTM | Online 🔗 bit.ly/42nuDEF

Keep VEuPathDB open-access to all by subscribing today! veupathdb.org/veupathdb/ap...

This won't just affect the US. This is terrible news for biomedical research as a whole, the staff and students and all the people who would benefit from their work. It's insane

Exciting 2 year postdoc position with Ed Parker at LSHTM working on vaccines in EHR: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes April 7. Visa eligible.

I can't stand bullies. President Zelensky is now trying to stand up against two of them. We should have his back. #SlavaUkraïni

I can't even. Never in my life did I imagine we would witness such utter contemptuous behavior from the leaders of the most powerful country in the world. Absolutely disgraceful. And exceptionally emblematic of how utterly misguided we are as a country. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

Congratulations to Dr Fitsum Tadesse on winning the prestigious @lshtm.bsky.social Greenwood Africa Award for his outstanding contributions to the control of infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa His work is making a significant impact in the fight against malaria in Africa. 👇 bit.ly/3XoZC1t

In this perspective piece, @robmoon.bsky.social and Ellen Bushell discuss two landmark papers published in @science.org that conducted a genome-wide screen of the zoonotic malaria parasite P. knowlesi, identifying which of its 5,000 genes are essential for blood-stage growth. 👉 bit.ly/3Xuv7Yj

To all our many, many friends in US academia - how can we help as you fight new fires on a daily basis? Experiments, analyses, collaborative visits, hosting you for sabbaticals…? Just say the word. We are behind you 100% ❤️ 🧪🧬🔬🌎🌏🌍

Absolute pleasure to have been asked to write this perspective in @science.org along with Ellen Bushell covering two groundbreaking functional genomics papers in the monkey malaria parasite P. knowlesi 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you are a budding parasitologist and you would like to spend a great summer full of science, networking, and fun with your peers, there is still time to apply for Biology of Parasitism course at @mblscience.bsky.social! Deadline 29th of January. tinyurl.com/applyBoP

🆕 Our latest report is out! 🌍 🦟 Explore the key achievements, research highlights, and ongoing collaborations from our team in the fight against malaria. Read the full report here👉 bit.ly/3Oq7ScT #MalariaResearch #GlobalHealth #MalariaReport

Fresh from ASTMH, PATH malaria team are excited to get started on Bluesky! Who's good to follow? Anyone read any good papers recently?

Fanstastic opportunity for undergraduates in low and middle income countries. A fully funded 3 month internship at Sanger. Get in touch if interested! www.sanger.ac.uk/about/the-sa...

Hello, and welcome to everyone! We run a weekly parasitology seminar series with recordings available, like here from last week from @robmoon.bsky.social! If you want to hear more, feel free to message me or @abhinay.bsky.social to be added to our mailing list t.co/Q0jpcxXPMI

Great starter list for parasitologists - great work @abhinay.bsky.social

Are you a researcher in #STEMM & currently caring for a child, another adult or your parent/partner/spouse? If so please take a few mins to share your experience w/ the 3Lauras @ Carers in STEMM Anonymous survey: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_6s… Only 6d left to respond, please repost 🙏

I guess it’s about time I introduced myself here! I am Rob Moon, a molecular parasitologist working at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. I work on lots of aspects of malaria parasite biology but particularly how the parasites get inside red blood cells (invasion).

Very excited to say that I have today joined @lshtm.bsky.social, to start a research group supported by a Wellcome Career Development Award!

If you are a post-doc ready to transition to independence, but would like protected time and salary support to write your fellowship, then we have the scheme for you. Apply for our Springboard fellowship scheme. Two years protected and salaried edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social is advertising 2 posts (Professor or Associate Professor) w/ interest in medical #entomology, transmission, surveillance and/or control of #vector-borne diseases. www.myhealthtalent.com/job/8052618/... #EcoECRcareer #AcademicSky

This is AWESOME. The model, the ambition, the team are all A+. I really hope it takes off in a big way. (The name is kind of naff 😂)

Somehow not surprised that there is a row at The Royal Society re new President- as great and noted a scientist as Sir Paul Nurse is, does he need to do 2 terms reinforcing the idea only men lead the society? #AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

It would be astonishing if the Royal Society could not find a *new* president among its 1500 fellows. What does that say about their talent and commitment? www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Royal Society Fellows are divided over the possible re-election of Sir Paul Nurse as president, with some arguing it gives the impression the organisation is a “boys’ club”. The Society has never had a female president. 🧪👩‍🔬 #scisky #academicsky #womeninscience www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

I had not paid attention to this…but the money has to come from somewhere, right?