Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

New Fed guidelines "deemphasize the role of peer review in determining what work to fund, limit the ability of scientists to use federal funds to publish their research or travel to conferences, & offer political appointees more latitude to terminate grants at will" www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

Trying to submit a comment on the OMB proposed changes and can't navigate labyrinth to where to directly comment on this pile of shit. Where do you actually go to leave a comment? Anyone?

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Forest entomologists are already depleted. Invasive pests are just getting worst. We need more forest entomologists and tree pathologists, not less! @entsocamerica.bsky.social www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-05...

Big THANKS to collaborators for Aegypti samples from their labs and around the world. Addie Williams, Ken Olson, Eric Calvo, Lindy McBride, Noah Rose, @brackneylab.bsky.social @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @agloriasoria.bsky.social; Many Others, too many to list w/ character limit. Sorry! See Paper!

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Contrary to the stenographic, credulous accounts from our major newsrooms, the U.S. Forest Service is not being moved. It is being destroyed. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Join us! We're hiring a Research Scientist to support projects on mosquito immunity and mosquito‑borne disease transmission. Ideal for a post‑bac or recent M.S. looking to gain experience in cutting-edge research in vector biology. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

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Postbac positions available in experimental and computational biology working on #virusevolution, tick-borne viruses and computational drug discovery! Reach out if you’d like to discuss projects in the #QVEU at NIH-NIAID. Please share with any talented undergrads or MS students you know!

Mark your calendars! Just under a year away from an exciting conference on Vector-Pathogen Interactions in Geneva. www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

New PNAS study identifies ESBX, a protein controlling which surface coat gene is active in sleeping sickness parasites - key to immune evasion. @tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social @zephyris-science.bsky.social @fariatrypslab.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

👀There will be a Keystone Symposium with a focus on Vector-Pathogen Interactions to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in February 2027. It should be a great meeting and hope to see you there! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Wildlife disease data, especially negative data, are one of the last types of data that ecologists just... don't share. We built a place for them to archive it - and now, journals are encouraging people to use it! Big congrats to @danjbecker.bsky.social on this push ❤️

So great to finally have this out!!

This isn’t fully true! You can request a manual postmark at a post office, you just need to know to do it. Just another thing to educate mail-in voters about. nstp.org/article/usps...

UNC-Wilmington is hiring 3 faculty positions: Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38056 Distinguished Professor of Marine Science: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951 Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38009

Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

#ScienceReadForSunday: Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

Pleased to share our recent work in collaboration with the @perrimonlab.bsky.social in which we perform the first genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen in Anopheles to examine essential fitness genes and genes associated with clodronate liposome function www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?

Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?

🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social! The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here: shorturl.at/dJWT3

A new genetic study in Science overturns the myth of the “London Underground Mosquito,” revealing that this common urban insect originated not below the cities of modern Europe, but in ancient Mediterranean civilizations more than a thousand years ago. https://scim.ag/43xWovB

I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible. “This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors” ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here: careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211

Assistant Professor of Biology & Ecology/Evolution #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky

🚨 New pub alert! Check out our latest one that showcases how chemical and genetic innovations can recreate complex host–symbiotic interactions in the absence of the symbiont. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Apple acquiesced to Trump admin to remove ICEBlocker app from the playstore despite no evidence that these apps have led to ICE agents being targeted as suggested by the WH. Like Disney, these companies only respond to lost revenue. #cancelApple for being cowards www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

🚨 Ph.D. Opportunity! 🚨 I’m recruiting students to start in the Spring Semester 2026 (Jan 2026) or the Fall Semester 2026 (Aug 2026) to study the behavior & neurobiology of mosquito-host interactions. Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Please share! 🦟 #Mosquito #Neurobiology #VectorBiology #Itch

I am looking for dengue 1-4 infectious clones. If you have or know of anyone that has these and would be willing to share please reach out. Thanks.

🚀 Excited to share (with a little delay) my first first-author publication on #Vago genes in #mosquitoes! 🦟 🦠 Have a look to see how we questioned a mosquito immunity dogma and challenged the existing understanding of Vago-like genes as antiviral factors ⬇️ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Easy to do; Just Do It! chng.it/fsPhy5C5cj

When mRNA vaccines are wrongly attacked, this is one of many examples of what you're missing. A broad spectrum prevention strategy against viruses www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thrilled to be a part of this study on Wolbachia and multiple blood feeding. Now published! rdcu.be/eyqaG

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Got, what under normal circumstances, would be a fundable score on my R21 but feel like it has little chance of actually being funded. Sort of a mixed bag of emotions 😁😡😞right now although despair seems to be the strongest of them

Sindbis virus is suppressed in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti by Atg6/BECN1 (autophagy-related 6)-mediated activation of autophagy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7

Despite all the shit going on, we have to celebrate our victories. New publication with @entomososwin.bsky.social and @vectorimmunity.bsky.social showing that hemocytes play a central role in disseminating flaviviruses to secondary tissues potentially functioning as a Trojan Horse(TBD) rdcu.be/euj4g

Aarhus University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics, or bioinformatics for biodiversity research. More info: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-biodiversity-research-using-genetics #job