Huge congrats to @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social on successfully defending her PhD today!! #ProudPI #GoCougs

🚨 Postdoc opportunity with Lucas Tirloni at RML to work on tick biology, host–pathogen interactions, and functional genomics! 🕷 Details and how to apply below.

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!

🚨New faculty job opportunity 🚨 Please share this ad for a faculty position in our department at UC Irvine, in the fields of microbiology and infectious disease. MD/PhDs and PhDs are desired and should apply! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09954

New preprint! 🚨 Park and colleagues show that the Tr1 transcriptional factor is a master regulator of genes that are critical for A. phagocytophilum adaptation to the tick! #microsky #ticks #TickBorneDisease #Anaplasma

Little half replete larva stuck on a water droplet 😍 Video cred: Cameron Coyle

We’re also hiring a Research Tech: jobs.jhu.edu/job-invite/1...

The O'Neal Lab in @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social is hiring a Lab Manager to work on ticks and tick-borne diseases! You can apply here: jobs.jhu.edu/job-invite/1...

Check these guys out! #MicroSky #LymeDisease

Happy to share the latest pub from our lab! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... We found that reservoir host species, Peromyscus leucopus, develop acquired tick resistance against larval Ixodes scapularis, which reduces tick feeding success and affects pathogen ingestion by larvae.

Check out the latest Nature Microbiology Journal Club article written by Cameron Coyle spotlighting the diverse roles that tick haemocytes have in arthropod immunity and fitness! This piece highlights @rolandelliagus.bsky.social and Joao Pedra’s work, linked here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sunday funday 🤩 🚲 🏊🏻‍♀️

NIH wants to hear from you. No really. Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hiring an Assistant Professor specializing in insect systematics. Opportunities like this are rare and valuable! (Not many jobs like this out there!) Spread the word to anyone who might be interested or benefit. #entomology #science #sciencejobs #bugsky 🧪

The Tiny Thieves Inside Every Tick Bite Every summer, millions of Americans venture into tall grass and wooded trails, unknowingly walking into microscopic crime scenes. Inside the ticks waiting in that vegetation, bacteria are pulling off one of nature's most elegant heists—turning their hosts'…

Thrilled to see this out in PNAS today!!🎉 Big congratulations to graduate student @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social on her first, first-author paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pro-tips for this summer: theonion.com/tips-for-pre...

Spring evening on the Palouse with my best girl

Repping the WSU CVM today at the Pullman science rally! #standupforscience

Proud of this crew! #standupforscience #MicroSky

#standupforscience #microsky

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

Very happy to share the latest preprint from my lab led by Kaylee Vosbigian @kaylee-vosbigian.bsky.social ! We found that Anaplasma activates the ATF6 branch of the unfolded protein response in Ixodes ticks to facilitate cholesterol uptake for growth and survival. #MicroSky #Anaplasma #ticks

And now the actual card 🎄

Happy Holidays from the Shaw lab!

Bacteria and other infectious critters that are transmitted by ticks! 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬 go.bsky.app/KJF4sSt

Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY

I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :) Feel free to extend the gap!! go.bsky.app/JWGLWrd

Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2