🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Make academic publishing a commons, not a market. Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore. Popular on our site just now. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

@drheatherferg.bsky.social, Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute) and partners receive €6.1M EU Horizon/EDCTP funding to support the launch of the first mosquito observatory network in Africa. 👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html #mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth

Come and read our latest blog post from @vbdhub.bsky.social on citizen science and VBDs 🕷️🦟🦠 vbdhub.org/blog

Assessing the vector competence of Italian #Culex pipiens and #Aedes albopictus #mosquitoes for the re-emerging Oropouche virus Parasites&Vectors

Thought-provoking essay on the importance of awe (yes, really) in and for science. It helps scientists imagine, it motivates us, it promotes uptake of new ideas …. For me, awe of nature also keeps me grounded, resilient, happy. #ProfLife aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Could you find a bacteria-eating and potentially infection-stopping virus in your toilet? That’s just what happened to the BBC’s James Gallagher when he went on a phage hunt with the team from the University of Southampton: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🟡 #Pangenomes capture far more detail of a species' genetic diversity offering biologists a powerful tool to understand variation, evolution, disease, and much more. 🧬🌱💻

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

🧬 We're proud to join a £10 million UK-wide collaboration to combat animal and plant diseases through advanced genome sequencing. The Genomics for Animal and Plant Disease Consortium (GAP-DC) uses genomics to enhance UK biosecurity. Full story ⬇️

Big news: Dsit confirms UK scheme for foreign research talent. The science department has confirmed it will launch a funding scheme designed to attract foreign researchers, as calls grow for the UK to do more to recruit disaffected US scientists. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

🕷️" #Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever ( #CCHF): Seven dead, 53 infected with #CCHF across #Iraq 🇮🇶" via @rudawmedia.bsky.social www.rudaw.net/english/midd...

The blood of a man who deliberately injected himself with snake venom for nearly 2 decades has led to an "unparalleled" antivenom, say scientists. Antibodies found in his blood can protect against fatal doses from a wide range of species in animal tests. 🧪🩸🐍🐍🐍🐍 www.bbc.com/news/article...

🔮 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 🕷️ 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗨𝗞! SPHERE-PPL (funded by Alan Turing Institute) has launched the Health Forecasting Contest - forecast Lyme disease incidence rates (cases per 100,000) for 2023 & 2024 and help inform public health decision-making. 🔗 Details & repo: sphere-ppl.org

Important article focussing on a big unknown for mosquito vector control - what is the role of domestic insecticide use on driving resistance to public health measures? For too long, this issue has been almost entirely ignored. Great work @lstmnews.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🕷️ "Mapping parts of #Britain at risk from #tick-borne #virus: Scientists @ukceh.bsky.social have mapped parts of Britain where there is a risk of transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus ( #TBEV), which has become a growing health problem in #Europe." #arbovirus www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

🪰 BBSRC grant fuels research to unlock the genetics of disease spread 🪰 Led by: @pfvale.bsky.social @andreadwilson.bsky.social Read more ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/bbsrc-grant-...

NEWS | £1m of Life Sciences Innovation Zone funding will support the creation of a Microbiome & Infectious Disease Innovation Hub (MaID) to harness our expertise in the rapidly expanding field. More ⬇️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/23/l... @livunihls.bsky.social @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

The UMaine Tick Lab's 2024 annual report detailing the information gathered through our passive tick surveillance program is now available at ticks.umaine.edu. Check it out!

This is what it's all about: moving mysteries into the mainstream to make science reproducible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40236429/

📣 The One Health Vector-Borne Diseases Hub is hosting a free training workshop focused on informatics, data sharing, and analysis for vector-borne diseases. 📅 4 - 6 June 📍 Silwood Park, Ascot Full details ➡️ vbdhub.org/blog/trainin...

Toronto is aiming high with the hiring of 100 new scientists! 🇨🇦💪

NEWS: Scientists have mapped parts of Britain at risk of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), which has become a growing health problem in Europe. Cases are rare here but climate and land use changes could increase risk. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 1/ 🧪

🦟 "What if human blood were toxic to #mosquitoes? A drug can make it so. A single dose of the drug #nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to #Anopheles mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests." @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a new article, scientists at the Earlham Institute and @pasteur.fr discuss the computational tools they're developing to enable highly-accurate #metagenome assembly from #longread PacBio and ONT #sequencing. buff.ly/RPKbZtz 🧪 🖥️ 🧬

Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives

Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone by @aacostaserrano.bsky.social & team www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are bats tolerant of all viruses? With a comparative -omics approach, we show that Egyptian fruit bat cells show both antiviral and pro-inflammatory immune responses to infection with Zika virus while our Jamaican fruit bat cells are not susceptible. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🦠 A recent study in Uganda highlights the hidden burden of viral threats behind acute febrile illness. 🔬 Strengthening early detection is key to preventing outbreaks and protecting public health. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Almost five years after I graduated, the second paper from my dissertation has just been published in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Ecology and Evolution! More data points on the potential genetic drivers of vertebrate host preference in the Anopheles gambiae complex 🦟 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New review alert-Mosquito saliva does more than just help them feed—it also influences blood responses in the midgut, enhancing Plasmodium transmission. Could targeting saliva proteins be the key to blocking disease spread? #Malaria #Mosquito #VectorControl www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

We are hiring multiple Post-Docs and PhD students, maybe good to have a break of the US and come develop cutting-edge science in South Africa! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

Great project to generate a #referencegenome for 100 important #mosquito species👇. #genomics #vectorbiology #medicalentomology #vectorbornedisease

The European federation of Academies of Sciences has posted a statement of concern about the developments in the US. They now have added the option to endorse this statement as an organisation. Would be great if this could go viral. allea.org/portfolio-it...

I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

We're looking for a post-doc to work on anthelminthic resistance in a new pan-European project. It will involve generating and analysing targeted and whole-genome data from well-phenotyped livestock GIN populations. Please get in touch if you have any questions. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️❤️❤️ Having sex is like driving — so buckle up and watch our short #SexEd video. May all your rides be safe — on the road and elsewhere! 🚗❤️ Read more about STIs prevention: bit.ly/ECDCSTIs2025 #WrapItUp #GetTested #SafeSex #SexEducation #TestTreatPrevent #ValentinesDay

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

In this short video, I discuss how the partnership with the Wellcome Sanger Institute can advance global genomics surveillance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bw...

When some countries dismount public health, we build! Partnership with U.K. to protect the world from epidemics & pandemics. Important to keep genomics systems in the southern & northern hemisphere running & warm to respond. See more at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrD...

For #medicalentomologists also #sequencing DNA/RNA. Anyone using the #DNA/RNAshield solution from Zymo Research to store/inactivate #ticks and #mosquitoes before extraction? Any experience with it and downstream applications? Thanks and please share if you know people that may help🙏

Core-funded postdoc position at The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, UK (just outside London), in the group of Professor Ian Brown. Working on H5N1 avian influenza virus evolution and development of cross-reactive vaccines. www.pirbright.ac.uk/careers-and-...

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

Open #Postdoc position for a v cool viral dynamics in wildlife project at the Royal Veterinary College with a great set of people - 4 days to deadline!