Storms like Claudia will keep getting worse and happen more often until we stop burning fossil fuels. Experts warn that the UK isn’t prepared, with lives and property - and our economy - at growing risk. It’s essential MPs are fully briefed: www.nebriefing.org

Deterring foreign students ‘risks shutting out generation of talent’. Policy experts warn of long-term implications for research from tightening UK policies on international students. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Had an amazing time with my fellow mosquito wranglers Ary Faraji (MUVE President) and Larry Reeves (U Florida FMEL). Took a collecting trip to find Aedes togoi, a mosquito that uses rocky ocean-side outcrops as larval habitat.

Thinking of a career switch? Find your perfect job in #entomology 🪲 Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽 buff.ly/lESo5k5 📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs

📢 @ukhsa.bsky.social is #hiring for a Senior Medical #Entomologist position. Closing date 19 November 2025! 🦟🪰🕷️ apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7...

If you are interested in #diseasevectors, #viruses and #metagenomics please DM me about this program👇

Interested in a #PhD on #metagenomics and #eDNA for #viruses #mosquitoes and #vectorbornepathogens #surveillance and #discovery with me? Apply to the ILESLA doctoral programme: lnkd.in/dvMJFWiU. Thursday 8th January 2026 at 12:00 midday, UK time. Please share widely and DM for more info.

Hello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇

I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉 🔗 academic.oup.com/jme/pages/wi...

Stem loss of science companies or UK will ‘bleed out’, peers warn. Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic. In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵

🦟 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

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Love research and working with insects? Find your perfect job in entomology 🪲 Check out our regularly updated #job #opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽 buff.ly/tVcb0CZ 📸 Red Hemiptera (c) Anurag Aditya 2016 #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers

🦟 Publication alert: "Ancient origin of an urban underground #mosquito ( #Culex pipiens form molestus)" by @yukihaba.bsky.social et al. in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦟 #Mosquitoes arrive in #Iceland 🇮🇸 "Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil." www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Looking at future career paths but not sure where to start? Visit the link below to learn more about different #careers you can delve into and uncover hidden opportunities within #entomology 🦋 buff.ly/sliPH6N 📸 Mole cricket foreleg (c) Ángel Plata Sánchez

Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social

Applications for the ILESLA 2026/27 #PhD program between @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk and Oxford Brookes, are open. DM if you are interested in #vectorbornedisease #mosquitoes #ticks #metagenomics #viruses #OneHealth. Deadline 8th January 2026, 12 midday UK time. www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’ Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Moving into Oct with temperatures & daylight hours falling in Scotland, the "peak" mosquito activity season is passing. However, some species like Culex pipiens can still be found 'overwintering'; like this one our team found on #Arran yesterday. Let us know if you see any ⬇️ mosquito-scotland.com

Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽 @asapbio.bsky.social

🚨 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/ 🧪