We need to talk about drought. Yes, that's right, drought! Our weather is experiencing extremes – from flooding to drought – so on the next episode of Counting the Earth, we'll be delving deeper into this whiplash weather. 🎧 Subscribe now and never miss an episode: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

New PhD Opportunity. We are advertising for a modeller to model the impacts of mosquito-borne disease in the Americas. The project is funded by The Leverhulme Trust via University of Glasgow, and supervised by Christina Cobbold, Dom Brass and myself. Deadline 6th March 2026. t.ly/Z-tqt

Really looking forward to this - a great opportunity to present new findings from our @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social and hear about the latest developments in vector-borne disease research in the UK. Please share 🦟

📢 Vacancy Extended: Editor-in-Chief, deadline: 31 January We're seeking an Editor-in-Chief - If you have editorial experience, a strong publication record, and a passion for advancing #InsectScience, we’d love to hear from you. 🔗 Find out more & apply:

🚀 New Launch: #VBD Hub Forum on Vector-Borne Diseases - a new space for researchers, public health professionals, clinicians, policymakers, and practitioners to connect and collaborate on #vector-borne diseases in the UK. 🦟🪰🕷️ 👉 Join the conversation and introduce yourself: forum.vbdhub.org

🦟 New project | Mosquitoes, their viruses and associated disease risk in NI MosquitoNI will be co-led by a multi-institutional team including @UofGlasgow's CVR (@emipondeville), @QUBelfast & @UK_CEH. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Scarce research funding is becoming more economically costly than the actual investment, especially when it’s a drop in the bucket for profoundly stupid fad topics like “GenAI to solve Africa’s problems.” This piece is SO important: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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 ❤️

The long-held belief that only female mosquitoes bite may not be true after all. Very excited to have had the opportunity to contribute to this study showing that male mosquitoes can also bite and feed on blood. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧐 Looking for a #PhD? University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk is offering two fully funded PhD positions within the new VectorGrid-Africa network!🦟 More details: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... 📆Application deadline: 12 January 2026.

Excellent - many thanks for sharing @stoviesplz.bsky.social Definietely a mosquito. It is not uncommon to find a few inside houses at this time of year, when they move in to avoid cold weather. Roughly what area of Scotland are you in?

Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1

Demodex mites live in your facial pores and have lost some of the genes that respond to daylight. They cannot make their own melatonin, so they use the melatonin your skin releases at night as a cue to crawl out and mate on your face. You're never truly alone. ❤️ 🧪 #entomology #invert 🪲🪳

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What makes bird flu spill over to humans? 4y funded PhD in the genomics and molecular virology behind zoonosis of avian influenza A virus, working with @tompeacock.bsky.social and others between Liverpool, Pirbright, and Uppsala! open to applications until next week!

If you missed our open event on 26th November, or are looking for information more targeted at returning learners, join us for a virtual Q&A on 3rd December @ 7-8 pm. sign up @ www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk Videos of yesterday's presentations will be available from 28th Nov for you to watch beforehand.

Just came across this neat looking pre-print by @maxfarrell.bsky.social et al "Experimental infections reveal unexceptional viral tolerance in bats" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - meta analysis across 54 viruses, 85 host species, >5600 individuals

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Universities in Need. Ivory Tower: a telethon charity appeal for higher education and research, under threat of extinction. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Join us at ECE 2026 in Tours, France (29 June - 3 July 2026), focusing on evolutionary biology. Early bird registration and abstract submission close on 15 December 2025. Stay updated: www.ece2026.org. #conference

First electric cars and buses, now trucks: in the past we were often told that electric trucks would not be feasible. But the market is picking up speed and electric trucks have become a reality. Expectations are for significant market expansion in the coming years.

final week to apply for @sangerinstitute.bsky.social PhD programme (due Nov 27th) -- free to apply, open to anyone anywhere, and a superb training opportunity for students interested in genomic approaches applied to biodiversity, pathogens, vectors, and of course us pesky humans.

Interested in working on #metagenomics for #arbovirus and #mosquito #surveillance and #discovery 🧬? Apply to the @ilesla.bsky.social doctoral training program👇 Deadline: 8th of January 12pm UK time.

We have been awarded close to £2.5m from the Office for Students to build next generation digital labs, AI-powered training facilities and clinical simulation suites, bridging critical skills gaps in advanced technologies to support the city region’s growth ambitions. Read more: lstm.ac/OfS2025

📣We're pleased to announce Kathryn Brown OBE as our new Science Director! Kathryn, who will join us from The Wildlife Trusts, will lead UKCEH science across our portfolio spanning land, water and air, and will shape direction for the UK and internationally. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/press/ukceh-... 🧪

Our new paper is out! Towards scalable age-grading of Aedes albopictus mosquito using mid-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning Read it here 👉 rdcu.be/eQy0X @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #UniversitaSapienza

🎉LSHTM #1 in the UK for #PublicHealth for 9th year running in the 2025 #ShanghaiRanking We have also been ranked #3 in the world for public health in recognition of our prestigious research & study programmes in public and #GlobalHealth🌍 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Today, we start one of the most advanced virus discovery & metagenomics workshop in the world in Stellenbosch. Experts from Australia, America, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Italy, Nederlands, Japan, U.K and Sweden come together to teach participants from 20 countries.

'Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil fuels.' The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the @smithschool.ox.ac.uk’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️ #OxfordClimate #COP30

🦟" #Culex #mosquitoes found in stables in South #Iceland 🇮🇸" www.natt.is/is/frettir/2...

For #FollowFriday: Follow LSHTM's centres, projects & groups for more on work to tackle some of the biggest challenges in #PublicHealth 🎉Welcome to new addition @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/4FczAGW

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/...