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Our paper for bayesTPC, an #R package for #Bayesian thermal performance curve fitting is OUTTT! Special credit to lead author Sean Sorek for his splendid work on this + John Smith and Leah Johnson. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/WQZEWI... Blog to follow soon: vectorbyte.org/blog

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🦟🧪Our paper on larval competition between Aedes aegypti and Aedes mediovittatus, a Caribbean endemic, is out! In it, we show that the endemic appears to be the superior competitor, and this may explain why Ae. aegypti is restricted to cities on the island. academic.oup.com/jme/article-...

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Frightening!

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19th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases. Chicago, Illinois, USA Sept 7-10, 2025 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬 #MicroSky #TickSky

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📢 @ecdc.europa.eu #dengue worldwide overview - situation update, February 2025: Since the beginning of 2025, 640,349 dengue cases and 159 dengue-related deaths have been reported from 48 countries/territories.🦟 www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/dengue-mo...

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This is good news...

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Interesting 🦟 paper. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Boost your knowledge of pathogen-carrying arthropods with the “Medical Entomology” MOOC from Institut Pasteur! Enroll now on FUN and explore how vectors transmit pathogens and impact public health: www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/m... #Entomology #MOOC #PublicHealth @pasteur.fr

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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control detected 620,000 Chikungunya virus cases and 213 deaths last year. Today, we approved a vaccine against the virus for individuals over 12 years old. → europa.eu/!XvkvCk

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Nice to see this mosquito data out in a pre-print. 🦟

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A new modelling paper led by PhD student Renato Andrade on how mosquito ageing affects population dynamics @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🦟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A new modelling paper led by PhD student Renato Andrade on how mosquito ageing affects population dynamics @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🦟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Today...

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Does anyone know what species of mosquito this is? Photographed in Strasbourg, France. Please, spread the question.

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🆕 Xylella host plant database updated Key findings: 🌿 A new host plant: Cantabrian mountain oak in 🇵🇹 🍇 Pierce’s disease strain found in grapes & almonds in 🇮🇹 📊 Total confirmed host species now at 452 Read more → www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/efsa... #PlantHealth #XylellaFastidiosa #EFSA

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Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

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Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

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Neat 🦟 paper www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Flexible working!

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As I think most of you have worked out already, X increasingly not the place for discussion of scientific papers…

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There's a full-time position as Ecologist (with botanical skills) and Field survey co-ordinator advertised here at @ukceh.bsky.social. Full details here: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

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AT LAST OUR PEER-REVIEWED PRE-PRINT IS PUBLISHED We finally vanquished Reviewer #3 - with great support from the academic editors @ScienceAdvances Cross-modal sensory compensation increases mosquito attraction to humans | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Not sure that I can go, but it looks good...

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Really interesting...

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Oh deary me... It's near ResearchFish time...

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Who would have thought it... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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"A #LaRéunion 🇷🇪, l’épidémie de #chikungunya déclarée et le dispositif de gestion de crise déclenché." via @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/sante/articl...

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Excited to announce the first UK Maths Bio Conference 4-5 September in Birmingham ukmathbioconference.github.io . Registration will open in a few weeks, save the date! Thanks to my amazing co-organisers Valeria, Kyle, Rachel and Phil for all their work planning the conference.

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The Mosquito Scotland project is now on BlueSky - give us a follow below #MedEnto #Ento #IDSky #OneHealth @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social

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New paper from the Dr Georgia Kirby of #MosquitoScotland team

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Our @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social project social media has moved over to Bluesky. Led by @drheatherferg.bsky.social and others. Follow us for all the Scottish mosquito news! bsky.app/profile/mosq...

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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

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A great opportunity to come to Birmingham, visit our beautiful campus and, while you’re here, interact with our wide range of great plant scientists working at UoB!

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New paper (with Atle Mysterud) presenting a tick model. Ixodes ticks have complex patterns of diapause leading to a highly plastic life cycle. In this paper we consider how this plasticity shapes life history outcomes and seasonal dynamics esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Some mosquito species maybe be able to keep up with climate change... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience https://go.nature.com/42fihQG

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‪"We’ve migrated our X @Animals_EFSA to Bsky.social 🐾✨ Follow us on our new account for all things #AnimalHealth #AnimalWelfare #Zoonoses & #Biological #hazards : 👉 efsa-animals.bsky.social Stay connected for expert insights and updates! 🌍💙 #efsa.europa.eu #OneHealth #Animals

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A call for action from colleagues in Valencia, Spain on the risk of vector borne disease outbreaks related to severe weather events. They propose to Integrate climate and environmental health data into public health planning to predict potential risks pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39717076/

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🕷️" #Tick-borne #encephalitis in #Finland 🇫🇮" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy #arbovirus outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/tick-borne...

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The DOD is hiring an ORISE postdoc in Arthropod Vectors and Arboviruses. zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

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Interesting study. Slightly odd that the proof of concept was developed in fruit flies, but the population control model was developed for mosquitoes. Hence the confusing text-image combination!

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Two invasions at once: update on the introduction of the invasive species Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus in Cyprus – a call for action in Europe [2023 paper] 🧪 doi.org/10.1051/para...

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An energetic afternoon hashing out our EPSRC modelling phenotypic plasticity project in Glasgow @ukri.org @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

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