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jess-stokes.bsky.social
Research Scientist working with vector-borne diseases, Culicoides midges, mosquitoes and horseflies. Interested in outreach, livestock diseases, zoonotic diseases, parasitology, welfare, entomology & ecology.
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Are you a researcher working with insects? Share Your experience on ethics applications with us. We're conducting a landmark survey to better understand practices & challenges of UK researchers towards #InsectEthics applications. 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

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RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🐝 UK insect researchers, we need your input 🦋 The RES is gathering insights on your experiences with #InsectEthics applications. Whether you engage in the process or not, your feedback matters! 🗓️ Deadline: 1 April 2025 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... #Entomology #ResearchSurvey

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🦟 Cette semaine, découvrez les ornementations uniques de Aedes cozi Cornet, 1973 ⬇️! Voir les détails et la distribution sur le GBIF🌱: https://www.gbif.org/species/1651475 . Fascinante diversité des #moustiques ! Photos de @nil-rahola.bsky.social #Entomologie #Biodiversité

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2 x PhD fully funded studentships Are you interested in improving livestock health by developing evidence for disease control ? tinyurl.com/2tefe7u8, tinyurl.com/mw2rrm22 Join our group @liverpooluni.bsky.social, with funding from BBSRC NWD programme tinyurl.com/3jcn79dn

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Just scouting for some good and affordable scientific journals to (try to) publish in. As a charity, we want our research to be open access, but our funders and donors certainly don’t want their funds used for that. How best do we overcome this?

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

This week I’m attending the fantastic #BES2024 conference come check out our stand (we’re by the coffee!) and say hi 👋 ☕️ @royentsoc.bsky.social @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

#JobAlert Calling all UK #botanists that would like to dip their toes into the sea. We're looking for an Associate Science Officer to support experiments at our #Seagrass Nursery. For the full job description and how to apply ➡️ www.projectseagrass.org/careers/

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🚨 Postdoc job opportunity - York, UK 🚨 - PDRA role available in the lab of Dr Mathieu Cayla at the University of York, UK - Investigating adaptation of African #trypanosomes to progress through their life cycle in their host - All details at: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post... - Apply by 3rd Jan '25

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Come and talk to us at #UKVBD2024 Liverpool to see how we can make your #Behaviour #Research simple. @ukvbd.bsky.social #BehaviourSimply

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Professor Matthew Baylis @baylism.bsky.social kicks off the next two days with a warm welcome and an exciting, packed programme ahead! #UKVBD2024

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I’m at @ukvbd.bsky.social this week on the stand for @royentsoc.bsky.social - come say hi 👋 Shaping up to be the largest meeting of vector-borne disease researchers in the UK 🙌🏽🦟 brilliantly hosted by @baylism.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

It’s taken a year to organise but it is finally here - the UK vector-borne diseases meeting in Liverpool starts in 2 days. It’s going to be great!

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to @ukvbd.bsky.social this week, fantastic programme with lots of great talks lined up 🦟 I’ll be on the @royentsoc.bsky.social stand so come say hello 👋

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Yes. Looking forward to it!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

4-year funded PhD: Urban green space as refuge for people and disease vectors under climate change: a double-edged sword Very interdisciplinary (topic, approach, team): vector ecology, human behaviour; mapping and modelling! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Application deadline: 6 Jan 2025 (1/2)

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Fully-funded PhD position with Gareth Thomas @rothamsted.bsky.social and myself on entomopathogenic fungi and pest-host-parasitoid interactions 🌽 DEADLINE 11 December Apply here 👉 www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Only 2 wks til UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in L'pool (3-4 Dec). It's full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance but we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. We are also going to be on Blue Sky: [email protected] payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment