Anthony Wilson
@arboviral.bsky.social
Epidemiology and risk of foodborne + (formerly) vector-borne diseases. Dad and husband. Ex-academic. Values equality, diversity & inclusion. Terrible tapdancer, occasional viking. He/him. Views are my own.
1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!
A multi-country foodborne outbreak has been detected. You’re joining the investigation. Our new e-learning puts you in the role of a junior epidemiologist working through a real-world outbreak scenario. Click: learning.ecdc.europa.eu/course/view.... #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #FoodBorne
Interested in how species diversity is split between major animal groups? Here is the infographic for you! 🧪⚒️🦀🦑 #evosky
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
🥧 If you can’t face yet another crumble & have a freezer full of fruit, it's time to consider sharing your surplus! Check out our fruit donation directory to find a willing recipient nearby: www.theorchardproject.org.uk/donate-apples #CommunityOrchards
UK mosquitoes can be annoying, but did you realise that they used to carry a form of malaria? 🦟 Human malaria was eliminated here in the early 20th century through a combination of land drainage and mosquito control. 🧪
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
Risk assessment, risk management, risk communication!
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 4w agoHappy Baby Safety Month.
Still 1 week to apply. Looking for a great mathematical modeller to come and do a post-doc @lshtm.bsky.social focused on STI modelling in the UK.
Michael Marks@drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · last mo.Post-doc modelling post @lshtm.bsky.social Working on UK STI modelling & collab with @ukhsa.bsky.social Deadline 17th Sept. @tah-sci.com @sbfnk.bsky.social @yhgrad.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @lizfearon.bsky.social @petedodd24.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social @ollycm.bsky.social
My home department (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) is searching for an assistant professor in ecology—please distribute widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
There's a GOOD Max Miller and a BAD one. The /good/ one does "Tasting History", a history vlog told through food & recipes. This episode covers the Aztec staple, tamales. I'd like to dig a little deeper on 'nixtamalization', the processing of corn with alkaline solutions to unlock nutrients.
Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
youtube.com
Hive mind! I’m on the lookout for people who have moved to Manchester from London and bought a house, for a piece on the market here. If you’ve done that and fancy a chat about your experience (where you bought, why, how it compares to London etc) please do shout me
It's taken 12 years and a lot of work from many fantastic people, but we have published an analysis of how our reconstruction of Bald's eyesalve kills bacteria. This was driven by @tosinorababa.bsky.social & Jess Furner-Pardoe through their PhD work #MicroSky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... [1/n]
I am hiring in this round – please do apply if you are interested in: machine learning (protein/genome/gene language models), methods for pathogen data analysis, pangenomes (or share with any students who might want to work with us)
EMBL@embl.org · last mo.Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 📣 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4x9Edss
Feeling inspired by the talks at the IMAV meeting? Submit your research to the JGV Arboviruses collection and help foster progress and interactions in this important area of virology. Submit here: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/arboviruses #JGV #IMAV2026
The second round of the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open. Our most popular funding opportunity supports UK-based Postdoctoral researchers – or equivalent – in the humanities and social sciences. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4iwQQtI
Science story editors! If you are looking for pitches, lemme know. I am looking to do some quick turnaround stories next week and quite a few of the people I usually pitch to are away.
“The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō, has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years, after a record breeding season triggered by the mass fruiting of a native New Zealand tree” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
theguardian.com
'There are deadly viruses all around us, and viruses routinely jump from animals to humans and cause severe outbreaks. This is a real, documented risk. This is the risk we should worry about. This is the risk we should prepare for. But instead, we worry about fictitious AI-designed viruses'
I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus
God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology
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🦇 Invitation to Tender: Statistical consultant. BCT alongside Bat Conservation Ireland and @ptes-org.bsky.social are seeking a statistician to take on this work for all 3 organisations, providing a common statistical approach across all projects. More info: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...
Invitation to Tender: Statistical consultant - Jobs / Contracts - Bat Conservation Trust
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), Bat Conservation Ireland (BCIreland) and People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) each independently administer lo...
bats.org.uk
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
High school science department help! A full week of inservice coming up- can you help us get ready for students to start in a week? Your donations make our activities possible! Also one big wish item just for me :) please take a look! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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diarrhea Taylor Farms, salmonella chicken parm, bags of frozen blueberries that straight-up kill your ass heavy metal sourdough, listeria soup bowl refreshing summer popsicle that's filled with shards of glass we didn't start the fire...
Come work with our excellent colleague @nitanother.bsky.social ... and all of us at CIDD!
@nitanother.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're hiring multiple post docs to work on spatial and quantitative models of infectious disease! For details and application materials: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... and see our lab website here: humidlab.com
Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf a fish was a schoolteacher would they wear a short sleeve button up shirt and a tie, or JUST a tie?
my brother got these shots on his SeeStar telescope #eclipse #solareclipse2026
