Congratulations to Tainan Guedes and Pedro L. Oliveira who lead this amazing work. Really happy to be part of it. The role of small Heat Shock Proteins in Trypanosoma cruzi infection and intestinal homeostasis in a Chagas disease vector | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 We're hiring! A #postdoc position is available @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @pasteur.fr ➡️ Come join our team to investigate the #genomic variations underlying the adaptive potential and vectorial capacity of Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes 🦟 More details at this link: research.pasteur.fr/b/1Cov

Postdoctoral position in mosquito population genomics at Institut Pasteur in Paris - Research

The Insect-Virus Interactions Unit is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the genomic variations underlying a mosquito’s capacity to transmit human arboviruses. Description Our resear...

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This thread below is criminally under-liked and under-shared! Young #Drosophila researchers (PhDs, postdocs, and early-career Drosophilists): fill out the survey by Sept 1st to get matched with a mentor who can support you with your career. Established Drosophilists, like/share Shefali's Thread ;)

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#FlyCROSS mentee surveys are open for #earlycareer #Drosophila scientists. If you're a #gradstudent #postdoc or pretenure faculty or equivalent - fill up the survey by Sept 1 to participate & be matched by #mentor of your preferences to gain guidance to your unique needs. @flybase.bsky.social

How can mosquitoes tolerate viral infections? In our latest preprint we show that mosquitoes that can regulate their metabolism after infection can tolerate viral infections better. Thanks to all the authors for all your ideas and contributions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metabolic homeostasis favors tolerance to persistent viral infection in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

The mosquito Aedes aegypti harbors a wide range of persistent viral infections, including both medically important arboviruses and insect-specific viruses (ISVs). However, the mechanisms underpinning ...

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📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.

Exciting Opportunity! The Mouse Genetics Lab @institutpasteur.bsky.social is seeking a #postdoc researcher to explore the genetic determinants of Zika virus transmission in #mice and #mosquitoes. Join us in advancing public health research with cutting-edge resources! #Virology #Genetics #ZIKV 🦠🔬

Post-doctoral position on host-vector transmission of Zika virus using mouse models - Research

The Mouse Genetics Laboratory is recruiting a post-doctoral fellow to study the role of host genetic determinants in the transmission of Zika virus between mice and mosquitoes in a collaborative proje...

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It is impressive to see the lack of accountability but this is a common thing in many parts of the world sadly, not only in the Mack Planck. For future students and post-docs, inform yourself well before joining a lab, attitudes like this should not be supported

Elisabeth Bik@elisabethbik.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors. www.dw.com/en/how-germa...

Hello new friends! I'm Cassandra, a vector biologist at Institut Pasteur and today is my official first day as a #newPI!!! My team will study virus-virus-host interactions using mosquitoes, specifically the influence of the mosquito virome on the transmission of arboviruses like dengue and Zika 🧵1/5

if you have an interest in improving the genomic resources available for mosquitoes, please fill in our google form at tinyurl.com/MosquitoReferenceGenomes. please share this with colleagues who might be interested. thank you! [3/3]

Register your interest in participating in the Global Culicidae Reference Genomes Project

We are seeking mosquito biologists around the world who would be interested in collecting and contributing specimens of any vector species that currently lacks a reference genome. Aim: We are aiming ...

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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

Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger? How climate change shapes mosquito immunity.

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Check out our paper, co-authored by @akhorramnejad.bsky.social and me. Published in @commsbio.bsky.social We explore how global change will affect mosquito-virus interaction. We use single or multi-generational exposure to heat to address this. A 🧵 with our results (1/5) rdcu.be/d8wse

I have been visiting family and friends for the last two weeks for the holidays. So good to disconnect for a little bit and charge batteries for a new year

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

I'm advertising several positions at all levels ( #PhD, #Postdoc, #RA). If you're enthusiastic, collaborative, and interested in the #ecological and #evolutionary dynamics of #infection, please get in touch - link below. pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/open-positions (image@origamiorganelles.bsky.social)

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers. Amanda Heidt writes Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology

Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers.

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The Anna-Bella Failloux’s lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the spillover and adaptation of arboviruses to human-biting mosquitoes @institutpasteur.bsky.social. Send your application to anna-bella.failloux@pasteur.fr before Feb 28th, 2025! Come and do awesome research in Paris!

Lab lunch at fiera Milano

I have never heard of this type of fraud before.

Michael Bertram@michaelgbertram.bsky.social · 2y ago

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

The irony being that Science doesn't have a share to Bluesky button for article sharing! www.science.org/content/arti...

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

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Super useful for people like me migrating here

Shaun Cross@shauntcross.bsky.social · 2y ago

Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2

Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2