Well I did not know that. Could raises many questions. Missed the pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Me talking about male mosquito bloodfeeding and potential implications www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bKC...

Generous international scolarships for our MSc in Epidemiology here in London. In memory of Bob May. My career is 100% resulting from something similar to this *cough* *cough* 25 *cough*.....years ago! www.imperial.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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Hello UK, West Nile Virus carrying mosquito Culex modestus is coming to a ditch near you! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evidence of much wider distribution of the potential West Nile virus vector, Culex modestus, in the UK - Parasites & Vectors

Culex modestus is a primary vector of West Nile virus (WNV) in Europe, feeding on both avian and mammalian hosts. Since its rediscovery in the UK in Kent in 2010, its range has been reported throughou...

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The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria

Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

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Tom Churcher@thomaschurcher.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is so sad. Burkinabe scientists have been at the forefront of the development of GM mosquitoes. They have been meticulous and patient, showing how this technology should be implemented. I fear this decision will cost a huge number of lives. www.malariaworld.org/news/after-h...

This is so sad. Burkinabe scientists have been at the forefront of the development of GM mosquitoes. They have been meticulous and patient, showing how this technology should be implemented. I fear this decision will cost a huge number of lives. www.malariaworld.org/news/after-h...

"we found that mosquitoes are drawn to those who avoid sunscreen, drink beer, and share their bed".......

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Blood, sweat, and beers: investigating mosquito biting preferences amidst noise and intoxication in a cross-sectional cohort study at a large music festival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671470v1

🚨 New publication! Our RCT in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso & 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire shows that adding either non-pyrethroid indoor residual spraying (IRS) or intensive behaviour change communication (BCC) to LLINs reduces #malaria burden. In @lancetgh.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/S221... #GlobalHealth #VectorControl

Our pre-print "Simplifying mosquito sampling to estimate community biting exposure and malaria indoor vector control impact" is now available! doi.org/10.21203/rs..... 1/n #malaria #mosquitoes #vectors

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack update! First pack is full so I created a second one. Pls keep on sending suggestions! (bio should contain experience relevant for this pack) IDModelling pack 1: go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5 IDModelling pack 2 : go.bsky.app/2oBB7KX

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Over 130 academics signed letter informing Prime Minister Keir Starmer that foreign aid cuts will cost lives & threatens the fight against disease Thimoty Hallett, @thomaschurcher.bsky.social Caroline Trotter @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Foreign aid cuts will cost lives, scientists warn Keir Starmer

More than 130 academics have signed a letter telling the prime minister that cuts in funding could hinder the global fight against disease

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USAID cuts have halted Demographic and Health Surveys that are essential for tracking diseases like HIV and malaria. Huge loss that threatens global security and the efficient distribution of aid. Apparently the UN is trying to track scale of impact. Please respond. form.jotform.com/250913880478...

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Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...) describes✨AedesTraits✨ (zenodo.org/records/1514...) - A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!

As we try to understand how climate change impacts malaria @isaacstopard.bsky.social looked how daily temperature fluctuations impact development in mosquitoes. Quite a bit it seems, but still unclear in wild mosies. Lovely data from Antoine Sanou but we need more! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Modelling the effects of diurnal temperature variation on malaria infection dynamics in mosquitoes - Communications Biology

Mechanistic modelling of the effects of diurnal temperature variation on Plasmodium falciparum sporogony indicates this variation is important in the laboratory, but further validation is required to ...

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A tracker estimating deaths from freezing PEPFAR pepfar.impactcounter.com #HIVsky #TBsky #IDsky

March issue of The Lancet Microbe will be online next week, but you can read our editorial already.

The Lancet Microbe@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · last yr.

Prior to our upcoming March issue, here's an early look at our latest editorial US recklessness in the face of pandemic risk www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A very sad and counterproductive decision. Aid when you don’t know where diseases are is immensely inefficient. DHS is a vital long-term resource, both in counties with diseases like malaria, but also those finding new global threats. Everyone will be flying blind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...

Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

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Target mosquitoes as they sugar feed shows considerable promise. We looked how these new tools could be used alongside existing malaria control and explored reasons why they might not be as good as early mosquito data suggested. Take_home - we just don't know what the mosi is doing!

Aneta Kostadinova@anetakostadinova.bsky.social · last yr.

New in Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases @CRPVBD #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @nima-moghaddas.bsky.social @thomaschurcher.bsky.social @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social @pathmalaria.bsky.social @ivcc.bsky.social

The real damage to emergency response is probably much larger. On top of the cut to WHO, the US deployed much of their funds for emergency response via the CDC and other US organizations. healthpolicy-watch.news/crucial-who-...

Crucial WHO Health Emergency Response Faces Budget Cut Of 25% - Health Policy Watch

“The immediate response here in WHO was to use our Emergency Response Framework, to realign the functions at the country office to deploy an incident manager

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Thankyou @eonore.bsky.social for putting our recent insecticide treated nets against malaria work into context! Even organised a building site backdrop as an alagory for this being work in progress! Excellent! Supported by @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @ivcc.bsky.social @unitaid.bsky.social

MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis@mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with prof @thomaschurcher.bsky.social about the recent World Malaria report, #malaria control interventions, modelling and bed nets 👇 youtu.be/B0spuTWEF2c

Interested in Lassa fever? Hear @drpdoohan.bsky.social summarise our Lassa review, recently published in @thelancet.bsky.social Global Health and part of our wider multi-pathogen review project: bit.ly/imperial-PERG

Pathogen Epidemiology Review Group

The Pathogen Epidemiology Review Group (PERG) under the leadership of Dr Anne Cori, are undertaking an ambitious project to make key epidemiological...

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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis@mrc-outbreak.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Patrick Doohan about Lassa fever: historic outbreaks, mathematical models & disease parameters. Why is a comprehensive overview informing future real-time analysis of Lassa outbreaks so important? youtu.be/dZgtOgDyIUs

Interesed in the inteaction between global health, modelling and policy? Come join us at @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social as a technical analyst primarily working on malaria! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Super exiting paper from Olivia Lamera & Meta Roestenberg et al using GM malaria infected mosquitoes to vaccinate people against malaria. Early days and the use-case unclear but really interesting science. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Safety and Efficacy of Immunization with a Late-Liver-Stage Attenuated Malaria Parasite | NEJM

Currently licensed and approved malaria subunit vaccines provide modest, short-lived protection against malaria. Immunization with live-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites is an alte...

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Insecticidal nets prevent more malaria than anything else. Trials in Benin and Tanzania show newer nets that kill more mosquitoes are better than those currently used, but they are unable to assess their overall impact as you cannot leave people without a net and unprotected.

Hello Bsky! I work on real-time outbreak response and statistical methods/software to support this, and wanted to point to this recent work led by my amazing colleague @eonore, looking at the extent to which our team work on COVID-19 influenced policy globally: doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Policy impact of the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team: global perspective and United Kingdom case study - Health Research Policy and Systems

Background Mathematical models and advanced analytics play an important role in policy decision making and mobilizing action. The Imperial College Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Response Team (IC...

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We need more ways to kill mosquitoes, especially outside the home where most people are vulnerable. Got a crazy way of clobbering mossies? If so, this call is for you. www.ivcc.com/call-for-pro...

Call for Proposals: How can we address the gaps in the vector control toolbox for malaria? - IVCC

Responding to the challenge of gaps in the malaria vector control tool box, IVCC has issued a call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) to fund Proof of Concept (PoC) projects for new vector control tool...

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