Hot off the press: Management implications of shifting Culex quinquefasciatus West Nile virus transmission suitability in Florida, new paper with @lippikiyay.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1530...

Management implications of shifting Culex quinquefasciatus West Nile virus transmission suitability in Florida - Sadie J. Ryan, Catherine A. Lippi, 2026

Background: West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne flavivirus, has circulated in the United States since 1999. In 2025, Florida was home to 24 million people, ...

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Will you be at AMCA 26? Come find @vectorbyte.bsky.social and chat to us about our databases, workshops, data management, and let @samrund.bsky.social give you stickers, perhaps? #AMCA26

📣 Useful publication alert! If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you: doi.org/10.1093/giga... #FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data

Abstract. Vector-borne diseases pose a persistent and increasing challenge to human, animal, and agricultural systems globally. Mathematical modeling frame

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Apply now for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!! Learn about using the VectorByte Databases: VecTraits and VecDyn – and analysis pipelines, to answer cool questions! www.vectorbyte.org/blog/worksho...

Learn about using the VectorByte Databases, VecTraits and VecDyn, to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop at Virginia Tech, together with EEID, May 30-June 1, 2026!!

New @vectorbyte.bsky.social preprint: Modeling asymmetric Thermal Performace Curves for proportion data - led by Prof Leah Johnson, with Paul Huxley @phuxley.bsky.social, Cat Lippi @lippikiyay.bsky.social, and Prof Sadie Ryan @sjryan3.bsky.social. LINEX TPC: your next fit!

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Modeling asymmetric Thermal Performance Curves for proportion data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.17.683179v1

We crossed the 25 million mark at VecDyn!! We now have nearly 500 datasets with over 25 million rows of data spatiotemporal data online, with more in our curatorial pipeline. vectorbyte.crc.nd.edu/vecdyn-datas...

Getting serious on forecast challenge day at VectorByte 2025 workshop!! @vectorbyte.bsky.social

Off to co-teach our @vectorbyte.bsky.social workshop in South Bend!

Time to learn @vectorbyte.bsky.social!

Come visit Notre Dame this summer for our next VectorByte workshop.

VectorByte@vectorbyte.bsky.social · last yr.

Apply now!! Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! June 13-16, 2025, come to the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame! www.vectorbyte.org/blog/2025wor...

Workshop: @vectorbyte.bsky.social is organising a training workshop between June 13-16, 2025 at Notre Dame! Apply now to learn about #modeling vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis using VecDyn data to answer cool questions! More details below: www.vectorbyte.org/blog/2025wor...

Apply now!! Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! June 13-16, 2025, come to the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame! www.vectorbyte.org/blog/2025wor...

You've seen the curves, maybe you implemented this at a @vectorbyte.bsky.social workshop. Now live for primetime - bayesTPC in R! Great job VT team!!

Paul Huxley@phuxley.bsky.social · last yr.

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

New VectorByte preprint! Introducing MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data. Vector trait data are essential to modeling vector-borne diseases, understanding impacts of intervention, and more. bsky.app/profile/bior...

bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 2y ago

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.27.634769v1

Learn about modeling vector abundance, use VecDyn data to answer cool questions! Save the date for the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis at Notre Dame in June 2025!!

📢 The American #Mosquito Control Association ( #AMCA) invites short, 1-page pre-proposals (white paper, letter of intent) for evaluating #Culicoides control technologies and related topics for funding for calendar year 2025-2026. Deadline Friday 7 Feb 2025. ➡️ form.jotform.com/250215789312...

AMCA Culicoides RFP Form

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This is VectorByte's first Bluesky post - we are now here for all of your vector trait and dynamics excitement!!