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imperiallifesci.bsky.social
New PNAS study identifies ESBX, a protein controlling which surface coat gene is active in sleeping sickness parasites - key to immune evasion.

@tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social
@zephyris-science.bsky.social
@fariatrypslab.bsky.social

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Scientists reveal how sleeping sickness parasites control their surface coat
Researchers have revealed how parasites hide thousands of antigens behind a single-colour coat and how disrupting this control could make the parasit...
www.imperial.ac.uk
February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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shawlab.bsky.social
My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠

Full job description is linked below.

Come join us on the Palouse!
February 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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vectorimmunity.bsky.social
👀There will be a Keystone Symposium with a focus on Vector-Pathogen Interactions to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in February 2027. It should be a great meeting and hope to see you there! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
Wildlife disease data, especially negative data, are one of the last types of data that ecologists just... don't share. We built a place for them to archive it - and now, journals are encouraging people to use it! Big congrats to @danjbecker.bsky.social on this push ❤️
viralemergence.org Verena @viralemergence.org · Jan 5
Exciting news to start 2026: for the first time ever, the PHAROS repository for wildlife disease surveillance is a journal-recommended home for your archived data!

Thanks to Integrative and Comparative Biology for taking the leap with us 🦠🔢➡️🌎💻💫 academic.oup.com/icb/pages/Ge...
General_Instructions
Instructions for Authors Authors who publish their papers under our open access model or who are NIH-funded will have their paper automatically depos
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January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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entomososwin.bsky.social
So great to finally have this out!!
August 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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cooperlund.online
This isn’t fully true! You can request a manual postmark at a post office, you just need to know to do it. Just another thing to educate mail-in voters about.

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December 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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relenski.bsky.social
UNC-Wilmington is hiring 3 faculty positions:
Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology:
jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38056
Distinguished Professor of Marine Science:
jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951
Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology:
jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38009
Assistant Professor – Invertebrate Biology
The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Invertebrate Biology starting in Aug...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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brackneylab.bsky.social
Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
brackneylab.bsky.social
Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share!
www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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iddonews.bsky.social
#ScienceReadForSunday: Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping Plasmodium transitions and interactions in the Anopheles female - Nature
Single-cell transcriptomic analyses of Plasmodium falciparum and Anopheles gambiae reveal key developmental stages, processes and factors in parasite–mosquito interactions and identify potential…
www.nature.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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thibautbrunet.bsky.social
Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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vectorimmunity.bsky.social
Pleased to share our recent work in collaboration with the
@perrimonlab.bsky.social in which we perform the first genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen in Anopheles to examine essential fitness genes and genes associated with clodronate liposome function
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A genome-wide CRISPR screen in Anopheles mosquito cells identifies fitness and immune cell function-related genes
Nature Communications - Mosquitoes are major vectors for the transmission of many serious pathogens. This study uses genome-wide CRISPR screens in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, to reveal new...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
brackneylab.bsky.social
Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
brackneylab.bsky.social
Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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nadavshai.bsky.social
🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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science.org
A new genetic study in Science overturns the myth of the “London Underground Mosquito,” revealing that this common urban insect originated not below the cities of modern Europe, but in ancient Mediterranean civilizations more than a thousand years ago. https://scim.ag/43xWovB
Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito
Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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sarahhird.bsky.social
I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible.

“This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”

ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
ctmirror.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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freelyflyingbees.bsky.social
Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here:

careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
Assistant Professor - Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology
Exciting opportunity in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology as a Assistant ...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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jobrxiv.org
Assistant Professor of Biology & Ecology/Evolution #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky
Assistant Professor of Biology & Ecology/Evolution
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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kaurr.bsky.social
🚨 New pub alert! Check out our latest one that showcases how chemical and genetic innovations can recreate complex host–symbiotic interactions in the absence of the symbiont.

www.cell.com/cell-reports...
October 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
brackneylab.bsky.social
Apple acquiesced to Trump admin to remove ICEBlocker app from the playstore despite no evidence that these apps have led to ICE agents being targeted as suggested by the WH. Like Disney, these companies only respond to lost revenue. #cancelApple for being cowards
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Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration
Apple said it is removing ICEBlock and similar apps "based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock."
www.nbcnews.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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cedricfeschotte.bsky.social
📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607
Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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September 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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takeshimorita.bsky.social
🚨 Ph.D. Opportunity! 🚨 I’m recruiting students to start in the Spring Semester 2026 (Jan 2026) or the Fall Semester 2026 (Aug 2026) to study the behavior & neurobiology of mosquito-host interactions. Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Please share! 🦟 #Mosquito #Neurobiology #VectorBiology #Itch
September 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
brackneylab.bsky.social
I am looking for dengue 1-4 infectious clones. If you have or know of anyone that has these and would be willing to share please reach out. Thanks.
August 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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elodiecouderc.bsky.social
🚀 Excited to share (with a little delay) my first first-author publication on #Vago genes in #mosquitoes! 🦟 🦠 Have a look to see how we questioned a mosquito immunity dogma and challenged the existing understanding of Vago-like genes as antiviral factors ⬇️

bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Aedes aegypti VLG-1 challenges the assumed antiviral nature of Vago genes - BMC Biology
Background Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) pose a significant threat to global health. Novel approaches to control the spread of arboviruses foc...
bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM