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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · Apr 24

🦟🧪 ***I'm recruiting*** one student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join my lab January 2026. Students need a 3.0 GPA and have an interest/experience in mosquito taxonomy, phenotypes, or ecology. Work on genetics/genomics is a plus. Deadline is 15 October 2025. US based students only. yeemosquitolab.org

Yee Mosquito Lab

Visit the post for more.

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onehealthresources.bsky.social @onehealthresources.bsky.social · Apr 4

#OneHealthEvent
The next Vector Modelling Workshop will be hosted by The Cyprus Institute in #Nicosia with a focus on #Aedesaegypti.

Find more information here: www.vectormodelling.com/Nicosia2025/

#OneHealth #OneHealthResources

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A simple website for the Climate-Sensitive Vector Dynamics Modelling Workshop

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · Apr 3

We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.

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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · Apr 6

📢 #Training #workshop on #data sharing and analysis organised by @ukri.org & #Defra -funded #OneHealth #Vector Borne Diseases Hub (VBD Hub) 🦟🪰🕷️ on 4-6 June 2025 at Silwood Park @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

❗Apply by 25 April 2025!

More info ➡️
vbdhub.org/blog/trainin...

Training 2025 - Blog - VBD Hub

Join us for a training workshop on data sharing and analysis at the VBD Hub from June 4th to 6th, 2025. More details in the blog post! 🦟💻

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Chris Stelzig @chrisstelzig.bsky.social · Apr 8

Are you an insect scientist who got DOGE'd? We launched a Support Fund to help keep you connected to @entsocamerica.bsky.social. Apply for a 2025 dues waiver and stay connected to the largest insect science society in the world. entsocawards.smapply.org/prog/member_...

Member Support Fund Application - Entomological Society of America

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · Apr 2

PhD position/PostDoc (Cape Town, South Africa)
Research Officer in Infectious Disease Modelling
at University of Cape Town
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2294

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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · Apr 3

🧐 Looking for a #job? Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is #hiring for a #Vector Control and Prevention Technical Advisor in Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)🌏, focusing on #malaria & #dengue 🦟
careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/14187/v...

Join our team - Clinton Health Access Initiative

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Apr 2

Senior Research Associate at @lancasteruni.bsky.social:

An exciting opportunity has opened to work with a multi-country surveillance dataset looking at the spread of Anopheles stephensi and it’s contribution to #malaria in Africa! Details below:

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a multi-country surveillance dataset (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania) on an invasive mosquito that has been implicated for malaria outbrea...

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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · Apr 1

Great job at Lancaster University for those interested in quantitative ecology, spatial modelling and global health - Postdoc position to investigate spatial distribution of the invasive #malaria #vector #Anophelesstephensi
Working with great team!

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Senior Research Associate

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a multi-country surveillance dataset (Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania) on an invasive mosquito that has been implicated for malaria outbrea...

hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk

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Robert Koch-Institut @rki.de · Mar 25

📢 Register now! Join the #CLIMADEMIC Summer School 2025 🌍🦠

📆 7th – 11th July, 2025 📍 Berlin

Explore the relationship between #ClimateChange and #Pandemics.

Register and find the full programme here:
🔗 www.rki.de/SharedDocs/T...

#Research #SummerSchool #RKI

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Mar 31

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...

www.vectorbyte.org

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ParasitesRule @parasitesrule.org · Mar 30

From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance, a free, self-paced online course offered by the PlasmoGenEpi network and developed with funding from the Gates Foundation.
🔗plasmogenepi.org/OnlineCourse

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Mar 29

Save the date! *June 4-6, 2025* The One Health VBD Hub is organising a training workshop on data sharing and analysis at leafy 🌿Silwood Park, UK 🥬 More details coming soon! 🦟 🖥️ 🦠 🦌

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Mar 29

Learn from Dr. Hilary Ranson, a leader in the fight against #malaria, as she discusses the significant impact of bed nets in malaria prevention at the Notre Dame Centenary Lecture Series.

🗓️ April 2, 2025
⏰ 6:00-7:00 PM
📍 105 Jordan Hall of Science, Notre Dame

science.nd.edu/events/2025/...

The Power of a Simple Bed Net: Dr. Hilary Ranson

Reception with light refreshments to follow | Free and open to the public Part of the Centenary Lecture Series celebrating 100 years of Biology at Notre...

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Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRES @tattooed-bug.bsky.social · Mar 28

MVE is hiring 3 new EIC in medical, veterinary and forensic entomology.
Comme join us if you feel you're a good fit. The team is incredible and so amazing to work with.

www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Editors-in-Chief, Medical and Veterinary Entomology - Royal Entomological Society

About the journal Medical and Veterinary Entomology is a Royal Entomological Society journal dedicated to the dissemination of impactful entomological research of medical, veterinary and forensic impo...

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Applied Malaria Modeling Network AMMnet @ammnetwork.bsky.social · Mar 28

Registration is open for our #AMMnet April 1 seminar at 15:00 UTC! Come join us as Nakul Chitnis discusses the history of malaria modelling and its strong link with malaria vector control. Interpretation to French and Portuguese available. Register here: northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Mar 28

Job: Vector Control & Prevention Technical Advisor (Greater Mekong Region)

Do you want to help with malaria & dengue control? Do you have experience in the prevention of either of these diseases? Are you willing to relocate to the GMS, or do you already live there?

Apply here:
shorturl.at/LbGcT

Join our team - Clinton Health Access Initiative

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Vector Biology Insights 🦟 @vectorbioinsights.bsky.social · Mar 27

#CARPHA is #hiring for two (2) Epidemiologist positions.

🗓️ Deadline: 10th April 2025

➡️ Scan the QR code or visit www.carpha.org/More/CARPHA-... for eligibility and application details.

#PublicHealth #Caribbean #JobVacancy

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MalariaWorld @malariaworld.bsky.social · Mar 27

Join the MESA Forum "Updated WHO guidance for pfhrp2/3 gene deletions & findings from recent surveys" - in English and French - on Thursday, April 3rd, at 2 PM CET.

Read more & how to register here: www.malariaworld.org/events/mesa-...

#malaria
#event

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VectorByte @vectorbyte.bsky.social · Mar 26

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...

Apply Now for the VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance and time-dependent data analysis (June 2025) — VectorByte

The VectorByte Initiative is hosting a training workshop from 13-16 June 2025, hosted on the campus of The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The three day training workshop will introdu...

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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · Mar 25

Summaries of Day 2 talks from the 2nd Women in Malaria (@womeninmalaria.bsky.social) conference are available at the @mesamalaria.bsky.social website here: mesamalaria.org/reports/2nd-...
#malaria #Plasmodium #vectorbiology #parasitology

2nd Women in Malaria (WiM) Virtual Conference – 2025: Day 2 - MESA

MESA Correspondents bring you cutting-edge coverage from the 2nd Women [...]

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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · Mar 25

🧐 Looking for a #job? @iddonews.bsky.social is #hiring for a Senior #Postdoctoral Research Scientist in #Malaria Chemoprevention, based in #Oxford. 🦟
Application deadline 31 March 2025!
www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs

Jobs | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory

www.iddo.org

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WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) @wwarnnews.bsky.social · Mar 23

📢Come and work with us, IDDO is looking for a Senior #Postdoc #Scientist to lead and coordinate research on #malaria #chemoprevention in partnership with @FightingMalaria
Deadline 🗓️Mon, March 31, at noon
👉www.iddo.org/about-u...
@malariaconsortium.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk

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WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) @wwarnnews.bsky.social · Mar 25

Come and work with us, IDDO is looking for a Senior #Postdoc #Scientist to lead and coordinate research on #malaria #chemoprevention in partnership with @FightingMalaria
👉www.iddo.org/about-u...

@malariaconsortium.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk

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