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Frederik Seelig
@frederikseelig.bsky.social
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Medium-sized mammal. Interested in disease vectors & #VBDs 🦟🕷️🪰, #immunology, #GlobalHealth and #SciComm. Center Manager @civia-aarhus.bsky.social‬ , previously Partnerships Manager for @globalvectorhub.bsky.social at‬ @lshtm.bsky.social‬.
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mosquitoes.bsky.social
Hi everyone! I’m exploring new opportunities in medical entomology and vector biology. I work on mosquito ecology/biology, Wolbachia, and applied vector control researcg across lab, field, and public-health settings. Open to research/teaching roles in entomology, ecology, and biology. #mosquitoes
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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neal.fun
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🧐 Looking for a #PhD? University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk is offering two fully funded PhD positions within the new VectorGrid-Africa network!🦟

More details: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

📆Application deadline: 12 January 2026.
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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who.int
New WHO report shows growing resistance to lifesaving malaria drugs:

🚩 Partial resistance to artemisinin confirmed or suspected in at least 8 African countries
🚩 Pyrethroid resistance in 48 countries
🚩 Anopheles stephensi 🦟 now detected in 9 African countries

🔗 bit.ly/3Y6IcXn #EndMalaria
A health worker wearing a mask and cap sprays insecticide. Text on the image reads: “Malaria control is facing new and harder challenges.” Yellow labels list the challenges: “Drug resistance,” “Insecticide resistance,” “New mosquito threat,” “Extreme weather events,” and “Conflict.”
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🦟 #WNV: "Erstmals Mensch in der #Schweiz 🇨🇭 mit #WestNilVirus infiziert" via #SRF
#arbovirus #Switzerland
www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
Tessin meldet erste West-Nil-Virus-Infektion in der Schweiz
Das Tessin meldet die erste West-Nil-Virus-Infektion in der Schweiz. Ein Risiko für die Bevölkerung wird verneint.
www.srf.ch
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 Today, @who.int published the #WorldMalariaReport 2025, which spotlights the growing threat of antimalarial #DrugResistance. 🦟 Key findings below ⬇️

www.who.int/teams/global...
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
#Denmark 🇩🇰: Wild animals were affected by climate-related diseases (incl. #tularemia, #Usutu, #Bluetongue #virus) in 2024// #Danmark: Vilde dyr blev ramt af klimarelaterede sygdomme i 2024" via Danish Veterinary Consortium (DK-VET) @ucph.bsky.social @ssi-dk.bsky.social

www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...
Vilde dyr blev ramt af klimarelaterede sygdomme i 2024 | Nyheder | DR
Vildtlevende pattedyr og fugle i Danmark som blandt andet dådyret og solsorten blev i stor grad ramt af klimarelaterede sygdomme sidste år.
www.dr.dk
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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adamjkucharski.bsky.social
To mark Proof being an FT Book of the Year, I’m giving away 2 copies in run up to Xmas – prize will go to the quirkiest, funniest, or most interesting Christmas-related science.


Comment below – most likes by 8th Dec wins (Europe/US only).

To kick things off, here's Galton's 1906 Nature letter:
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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civia-aarhus.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to Marvin Werner for successfully defending his #PhD after an impressive performance demonstrating scientific maturity 🧑‍🎓 .
We at CiViA would like to congratulate Marvin to earning his PhD title, and wish him all the best for his future career!
A young man in a suit standing at a lectern in front of a screen with the title: “Single Gene Inborn Errors of Immunity in Herpes Simplex Virus Central Nervous System Infections”
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🧐 Looking for a #PhD position? @lstmnews.bsky.social is #hiring for a PhD on "Modelling the impact of #vector control and anthropogenic change on vectors of Gambian #SleepingSickness 🪰 "

Apply by 3 December 2025!

More info:

www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/resear...
Modelling the impact of vector control and anthropogenic change on vectors of Gambian sleeping sickness
AbstractGambian human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT), commonly called sleeping sickness, is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina).
www.lstmed.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 #hiring #jobalert #stellenangebot
The #Arbovirus #Ecology group at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine #BNITM in Hamburg is looking for two highly motivated #PhD Students (m/f/d) – 65 % EG 13 TV-AVH. 🦟

Application deadline: 15 January 2026

Apply here: jobs.bnitm.de/PhD-Stuengnt...
Job opportunity PhD Student (m/f/d) - 65 % EG 13 TV-AVH - Arbovirus Ecology group at Bernhard-Nocht-Institut fuer Tropenmedizin Jobportal
Wissenschaft in Hamburg
jobs.bnitm.de
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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idw-online.de
Das Nationale Referenzlabor am JKI @jki_bund bestätigt das Erstauftreten der Flavescence dorée-Krankheit an Rebe in Baden-Württemberg. Der Quarantäneschadorganismus, ein Phytoplasma, wird durch die eingeschleppte Amerikanische Rebzikade üb...
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Die Amerikanische Rebzikade überträgt den meldepflichtigen Quarantäneschaderreger der Rebenkrankheit Flavescence dorée. - Copyright © Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI)
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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civia-aarhus.bsky.social
A huge thank you to Dr Oliver Harschnitz (@harschnitz.bsky.social sky.social) for delivering his captivating lecture today at CiViA entitled: "A human stem cell-derived #organoid model of the trigeminal ganglion", followed by a very fruitful discussion.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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maxplanck.de
On this day in 1859 English naturalist Charles #Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species," radically changing the view of #evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology. #otd
In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin (picture 1)opened a page of his brown leather-bound notebook with the sentence: I think. The page (picture 2) was in the first of four notebooks he had created in London on the question of species change. However, he did not explain what he was thinking in words, but in a fist-sized diagram: a line shoots out from an origin marked with the number ‘1’ and then forks several times. Some branches end in nothingness, while others fan out further and further. In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin opened a page of his brown leather-bound notebook with the sentence: I think. The page was in the first of four notebooks he had created in London on the question of species change. However, he did not explain what he was thinking in words, but in a fist-sized diagram: a line shoots out from an origin marked with the number ‘1’ and then forks several times. Some branches end in nothingness, while others fan out further and further.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 There is still time to register for tomorrow's #webinar by the RAFT (Resilience Against Future Threats through Vector Control) research consortium:
" #Aedes bionomics in an urbanizing world and the need for global response to rising #arbovirus threat"🦟
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🦟" #YellowFever and #dengue cases surge in #SouthAmerica 🌎 as #ClimateCrisis fuels health issues. Disease #outbreaks from South America to #Europe have been worsened by rising global temperatures, experts say." by @olliemilman.bsky.social @theguardian.com #COP30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yellow fever and dengue cases surge in South America as climate crisis fuels health issues
Disease outbreaks from South America to Europe have been worsened by rising global temperatures, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🦟" #Culex #mosquitoes found in stables in South #Iceland 🇮🇸"

www.natt.is/is/frettir/2...
Moskítóflugur fundust í hesthúsi á Suðurlandi
Moskítóflugur fundust í nóvember í hesthúsi á sveitabæ í Ölfusi. Um er að ræða nýja tegund fyrir landið, ekki sömu og greind var í fyrsta sinn á Íslandi í október.
www.natt.is
November 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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tuliodna.bsky.social
Very good coverage of our CLIMADE report from Vietnam, Hoang Minh (Vietnam News Agency) with Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus were recently discovered in Chandannath, Nepal, at an elevation of 2,438m above sea level - baonghean.vn/en/bien-doi-... #CLIMATE #CHANGE #EPIDEMICS #COP30 #Health
Climate change causes an increase in infectious diseases worldwide
Climate change is giving rise to new diseases globally, according to a new COP30 synthesis report by Climate Amplified Diseases & Epidemics (Climade), a coalition of leading science and public health ...
baonghean.vn
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 @ukhsa.bsky.social is #hiring for a Senior Medical #Entomologist position. Closing date 19 November 2025! 🦟🪰🕷️

apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7...
Senior Medical Entomologist | Job advert | Trac
apps.trac.jobs
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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mugkraemer.bsky.social
Northward expansion of Aedes albopictus-associated arbovirus transmission risk in Europe

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Northward expansion of Aedes albopictus-associated arbovirus transmission risk in Europe
Since 2007, outbreaks of chikungunya and dengue have become increasingly frequent and large scale in Europe. The frequency and size of these episodes suggest a concerning trend. In 2025 alone, there h...
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🪰 " #Oropouche #virus entomovirology and surveillance: where are we and where are we headed?" - #review by Jose Fernando Gómez-Marín, Gabriel Parra-Henao et al. in Acta Tropica

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 @who.int Global #YellowFever update, 2024 🦟

iris.who.int/server/api/c...
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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drstevenmwhite.bsky.social
Are you interested in doing a PhD in modelling Aedes-borne disease control? We are offering a fully funded studentship at @ukceh.bsky.social , with @uofglasgow.bsky.social and ALTOPICTUS, via @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Open to UK nationals and overseas students.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Modelling vector control for Aedes-borne arboviruses
iapetus.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
frederikseelig.bsky.social
Thrilled to see this scoping review published - hats off to Richard Oxborough, Mojca Kristan, Louisa Messenger and all the other members of this stellar team at RAFT for their great efforts! I feel honoured I could contribute to the inception and planning of this project.
globalvectorhub.bsky.social The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · Oct 24
🦟"Building resilience against the growing threat of arboviruses: a #ScopingReview of #Aedes #vector surveillance, control strategies and insecticide resistance in #Africa 🌍" by R. Oxborough et al. in Parasites & Vectors @bmc.springernature.com

parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
frederikseelig.bsky.social
🦟"Die U-Bahn-Mücken, die es nie gab.
Eine berüchtigte Plage der Londoner »Tube« ist – anders als bisher angenommen – nicht in modernen Tunneln entstanden. Genanalysen zeigen: Mücken, die im Untergrund leben, begleiten den Menschen seit Jahrtausenden." @spiegel.de
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
(S+) »London Underground Mosquitos«: Genanalysen widerlegt Annahme zur Evolution der U-Bahn-Mücke
Eine berüchtigte Plage der Londoner »Tube« ist – anders als bisher angenommen – nicht in modernen Tunneln entstanden. Genanalysen zeigen: Mücken, die im Untergrund leben, begleiten den Menschen seit J...
www.spiegel.de
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM