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Dr Joanne Power
@hanniepower.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research scientist at the University of Glasgow Centre for #Parasitology. 10 yrs in #malaria transmission research! 🦟🔬🧪 From the Emerald Isle🇮🇪, working in bonnie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 27d
Save the dates!! @bspparasitology.bsky.social Spring Meeting 2026 will be in Bonnie Glasgow! 7-9 April 2026, with a drinks reception in Glasgow City Chambers on the 6th of April 2026!
Keep an eye on the BSP website for registration and abstract submission!
Logo by @shannaraeilean.bsky.social! 🦟
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 1d
#goals
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 7d
Great work by @ukhsa.bsky.social team on 4 yrs of invasive #mosquito surveillance in UK. Sporadic detection of Aedes albopictus on transport routes in England & one-off detection of aegypti at Heathrow don't confirm establishment, but show value of surveillance
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Invasive mosquito surveillance in the United Kingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus
Here, we provide an update on invasive mosquito surveillance activities coordinated by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) between May 2020 and November 2024. Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti are ...
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 9d
CRISPR cane toads y'all...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 9d
This is just such an improbable pink color for a wasp. Digonogastra, from west Texas, specimen in the UT insect collection.
Microscope image in side view of a point-mounted black wasp, with smoky black wings and pink abdomen, against a neutral gray field background.
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 10d
I told Pico you sneezed as well. 🤣
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 10d
Wow- proud of Ireland, but that's a very eye-opening map. Thinking especially of the journalists in Palestine and Sudan at the moment.

#pressfreedom
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tkes.bsky.social · 10d
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 15d
cleaning up our first batch of Keyence images, IMO you can't get a better test subject than a tingid
Literally the first picture we took with the new imager, lines are from the rep showing us how to do measurements. It's a lace bug (Tingidae), maybe something close to Calotingis? Zoom in on the bulbous head/pronotum doohickey of the lace bug. It appears to be empty. close up image of individual compound eye of the lace bug. Each facet is about 10 um across.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 15d
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 15d
Paracetamol use during pregnancy does not increase risk of autism

Laurie Tomlinson explains best available evidence shows #paracetamol safe to take during pregnancy & urges parents to seek reputable sources of information, & medical advice from GP.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Lander Foquet @lfoquet.bsky.social · 16d
Quackolini wants to delay Hep B shots until age 12. Problem: the danger is vertical transmission at birth, when 9 in 10 infections become lifelong. That’s not a health plan—it’s an epidemiology experiment with your child as the control group.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 16d
"Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted, no reason to give a baby hepatitis B. Wait until the baby is 12 years old and formed and give them hepatitis B."
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Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 16d
The last time the administration recklessly hawked a drug as a cure-all for something it hadn’t been shown to do, numerous people taking HCQ lost access to their meds - and the HCQ harmed the Covid patients it was used on.

Now with leucovorin, a similar shortage with subsequent harm(s) may occur
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 15d
I don't know if they have a presence on Blue Sky, but I just want to remind people in Scotland that you can sign up for SHARE for free: www.registerforshare.org SHARE takes the excess blood from regular blood tests & uses it for research purposes. You can also sign up for further health studies. 👍🏻
SHARE | RegisterforSHARE
SHARE | RegisterforSHARE
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 17d
Had a friend tell me today her colleague (with family, I assume) had to pay ~$8k to get back from Brazil within the 24 h they had. Or else they couldn't get back in. It's so awful.
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 17d
In 2wks, our #VectorsGlasgow team will do #GreatScottishRun for @malarianomoreuk.bsky.social They do crucial work to raise awareness & advocate for investment in #malaria control- never more needed with recent global health funding cuts
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- ajbellgreatscottishrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/heather-f...
Six people standing in front of the Graham Kerr Zoology Building, University of Glasgow . Four are holding signs with the 'Malaria No More UK' logo. Left to right - Mary Ryan, Ryan Carmichael, Meshach Kee, Tasmin Alexander, Heather Ferguson & Francesco Baldini
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 19d
At LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED event experts discussed the threat of false or misleading health information

Watch a recording of the event online and find out more about health #misinformation & what we can do to fight it.

📽️👉 youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...

#PublicHealth
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Andrea Gloria-Soria @agloriasoria.bsky.social · 19d
The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
www.science.org/content/arti...
How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world
Aedes aegypti further adapted to life around humans when it arrived in the Americas, study of hundreds of mosquito genomes reveals
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 20d
Hospitals ‘overflowing’ amid double outbreak of mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh

Doris Nyamwaya tells the Telegraph urbanisation, #ClimateChange & travel are driving expansion of #mosquitoes in new regions amid surge of #dengue & #chikungunya cases.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 19d
also really fun to share an issue and a commentary with a big paper on Aedes aegypti 🦟🥂🦟

congrats @mariloumercedes.bsky.social and Jacob E. Crawford

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SciArt doodle of two mosquitoes holding papers and drinks highfiving eachother, an anopheles on the left (orangey brown with dots on her wings) and an aedes on the right (dark brown with white stripes on body and legs).
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20d
Starting to accumulate quite a few species in the mosquito gallery:
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
www.alexanderwild.com
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Dr Joanne Power @hanniepower.bsky.social · 20d
Amazing!!! Congratulations! 🎉
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Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social · 20d
Delighted to receive some national press coverage of my Royal Society University Research Fellowship - I am trying to make upconversion nanoparticle technology more accessible for biomedical research #Chemsky #Nano

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2547411...
Two Strathclyde Uni researchers receive grants worth more than £1.8m each
The two researchers have received grants worth more than £1.8m each
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British Society for Parasitology @bspparasitology.bsky.social · 23d
Join us for upcoming BSP Tryps Club meetings! Schedule here ⬇️
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Leon Walther @trypsleon.bsky.social · Sep 4
The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) Tryps Club is pleased to share our upcoming series of events. These sessions will bring together leading experts and the wider community to exchange knowledge, highlight research, and foster collaboration in parasitology. (1/5)
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Helen Price @helenpprice.bsky.social · 23d
Huge congratulations to Keele’s Dr Christine Reitmayer, who has received a prestigious fellowship from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to advance her work studying new ways of halting the spread of deadly mosquito-borne disease.
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Vanna Bartlett @vannabartlett.bsky.social · 27d
Pen and ink drawing of Atypus affinis. The purseweb was one of several seen at Roydon amongst Heather roots while the actual spider was one we chanced upon in France several years ago. @andydouglas1967.bsky.social I've emailed you grid refs for Roydon.
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