Jaap de Roode
@jaapderoode.bsky.social
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Biology professor; Emory University; monarch butterflies; infectious diseases; animal self-medication; host of Virulent Vortex podcast
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We live in divided times. But most of us agree that we dislike mosquitoes. In the latest episode of the Virulent Vortex, I talk with Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec. As he explains, going back to basic mozzie biology could go a long way in controlling mosquito-borne diseases.🧪

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Season 3 - Episode 2 - Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec
YouTube video by The MP3 Initiative & IDASTP
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Our MARC T34 got a new NOA today- also reinstated the IMSD T32 and a summer program- INSPIRE R25- we were reinstated due to involvement with ACLU lawsuit filed on behalf of the American Public Health Association-
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Our latest research, with @iragonese.bsky.social, @saltidog.bsky.social and @richardlovesbirds.bsky.social, shows that elevated temperature can increase monarch butterfly susceptibility to parasitism by reducing the medicinal properties of milkweed. #plant-insect #plant-herbivore 🧪
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New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt reports on how host plants & experimental #warming impact fitness and infection outcomes in a migratory butterfly
doi.org/10.1111/een.70010

#Danaus #MonarchButterfly

Photo credits: Isabella Ragonese
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“De ware dierendokters: hoe dieren elkaar medisch behandelen. Chimpansees die verbanden aanleggen, muizen die EHBO verlenen: ook dieren verzorgen elkaar, blijkt uit groeiend stapel studies.” #wetenschap #biologie #diergedrag #boek Dokters van nature van @jaapderoode.bsky.social
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De ware dierendokters: hoe dieren elkaar ‘medisch’ behandelen
Chimpansees die verbanden aanleggen, muizen die EHBO verlenen: ook dieren verzorgen elkaar, blijkt uit een groeiende stapel studies. Vier opmerkelijke voorbeelden.
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It varies by institution, but for my institution, stipend is $40,324. On top of that, we pay fees to cover fringe.
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Sorry to hear that. Fortunately, that was not my experience.
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From a grant rejection: "I would recommend finding a more cost effective way to conduct the study, such as using labor of a graduate student, which could reduce the overall cost by 80%." To clarify: that would leave $9,856 for 2 years. Shocking! Graduate students are NOT free and forced labor! 🧪
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Mijn @knnvuitgeverij.bsky.social boek ‘Dokters van nature’ is genomineerd voor de shortlist van de Natuurboekenprijs 2025!
Hiernaast is er dit jaar een publieksprijs. Mocht je het leuk vinden op mijn boek te stemmen, dan kan dat hier:
meedoen.bnnvara.nl/.../publieks....
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Wound care in chimpanzees! Like chimpanzees in Central Africa, scientists have now shown that East African chimpanzees also apply flying insects to their own and each other's wounds. This is likely some form of medication, which is more widespread than we thought. 🧪

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Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Insect applications to open wounds by chimpanzees in the wild: first insights from East African chimpanzees
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De shortlist voor de Natuurboekenprijs 2025 is bekend, met de boeken van Eva Meijer, Nikki Dekker, Jeroen Helmer, @jaapderoode.bsky.social en Geert-Jan Roebers & Merlijne Marell. Bekijk de hele lijst, lees meer, bestel: athenaeumscheltema.n...
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The only way back to normalcy is through, and that means getting these people out of power. I'm not going to get an NIH grant to do the work I care about until RFK and Jay are out anyway. So I hope you'll read and share our piece. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
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Great opportunity!
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Pls RT: We are recruiting a postdoc (and potentially an RA or staff scientist) to work on the evolution of stage-structured immune systems! Experimental evolution, natural variation in immunity, and/or evo genomics in flour beetles (Tribolium). See ad here: my.vanderbilt.edu/tatelab/join...
Scale highlighting trade-offs between larval and adult beetles in response to infection A teaser of panels illustrating potential approaches to studying stage-structured immune systems, including transcriptomics, experimental evolution, and experiments in wild-derived populations
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The study can be found here. All the more reason to recreate nature, even if it is small patches in your own yard. Replace those lawns with native plants, and let your kids get their hands dirty! 🧪

www.mdpi.com/2673-4834/6/...
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Shocking but perhaps unsurprising finding by @findingnature.bsky.social that human connection to nature has declined precipitously. This is bad for our health and for the preservation of nature. The solution? Regreen, and take your kids outside. 🧪

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
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Good week for our understanding of manipulative parasites. A fungal pathogen of silk moths produces a host-like trehalose gene that reduces trehalose in the caterpillar's hemolymph. The larva perceives starvation, and fattens up to provide more resources for the fungus.

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Fungal pathogen promotes caterpillar feeding and weight gain using a host-like trehalase
Zhao et al. report that Cordyceps militaris fungi induce feeding and weight gain in silkworm larvae using an insect-like trehalase. Fungal infection induces a sharp drop in insect blood sugars and the...
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Wow, this new study used a form of the "rubber hand illusion" to show that an octopus experiences body ownership of its own arms. Body ownership is an important feature of self-consciousness, and had previously only been demonstrated in mammals. 🧪

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Rubber arm illusion in octopus
The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...
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Another summer; another wonderful undergraduate research project. Congratulations to Marlyne Gonzalez for a fascinating project and beautiful poster. Monarch caterpillars sometimes hardly have any gut microbes! Supported by the INSPIRE program at Emory University and @emorycollege.bsky.social 🧪
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It was great talking to @cjgiaimo.bsky.social for @wired.com about how animals use medicine on a sketchy phone connection on a moving rain in Germany :-). Bears, caterpillars, ants, and many other animals are health experts, as described in my @princetonupress.bsky.social book #doctorsbynature. 🧪
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Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home....
More details for how to apply are here:
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
CIG- UNIL