Senior Medical Entomologist | Job advert | Trac
📢 @ukhsa.bsky.social is #hiring for a Senior Medical #Entomologist position. Closing date 19 November 2025! 🦟🪰🕷️
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11.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Surveillance and control efficacy of the Bergerac, France, 2025 chikungunya outbreak
The spread of the highly invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus, across Europe, combined with climate change and human travel and trade, has led to new epidemic threats from mosquito-borne viruses, most ...
Our new paper on the outbreak of chikungunya in Bergerac, France, 2025.
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@ukceh.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social
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08.11.2025 06:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
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
28.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 45 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3
Modelling vector control for Aedes-borne arboviruses
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.
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28.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 The 2nd SPHERE-PPL Annual Meeting is happening 14th Jan 2026 at The Alan Turing Institute.
Explore AI forecasting in Environmental Science, shape forecasting contests, and network!
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23.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
UKHSA PhD Student Internships - Newton Gateway to Mathematics
Opportunity for UK based PhD students to spend 3 months in the Infectious Disease modelling team at UKHSA. It's a great chance to see how modelling is used in public health decision making. If your interested see below for more details:
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20.10.2025 10:17 — 👍 4 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Xylella keeps on spreading...
18.10.2025 11:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FYI, we have a really good albopictus-CHIKV/DENV model that can predict outbreaks accurately (papers in review/prep), if of interest. At least, they work well in Europe.
16.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes, but nowhere near to the same severity. Something like ~32 autochthonous cases <2024 and ~729 autochthonous cases in 2025 so far!!
16.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just look what's going on in France this year...!
16.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.
📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu
➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries
More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x
08.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Close up picture of a plastic tube with a single Culex pipiens mosquito caught inside it. It has a brownish body, six legs, and a long needle-like proboscis on its head
Moving into Oct with temperatures & daylight hours falling in Scotland, the "peak" mosquito activity season is passing. However, some species like Culex pipiens can still be found 'overwintering'; like this one our team found on #Arran yesterday. Let us know if you see any
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mosquito-scotland.com
08.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Humans!
03.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh those are spectacular! My socks have bikes on them.
01.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We highly the use of such models for future use in real-time European Aedes-borne disease outbreaks.
24.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We show that control strategies can be highly effective in reducing dengue cases. However, extreme precipitation events may have also had a large contribution to reducing the number of cases for one of the outbreaks.
24.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nighttime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) - BMC Environmental Science
Background Global urbanization and climate change introduce significant environmental challenges such as light pollution (a.k.a., artificial light at night or ALAN) and rising temperatures. Both factors have the potential to disrupt the temporal activity patterns of many species, including key disease vectors such as the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). This study aimed to investigate whether light pollution and elevated daytime temperatures prompt Ae. albopictus to shift their activity towards the night, a typically less active period for these day-active mosquitoes. Methods During the summer of 2023, we enrolled 58 households across the Greater St. Louis area (MO, USA) and used traps to collect and monitor the host-seeking and mate-seeking activity of the tiger mosquito. Sites were selected across a light pollution gradient, and temperature was measured using field loggers and extracted from local weather stations. We analyzed the relationship between light pollution and daytime temperature with nighttime mosquito abundance using generalized additive models (GAMs) with negative binomial distributions, including percent impervious surface as a covariate. Results We found a pronounced increase in mosquito activity at night at sites with high levels of light pollution. Percent impervious surface only explained a small portion of the variance in nighttime abundance, while both daytime mosquito abundance and the interaction between light pollution and temperature explained substantial portions of the variance in nighttime abundance. The significant interaction between light pollution and temperature indicates that the effect of light pollution on nighttime mosquito activity strongly depends on temperature. Specifically, nighttime mosquito abundance was low at lower levels of light pollution but increased significantly starting around 3500 µcd m⁻², but only when daytime temperatures approached or exceeded the critical thermal maximum of females. Conclusions Our findings suggest that rising temperatures and light pollution can extend the temporal activity period of Ae. albopictus. This adjustment in activity could buffer Ae. albopictus against rising temperatures, create novel nighttime vector-host encounters, and inform vector control strategies within urban environments. Clinical trial number Not applicable.
A study in BMC Environmental Science finds that rising temperatures and light pollution at night may cause the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) to become more active, creating new risks for disease transmission in urban areas.
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21.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It's not about immigrantation. In France, for example, it's mainly due to travel between mainland France and some particular overseas territories.
09.09.2025 07:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I think that the title is slightly misleading, at least in the case of CHIKV. Here, it's more to do with large numbers of imported cases from source locations spawning local outbreaks in Europe.
09.09.2025 06:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
*look
04.09.2025 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Ann and Daniel Monahan Collegiate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Research on the ecological and epidemiological dynamics of mosquito-borne and other infectious diseases.
Director, Climate Change and Evidence at The Wildlife Trusts
Postdoc in infectious disease epidemiology and modelling at University of Cambridge. Interested in arboviruses, vaccines, and immunity. Previously at Imperial College London.
Reader and MRC Fellow at the University of Bath. UK Young Academy member. Mathematical Biology and Infectious Disease Modelling. Mum of 5.
Infectious Disease Modeller, University of Bristol, UK
PhD Researcher @SETU_Research exploring the molecular ecology of insect vectors including, Culicoides biting midges and Mosquitoes. Interested in molecular methods in vector and vector-borne disease surveillance.
Research group, mostly based at UKCEH Wallingford, using molecular techniques to understand function, and dynamics of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Particular interest in #AMR, #eDNA & #microbial #ecology
Science Communicator | Power BI Wizard | Analytical Chemist | Professional Dork
Fighting infectious diseases through code 🦠💻 | Post doc ID modelling @WUR & @OneHealthPACT | Mosquito-borne diseases | One Health | Sexual health
A musician trapped in the body of vector biologist. Postdoc at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk. Interested in tools for vector surveillance, mosquito ecology, machine learning, and photonics. I play guitar too!
Environmental Molecular Microbiologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology on #AMR in bacterial and fungal microbial communities
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/isobel-stanton
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.
Assoc. Professor in public health at UC Irvine. I do global health, epidemiology, GIS, earth observation, anthropology, demography.
https://parker-group.github.io/
Pollution scientist. Science updates on #microplastic and #nanoplastics in the environment, #nanotoxicology and the importance of #worms! Views my own of course
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Empowering and supporting students and early career researchers in vector ecology, specifically across Europe
mammals | wildlife | ecology | movement | disease | biodiversity | demography | behaviour | distribution | modelling
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PhD student in infectious disease epidemiology | @domenech-lab.bsky.social at MPIIB & Charité Berlin | mathematical models, weather, climate & causal inference
Assistant Professor, Entomology at UC Riverside. Mosquito ecology, vector biology, phenotypic plasticity, trait-environment interactions, disease transmission.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/karthikeyan.chandrasegaran1
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