#who #globalhealth #vaccines #healthforall #health | Marta Tufet Bayona | 14 comments Mummy, what is the WHO? World Health Organization #who #globalhealth #vaccines #healthforall #health | 14 comments on LinkedIn

My friend Marta Tufet makes some nice cartoons for kids. Mostly on vaccines and public health but I think there might be some on bugs. www.linkedin.com/posts/martat...

Does that data even include those reaching end of fixed term contracts (also redundancy in law and practice)? Given the shift to tenuous contracts over last decade redundancy of staff on without duration contracts will be top of iceberg.

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore

It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Do you:
1) Live near/in Buffalo?
2) Like to organize stuff?
3) Hate what the government is doing to science?

If you answered yes, help me organize the Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th! I need reps from UB, Buff State, Canisius, D’Youville to spread the word. I need general support. DM me!

So sad to hear this. A real giant of the field. Condolences to family and those that work with him.

The communication on this has been absolutely abysmal. We know that huge proportion of uk researchers are on highly tenuous contracts. This break in both MRC and BBSRC calls will have a devastating effect on ECRs.

Scientists reveal how sleeping sickness parasites control their surface coat Researchers have revealed how parasites hide thousands of antigens behind a single-colour coat and how disrupting this control could make the parasit...

New PNAS study identifies ESBX, a protein controlling which surface coat gene is active in sleeping sickness parasites - key to immune evasion.

@tiengwe-tryplab.bsky.social
@zephyris-science.bsky.social
@fariatrypslab.bsky.social

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Check out our latest study on the PfRIPR protein,
essential for the malaria parasite to get inside our blood cells. We show how antibodies block the function of PfRIPR by preventing its flexible hinges from bending, or by stopping it from compacting as part of its mechanism.

Health Check - How can we eliminate malaria? - BBC Sounds The big ideas and innovations that may help us one day eliminate malaria

Very excited to take part in this BBC world service programme on the future of malaria elimination. My first ever radio interview. The editors worked wanders!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

Congrats Seb! Very well deserved.

🌍👏 We’re proud to share that @sebbaumgarten.bsky.social, group leader at the Institut Pasteur, has been selected as an EMBO Young Investigator 2025!

This program supports outstanding young scientists building their labs across Europe and beyond.

More : www.embo.org/funding/fell...

@embo.org

For #FollowFriday:

Follow LSHTM's centres, projects & groups for more on work to tackle some of the biggest challenges in #PublicHealth

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Knowing where proteins are in the cell is often the first step to understanding what they do, so this is an incredibly exciting dataset for the malaria parasite community! Can’t wait to dive in to it!

London Interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @robmoon.bsky.social – to study the role of novel genes in #malaria transmission. Apply here👇
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

Our lab has two funded PhDs to start in 2026 via the NorthWestBio programme

Project details here
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
...and here
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Application deadline is Nov 21st 2025; apply here:
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How certain is certain enough? | LSHTM When faced with a new health threat, there are three crucial questions we must consider. What is going on? What can we do about it? And how can we communicate these things effectively? This talk will

I'm giving a free public talk asking 'How certain is certain enough?' at @lshtm.bsky.social on Monday 24th November at 5.30pm, as part of the Global Health Lecture Series. From epidemic response and clinical trials to online misinformation and AI, I'll look at how truth emerges – and why it falters.

This is exactly the case for me. It’s both the requirement for me to always carry something and the implication that anyone with any modicum of power could then demand it (I.e you can’t use this service unless you do). That would be a major change and very open to abuse.

🚨 New @who.int guidance for malaria in crisis settings 🌍 🦟

Dr Bhargavi Rao, co-author, highlights the significance of the manual for frontline workers and the need to integrate malaria control into broader emergency response.

Read more: bit.ly/469Q1kd

The essential host genome for Cryptosporidium survival exposes metabolic dependencies that can be leveraged for treatment An arrayed microscopy-based CRISPR screen revealed host genes affecting multiple infection phenotypes of the intracellular parasite Cryptosporidium. Hits in the host cholesterol biosynthesis pathway a...

Our paper has finally graduated from pre-print to peer-reviewed, pretty much unscathed, and is out now! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

An exciting opportunity to start an independent position as a research fellow in protozoan parasitology at Christ's College, Cambridge and the Department of Pathology:
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52020/

For those interested in Masters in lab and field based research in infectious disease we have 3 fantastic programmes to choose from MSc Immunology, medical parasitology and entomology and medical microbiology. They benefit from very flexible module choices and summer projects in UK and abroad!

Congratulations! Great to also see such a well thought out policy. Some things wouldn’t translate well for institutions in UK but lots of examples of really good practice to emulate.

Delighted to share the final version of Richard Zhou's study on how the CD163 scavenger receptor cleans up after toxic haemoglobin spills out from our blood cells. An amazing grabber mechanism!
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But they can just live on tips right?

Fighting malaria as a patient and scientist - Nature Microbiology Fitsum Tadesse was infected with malaria as a young child in Ethiopia and faced challenges to access efficacious treatment during a time of widespread drug resistance. Today, as a scientist in Africa,...

From surviving malaria as a child to leading cutting-edge research on drug resistance in Africa. Dr Fitsum Tadesse @lshtm.bsky.social is fighting the parasite from both sides. A powerful story of science, and resilience 🧬🌍

Read his journey @NatureMicrobiol 📄
👉 bit.ly/4nWsb22

I like the idea that philosophers need write like they are posting on twitter and therefore need to hedge against all possible ways of people deliberately misunderstanding them!

Congratulations Matt! Very well deserved

Insights from the 2025 Gordon Research Conference | LSHTM Insights from the 2025 Gordon Research Conference | LSHTM

🦠 “An honour to present” — @leen-vanheer.bsky.social shares insights from the 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Malaria.

From rising resistance in Ethiopia to promising progress in SE Asia, her talk spotlighted urgent AMR trends in Plasmodium falciparum.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4ef5C4o

Our latest story describes the amazing evolutionary battle between malaria parasite and human. The parasite evolved RIFINs to bind inhibitory KIR receptors and suppress immune cell function while humans have activating KIR receptors to bind these RIFINs to kill parasites!

I am so jealous that Cornell has a glass blowing service!