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Applications for the ILESLA 2026/27 #PhD program between @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk and Oxford Brookes, are open. DM if you are interested in #vectorbornedisease #mosquitoes #ticks #metagenomics #viruses #OneHealth. Deadline 8th January 2026, 12 midday UK time.

www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’ - Research Professional News Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework

‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’

Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework.

Free to read.

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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

Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽

@asapbio.bsky.social

yale's beautiful campus from overhead

🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

Make academic publishing a commons, not a market - Research Professional News Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore

Make academic publishing a commons, not a market.

Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore.

Popular on our site just now.

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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below.

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@drheatherferg.bsky.social, Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute) and partners receive €6.1M EU Horizon/EDCTP funding to support the launch of the first mosquito observatory network in Africa.

👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html
#mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth

Come and read our latest blog post from @vbdhub.bsky.social on citizen science and VBDs 🕷️🦟🦠

vbdhub.org/blog

Please correct the text since Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium, not a virus ;) Thanks!

Assessing the vector competence of Italian #Culex pipiens and #Aedes albopictus #mosquitoes for the re-emerging Oropouche virus In 2024, Italy reported its first five cases of Oropouche fever in travelers returning from Cuba and Brazil. The Oropouche virus (OROV), an emerging Orthobunyavirus of the Peribunyaviridae family, is a zoonotic a...

Assessing the vector competence of Italian #Culex pipiens and #Aedes albopictus #mosquitoes for the re-emerging Oropouche virus Parasites&Vectors

How awe drives scientists to make a leap into the unknown | Aeon Essays In awe we hold fast to nature’s strangeness and open up to the unknown. No wonder it’s central to the scientific imagination

Thought-provoking essay on the importance of awe (yes, really) in and for science. It helps scientists imagine, it motivates us, it promotes uptake of new ideas …. For me, awe of nature also keeps me grounded, resilient, happy. #ProfLife aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Phage therapy: I found a bacteria-eating virus in my loo It's hoped phages could give us new ways of treating infections which are immune to antibiotics.

Could you find a bacteria-eating and potentially infection-stopping virus in your toilet? That’s just what happened to the BBC’s James Gallagher when he went on a phage hunt with the team from the University of Southampton: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s the power of a pangenome? Here at the Earlham Institute a lot of people are very excited about pangenomes. But what are they? And how will they change genetics?

🟡 #Pangenomes capture far more detail of a species' genetic diversity offering biologists a powerful tool to understand variation, evolution, disease, and much more. 🧬🌱💻

Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Pirbright in £10m collaboration to fight animal and plant disease The Pirbright Institute has joined a £10m advanced technology surveillance programme to strengthen the UK’s biosecurity and protect animals, plants, people and trade.

🧬 We're proud to join a £10 million UK-wide collaboration to combat animal and plant diseases through advanced genome sequencing.

The Genomics for Animal and Plant Disease Consortium (GAP-DC) uses genomics to enhance UK biosecurity.

Full story ⬇️

Dsit confirms it will announce UK scheme for foreign research talent - Research Professional News Details expected after immigration white paper amid growing clamour for government to woo US scientists

Big news: Dsit confirms UK scheme for foreign research talent.

The science department has confirmed it will launch a funding scheme designed to attract foreign researchers, as calls grow for the UK to do more to recruit disaffected US scientists.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Seven dead, 53 infected with hemorrhagic fever across Iraq: Health ministry Seven people have died from Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in Iraq and 53 others have been confirmed to be infected, a senior official from the Iraqi health ministry told Rudaw on Monday.

🕷️" #Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever ( #CCHF): Seven dead, 53 infected with #CCHF across #Iraq 🇮🇶" via @rudawmedia.bsky.social
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'Unparalleled' snake antivenom made from man bitten 200 times Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.

The blood of a man who deliberately injected himself with snake venom for nearly 2 decades has led to an "unparalleled" antivenom, say scientists.

Antibodies found in his blood can protect against fatal doses from a wide range of species in animal tests.

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🔮 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗟𝘆𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 🕷️ 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗨𝗞! SPHERE-PPL (funded by Alan Turing Institute) has launched the Health Forecasting Contest - forecast Lyme disease incidence rates (cases per 100,000) for 2023 & 2024 and help inform public health decision-making.
🔗 Details & repo:
sphere-ppl.org

Does use of domestic insecticides undermine public health control strategies? Vector-borne diseases (VBD), particularly dengue and malaria, pose a growing threat to human health worldwide. While insecticides remain the cornerstone of vector control programmes, their efficacy is...

Important article focussing on a big unknown for mosquito vector control - what is the role of domestic insecticide use on driving resistance to public health measures? For too long, this issue has been almost entirely ignored. Great work @lstmnews.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Mapping parts of Britain at risk from tick-borne virus Research led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has mapped parts of Britain where there is a risk of transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus, which has become a growing health problem in E...

🕷️ "Mapping parts of #Britain at risk from #tick-borne #virus: Scientists @ukceh.bsky.social have mapped parts of Britain where there is a risk of transmission of tick-borne encephalitis virus ( #TBEV), which has become a growing health problem in #Europe." #arbovirus
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

BBSRC grant fuels research to unlock the genetics of disease spread April 2025: A new BBSRC grant is set to explore the genetic factors influencing variation in host infectiousness. By using fruit flies as a model, researchers aim to uncover genetic and immune pathway...

🪰 BBSRC grant fuels research to unlock the genetics of disease spread 🪰

Led by: @pfvale.bsky.social @andreadwilson.bsky.social

Read more ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/bbsrc-grant-...

A young man wearing protective goggles looks up at a petri dish. Text overlaid reads 'NEWS: LCR to become global powerhouse in fighting disease'

NEWS | £1m of Life Sciences Innovation Zone funding will support the creation of a Microbiome & Infectious Disease Innovation Hub (MaID) to harness our expertise in the rapidly expanding field.

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news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/23/l...

@livunihls.bsky.social @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social

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The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
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NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

Cover of UMaine's 2024 annual tick report showing images of three adult ticks

The UMaine Tick Lab's 2024 annual report detailing the information gathered through our passive tick surveillance program is now available at ticks.umaine.edu. Check it out!

Towards an open analysis ecosystem for Plasmodium genomic epidemiology - PubMed Major advances in <i>Plasmodium</i> sequencing approaches, bioinformatic pipelines, and data analysis tools have provided valuable insights into malaria epidemiology from parasite genomic data. Howeve...

This is what it's all about: moving mysteries into the mainstream to make science reproducible. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40236429/

📣 The One Health Vector-Borne Diseases Hub is hosting a free training workshop focused on informatics, data sharing, and analysis for vector-borne diseases.

📅 4 - 6 June
📍 Silwood Park, Ascot

Full details ➡️ vbdhub.org/blog/trainin...

Toronto is aiming high with the hiring of 100 new scientists!
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