Natasha Agramonte, PhD

What the heck, GA… it’s November! Why is it snowing?!? 🌨️🥶

Thrilled that this paper is finally out and that I was able to contribute specimens from the metro Atlanta area. Congrats @yukihaba.bsky.social! 🦟🧬🔬

🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

TFW your sentient mops sit together and judge you for daring to give them routine medication without smothering it in peanut butter 🐶🐶 #YouCantSitWithUs #FloofsInNeedOfGrooming #SillyPuppers

Molecular markers of reduced behavioral sensitivity to transfluthrin in Anopheles gambiae s.s. from Western Kenya - BMC Genomics Background The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors threatens vector control efforts. The use of spatial repellent products (SR) containing volatile insecticides such as t...

Important new work by Eric Ochomo & team at #KEMRI. Useful findings for understanding the potential impact of the promising #spatialrepellents approach for #mosquito #vector control & what we should be monitoring to assess early signs of resistance. ⬇️

bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Let's face it: Mosquitoes are the ultimate survivors!

They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

The measles outbreak in Texas shows no sign of slowing down. 🧵

Third measles death This is not normal. For three reasons.

So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

a bald man in a suit is saying i 'll never forget it ALT: a bald man in a suit is saying i 'll never forget it

🥹

“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker

High-level officials at Atlanta-based CDC announce departure The departures were described as retirements.

Eight members of CDC’s top management abruptly announce resignation, including 5 stepping down today. The departures were announced at a closed meeting of agency senior leaders this afternoon.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

This will have immediate ramifications for local public health departments across the US

Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.

“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.

This. Is. Huge.

Every federal employee's ‘five things’ email this week needs to include ‘did not text classified military operational plans to a reporter.’ #nationalsecurity #kakistocracy

Today make sure to avoid turtle shells 🐢, fireballs ☄️, and disease carrying insects 🦟 #Mar10Day #mosquito

Happy to be back amongst (most of 🥲) my mosquito people, so of course I need a #mosquitoselfie to kick off my week at #AMCA2025

Yes I am. I think we met briefly last year during an event at Deep Roots

Measles – NFID Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:

* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized

* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia

* 1 to 3 in 1000 die

If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

A person dies of measles in West Texas outbreak At least 124 cases have been reported in Texas, with at least 18 hospitalizations. Most are children.

First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

✊🏼😭

‘Every day, they tackled complex issues with life-or-death stakes. They were hired after lawmakers debated and negotiated — sometimes over years — to make those problems someone’s job to solve. Then, this month, they were fired as part of President Trump’s widespread purge of federal workers.’

@bluestein.bsky.social for clarity, this is the question that preceded that odd reply from Rep. McCormick. I was in attendance last night and a friend of mine took this video. Also, I don’t think he ingratiated himself with his constituents by mocking her accent.

@nbcnews.com I was in attendance last night and a friend of mine took this video

A federal judge says Georgia's political maps must be redrawn for the 2024 election A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

@nbcnews.com this district (GA 7th, formerly GA 6th) was recently gerrymandered to heavily favor Republicans in 2021-2023, in order to push out Lucy McBath

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

A federal judge says Georgia's political maps must be redrawn for the 2024 election A judge is ordering Georgia to draw new congressional and state legislative maps after finding the current maps illegally discriminate against Black voters.

A lot of us didn’t vote for him. This district was gerrymandered to heavily favor Republicans in 2021, going into effect in 2023-4. A judge says Georgia's congressional maps must be redrawn

www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1...

@bluestein.bsky.social, respectfully, hundreds of ‘critics’ weren’t in attendance, we are his constituents and we wanted answers