Subway mosquitoes evolved millennia ago in ancient Mediterranean cities A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.

I loved this.

www.sciencenews.org/article/subw...

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

shout-out to Soha's new preprint! 🦟

This is still one of the most profoundly moving statements I have ever heard on HIV - from someone who was HIV+ and a Constitutional Court judge at the time (most recently Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch).

All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...

I barely have words.

Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.

The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis.

The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency: US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/first... @doctorswithoutborders.org

Since 2000, 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted.

It’s #WorldMalariaDay
The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000.
The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled.
bit.ly/MalariaDay2025

The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic Since October, 2023, Oropouche virus (OROV) has caused a large outbreak of Oropouche fever in the Americas, exposing yet again the vulnerabilities of infectious disease surveillance systems. These wea...

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The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic

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officially a PhD candidate! 🦟🎉

Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone Nitisinone reduces survival of the malaria-transmitting mosquito Anopheles gambiae by blocking tyrosine catabolism.

Interesting news about a potential anti-malarial drug, thanks to Science.

Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mean daily temperatures can predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than rate summation Temperature shapes the distribution, seasonality, and magnitude of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. Mechanistic models predicting transmission often use mosquito and pathogen thermal responses from c...

Boom. Accepted for publication in Nature Communications. This paper has been a journey, but it is done. Here, we explore the use of constant temperature experiments to predict the thermal suitability for malaria transmission in a diurnally fluctuating environment.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tick feeding or vaccination with tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans Comprehensive profiling of Ixodes scapularis antigens reveals that tick bites induce antivector immunity linked to acquired tick resistance.

Happy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy World TB Day! 🙌

Today, we have EMD MPH student Cenyun Guan at @yalesph.bsky.social to discuss the current tuberculosis (TB) situation and the urgent need to raise public awareness and further invest to end TB.

Read more here! ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

#PublicHealth
#WorldTBDay

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son. "Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Course Goal: to equip researchers, students, and public health officials with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use malaria genetic data in epidemiological research and public health decision-making.

Spreading the word about 'From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance', a free online course offered by PlasmoGenEpi. If you're interested in malaria genetic epidemiology, I recommend checking it out! #malaria

www.plasmogenepi.org/OnlineCourse

colorful digital illustration of several invertebrates (a scorpion, a beetle, a worm, a fly, a lantern fly, an inchworm, a treehopper, and a moth) surrounding the words “love the unloved”

where are my invertebrate lovers? 🐛🐞🐜🦂

#bugsky #bug #invertebrates #entomology #art

New Vector of the Month: #Culex #pipiens complex (common house #mosquitoes), vector of various #arboviral, #malarial & #filarial pathogens, authored by Drs Haoues Alout @maximeprat.bsky.social & Pierrick Labbé. #quinquefasciatus #Plasmodium @isemevol.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kefV5Eb1x...

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

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