Prolonged exposure to heat enhances mosquito tolerance to viral infection - Communications Biology Single versus multi-generational exposure to increased temperature alters mosquito immune response to viral infection, with implications for mosquito-virus interactions under global change.

Neat 🦟 paper www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Post-doc position available in Sarah Hamer's lab at @tamu.bsky.social! You'll get to work on new canine Chagas disease initiatives funded by NIH and DHS. Lots of great opportunities to investigate the canine Chagas system in Texas! 🐶🦠

Details: vetmed.tamu.edu/hamer-lab/op...

I added a comprehensive chapter on probability to my free e-book, "Applied Geostatistics in Python: A Hands-on Guide with GeostatsPy".

Understanding probability is key to becoming a powerful #DataScientist, and I’m here to help you get there.

Check it out @ geostatsguy.github.io/GeostatsPyDe... ∀.

GitHub - rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2025 Contribute to rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am running my statistical rethinking course again starting in January. But this time just for Leipzig locals, so I can work with a smaller group this year and track individual progress better. I think that will help me tune the material, espeically homework, better. Materials still open however.

Big shoutout to #LEGO! 🧱Five months ago, I requested replacements for two broken pieces in one of my sets—just to see if they’d deliver for free to #Guatemala 🇬🇹. Well, the package arrived a couple of days ago, and my set is finally complete again! 🙌🎉 #CustomerService #Guatemala

Dengue is classified as an urban disease. Mosquitoes don’t care Infectious diseases are often labeled “urban” or “rural.” Applying political labels to public health misses who is at risk, experts argue.

🚨 Thrilled to share a recent study from the A2CARES group, led by James Trostle, that sheds light on how we understand dengue risk in urban and rural contexts 🦟🌿.
Our research, featured in Science News, explores how local communities in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, define “urban” and “rural” spaces.