First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.

Ready for action! Great to be part of #EMCA2025 this week at @itmantwerp.bsky.social Antwerp — connecting with colleagues and sharing advances in mosquito control 🇪🇺🦟

The @emca.bsky.social #EMCA2025 at @itmantwerp.bsky.social started and everyone is pretty excited! Check out our lovely dog ( @svielma.bsky.social) with EMCA merge! 🦟 @vectorbrus.bsky.social @ruthmueller.bsky.social @schneidera.bsky.social @adwine.bsky.social

Incorporating adult age into mosquito population models: implications for predicting abundances in changing climates Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) pose increasing threats under future climate change scenarios and an understanding of mosquito population dynamics is p…

A new modelling paper led by PhD student Renato Andrade on how mosquito ageing affects population dynamics @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🦟

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Call for applications 2025 - Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur - Research The Institut Pasteur launches an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders in the application of cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to the exploration of host-microbe, tis...

🌟 Join Institut Pasteur as a Junior Research Group Leader 🌟
Explore host-microbe interactions in key areas like vaccinology, infectious diseases, neuro-immunology, and maternal health.

📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2025 (few weeks left!)

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Warmer sicker? Or warmer stronger? How climate change shapes mosquito immunity.

Last week we @akhorramnejad.bsky.social publish a paper on how climate change could alter mosquitoes-virus interactions

Here is a blog post in Research Communities from @springernature.com summarising our results using a less technical language and telling the #BehindthePaper go.nature.com/41fy80U

BuzzWatch: uncovering multi-scale temporal patterns in mosquito behavior through continuous long-term monitoring Understanding the temporal dynamics of mosquito behavior is essential for developing effective interventions against pathogen transmission. However, limited knowledge exists about the environmental, p...

Thrilled to share 'BuzzWatch', my post-doc work with Felix Hol and @lambrechtslab.bsky.social

➡️Filming mosquitoes in a cage with a €15 camera but for 700h(1month) revealed fascinating insights into their behavior⌛🦟🎥⏳

preprint🔍 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
DIY guide 🛠️ theomaire.github.io/buzzwatch
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This is figure 1, which shows a summary of the systematic review dataset.

Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. https://go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪

Important new paper just out on the origins & #evolbiol of the London Underground Mosquito Culex p. molestus by @yukihaba.bsky.social @lindymcbr.bsky.social. Spoiler alert: Molestus originated 1000s of years ago in the Middle East www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... #evolviol #urbanevolution

⏳ Only 2 days left! The abstract submission deadline for the XII International European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA) Conference is just around the corner—22/1. 🚨 Let’s take action together - Register today and be part of the change! 🦟 www.emca2025.eu @emca.bsky.social

Spatial and temporal activity patterns of Amblyomma americanum - Parasites & Vectors Background Estimates of tick abundance and distribution are used to determine the risk of tick-host contact. Tick surveys provide estimates of distributions and relative abundance for species that rem...

DYK lone star ticks are SUPER mobile? But how much do they actually move in the field/lab? Danny Marshall (PhD student in Jeb Owen's lab) just published a paper on movement activity of LSTs.👏 We hope this work will help with future movement modeling of lone star ticks!

Link: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Hi 👋 - we're excited to share and connect with you all. Let's soar to new heights in global health 🌍✨

I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰

This is such a nice idea! I would love to be added! 🦟