Posts by Natasha Agramonte, PhD
Back amongst my favorite #mosquito people and sporting some shiny, new permanent mosquito jewelry #AMCA2026
Today make sure to avoid turtle shells 🐢, fireballs ☄️, and disease carrying insects 🦟.
#Mar10Day #mosquito
Eso fue una obra de arte de orgullo y júbilo, sin necesidad de palabras para explicarlo. Felicidades Benito!
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
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
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. 🧵
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?
“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
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
“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
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
✊🏼😭
‘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.