Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

I gasped at the ending

I also gasped! 😄

Severe malaria may affect children’s cognitive abilities more than a decade later Children who had cerebral malaria or severe malaria anemia have lower scores on tests measuring general cognition and math achievement

A pleasure to speak to Gretchen Vogel @science.org - highlighting recent studies on neurocognitive outcomes of severe malaria

#PedsIDSky #IDSky #Parasitology

www.science.org/content/arti...

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries

He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination
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Covid-19 Inquiry: UK's vaccine development and rollout was 'extraordinary feat' - live updates An estimated 475,000 lives were saved in England and Scotland, but the inquiry says a lower vaccine uptake among some groups should've been predicted.

The Covid 19 vaccine roll out was an extraordinary feat which may have saved upwards of 475,000 lives.

In the face of a deadly virus dedicated professionals worked hard to make it happen and millions did the right thing and took the jabs.

That's to be celebrated.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Amazing!!! 👏

It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺

It was a huge honour to receive the @bspparasitology.bsky.social President's Medal last week in Glasgow. Thank you to my amazing colleagues, collaborators and friends, without whom this would not have been possible!

Dictator chic... www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Photo of a Loch, grassy bank and Hills. The sun is shining on the water and there are big clouds above

Blairmore pier. A wooden pier reaching into the Loch. There are lots of clouds above and a Scottish flag waving at the end of the pier

Wonderful trip to Blairmore, home of Sir William Leishman, with fellow Leishmania researchers. Niche tourism! Huge thanks to Mike Barrett for organising #Parasitology @bspparasitology.bsky.social

Thank you so much Joanne, Lilach and all the team!! 👏

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Career Talk hosted by the BSP TrypsClub

📅 Date: 30 April 2026
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM BST
📍 Location: Zoom

Register using the link or scan the QR code on the poster:
lnkd.in/drypyMD8

The TrypsClub Team

As part of our "Supporting equity and diversity in Parasitology" Workshop, Dr Rafael Henry-Venson from @glasgow.ac.uk is showcasing the concept of Rainbow Office Hours - dedicated office hours hosted by LGBTQ+ staff to support LGBTQ+ students. 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to #BSP2026 in beautiful, sunny Glasgow!!! (We asked the weather to behave while everyone was around)! The @bspparasitology.bsky.social 2027 meeting will be in Cardiff! I hope everyone enjoyed themselves! Like Glasgow, People Make #Parasitology! 🥳🧬🧫🔬

This year's C.A. Wright Medal and President's Medal were awarded to Prof Goylette Chami from the University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk and Dr Tom Pennance @schistosoma.bsky.social from the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social for their outstanding contributions in Schistosomiasis Epidemiology.

That's appalling. I am so sorry

Clinical PhD opportunity @lshtm.bsky.social through @hpruezi.bsky.social
Applications now close on 17th April.

Ideal for UK Infection registrars wanting to do a PhD in clinical application of metagenomics in returning travellers.

Collaboration with @emcat1.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social

Join us for the next TrypsClub Career Talk!😊

The BSP spring meeting is not just offering great talks - we also have an exciting breakout program!

@christina-naula.bsky.social from @glasgow.ac.uk and co-host of @microbetv.bsky.social This Week in Parasitism is interviewing Prof Poppy @lamberton-lab.bsky.social about her scientific career.

We open with @sheinerlab.bsky.social introducing a scientist who needs no introduction - Dominique Soldati-Favre. Dominique was awarded lifetime membership to the @bspparasitology.bsky.social for her immeasurable contributions to the field. #bsp #parasites #peoplemakeglasgow

Logo for the 2026 BSP Spring meeting of buildings in Glasgow and parasites flying above them

Our Spring meeting starts today in Glasgow! All the best to all those presenting @bspparasitology.bsky.social

It would be good to meet you there! Safe travels

If you're at @bspparasitology.bsky.social #BSP2026 next week, come say hello 😊👋 I'll be around with my @microbiologysociety.org #Microbial #Genomics Editor-in-Chief hat on, to talk all things publishing for the community 🤓 💻🧬 #MicroSky #parasites 🧪 1/2

A view of Planet Earth in which the brown and green land is seen dotted amidst the blue sea. Some white whispy clouds roll across the hemispheres. The bottom right of the outline of earth is glowing from the light of the sun. The outline of the Orion window is faintly visible in the photo

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Perhaps of the greatest photos ever taken.

Captured by the crew of Artemis II this morning, looking at all of us through the window of the Orion capsule. The outline of the window is faintly visible in the photo.

Breathtaking.

(📸 NASA)

Medical secrecy is not the exclusive domain of American presidents. When Anthony Eden became British Prime Minister in 1955, he was still suffering from the sequelae of a 1953 cholecystectomy that had gone terribly wrong: the bile duct was “inadvertently” tied (causing postoperative jaundice), the ligature of the cystic duct quickly broke down, and the surgeon suffered a nervous breakdown that caused the operation to be put on hold while he composed his nerves.11 Then, during the follow-up surgery, the biliary duct was cut (“the knife slipped”), while the right branch of the hepatic artery was “inadvertently” ligated, eventually causing atrophy of the right hepatic lobe.12 Eden came close to death, but slowly recovered, and in June 1953, traveled to Boston to undergo repair surgery. Despite this, in 1954 and 1955, he experienced four episodes of shaking chills, fever, and abdominal pain, and in October 1956, he developed one more episode of pain and rigor, with fevers to 106 °F. He was eventually diagnosed with ascending cholangitis and given sulfur drugs, together with barbiturates for sleep and amphetamines during daytime. It was in these conditions that he dealt with the Suez Canal Crisis,12 whose mishandling created not only mistrust with the USA but also a Middle East chaos that ultimately benefited the Soviet Union. Once again, the British public was unaware.

Fun fact: the hidden medical problems of world leaders may lead to political crises in the Middle East

Good grief!!

The view was truly stunning. It looked like a Hopper painting 😊

Tonight's @channel4news.bsky.social report on maternal care in Sierra Leone amid huge US and UK international aid cuts is a hard watch but important viewing

Acoziborole resistance associated mutations in Trypanosoma brucei CPSF3 Author summary Diagnosis and treatment options, previously limited for sleeping sickness, have been transformed in recent years. Acoziborole, for example, is a new, safe, single dose, oral therapy for...

This is looked at by a recent study from David Horn's lab. The drug binds with high selectivity to the trypanosome CPSF3 (rather than to the human one) journals.plos.org/plospathogen....