I've written a post about Pterobdellina vernadskyi, a deep sea leech from the icy waters of the Antarctic Seas. This leech can grow to ~ 8 cm long, and it feeds on the blood of Antarctic Toothfish, a fish better known to most people as "Chilean Sea Bass" dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2021/04/pterob…

Great NMNH Invert Zoology seminar today by Ashleigh Smythe Virginia Military Institute on marine #nematodes being moved around on #tsunami debris #parasite Helminth Society DC

Do you ever get the feeling that something is watching you? Don’t worry! Tapeworms don’t have eyes. Those are suckers they use to hold on in the gut of their hosts.

Types of parasitology papers 🦠🐌🐛🦟

Thank you to everyone involved in our Helminth Society DC Spring Meeting 👏- great talks on all kinds of amazing parasites 🪱we hope to see everyone again for our Fall 🍂meeting later in the year, which may even be in-person 🤞🤞

Tomorrow, July 21st is the last day to register for #ASPmtg2021. Late registration costs are slightly higher, but still affordable. Register here: parasitologists.allenpress.com/parasitologist…

📢 Last day to register for #AmericanSocietyofParasitologists-meeting #ASPmtg2021 Glad to take part: talks by Stephen Bullard & Louis DuPreez, Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 & Geoffrey Boxshall, Florian Reyda, Vasyl Tkach, me & Jean-Lou Justine, and many others. Abstracts➡️ amsocparasit.org

Smithsonian NMNH scientist Anna Phillips teamed up with @naturalsciences scientist Bronwyn Williams to describe a new species of crayfish worm: Pterodrilus leiteri. The worm has a symbiotic relationship with crayfish, which means that the two animals help each other survive and thrive.

I've come full circle. A failed undergrad project seemed to be the end of my work with crayfish worms. Then, I met Dr. Bronwyn W. Williams. Dreams can come true and they can start with a little worm with floofies!

Paper out today in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment examining the state of copepod phylogenetics + reviewing phylogenetic, ecological, and taxonomic data on all clades of parasitic copepods. They've evolved to be parasitic 14+ times! Thanks Keith Crandall & Geoff Boxshall peerj.com/articles/12034

Listen in to #Sidedoor defang #leeches. It was so much fun working with Lizzie, James, Josh, Aram, and Roberto! Lizzie did a great job bringing together performance art, history, and natural history through leeches. NMNH Invert Zoology ASP-Parasitologists

I can't be the only one who has parasite-themed movie nights, right? #parasites

I'm super excited to announce the 2023 Dauphin Island Sea Lab #Meiofauna Diversity and #Taxonomy Workshop! Students will learn all about meiofauna diversity and ID from world experts. Dates: May 10-19, 2023 Application deadline: February 10, 2023 Website: kocotlab.com/2022-disl-meio… Please RT!

Please spread the word about this upcoming special issue in disease ecology Ecography. We are particularly interested in contributions from underrepresented regions 🌍 African Academy of Sciences PAHO/WHO NIAID-CREID 🐒🐖🌾🌿🦠🦟

You know that you’re in the right place when the first sign you read is: #BecauseTaxononyMatters #systematics #fish Smithsonian NMNH #museumsupportcenter 🐠 🐡🐟

Proud to share my first paper using microCT data and co-authored with Freya Goetz to look inside leeches (rdcu.be/c6gVI) in #Zoomorphology NMNH Invert Zoology Smithsonian NMNH #collectionsareessential

“Parasites are puppet masters—they’re this kind of silent force in ecosystems...They might be the majority of biomass in some ecosystems. They might make up the majority of food web links. And we never think about them.” bit.ly/3T8n5AR

Parasite extinction is more complicated than it seems, even to parasitologists. It was really exciting to work with Colin Carlson (the birthday boy) and Emily Driscoll on this video and film in the NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections! Smithsonian NMNH NMNH Invert Zoology

Our new paper is out today using microCT to understand the family Shiinoidae, some of the most unusual parasitic copepods 🧵 peerj.com/articles/16966/