Mosquitoes are coming… Good write up in Guardian today on new analysis that suggests >4 billion to be at risk of mosquito borne infections in coming decades. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Changes in temperature and precipitation as a result of climate change can have significant impacts on the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue and Zika. Here's how 💡 [1/2]

I would like to introduce the newly minted Dr Ailish McCafferty-Brown who absolutely smashed her PhD viva. She is such an inspiration; super proud PI moment! Thanks to @SalmondLeeds Gerald for being excellent examiners.

Delighted to have passed my PhD viva on Friday after a great discussion about my work with @SalmondLeeds and Gerald! Huge thanks goes to my supervisor Clive McKimmie (VHIT) 🦟🦠🐁 for all of his support over the years 🦟🦠

My internship at Senedd Research, as part of the UK Research and Innovation Policy Internship Scheme, was the best thing I did during my PhD. I was able to develop my skills in an entirely new area, learning from an amazing, talented bunch of people - and spend a sunny summer in Cardiff Bay!

🚨 starting next week 🚨 a whole new series of arbovirus talks on 🦠 🦟 🕷️ 💉 from key leading investigators, from across the field, and a diversity of career stages, and backgrounds 🥳 All welcome! Let’s spread the word 🙌🏼

Science Communication Workshop for DiMeN Students. The first event organised by the student committee! There's limited spaces so be quick to register if you're interested (link is found in the email sent around and in the discord). Hope to see lots of cohort 6/7/8 there! :)

Calling all interested in #climate_change and #virus_emergence, we have a session at Microbiology Society annual conference. Come present your work alongside world leading experts from virology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, including Colin Carlson Morrison Lab Prof Medlock. Links below

A much neglected but increasingly important neurotropic pathogen, #Toscana virus, spread by #sandflies, is now endemic across much of the Mediterranean. See our new review by Yonca Keskek Turk et al published in Microbiology Society microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa…

This is a very big deal for women’s health. We should be shouting it from the rooftops tops, leading with it across all media. Imagine, generations of young women for whom this cancer is a thing of the past.

Survivors of Telford abuse crimes & the mums of two women murdered by boyfriends say of the Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips that ‘no one in public life has done more to support victims and survivors and to advocate for their interests’ theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Never thought I would see the day when Tony Fauci, a lifelong public servant who built NIAID into the global standard for supporting infectious disease research under both parties' rule, would require a preemptive pardon to protect him from political persecution. Yet here we are.

When scientists estimated 300-400K deaths in Gaza, we were told it was unbelievable & too high. Now, US President Trump has several times estimated a similar number of lives lost, and barely a reaction from the world at the scale of death. Silence. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The biggest modern con is politicians convincing people that their lives are harder because of immigrants. Instead of the increasing number of billionaires & wealth concentration at the top. Politics too often about protecting the billionaires instead of normal people.

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

(... which is more than Reform, by the way)

Immigration again being demonised as the underlying problem of Britain today. What about all the benefits that immigration brings? Immigrants support the NHS, social care, higher education, agriculture & so many other industries. Inequality is the heart of the problem.

You can judge the Labour Party by the company they now keep. #pmqs

“The girls are fighting, aren't they?”

Chuffed to join the new BSI Bitesized Immunology team as a Content Editor! 📰🧬 Looking forward to creating resources which make immunology more accessible to all, whilst giving back to a society that has provided me with so many great experiences over the years!