A bird's eye view of Earth

Research associate position at BCMHouston working on virology with a bunch of different viruses. They are looking for someone to start quickly. Please retweet. jobs.bcm.edu/job/Houston-Re…

I feel like the longer I stay in academia, the more I see how it's tailored towards those who have a head start in understanding it. It's pretty wild actually.

A good cat should live indoors!

🪰 perspective: -entire biomes never adequately surveyed -many spp need internal characters for ID -many have never been seen alive, only in lethal traps -most known from one life stage -no way to nonlethally sample DNA -many museum specimens small/old/slides. Collecting=research

My father told me his father was “denounced to the authorities” like this in Stalin’s USSR in 1948 … by a colleague who wanted my grandfather’s job. What a horror, this: washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/…

I still rely on the alphabet song I was taught age 5 sometimes memedroid.com/memes/detail/3…

Isolation and genetic characterization of tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes from #ticks collected by a home in Camayeca, #Mexico. We believe this disease is being misdiagnosed in the Americas #infectiousdisease #publichealth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A Brazilian insect taxonomist according to dall-e 3. Sorry for disappointing!

Out now in Ecology and Evolution is our paper on the importance of natural history research to topics as varied as education, policy management, and conservation, with a wide array of experts #MuseumMonday onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… 🧵👇

We finally have a voice to advocate for the most unloved, but no less threatened creatures: parasites! They’re species rich, ecologically important, and many are hurtling towards extinction. There’s never been a better time to safeguard threatened parasites! @IUCNParasite

If anyone who is qualified for the fellowship below and loves microbiology/tick borne diseases, DM me directly about opportunities in the lab. avcr.cz/en/academic-pu…

My lab has an opening for 2 Ph.D. students. If you are interested in working with spirochetes transmitted by ticks in the heart of Europe, then look no further. paru.cas.cz/en/sections/ti… More info follows

Looking forward to seeing some submissions from VBDs across the globe!

DYK: rickettsiae sensu lato in addition to being vectored by arthropods can cause food-borne disease (Potomac horse fever) but also can be vectored by parasitic worms! Just learned about the salmon poisoning disease (SPD) in dogs and it is mind blowing. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A very important step in the OROV risk assessment! Bottom line: mosquitoes are unlikely to be involved in the virus transmission. Similar work in local Culicoides species is darely needed! wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31…

“Lyme borreliosis emergence in non-endemic regions, without strong molecular, clinical, and ecological evidence, undermines both scientific integrity and public trust” sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales MD MSc DTM&H HonDSc Carlos Ramiro Silva-Ramos

An important plea we all need to support! gh.bmj.com/content/11/3/e…