Our new preprint, presents bayesTPC, an R package that makes #Bayesian thermal performance curve fitting and analysis much easier and reliable than ever before! Special credit to the incredible talents of lead author Sean Sorek! jwsmithII, Dr LR Johnson biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

The @vectorbase training workshop is about to begin - the room is ready. Exciting times in Nairobi, Kenya at the awesome @KCBGroup Leadership Centre

Beautiful day in Nairobi, Kenya for the VectorBase bioinformatics workshop. Thanks to ND Eck Institute for Global Health and Notre Dame Global their support. Such amazing students in attendance learning research skills to help fight for global health.

First talk of second day of Arthropod Genomics Symposium 🧬. Thanks Biocentis for kicking things off. Super excited for the program today.

First talk of last session of Arthropod Genomics Symposium on genomic insecticide resistance. Dr Kamau opens the session. Session chaired by PAMCA, Africa / Kenya Medical Research Institute with VectorBase running the laptop.

It appears #NIAID will shutter the genome data base we all use daily. This strikes me as a significant mistake that may well endanger much of our global progress. British Society for Parasitology Aust Soc for Para ASTMH Trends in Parasitology ASP-Parasitologists parasitesrule PEERs in Parasitology (PiP)

Dear Zoom - if you already know I am the host of prescheduled Zoom call, and there is a required security patch before I can join the call, why can't you tell me before hand ?!

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⁦VEuPathDB⁩ and ⁦VectorBase⁩ go dark over the weekend after more than 20 years of continuous service to their scientific communities. science.org/content/articl…

"The increasing role of philanthropy and private cooperations in research funding poses great risks. They might pull their support any time and stop programs people count on." NIH @NIAIDFunding : Hold my beer 🍺 Can't believe VEuPathDB is gone 😭 plasmodb.org

Critical loss: the effects of VEuPathDB defunding on global health - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… VectorBase

My bugbitten blog this week about the tenuous future of VEuPathDB VectorBase and the potential impact on science: blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2024…

Essential vector-disease resource faces shutdown without funding nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excellent. Spent an hour today doing something that would have taken 10 minutes on VEuPathDB . Let’s hope a model for sustainable, long-term support of this amazing resource can be established.

VEuPathDB is hosting a community meeting for VectorBase users to discuss plans for the future and answer your questions. 🦟See what all the buzz is about. 🕷️Mon, Nov 4, 10 AM EST/ 3 PM UTC. Register here today! upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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