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Estela Gonzalez

@aestadea.bsky.social
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Medical and Veterinary Entomologist🦟. Postdoctoral researcher Science, bugs, sports... 🏳️‍🌈

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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Every 23rd of April I buy a book (it is Book Day in Spain). This is the one I picked this year. The pile of books is not small, but this will jump the queue for sure
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New paper out! Assessing the ability of 4 RNA Pol III promoters to bias the inheritance of a gene drive element in Anopheles stephensi www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Optimization of SgRNA expression with RNA pol III regulatory elements in Anopheles stephensi - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Optimization of SgRNA expression with RNA pol III regulatory elements in Anopheles stephensi
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Monday morning and the first email coming in is a paper accepted and ready for publication. I wish every week started with good news like this 😁 Happy Monday!
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
First eggraft collected in the garden this year... 🦟🦟 #mosquitoseason
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Dr Jess Stokes @jess-stokes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Are you a UK researcher working with insects? Take the @royentsoc.bsky.social Insect Welfare Survey and make your voice heard. 🦟🐞🐜 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-wel... Help us shape future resources 🧐 Deadline 🚨 1st April 🚨 #InsectResearch #InsectWelfare #EthicsInScience #InsectEthic
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RES Great Welfare Survey 2025 - Royal Entomological Society
Insect Research Practices and Ethics in the UK Share Your Experience on Ethics Applications Are you a researcher working with insects? We need your insights! The Royal Entomological Society is conduct...
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Sometimes the hardest part of working in Science is dealing with those things that you cannot control but impede your projects/experiments... All the hard work done and hours spent... Quite a frustrating day
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🦟 #Portugal 🇵🇹: #Dengue na #Madeira. “É preciso eliminar vírus e os mosquitos antes de chegar o calor”// #Dengue fever in Madeira: "We need to eliminate both the #virus and the #mosquitoes before the heat arrives." via @publico.pt www.publico.pt/2025/02/08/s...
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Dengue na Madeira. “É preciso eliminar o vírus e os mosquitos antes de chegar o calor”
Infecciologista Jaime Nina diz que a ilha está agora em contra-relógio, arriscando voltar a ter novos surtos da doença caso o problema não seja resolvido até ao Verão.
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🦟" #Fiji declares #dengue #outbreak, 200 cases recorded"🌏 via @abcnewsbot.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/pacific/prog... Fiji MoH statement: www.health.gov.fj/wp-content/u...
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Fiji declares dengue outbreak, 200 cases recorded - ABC Pacific
Fiji's Health Ministry has declared a Dengue outbreak with 200 cases recorded since the start of the year.
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM Celebrate our achievements and put in the table all the obstacles women still have to face to follow a career in STEM.
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
First first-author paper from Mireia Larrosa-Godall, an amazing job! Very happy for her and to be part of this work. Challenges in developing a split drive targeting dsx for the genetic control of the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Challenges in developing a split drive targeting dsx for the genetic control of the invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi - Parasites & Vectors
Background Anopheles stephensi is a competent malaria vector mainly present in southern Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Since 2012, it has invaded several countries of eastern Africa, creating an emer...
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Ryan Smith @vectorimmunity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
🚨 We are recruiting for two post-doc positions!🚨 1) Development of genetic tools to study mosquito immune cells isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob... 2) Role of mosquito immune cells in immune recognition and priming isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
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GCiencia @gciencia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
👩‍🔬 Por que participan máis científicos que científicas nos medios de comunicación? Entre os principais obstáculos, o 23% das investigadoras vense afectadas pola conciliación persoal e familiar. Coñece os detalles desta desigualdade no seguinte artigo 👇
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A conciliación impide que as científicas participen nos medios tanto como os homes
A situación persoal e familiar é o obstáculo que atopan o 23% das investigadoras para divulgar fronte ao 10% do sexo masculino
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Writing time means to play the HIM playlist on... For some weird reason helps me focusing 🤟
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🦟 "Lack of Competence of US #Mosquito Species for Circulating #Oropouche #Virus" by Anne F Payne et al. in #EID Journal wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Lack of Competence of US Mosquito Species for Circulating Oropouche Virus
Lack of Competence of US Mosquito Species for Circulating Oropouche Virus
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
🚨 🌟 Submissions & Registrations Open for #ViBioM2025! 🌟 🚨 Join us 13–15 May 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal! 🦠💻 Present your research, connect with global experts, and shape the future of #Virology & #Bioinformatics. 📅 Details & links: evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
First week back to "normal" after Christmas for me. Re-organising experiments due to some issues in the lab, and when I thought everything was sorted, another "surprise" arises. Not a good one Seems difficult to have a chill start of the year 😕
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Guillaume Lacour @glacour.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
13/01/2025 👉 L'épidémie de #chikungunya ☣️ est officiellement déclarée à l'île de la Réunion avec le passage en niveau 3 du dispositif ORSEC. 1/4 www.lemonde.fr/sante/articl...
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A La Réunion, l’épidémie de chikungunya déclarée et le dispositif de gestion de crise déclenché
Depuis la fin d’août, 192 cas de cette maladie transmise par le moustique-tigre ont été comptabilisés sur l’île. Les communes du Sud sont les plus touchées depuis l’apparition du virus, précisent les ...
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
First reading of the year. Two chapters in, and loving it! This year I'll try to read a bit more than last year (outside Entomology and Vector-Borne Diseases). Let's see how it goes ☺️🤓
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Exciting - the Natural History Museum UK now have their database of pinned insect specimens - including #mosquitoes - online! Search to find where people were collecting and preserving mosquitoes 100-200 years ago; including here in Scotland #MedEnto data.nhm.ac.uk?_gl=1*1wyqcr....
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Welcome - Data Portal
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Arbovirus seminars @arbovirus.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
See you THURSDAY 16th for this exciting seminar on the new world of GM #mosquitoes, designed to be refractory to #arbovirus infection, by Prof Luke Alphey, York. All welcome on Zoom - please help with a post!
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Adding books to the "to read" pile... Some Spanish science books, and some Galician novels 🤓
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Wishing a great New year's Eve and Happy 2025!
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
How cool is this? 🤩
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Chloé Lahondère @lahonderelab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I created a starter pack highlighting Women in the field of Disease Vector Biology and Ecology: go.bsky.app/E7wuQus Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! 🦟🦠🪰
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
📢Open for submissions: Global Movement and the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases: Challenges and Strategies @FrontTropDis www.frontiersin.org/researchtopi...
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Global Movement and the Spread of Vector-Borne Diseases: Challenges and Strategies
Vector-borne diseases represent a significant public health challenge, as they are transmitted to humans and animals primarily through the bites of infected arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, and f...
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Lena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Oropouche Virus Outbreak in Southeast, Brazil: Expanding Beyond the Amazonian Endemic Region www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Rafael Gutierrez @rafgutlop.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Excited to make my debut on Bluesky with this post! I'm thrilled to present our latest work on the vectorial competence of Culex pipiens biotypes for avian Plasmodium 🦟🦠 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Are the Culex pipiens biotypes pipiens, molestus and their hybrids competent vectors of avian Plasmodium?
The common house mosquito Culex pipiens s.l., widely distributed in Europe, Africa, and North America has two recognized biotypes, Cx. pipiens biotype pipiens and Cx. pipiens biotype molestus, which h...
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Corrado Minetti @konradphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Looking for a #PhD on #vectorbornediseases #onehealth #epidemiology? Join online the 13th December, 12-3.30pm (UK time) to learn more about the @ox.ac.uk-led ILESLA Doctoral Landscape Award. Register here: lnkd.in/dW7TQPwS www5.open.ac.uk/stem/life-he... Share widely and contact me if interested!
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The Open University
PhD studentships We have 3 openings for a fully funded PhD studentship in our school (Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP, ILESLA, Faculty Funded studentship). Each application process is different. Please see ...
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🧐Looking for a #job? The #Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ( #LSTM) is #hiring for a 2-year #postdoc job applying a diverse array of ‘-omics’ technologies to understand the evolution of insecticide resistance in #malaria vectors. 🦟 Apply before 2/1/2025! app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate (87837) | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Salary: £39,105 - £45,163 per annum (depending upon experience)  Full-time, Fixed-term appointment for 2 years with the possibility of extension  Based in Liverpool with international travel as requi...
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What a great day today at the UK VBDHub meeting
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Great workshop on the new UK #Vector-Borne Diseases Hub (VBD Hub) in the run up to tomorrow's @ukvbd.bsky.social conference in Liverpool. Please check out their new website: vbdhub.org 🦟🪰🕷️
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Will Pearse @willpearse.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
First meeting of the UK Vector-Borne Disease Hub! Lauren Cator, @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social , @hannahvineer.bsky.social (and others not on bluesky) figuring out how to share data to support disease modelling and forecasting and make the UK healthier! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/250073/...
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Interesting update of CanL in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Updating the epidemiology of canine leishmaniosis in the United Kingdom through the use of electronic health data
Dogs infected with Leishmania infantum have been increasingly reported in the UK mostly related to imported/travelled dogs. Up-to-date epidemiologic d…
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Dr Steven White @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Come and join the team and work on tick-borne diseases...
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/
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Vector-Borne Diseases in the UK @ukvbd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Only two weeks to go to the UK Vector-Borne Diseases meeting in Liverpool (3-4th December). We are full and there is no further registration for in-person attendance. Therefore, we have opened up online attendance - see here if interested. @baylism.bsky.social payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...
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UK VBD Conference 2024 | University of Liverpool
The threat to the UK from vector-borne diseases is rising at astonishing pace. Mosquito and tick species have invaded; Usutu virus is present; Lyme disease
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Cies Islands from Coruxo (Vigo, Spain). One of my favourite places in the world
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Estela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If you are new here and work/be interested in VBD this starter package is brilliant!
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Miss Salmonella @misssalmonella.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
"La ciencia es importante. Pero la educación es el vector que transmite a cada nueva generación la curiosidad, la pasión y el compromiso de reimaginar el futuro, ampliar los límites de las posibilidades humanas y lograr un mundo social más justo".
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Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant or Research Fellow to support the efforts of The Lancet Commission on Evidence-Based Implementation (EBI) in Global Health focusing on reducing gaps and inequities in health jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant or Research Fellow
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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Dr Steven White @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
For those working on European mosquito-borne diseases 🦟. www.emca-online.eu/emca-guideli...
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EMCA - EMCA Guidelines for Mosquito Control in Built-up Areas in Europe
European Mosquito Control Association - E.M.C.A.
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