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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Proud to share our latest work demonstrating the use of adaptive sequencing to resolve whole bacterial genomes from mosquitoes. academic.oup.com/ismehm/advan...

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Advance global virology! 🌏 Apply for Global Health Travel Awards to attend our joint virology meetings: Global Virome and Vector Pathogen Interactions Feb 1-4 2027 | Geneva | Deadline for GHTA: Aug 25, 2026 Details & apply: hubs.la/Q04qlKRl0 #GlobalHealth #Virology

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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We are offering Global Health Travel Awards for 11 meetings in 2027, covering registration, lodging, airfare, and ground transportation. Awards for livestream and on-demand access are also available for all of our 2027 meetings. Deadlines vary by meeting. 🔗 in replies

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our Dept of Microbiology & Immunology @Geisel School of Medicine @Dartmouth has an opening for an Assistant Professor. Looking for programs bridging multiple areas in Micro & Immuno. A great place to be! Programs: www.M2P2.org www.dartmouthbiofilm.org Job ad: apply.interfolio.com/187637

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Laura K. Jennings @laurakjennings.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📢 We're hiring! The Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology at Montana State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. We welcome applicants working in microbial pathogenesis, immunology, genetics, microbial evolution, and related areas. Apply: jobs.montana.edu/postings/52009

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New Fed guidelines "deemphasize the role of peer review in determining what work to fund, limit the ability of scientists to use federal funds to publish their research or travel to conferences, & offer political appointees more latitude to terminate grants at will" www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

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Trump administration seeks to overhaul federal grantmaking process, alarming researchers

The Trump administration has released a sweeping proposal to overhaul the bedrock regulation for all federal grants.

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Trying to submit a comment on the OMB proposed changes and can't navigate labyrinth to where to directly comment on this pile of shit. Where do you actually go to leave a comment? Anyone?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Nelson Lau Lab @nelson-lau-lab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Big THANKS to collaborators for Aegypti samples from their labs and around the world. Addie Williams, Ken Olson, Eric Calvo, Lindy McBride, Noah Rose, @brackneylab.bsky.social @lambrechtslab.bsky.social @agloriasoria.bsky.social; Many Others, too many to list w/ character limit. Sorry! See Paper!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Contrary to the stenographic, credulous accounts from our major newsrooms, the U.S. Forest Service is not being moved. It is being destroyed. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Ryan Smith @vectorimmunity.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Join us! We're hiring a Research Scientist to support projects on mosquito immunity and mosquito‑borne disease transmission. Ideal for a post‑bac or recent M.S. looking to gain experience in cutting-edge research in vector biology. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

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Mosquito Research Scientist

Position Title: Mosquito Research Scientist Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree Preferred Qualifications: Proficiency in molecular biology techn...

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Postbac positions available in experimental and computational biology working on #virusevolution, tick-borne viruses and computational drug discovery! Reach out if you’d like to discuss projects in the #QVEU at NIH-NIAID. Please share with any talented undergrads or MS students you know!

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Dana Shaw @shawlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

My department at Washington State University is recruiting an Assistant or Associate Professor in vector-borne disease 🕷️🦟🦠 Full job description is linked below. Come join us on the Palouse!

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Ryan Smith @vectorimmunity.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

👀There will be a Keystone Symposium with a focus on Vector-Pathogen Interactions to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in February 2027. It should be a great meeting and hope to see you there! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

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Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Wildlife disease data, especially negative data, are one of the last types of data that ecologists just... don't share. We built a place for them to archive it - and now, journals are encouraging people to use it! Big congrats to @danjbecker.bsky.social on this push ❤️

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Becky Johnson @entomososwin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

So great to finally have this out!!

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 30/12/2025

This isn’t fully true! You can request a manual postmark at a post office, you just need to know to do it. Just another thing to educate mail-in voters about. nstp.org/article/usps...

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

UNC-Wilmington is hiring 3 faculty positions: Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38056 Distinguished Professor of Marine Science: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951 Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38009

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Assistant Professor – Invertebrate Biology

The Department of Biology and Marine Biology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Invertebrate Biology starting in Aug...

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Have you been waiting for a conference dedicated to Vector-Pathogen Interactions? Well you're in luck. Myself, Sarah Merkling, Flaminia Catteruccia, and Utpal Pal have organized the conference for you with an amazing lineup. Mark your calendars and share! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

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Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

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Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies | Keystone Symposia

Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Vector-Pathogen Interactions: From Vector Biology to Innovative Control Strategies, February 2027, in Geneva, with field leaders!

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Come to be our colleague! Center of Paris, excellent facilities, research spanning the whole range of basic and biomedical life science topics, enthusiastic and collaborative colleagues, crème brûlée every Friday... What else could one want?

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Ryan Smith @vectorimmunity.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Pleased to share our recent work in collaboration with the @perrimonlab.bsky.social in which we perform the first genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen in Anopheles to examine essential fitness genes and genes associated with clodronate liposome function www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A genome-wide CRISPR screen in Anopheles mosquito cells identifies fitness and immune cell function-related genes

Nature Communications - Mosquitoes are major vectors for the transmission of many serious pathogens. This study uses genome-wide CRISPR screens in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, to reveal new...

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Does anybody know the dates for the next Mosquito Genetics Kolymbari meeting next summer?

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/10/2025

A new genetic study in Science overturns the myth of the “London Underground Mosquito,” revealing that this common urban insect originated not below the cities of modern Europe, but in ancient Mediterranean civilizations more than a thousand years ago. scim.ag/43xWovB

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Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. In this work, we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipie...

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible. “This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors” ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...

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Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors

UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.

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Maggie Couvillon @freelyflyingbees.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here: careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211

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Assistant Professor - Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology

Exciting opportunity in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology as a Assistant ...

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Apple acquiesced to Trump admin to remove ICEBlocker app from the playstore despite no evidence that these apps have led to ICE agents being targeted as suggested by the WH. Like Disney, these companies only respond to lost revenue. #cancelApple for being cowards www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration

Apple said it is removing ICEBlock and similar apps "based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock."

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

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Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Takeshi Morita @takeshimorita.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🚨 Ph.D. Opportunity! 🚨 I’m recruiting students to start in the Spring Semester 2026 (Jan 2026) or the Fall Semester 2026 (Aug 2026) to study the behavior & neurobiology of mosquito-host interactions. Know someone who’d be a perfect fit? Please share! 🦟 #Mosquito #Neurobiology #VectorBiology #Itch

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brackneylab @brackneylab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I am looking for dengue 1-4 infectious clones. If you have or know of anyone that has these and would be willing to share please reach out. Thanks.

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Elodie Couderc @elodiecouderc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🚀 Excited to share (with a little delay) my first first-author publication on #Vago genes in #mosquitoes! 🦟 🦠 Have a look to see how we questioned a mosquito immunity dogma and challenged the existing understanding of Vago-like genes as antiviral factors ⬇️ bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Aedes aegypti VLG-1 challenges the assumed antiviral nature of Vago genes - BMC Biology

Background Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) pose a significant threat to global health. Novel approaches to control the spread of arboviruses foc...

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