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Indivisible SF @indivisiblesf.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Stand Up For Science. Indivisible SF is partnering with Stand up for Science for a Rally in Civic Center Plaza. San Francisco Friday, Mar 7 at 1 PM #USPol

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Stand Up for Science 2025 - San Francisco, CA

Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org

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sam delgado @samdelgado.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My latest for @vox.com: how the spread of Valley fever illustrates a bigger, ongoing, and growing crisis at the intersection of climate and public health www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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You need to start taking airborne fungal outbreaks seriously

The neglected ways climate change is affecting our health, explained by Valley fever.

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mara lawniczak @marakat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

globally, there are ~3500 described mosquito species in the Culicidae family and many of these are important vectors of disease but only a small percentage have genomic resources. we are launching a pilot project to generate high quality reference genomes for 100 important mosquito species [1/3]

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UC Berkeley School of Public Health @publichealth.berkeley.edu · 20/02/2025

A new study led by #EnvironmentalHealth postdoc Lisa Couper finds #mosquitoes may genetically adapt to #ClimateChange more than expected. Her team's findings show increasing risk of #WestNileVirus, #Malaria & other diseases due to the insects' heat tolerance. #GlobalWarming ow.ly/Uzro50V3BRl

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New research shows mosquitoes may be able to adapt to warming temperatures

The heat tolerance the research team saw “exceeds that of projected climate warming,” according to the published paper.

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Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thrilled to see this work, led by @lisacouper.bsky.social now out! We quantified variation in thermal tolerance in the mosquito, Aedes sierrensis, to quantify how adaptation may alter disease vector distributions under warming. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment @woods.stanford.edu · 07/01/2025

Rising temperatures are not slowing #mosquitoes down... A new study coauthored by Stanford's Lisa Couper and @stanfordwoods.bsky.social Erin Mordecai finds that mosquitoes -- and the diseases they carry -- can adapt to hotter temperatures. Read the study: bit.ly/3PqTNw8

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