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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We survived the world’s largest corn maze!!! Happy 1-year to my lab #Baiklab 🎂💙💛💙💛 @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m so so so happy for you!!!! Can’t wait to visit 🩷🩷🩷

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Such a cool and much needed technology!! 🦟

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Also… not my lab asking if we are hiring postdocs soon because “we left room for flying mosquitoes” 🦟 hahahaha

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Came into lab this morning to find this outside our door. They must know I love to watch mosquitoes eclose. 😂❤️

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Yichen Luo 骆奕辰 @camellyc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

1/8 Breathing seems automatic. But it's a finely tuned motor behavior that has to be controlled. In this preprint, I map the circuits that match a fly's respiration to the metabolic demands of flight and mitigate the risk of dehydration. 🧵🪰 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Beautiful work! Congratulations, Yichen!!

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🦟🦟 "a swarm of (videogame) mosquitoes" 🦟🦟 which one do you like/hate the most? might go for that medieval invert drawing highlights for the spring #InverteFest

a collage of 8 videogame mosquito #SciArt sketches on a white background, from normal looking mosquitoes to swole pokemon mosquito4es, to sacks of acid, to whisps, to just a lightbulb with wings.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today is the #WorldMosquitoDay 🦟 And I’m happy to get bitten by them so that everyone else will not have to, one day! 🥴 Not only are mosquito bites annoying, it can spread deadly pathogens. Let’s keep funding scientific research so we can continue to #fightthebite 💪💪💪❌🦟

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Jess Cardin @jess-cardin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yale Neuroscience 🧠 @yaleneuro.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have 2 searches, one cell/molecular/systems neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190736) and one computational neuro (apply.interfolio.com/190740). Got questions about the searches, the department, or the process? Please ask, happy to chat!

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@plasmidsaurus.bsky.social got us good. Sarina (undergrad) as the artist 🤝Songjun (grad student) as inspiration with his favorite Dino

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 07/07/2026

Know anyone who'd be interested in this #Sciencesky #MedSky? Please share! We're urgently seeking an Entomologist to support vector control strategies, including Wolbachia monitoring, in Central America. job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosi…

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

PhD Student in my lab, Ricky, was just awarded the eMCDB T32 fellowship! Couldn’t be prouder of my students who have been brave enough to join my new lab and excel already! ☺️ www.baiklab.com/news/ricky-t32

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Ricky awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship! — Baik Lab

Our PhD student, Ricky, has been awarded the eMCDB T32 Fellowship!

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The only correct way to end the school year: Baik lab KBBQ + lawn games!! Featuring lettuce grown in my garden solely for this purpose. *Not pictured: delicious ceviche, strawberry shortcake, and hwachae dessert that lab members brought

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 17/05/2026

I have found the source of all mosquitoes

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Insect targeting toxin produced by Streptomyces!! 🪰🦠 now published in Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com This body of work was so fun to contribute to! I got to venture back to my first love, Drosophila, and combine it with my current love of insect gustation/sensory neurobiology!

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Long-legged fly in my garden! *Hand and baby lettuce for scale.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The scientific dad (my PhD advisor) paid a little visit with his family during picnic day! It’s worth pointing out that his daughter standing next to me was only six years old and MUCH shorter when I first started in his lab as a grad student 😅

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Entomology at Picnic Day is popping off!! Longest line I’ve seen all day 😱

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Mimicry found in my yard this morning! Bee-mimicking fly 🪰🐝🪰🐝

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Ben Matthews @benmatthewslab.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hello from Vancouver! Dusting off the bsky credentials to highlight two new mosquito preprints from the lab... extremely proud of everyone who contributed and happy to have their work out for all to see. Lots of good stuff happening in the lab these days! More below...

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Nico Moiroux @nmoiroux.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🎨 🦟 Beautiful illustration by Amedeo J. E. Terzi (buff.ly/rJpBWjq ) in Edwards' "Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, Part III" (1942) #entomology #mosquitoes #taxonomy 🧪 🌍️ 🌐

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

You know that it’s almost Picnic Day @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdaviscaes.bsky.social when you see this outside of Briggs!!

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Research Corporation for Science Advancement @rescorp.org · 15/03/2026

The 2nd meeting of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems ends today with pitches for team research projects to explore how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes. - with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, @kavlifoundation.org.

Group photo of Scialog conference participants.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One of my lab’s undergrad student made these mosquito cupcakes to celebrate the end of the quarter 🥹

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Some good news worth sharing: first training fellowship of the Baik lab! Congratulations to our PhD student, Songjun Lee, on being awarded the PacVec CoE training fellowship!! Just few weeks into his PhD, he’s already kicking ass! www.baiklab.com/news/baik-la...

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Songjun awarded the PacVec CoE Fellowship! — Baik Lab

PacVec CoE Fellowship awarded to Songjun Lee student in Lisa Baik lab

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

First day of school (as a faculty member)!!!

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

“Officials say it is possible the resident was infected with malaria in New Jersey. If confirmed, this would be the first known locally acquired case of malaria in the state since 1991…There are about 100 travel-associated cases of malaria reported in New Jersey each year.”

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NJ officials investigate case of malaria in resident with no recent international travel

If confirmed, this would be the first known locally acquired case of malaria in the state since 1991.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Freezer boxes emptied and moving boxes packed. I am coming home, UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social 💙💛💙💛

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tomtom-auer.bsky.social @tomtom-auer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We are #hiring! Interested in comparative neuroscience? Check details here (www.unifr.ch/bio/en/depar...). We look for a motivated #PhD student or #PostDoc to combine genetics, physiology, neural circuit tracing, and behaviour to study taste processing evolution in #Drosophila. Please repost.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy 6-yr anniversary, Carlson lab! 🥹 It has been the best 6 years of my scientific career and I’m going to miss them so dearly when I leave 😭 The best career advice I can give to the young scientists: find a mentor, mentees, and lab that you love. It makes science so much more worth it.

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Jessica Zung @jlzung.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Kicking off my Bluesky account by sharing a new review I wrote with @lindymcbr.bsky.social for @currentbiology.bsky.social! If you’ve ever wondered about the source of your stank or just want to learn why humans smell weird (it's true!), then this review is for you! 👃🧪🤔 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

a diagram showing a cross-section of human skin, showing that sebaceous compounds are broken down under UV radiation

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 18/03/2025

Dengue, an arboviral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitos, is endemic in more than 100 countries. This practice article discusses assessment and management of dengue www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/03/2025

CDC issues a health advisory notice on dengue. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been battling outbreaks, along with detections in California, Florida, and Texas.

Ongoing Risk of Dengue Virus Infections and Updated Testing Recommendations in the United States

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Update to provide additional information to healthcare providers, public health departments, and the public about the ongoing risk of dengue virus (DENV) infections and updates to testing recommendations in the United States. Dengue activity remains high in some parts of the United States and globally, with many countries reporting higher-than-usual number of dengue cases in 2024 and 2025.

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Trevor Sorrells @trevorsorrells.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164849

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Lisa Baik 🦟 @mosquitolady.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This may be the darkest of times, but I won’t let it stop me from celebrating this little moment: I received the keys to my new lab @ucdavis.bsky.social today ☺️ #ScienceMustGoOn 🧬🧪🦟

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Kristen Kwan @blockintheback.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I am deeply grateful to the extremely hard-working and dedicated staff at the NIH and NSF. Thank you to all of the Program Officers, Scientific Review Officers, Grants Management Specialists, and so many more, who have made the engine of US science and innovation run.

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🚨🚨 Newly graduating undergrads interested in a PhD but wanting more research experience, consider applying to PREP @UCDavis. Feb 17 deadline.. Give it a shot! What's the harm, right? You get to live in beautiful Davis for a year. 🚲 Reach out if you have questions prep.ucdavis.edu/apply plz repost

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PREP@UCD applicants must… hold a bachelor’s degree in a biomedically-relevant science from an accredited US college or university awarded no more than 36 months prior to applyinghave a GPA of at least...

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