It's that time of year again when our @naturally-speaking.bsky.social bloggers and podcasters get together to discuss plans for the year ahead. Why not take this opportunity to catch up on what you might have missed? naturallyspeaking.blog #environmentalchange #science #ecology

Congratulations 🎉 to our PhD Student Ansley Li for winning the flash talk prize at the Recent Advances in Nutritional Physiology: A Muscle-centric Perspective conference. Good Job Ansley! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Building on the successful foundation of the recent UKRI-funded Mosquito Scotland project, Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social and Emilie Pondeville have secured funding for a major new initiative focused on mosquito and midge-borne diseases in the UK #sbohvm
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

Building on the successful foundation of the recent UKRI-funded Mosquito Scotland project, Heather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social and Emilie Pondeville have secured funding for a major new initiative focused on mosquito and midge-borne diseases in the UK #sbohvm
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...

A warm welcome to our new PhD and MSciR students who are joining us in @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk We look forward to our next few years together!

🦟New paper out!
Mosquito age is a key determinant of malaria transmission, but measuring it remains challenging.
We validated Polovodova ovary dissection method & provided benchmarks for its use in surveillance 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jme/...
Congrats to #DoreenSiria on 2nd PhD paper! @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

New PhD opportunity to study vectors, pathogens, birds and urbanisation with @dmdominoni.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and #LuigiSedda @lancasteruni.bsky.social

The impact of urbanisation on vector-borne transmission: avian malaria as a case study

Deadlines:
🌍 1/10 to 30/11
🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

New PhD opportunity to study vector ecology in UK with @drheatherferg.bsky.social and I @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @martashocket.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Insecticide Resistance in UK Culex pipiens mosquitoes
🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Deadlines:
🌍 1/10 to 30/11
🇬🇧 2/11 to 4/1

It’s Scottish Climate Week!

Learn how PhD student Penny Jack is tracking feral pigs in the Great Glen and how this could help plan for the future if #AfricanSwineFever were to enter the UK due to climate change.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ASFV #feralpigs #ScottishClimateWeek

📢 New paper out by @erin-eco1.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
We show that mid-infrared spectroscopy can identify host species from dried mosquito blood meals collected on filter paper 🦟🩸
A scalable tool for vector-borne disease surveillance and host-feeding studies.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper by #DoreenSiria @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk #IfakaraHealthInstitute is out!
We reviewed mosquito age-grading methods and surveyed vector control professionals across sub-Saharan Africa. Mosquito age is a key surveillance metric, but scalable tools are still needed.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This week marked #WorldRabiesDay. However, our researchers work every day in the fight against the disease. Learn more about how they are collaborating both here in Glasgow and Tanzania in the efforts against #rabies

www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/b...

Analysing original Gaelic and Scots place-names has helped a team of UofG scientists, led by SBOHVM's Anna McGregor rediscover the locations of important oyster beds on the West Coast of Scotland.
Read the full story - www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
#TeamUofG #ProjectEisirean #NativeOysters

Mosquitoes in Scotland: Friend and foe? Join @drheatherferg.bsky.social to learn about new research exploring their ecology, distribution and potential to transmit disease. Come along to view live mosquitoes and speak to our experts👉
rse.org.uk/event/mosqui...
#curiousfestival #mosquitoes #onehealth

A new study, led by @khampson.bsky.social has found that expanding dog vaccination is the most effective and cost-effective way to eliminate rabies deaths in people in Kerala, India 👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1290403_en.html
#OneHealth #Rabies #Vaccination

Our new work led by #IvanCasas & @mauropazmino.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk:

TAUS: Target-Age Unified Survival. Survival Analysis Without Assuming Proportional Hazards or Parameterising the Survival Function
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

A new framework to estimate survival to a chosen target age