Corrado Minetti
@konradphd.bsky.social
Epidemiology lecturer at the Open University, UK. Vector-borne diseases, molecular and genomic epidemiology, parasites. #LSTM and #ECDC #EUPHEM alumnus. Views are my own.
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Interested in a #PhD on #metagenomics and #eDNA for #viruses #mosquitoes and #vectorbornepathogens #surveillance and #discovery with me? Apply to the ILESLA doctoral programme: lnkd.in/dvMJFWiU. Thursday 8th January 2026 at 12:00 midday, UK time. Please share widely and DM for more info.
If you are interested in #diseasevectors, #viruses and #metagenomics please DM me about this program👇
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November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you are interested in #diseasevectors, #viruses and #metagenomics please DM me about this program👇
Interested in a #PhD on #metagenomics and #eDNA for #viruses #mosquitoes and #vectorbornepathogens #surveillance and #discovery with me? Apply to the ILESLA doctoral programme: lnkd.in/dvMJFWiU. Thursday 8th January 2026 at 12:00 midday, UK time. Please share widely and DM for more info.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Interested in a #PhD on #metagenomics and #eDNA for #viruses #mosquitoes and #vectorbornepathogens #surveillance and #discovery with me? Apply to the ILESLA doctoral programme: lnkd.in/dvMJFWiU. Thursday 8th January 2026 at 12:00 midday, UK time. Please share widely and DM for more info.
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Hello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Hello mosquito 🦟 and microbiota 🧫 🦠 aficionados, we are looking for a postdoc to join our team (Saleh's lab @salehlabparis.bsky.social at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr ) to investigate the interplay between the mosquito, its microbiota, and arboviruses. More information here 👇
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I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉
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Wildlife One Health Special Collection
Vector-borne diseases are increasing in incidence, expanding geographically, and emerging at a faster pace than ever before. The prevailing hypothesis is that t
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November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉
🔗 academic.oup.com/jme/pages/wi...
🔗 academic.oup.com/jme/pages/wi...
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Stem loss of science companies or UK will ‘bleed out’, peers warn.
Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas.
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Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas.
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Stem loss of science companies or UK will ‘bleed out’, peers warn - Research Professional News
Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas
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November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Stem loss of science companies or UK will ‘bleed out’, peers warn.
Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Lords committee says prime minister must intervene to break “doom loop” of companies going overseas.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
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When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic.
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic.
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
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🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🦟 We've just published the world's first head-to-toe single-cell atlas of the Aedes aegypti mosquito in @cp-cell.bsky.social!
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3
The #MosquitoCellAtlas maps 69 cell types across 19 tissues, revealing surprising biology. Read it here:
shorturl.at/dJWT3
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Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito
A comprehensive single-nucleus RNA-seq atlas of >367,000 nuclei from male and female
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reveals sexual dimorphism in sensory systems and brain cell
types and widespread co-expres...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Love research and working with insects? Find your perfect job in entomology 🪲
Check out our regularly updated #job #opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
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📸 Red Hemiptera (c) Anurag Aditya 2016
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers
Check out our regularly updated #job #opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
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📸 Red Hemiptera (c) Anurag Aditya 2016
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers
Job opportunities - Royal Entomological Society
Job opportunities If you have an insect-related or entomology job opportunity please send us the details [email protected] Want to work with us? Keep an eye on our RES Vacancies page for any paid…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Love research and working with insects? Find your perfect job in entomology 🪲
Check out our regularly updated #job #opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
buff.ly/tVcb0CZ
📸 Red Hemiptera (c) Anurag Aditya 2016
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers
Check out our regularly updated #job #opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽
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📸 Red Hemiptera (c) Anurag Aditya 2016
#Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers
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🦟 Publication alert: "Ancient origin of an urban underground #mosquito ( #Culex pipiens form molestus)" by @yukihaba.bsky.social et al. in @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🦟 Publication alert: "Ancient origin of an urban underground #mosquito ( #Culex pipiens form molestus)" by @yukihaba.bsky.social et al. in @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🦟 #Mosquitoes arrive in #Iceland 🇮🇸
"Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil."
www.ruv.is/english/2025...
"Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil."
www.ruv.is/english/2025...
Mosquitoes arrive in Iceland - RÚV.is
Three mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🦟 #Mosquitoes arrive in #Iceland 🇮🇸
"Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil."
www.ruv.is/english/2025...
"Three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes were found in Kjós in recent days. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. It is the first time that mosquitoes have been discovered on Icelandic soil."
www.ruv.is/english/2025...
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Looking at future career paths but not sure where to start?
Visit the link below to learn more about different #careers you can delve into and uncover hidden opportunities within #entomology 🦋
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📸 Mole cricket foreleg (c) Ángel Plata Sánchez
Visit the link below to learn more about different #careers you can delve into and uncover hidden opportunities within #entomology 🦋
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📸 Mole cricket foreleg (c) Ángel Plata Sánchez
Careers in entomology - Royal Entomological Society
Courses PhD opportunities Community noticeboard Job opportunities RES Vacancies Careers in entomology Entomology is the study of insects, entomologists are people who study insects. There are many…
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Looking at future career paths but not sure where to start?
Visit the link below to learn more about different #careers you can delve into and uncover hidden opportunities within #entomology 🦋
buff.ly/sliPH6N
📸 Mole cricket foreleg (c) Ángel Plata Sánchez
Visit the link below to learn more about different #careers you can delve into and uncover hidden opportunities within #entomology 🦋
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📸 Mole cricket foreleg (c) Ángel Plata Sánchez
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Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Celebrating the first 1000 genomes of Lepidoptera in Europe, sequenced at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in collaboration with sampling hubs across the UK via the DToL project www.darwintreeoflife.org & across Europe via
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social
@projectpsyche.bsky.social www.projectpsyche.org &
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social
Applications for the ILESLA 2026/27 #PhD program between @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk and Oxford Brookes, are open. DM if you are interested in #vectorbornedisease #mosquitoes #ticks #metagenomics #viruses #OneHealth. Deadline 8th January 2026, 12 midday UK time.
www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk
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October 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Applications for the ILESLA 2026/27 #PhD program between @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk and Oxford Brookes, are open. DM if you are interested in #vectorbornedisease #mosquitoes #ticks #metagenomics #viruses #OneHealth. Deadline 8th January 2026, 12 midday UK time.
www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk
www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk
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‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’
Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework.
Free to read.
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Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework.
Free to read.
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‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’ - Research Professional News
Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework
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October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
‘REF needs dedicated section for research methods’
Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Hidden REF Festival: Conference hears plea to fill gap in Research Excellence Framework.
Free to read.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Moving into Oct with temperatures & daylight hours falling in Scotland, the "peak" mosquito activity season is passing. However, some species like Culex pipiens can still be found 'overwintering'; like this one our team found on #Arran yesterday. Let us know if you see any
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October 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Moving into Oct with temperatures & daylight hours falling in Scotland, the "peak" mosquito activity season is passing. However, some species like Culex pipiens can still be found 'overwintering'; like this one our team found on #Arran yesterday. Let us know if you see any
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mosquito-scotland.com
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mosquito-scotland.com
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Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽
@asapbio.bsky.social
@asapbio.bsky.social
Historically, viruses were thought to primarily use host cell's translational machinery. New work from @harvardcellbio.bsky.social faculty Amy Lee reveals that a giant DNA virus encodes its own IF4F initiation complex, suggesting an unexpected evolutionary innovation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life
In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽
@asapbio.bsky.social
@asapbio.bsky.social
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🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
September 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!
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I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one
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Make academic publishing a commons, not a market.
Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore.
Popular on our site just now.
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Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore.
Popular on our site just now.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Make academic publishing a commons, not a market - Research Professional News
Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Make academic publishing a commons, not a market.
Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore.
Popular on our site just now.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore.
Popular on our site just now.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
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Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below.
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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August 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below.
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@drheatherferg.bsky.social, Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute) and partners receive €6.1M EU Horizon/EDCTP funding to support the launch of the first mosquito observatory network in Africa.
👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html
#mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth
👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html
#mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth
August 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@drheatherferg.bsky.social, Fredros Okumu (Ifakara Health Institute) and partners receive €6.1M EU Horizon/EDCTP funding to support the launch of the first mosquito observatory network in Africa.
👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html
#mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth
👉https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1206540_en.html
#mosquitoes #mosquitobornediseases #onehealth
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Come and read our latest blog post from @vbdhub.bsky.social on citizen science and VBDs 🕷️🦟🦠
vbdhub.org/blog
vbdhub.org/blog
Blog - Community - Vector-Borne Diseases Hub
Read the latest news and updates from the Vector-Borne Diseases Hub.
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July 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Come and read our latest blog post from @vbdhub.bsky.social on citizen science and VBDs 🕷️🦟🦠
vbdhub.org/blog
vbdhub.org/blog