Natasha Agramonte, PhD
@mosquitophd.bsky.social
Public Health Entomologist | PhD with nearly 20 yrs expertise in mosquito control operations, repellent/insecticide research, and public health entomology 🦟 🦠👩🏻🏫
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-3837
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-3837
What the heck, GA… it’s November! Why is it snowing?!? 🌨️🥶
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What the heck, GA… it’s November! Why is it snowing?!? 🌨️🥶
Thrilled that this paper is finally out and that I was able to contribute specimens from the metro Atlanta area. Congrats @yukihaba.bsky.social! 🦟🧬🔬
How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities?
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation.
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@science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515
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...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Thrilled that this paper is finally out and that I was able to contribute specimens from the metro Atlanta area. Congrats @yukihaba.bsky.social! 🦟🧬🔬
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🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
October 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🗞️ Exciting news - our Belgian house #mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) made it into #Science! Honoured to be part of this amazing research consortium!
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
TFW your sentient mops sit together and judge you for daring to give them routine medication without smothering it in peanut butter 🐶🐶 #YouCantSitWithUs #FloofsInNeedOfGrooming #SillyPuppers
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
TFW your sentient mops sit together and judge you for daring to give them routine medication without smothering it in peanut butter 🐶🐶 #YouCantSitWithUs #FloofsInNeedOfGrooming #SillyPuppers
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Important new work by Eric Ochomo & team at #KEMRI. Useful findings for understanding the potential impact of the promising #spatialrepellents approach for #mosquito #vector control & what we should be monitoring to assess early signs of resistance. ⬇️
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Molecular markers of reduced behavioral sensitivity to transfluthrin in Anopheles gambiae s.s. from Western Kenya - BMC Genomics
Background The emergence and spread of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors threatens vector control efforts. The use of spatial repellent products (SR) containing volatile insecticides such as t...
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Important new work by Eric Ochomo & team at #KEMRI. Useful findings for understanding the potential impact of the promising #spatialrepellents approach for #mosquito #vector control & what we should be monitoring to assess early signs of resistance. ⬇️
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Let's face it: Mosquitoes are the ultimate survivors!
They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2
They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2
June 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Let's face it: Mosquitoes are the ultimate survivors!
They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2
They've been around for 200+ million years - outlasting dinosaurs and every human attempt to eliminate them. Dinosaurs went extinct, mosquitoes didn't! 🦟 1/2
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I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
www.science.org
May 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
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The measles outbreak in Texas shows no sign of slowing down. 🧵
April 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas shows no sign of slowing down. 🧵
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So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.
Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
Third measles death
This is not normal. For three reasons.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.
Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker
Eight members of CDC’s top management abruptly announce resignation, including 5 stepping down today. The departures were announced at a closed meeting of agency senior leaders this afternoon.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
High-level officials at Atlanta-based CDC announce departure
The departures were described as retirements.
www.wsbtv.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Eight members of CDC’s top management abruptly announce resignation, including 5 stepping down today. The departures were announced at a closed meeting of agency senior leaders this afternoon.
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
This will have immediate ramifications for local public health departments across the US
NIH and CDC cut grants related to COVID and other agents of pandemic potential.
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CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.
www.nbcnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This will have immediate ramifications for local public health departments across the US
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“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“Mailbox is full and can’t accept messages now.” That is the message some federal workers received on Monday when they sent their now-routine five accomplishments from the previous week to the Office of Personnel Management, an exercise demanded by Elon Musk, President Trump’s job-cutting adviser.
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This. Is. Huge.
🚨 CBS News has received an internal NSA bulletin from Feb 2025 warning staff NOT to use Signal app for sensitive info, citing vulnerabilities to Russian hackers. These docs were sent pre-Houthi chat scandal with Jeffrey Goldberg.
NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat
The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.
www.cbsnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This. Is. Huge.
Every federal employee's ‘five things’ email this week needs to include ‘did not text classified military operational plans to a reporter.’ #nationalsecurity #kakistocracy
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Every federal employee's ‘five things’ email this week needs to include ‘did not text classified military operational plans to a reporter.’ #nationalsecurity #kakistocracy
Happy to be back amongst (most of 🥲) my mosquito people, so of course I need a #mosquitoselfie to kick off my week at #AMCA2025
March 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy to be back amongst (most of 🥲) my mosquito people, so of course I need a #mosquitoselfie to kick off my week at #AMCA2025
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Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
www.nfid.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Reposted by Natasha Agramonte, PhD
First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A person dies of measles in West Texas outbreak
At least 124 cases have been reported in Texas, with at least 18 hospitalizations. Most are children.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
‘Every day, they tackled complex issues with life-or-death stakes. They were hired after lawmakers debated and negotiated — sometimes over years — to make those problems someone’s job to solve. Then, this month, they were fired as part of President Trump’s widespread purge of federal workers.’
“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.”
New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social
New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social
They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them.
Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...
www.propublica.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
‘Every day, they tackled complex issues with life-or-death stakes. They were hired after lawmakers debated and negotiated — sometimes over years — to make those problems someone’s job to solve. Then, this month, they were fired as part of President Trump’s widespread purge of federal workers.’
Throwback to that time I found a red eye mutant Ae. aegypti while decapitating #mosquitoes for one of my doctoral projects. 🦟❤️ #HappyValentinesDay ❤️🦟
February 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Throwback to that time I found a red eye mutant Ae. aegypti while decapitating #mosquitoes for one of my doctoral projects. 🦟❤️ #HappyValentinesDay ❤️🦟
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Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen
-hot meals for elderly and disabled
-groceries for those in need
-maternal & child health services
-a clinic that serves the poor
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM