Andrea Vittorio Pozzi
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Andrea Vittorio Pozzi
@andreavpozzi.bsky.social
PhD student at @eegcam.bsky.social, Cambridge University.
Molecular ecologist and viperologist (trust me, it's a thing) 🐍 🧬
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Thank you @prelights.bsky.social & Alejandra Leffer's group for choosing our preprint on @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social and for this chance to talk about human- #malaria coevolution!🦟
@eegcam.bsky.social @elliescerri.bsky.social @MPI_GEA
The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria

A new #prelight of Alejandra Leffer's group talks about the preprint by @margheritac17.bsky.social , and the team.
Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years - preLights
The distribution of early human settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa might have been influenced by avoidance of mosquitoes that spread malaria
prelights.biologists.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Winter is finally over!
During the weekend, I was lucky enough to observe 16 adders (Vipera berus) basking at a local spot in Suffolk.
March 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
While snakes and jellyfish are widely recognized as iconic venomous animals, this interesting paper explores the potentially underestimated diversity of venomous organisms including plants, bacteria and even viruses.
www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/17...
It’s a Small World After All: The Remarkable but Overlooked Diversity of Venomous Organisms, with Candidates Among Plants, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria, and Viruses
Numerous organisms, including animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria, rely on toxins to meet their needs. Biological toxins have been classified into three groups: poisons transferred passivel...
www.mdpi.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Amazing effort from @londonzoo.bsky.social and @zslscience.bsky.social to conserve one of the most iconic amphibians on the planet, the Darwin's frog (𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘪)!
youtu.be/fs1SIs0KRlk?...
A Leap of Hope | Rescuing Darwin’s Frogs from Extinction
YouTube video by ZSL - Zoological Society of London
youtu.be
February 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM