Our beloved lab technician + tick ID expert, Alice (in the back), is leaving us this week to pursue her dream PhD in shark metagenomics. We managed to take her on a "goodbye" safari (and took lots of pictures of ticks on wildlife 🤣). Bittersweet, but I'm so happy for her!

I couldn't get us all in one room, but I managed to catch up with most of what we're lovingly calling "Team Tick" in Botswana and South Africa recently. Such a lovely group of people to work with!

The VBD Hub development representing at the @ukvbd.bsky.social 👏🏼

Lovely to see faces old and new at our VBDhub.org workshop yesterday. Had a sleep, now on to the @ukvbd.bsky.social meeting!

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