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Hannah Sproch (she/her)
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Vector Biologist || PhD candidate in Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins || MPH in EMD at Yale || Sinnis Lab || Malaria Transmission Dynamics || Vectorial Capacity || Baltimore, MD

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Hannah Sproch (she/her) @mosquitosproch.bsky.social · Mar 3
Spreading the word about 'From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance', a free online course offered by PlasmoGenEpi. If you're interested in malaria genetic epidemiology, I recommend checking it out! #malaria

www.plasmogenepi.org/OnlineCourse
Course Goal: to equip researchers, students, and public health officials with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use malaria genetic data in epidemiological research and public health decision-making.
www.plasmogenepi.org
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malaria-dave.bsky.social
I loved this.

www.sciencenews.org/article/subw...
Subway mosquitoes evolved millennia ago in ancient Mediterranean cities
A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.
www.sciencenews.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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goodboy.bsky.social
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions. "What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
mosquitosproch.bsky.social
shout-out to Soha's new preprint! 🦟
phypapers.bsky.social phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · Apr 30
Phylogenetic taxonomy of the Zambian Anopheles coustani group using a mitogenomics approach https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40297676/
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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edrybicki.bsky.social
This is still one of the most profoundly moving statements I have ever heard on HIV - from someone who was HIV+ and a Constitutional Court judge at the time (most recently Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch).
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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talialerner.bsky.social
All NIDA F31 diversity scholars officially losing their funding...

I barely have words.

Expected at this point but so so disappointing and unfair. We are effectively punishing some of America's best science students for telling the government they are from an underrepresented community.
April 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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timshenk.msf.ca
The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency: US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/first... @doctorswithoutborders.org
The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency
US cuts to foreign aid are hurting people caught in conflict and crisis.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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who.int
It’s #WorldMalariaDay
The good news: 2.2 billion #malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000.
The bad news: after years of steady declines, progress has stalled.
bit.ly/MalariaDay2025
Since 2000, 2.2 billion malaria cases and 12.7 million deaths have been averted.
April 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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thelancetinfdis.bsky.social
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The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The foretold Oropouche fever epidemic
Since October, 2023, Oropouche virus (OROV) has caused a large outbreak of Oropouche fever in the Americas, exposing yet again the vulnerabilities of infectious disease surveillance systems. These wea...
www.thelancet.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
mosquitosproch.bsky.social
officially a PhD candidate! 🦟🎉
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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jijorquera.bsky.social
Interesting news about a potential anti-malarial drug, thanks to Science.

Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Anopheles mosquito survival and pharmacokinetic modeling show the mosquitocidal activity of nitisinone
Nitisinone reduces survival of the malaria-transmitting mosquito Anopheles gambiae by blocking tyrosine catabolism.
www.science.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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ecodynvplab.bsky.social
Boom. Accepted for publication in Nature Communications. This paper has been a journey, but it is done. Here, we explore the use of constant temperature experiments to predict the thermal suitability for malaria transmission in a diurnally fluctuating environment.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Mean daily temperatures can predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than rate summation
Temperature shapes the distribution, seasonality, and magnitude of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. Mechanistic models predicting transmission often use mosquito and pathogen thermal responses from c...
www.biorxiv.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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tmhartbio.bsky.social
Happy to share our new ScienceTM paper from Yingjun Cui, Erol Fikrig and @aaronmring.bsky.social et al. We built a yeast display library of 3,000+ I. scapularis proteins to profile antigens recognized by tick-resistant hosts, and developed a new anti-tick vaccine. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tick feeding or vaccination with tick antigens elicits immunity to the Ixodes scapularis exoproteome in guinea pigs and humans
Comprehensive profiling of Ixodes scapularis antigens reveals that tick bites induce antivector immunity linked to acquired tick resistance.
www.science.org
March 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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yaleemd.bsky.social
Happy World TB Day! 🙌

Today, we have EMD MPH student Cenyun Guan at @yalesph.bsky.social to discuss the current tuberculosis (TB) situation and the urgent need to raise public awareness and further invest to end TB.

Read more here! ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

#PublicHealth
#WorldTBDay
March 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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andykroll.bsky.social
The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
www.propublica.org
March 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.

There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son. "Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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nickhaddad.bsky.social
Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century
Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...
www.science.org
March 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
mosquitosproch.bsky.social
Spreading the word about 'From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance', a free online course offered by PlasmoGenEpi. If you're interested in malaria genetic epidemiology, I recommend checking it out! #malaria

www.plasmogenepi.org/OnlineCourse
Course Goal: to equip researchers, students, and public health officials with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use malaria genetic data in epidemiological research and public health decision-making.
www.plasmogenepi.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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inchywerm.bsky.social
where are my invertebrate lovers? 🐛🐞🐜🦂

#bugsky #bug #invertebrates #entomology #art
colorful digital illustration of several invertebrates (a scorpion, a beetle, a worm, a fly, a lantern fly, an inchworm, a treehopper, and a moth) surrounding the words “love the unloved”
February 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social
New Vector of the Month: #Culex #pipiens complex (common house #mosquitoes), vector of various #arboviral, #malarial & #filarial pathogens, authored by Drs Haoues Alout @maximeprat.bsky.social & Pierrick Labbé. #quinquefasciatus #Plasmodium @isemevol.bsky.social

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kefV5Eb1x...
February 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM