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Come work with me!
Public Health Entomologist (assistant/associate level)

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Open Position: Assistant/Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology
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February 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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New preprint, in these chaotic times:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
in which we use digital droplet PCR to detect scarce & tiny tapeworms in zooplankton samples from lakes (their 1st host)
Needle in a haystack: A droplet digital polymerase chain reaction assay to detect rare helminth parasites infecting natural host populations
Helminths infect humans, livestock, and wildlife, yet remain understudied despite their significant impact on public health and agriculture. Because many of the most prevalent helminth-borne diseases ...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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*Be my new work supervisor!*
Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor.
*I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share!*
apply.interfolio.com/159166
December 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Sketch by Matteo Farrinella explaining the impact of the cuts to the NIH research overheads #science 🧪

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February 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Live imaging of individual symbiotic bacterial cells colonizing the gut of living Drosophila melanogaster show that Lactiplantibacillus plantarum specifically recognizes the fruit fly foregut as a distinct physical niche.

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#Symbiosky #Drosophila
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February 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629598v1
December 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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This and the accompanying academic paper are helpful www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/01/1...
Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone
This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.
www.technologyreview.com
December 26, 2024 at 2:18 AM