Samuel Vanden Abeele
@samuelvdabeele.bsky.social
Postdoctoral research associate at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences & BopCo || Evolutionary biologist || Species delimitation, phylogeography, population genetics, kinship analysis
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🎉 Happy 10th Birthday to BopCo! 🎉
November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!
November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🎉 Happy 10th Birthday to BopCo! 🎉
November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!
November 2025 marks 10 years of BopCo, the Belspo funded DNA Identification Service at RBINS & RMCA — and what a journey it’s been!
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🐟 Fast DNA testing to protect the future of European eels
The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.
The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🐟 Fast DNA testing to protect the future of European eels
The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.
The lucrative trade of glass eels continues to raise serious concerns across Europe. While the European eel is critically endangered and protected under CITES regulations, illegal trafficking persists due to high demand, especially in Asia.
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We have published a new special issue on invasions in aquatic systems, which stemmed from @neobiota.bsky.social's 2024 conference in Lisbon. 🌊🇵🇹
🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...
🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...
New NeoBiota special issue explores invasions in aquatic systems
Following the 2024 NEOBIOTA conference on biological invasions, a new special issue of NeoBiota has been released, exploring invasions in aquatic systems.
blog.pensoft.net
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
We have published a new special issue on invasions in aquatic systems, which stemmed from @neobiota.bsky.social's 2024 conference in Lisbon. 🌊🇵🇹
🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...
🔗 Read all about it on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/10/n...
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One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇
I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
Employment | New York Botanical Garden
Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.
www.nybg.org
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇
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Natural History Museum, London, seeks a Bioinformatician for its Insect Pollinator Genomics Project. Position details: https://jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=431. Required skills include bioinformatics and genomics. #postdoc
Bioinformatician, NERC Museum Pollinator Genomics:South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
August 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Natural History Museum, London, seeks a Bioinformatician for its Insect Pollinator Genomics Project. Position details: https://jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=431. Required skills include bioinformatics and genomics. #postdoc
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🧬Join the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference!
🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate
💻 Fully online & free of charge!
More info - including the #opencall for abstracts:
➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate
💻 Fully online & free of charge!
More info - including the #opencall for abstracts:
➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
🧬Join the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference!
🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate
💻 Fully online & free of charge!
More info - including the #opencall for abstracts:
➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 #savethedate
💻 Fully online & free of charge!
More info - including the #opencall for abstracts:
➡️ biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/08/07/g...
#GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
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Belgium is home to several breeders of CITES-listed birds such as parrots and birds of prey. Some of these species are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, which has led to illegal practices in the past, such as the collection and raising of eggs or chicks taken from the wild.
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![Snowy Owl_by Patrick Danforth Photography [CC BY 4.0]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p5i4bgztry7v2gxq3a5v5llv/bafkreieslo3lutayekt53qimjidm2krb7fpyxbgv3sfg4xdeiduhq3c5bu@jpeg)
![Barn Owl_by Karen Arnold [Public Domain]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p5i4bgztry7v2gxq3a5v5llv/bafkreib4awc7ot4b4re4vnkh3ldtpy6jzaqc7ak6rzsyvsnyxjbk4d5ytu@jpeg)
![Falco peregrinus - by Avia Venefica_Flickr [CC BY 2.0]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p5i4bgztry7v2gxq3a5v5llv/bafkreifghmkfhx7rnwcifjvtbab2j7knlw2tmreizd3rehsou77yq4bsjm@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Belgium is home to several breeders of CITES-listed birds such as parrots and birds of prey. Some of these species are notoriously difficult to breed in captivity, which has led to illegal practices in the past, such as the collection and raising of eggs or chicks taken from the wild.
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🌞 Feeling the summer heat? Step into the frozen world of science with us, at -80°C! ❄️
Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?
Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?
July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🌞 Feeling the summer heat? Step into the frozen world of science with us, at -80°C! ❄️
Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?
Did you know that both the AfricaMuseum and @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social house massive tissue collections stored at -80°C for molecular research?
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The Delmore lab at Columbia University is offering a fully funded postdoctoral position in Ecology and Environmental Biology, focusing on behavioral and speciation genomics. Apply by emailing a cover letter and CV to ked2195@columbia.edu. More info at: delmorelab.com #postdoc
May 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Delmore lab at Columbia University is offering a fully funded postdoctoral position in Ecology and Environmental Biology, focusing on behavioral and speciation genomics. Apply by emailing a cover letter and CV to ked2195@columbia.edu. More info at: delmorelab.com #postdoc
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🔬🧬🍄 @science.org Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
#fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
#fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity
May 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🔬🧬🍄 @science.org Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
#fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
#fungi #fungisky #mycology #genetics #chromosome #nucleus #DNA #evolution #genome #biodiversity
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🚢 In January 2024, BopCo received damaged wood from the “Berendrechtsluis” in the port of Antwerp. The wood was riddled with tiny holes and tubes — a telltale sign of possible shipworm activity.
April 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🚢 In January 2024, BopCo received damaged wood from the “Berendrechtsluis” in the port of Antwerp. The wood was riddled with tiny holes and tubes — a telltale sign of possible shipworm activity.
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Check out our new paper led by the amazing @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social in @science.org, exploring how the extraordinary diversity of Asian rattan palms was assembled 🌴
1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Check out our new paper led by the amazing @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social in @science.org, exploring how the extraordinary diversity of Asian rattan palms was assembled 🌴
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Last 3 days to apply for the #CETAF E-SCoRe Award!
🏃🏃♂️ HURRY UP!
🌿 for #natural collections based #researches
👩🔬 for PhD #students
💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip
Check this page out 👇
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#taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity
🏃🏃♂️ HURRY UP!
🌿 for #natural collections based #researches
👩🔬 for PhD #students
💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip
Check this page out 👇
cetaf.org/template-act...
#taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity
March 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Last 3 days to apply for the #CETAF E-SCoRe Award!
🏃🏃♂️ HURRY UP!
🌿 for #natural collections based #researches
👩🔬 for PhD #students
💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip
Check this page out 👇
cetaf.org/template-act...
#taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity
🏃🏃♂️ HURRY UP!
🌿 for #natural collections based #researches
👩🔬 for PhD #students
💶 prize of 1.000 € + 1.500 € for research trip
Check this page out 👇
cetaf.org/template-act...
#taxonomy #biodiversity #phd #opportunity
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🚨2025 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
First up:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
@universityofleeds.bsky.social and
@theul.bsky.social
📅: 30 April 2025
🪶: cc-ee@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Apply here👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
First up:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
@universityofleeds.bsky.social and
@theul.bsky.social
📅: 30 April 2025
🪶: cc-ee@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Apply here👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
Cambridge University Library and University of Leeds - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨2025 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
First up:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
@universityofleeds.bsky.social and
@theul.bsky.social
📅: 30 April 2025
🪶: cc-ee@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Apply here👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
First up:
The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage
@universityofleeds.bsky.social and
@theul.bsky.social
📅: 30 April 2025
🪶: cc-ee@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Apply here👇
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
#GLAM
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PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
March 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
PhD on offer at Kew: Plants and their Products: Biocultural collections at Kew Gardens & the South Kensington Museum during the long nineteenth century
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
If only I could apply! Fascinating mutual interests of Kew and the V&A in plants. Closes 16 May
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
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3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
March 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals
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Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy.
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
Employment | New York Botanical Garden
Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.
www.nybg.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy.
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
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#LIBresearch Museum collections are gems for genomic research! We refined amplification-free long-read DNA sequencing, which led to the assembly of new genomes and moved us closer to reference genomes for all eukaryotes! #Genomics #Biodiversity Read more: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
Long-read sequencing and genome assembly of natural history collection samples and challenging specimens - Genome Biology
Museum collections harbor millions of samples, largely unutilized for long-read sequencing. Here, we use ethanol-preserved samples containing kilobase-sized DNA to show that amplification-free protoco...
doi.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#LIBresearch Museum collections are gems for genomic research! We refined amplification-free long-read DNA sequencing, which led to the assembly of new genomes and moved us closer to reference genomes for all eukaryotes! #Genomics #Biodiversity Read more: doi.org/10.1186/s130...
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Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant postdoctoral
University Assistant postdoctoral
jobs.univie.ac.at
February 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
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3-Year PhD position @Uni Mainz (Germany) with @crltt.bsky.social, S. Foitzik, and me
#Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons
Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781...
We still have a postdoc position available for this project.
#Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons
Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781...
We still have a postdoc position available for this project.
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
3-Year PhD position @Uni Mainz (Germany) with @crltt.bsky.social, S. Foitzik, and me
#Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons
Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781...
We still have a postdoc position available for this project.
#Neurobiology #genomics #transcriptomics to investigate the olfactory system of ants from genes to neurons
Information: seafile.rlp.net/f/5df9298781...
We still have a postdoc position available for this project.
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🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
February 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🦑🧪 Three days left to apply for the postdoctoral position in my lab. We're looking for a population geneticist/ecologist/evolutionary biologist who is interested in studying tiny fishes in the Indo-Pacific! Come join us! 🤗
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
fishandfunctions.com/s/Postdoc_Ad...
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Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range!
With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range!
With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With thanks to all 50+ co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Applications open for the new round of Participatory Research fund! NEW & IMPROVED!
Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website.
Email us for any questions, and spread the word!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website.
Email us for any questions, and spread the word!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
Opportunities - Collections Connections Communities
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Applications open for the new round of Participatory Research fund! NEW & IMPROVED!
Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website.
Email us for any questions, and spread the word!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
Check the Further Particulars and Apply via our website.
Email us for any questions, and spread the word!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social @docbroc.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
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looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!
January 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!
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🚇 New Research Uncovers the Ancient Origins of the "London Underground Mosquito"
🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚇 New Research Uncovers the Ancient Origins of the "London Underground Mosquito"
🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
🧵👇
🦟 Culex pipiens - a.k.a. the common house mosquito or northern house mosquito - is one of the most common mosquitoes found in human habitats across the temperate regions of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
🧵👇