Marta Shocket 🏳️‍🌈

Yeah sex is cool, but have you tried facultatively switching back and forth between sex and parthenogenesis to take advantage of genetic recombination in stressful situations while not wasting your reproductive output on dead-end males when conditions are good? #daphnia

Combining blood meal analysis and parasite detection yields a more comprehensive understanding of insect host feeding patterns dlvr.it/TM27qS Parasites&Vectors

@docmilanfar 'calculus for babies' introduced TLS first, which is not the typical sequence!

Most tech people know about ordinary least-squares (OLS), but not so much about *total* least-squares (TLS) They measure fit differently: OLS minimizes sum of sq. distances along dependent variable; whereas TLS minimizes sum of orthogonal distances from data to fit line 1/2

PhD position (Liverpool, UK) Developing models to help make decisions early in a major disease outbreak when availability of new tests is limited. with @emjnixon at University of Liverpool More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/developin…

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis paper out today early access in The American Naturalist today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range?

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House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmental groups who called the plan a betrayal that could lead to increased drilling, mining and logging in the West. to.pbs.org/4m5xBXD

Another letter of alarm against the destructive desmantling of science in the US by the Trump administration. Now signed by over 3000 scientists to save NOAA. NOAA provides invaluable data on Earth observations and science on the liveability on our planet. ucs.org/about/news/ove…

One week left to apply! Please use the University of Glasgow portal to suit your applications! (Link on the right side of findaphd post)

The NIH plans to defund the WHI, the largest clinical trial ever for women that was meant to catch up on missed research. This study has been a fountain of knowledge. The hatred of women from this administration is really from cradle to grave. science.org/content/articl…

Global Parasitology Seminar: Sebastian Lourido on Toxoplasma biology Monday 4/21 12 pm EDT. ⁦@PennMicro⁩ ⁦@BSPparasitology⁩ ⁦@TrendsParasitol⁩ ⁦@SFParasitologie⁩ ⁦@AS_Para⁩ ⁦@AmSocParasit⁩ ⁦@parasitesrule⁩ ⁦@MBLBoP⁩ ⁦⁦⁦

Much the most off-putting thing about learning grasses is that you need to learn a completely new language. The best plan is to go out and collect a flowering Poa annua from the pavement, then try out these important new words on it.

Our new preprint (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…) describes✨AedesTraits✨ (zenodo.org/records/151499…): A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!

Great job leading @MartaShocket! Exciting for predictions of Malaria & general thinking abt handling fluctuating temperatures when matching theory & data. Great work @JoeyBernhardt, Courtney Murdock, Sadie Ryan, & other coauthors no longer on X nature.com/articles/s4146…

MMCD is excited to launch our latest innovation in the fight against mosquitoes - LASER LOONS! Staff have trained Minnesota's state bird to harness their laser vision and use it to target and eliminate certain species of adult mosquitoes. Learn more: mmcd.org/2025/04/01/bre…

If you have an extensive private collection of parasites going back all the way to your 1987 undergrad class are you really weird - or have you just chosen exactly the right profession? I got blood smears from cows with trypanosomes from my time in Burkina, and flukes from Bonn…

We are looking for a PhD student to join our lab this year sites.google.com/view/jahnavijo…. If you are interested, please do reach out to me at jahnavi@csirccmb.org #PhDposition #evolution #ecology

In plenary address, Dr Courtney Murdock, Cornell University, USA, discusses how climate change influences the spread of vector-borne diseases, referencing her study done in the metropolitan districts of Ahmedabad and Surat Municipal Corporations. (1/2) #CliCONOEH2025 @ICMRDELHI

Rachel, you are us, we are you.