Post-doc at UC Davis studying malaria-resistant genetically engineered mosquitoes.
Joined December 2019
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13 Mar 2024
Disease-spreading tsetse fly fertility is damaged by a single heatwave, causing population decline. 🪰 ☀️🔥 🚨Read our new paper in Proceedings B🚨@RSocPublishing with @englishse @Lab_APE. See here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d… (1/6)
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2 Aug 2024
🚨New paper alert🚨
We discuss how to optimise the discoverability of papers through effective titles, abstracts, and keywords 💡
We provide a guide, a literature review, and recommendations for editors.
Super fun piece to write with the best team! ✨
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31 Jul 2024
Title, abstract and keywords: a practical guide to maximize the visibility and impact of academic papers | New in #ProcB this week > ow.ly/u3aF50SOfxb
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28 Jun 2024
Farewell to the EVE lab, the best PhD supervisor - @englishse, and my (almost) decade at University of Bristol! 👋
27 Jun 2024
Final EVE lab send off for @HesterWeaving tonight before she embarks on exciting science/life adventures (new country, new species, new techniques!). I will miss this wonderful human who brings me iced coffee on hot days, made an amazing tsetse mug, & set up our tsetse lab!
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31 May 2024
🚨New job alert🚨 I'm soon starting a post-doc at @ucdavis in the Vector Genetics Lab with Dr Greg Lanzaro! I'll assess potential impacts of #malaria resistant GM mosquitoes on wild populations and non-target species. Incl. exciting field work on islands São Tomé and Príncipe🦟
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30 May 2024
Out now 📣 new paper from my PhD:
www-nature-com.bris.idm.oclc…
Big thanks to coauthors @C_C_Ioannou, @amy_e_deacon, Iestyn P-W & Martin Genner.
@CommsBio @BristolBioSci @UWI_StAugustine @GW4FreshCDT
Let’s take a trip together to the fabulous Northern Range in Trinidad 🇹🇹…
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29 Apr 2024
Really enjoyed the @RoyEntSoc #RESExtreme24 event last Thursday - thanks for inviting me! Such an interesting line-up of talks across the breadth of behaviour, physiology and different groups (pollinators, vectors). Congratulations to @HesterWeaving for winning Best Student Talk!
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19 Mar 2024
Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse #fly #ProcB #OpenAccess ow.ly/9KjP50QWolA @englishse @HesterWeaving #Physiology
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13 Mar 2024
We also found that effects of heatwave were even felt in the offspring generation, with more daughters being born than sons. ♀️ ♂️ (4/6)
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13 Mar 2024
Ultimately, our results help explain why tsetse flies are declining in parts of their sub-Saharan range. This has important implications for sleeping sickness which the flies spread to humans, livestock and wild animals. 🌍 (5/6)
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13 Mar 2024
More insect species should be investigated to see if the patterns we found in tsetse flies are common to other less investigated insect species.🐜🪳 🪲 (6/6)
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13 Mar 2024
Disease-spreading tsetse fly fertility is damaged by a single heatwave, causing population decline. 🪰 ☀️🔥 🚨Read our new paper in Proceedings B🚨@RSocPublishing with @englishse @Lab_APE. See here: royalsocietypublishing.org/d… (1/6)
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13 Mar 2024
This is surprising, as for most insects male fertility is more sensitive to high temperature. 🦋🐞🦗 (3/6)
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13 Mar 2024
We found a three day heatwave reduced the number of offspring tsetse flies produced if either males or females were heat-exposed. 🔥 (2/6)
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Hester Weaving retweeted
27 Feb 2024
Last few days to apply. Deadline 1st March!
23 Feb 2024
Get paid £18,622 to do an MRes!
3 fully funded projects are available to work with myself, Prof. Richard Wall, and @DrChrisClements at @BristolUni @BristolBioSci 🪰🪰🪰
More information is available here 👉
bit.ly/FundedMRes
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A very proud supervisor moment - my first PhD student @HesterWeaving passed her viva! (minor corrections) She's done brilliantly, publishing all 4 data chapters, navigating a pandemic, setting up tsetse lab, supervisor on mat leave for last year (sorry). Well done Hester!!!
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2 Feb 2024
Paper out today! Collab with the ESEB Fertility Limit Network, led by @liamrdougherty. We mapped studies looking at the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction pointing out important research gaps. 🦒🦋🐸🦎🐠Read here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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30 Jan 2024
Thank you @phytools_liam for creating a whole new blog plots to answer my phytools question! This is how science works best.
blog.phytools.org/2024/01/ho…
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2 Nov 2023
New article in @J_Therm_Biol!🚨We look at upper thermal tolerance plasticity in five species of tsetse fly. 🪰 Overall, plasticity was weak, indicating these disease vectors may suffer from #climatechange.🥵See here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Collab w/ @englishse and @Lab_APE (1/3)
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We also find that basal upper thermal tolerance was related to larger body sizes within 3 of 5 of the species tested. 🪰 🪰 🪰
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2 Nov 2023
Tsetse body size gets smaller at higher development temperatures due to the temperature size rule. Therefore, we can expect that these species will suffer from combined small body size and reduced thermal tolerance in a warming world. 🌍
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