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Spent Sunday afternoon talking about cactus biological control at Bathurst show with Meg Reid and Jen Upfold! Hopefully, more people now know about the alternative and effective ways to control these prickly pests🌵, as well as other invasive weeds and agricultural insect pests!

Many thanks to all members of the CBC for donating money and socks towards the sock drive. The final tally was 127 pairs of socks! #warmfeethappyhearts

Great to be part of a very well run 21st ESSA Congress in Durban last week. 15 CBC delegates attending made the most of the talks, posters, networking and good weather! #ESSA21 entsocsa

#SIP2021 starts next week and we have Insect Doctors participating in chat sessions across different divisions! They will also be participating in the Insects As Food And Feed session #letsconference SIP

New blog 📝: Ever needed to perform a general linear model (GLM) in R? If so, check out my new blog where I will be posting on statistical analyses using #Rstats and #Julialang, focused on ecological applications. DM suggestions for topics to cover! statsforscaredecologists.netlify.app/posts/2021-08-…

Fantastic to see the insectdoctors Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions courses running these last two weeks - lots of hard work for students and teachers, training the next generation of insect pathologists!🧫🦠🐛

It was so great to finally meet all the insectdoctors in person and spend 2 weeks learning lab techniques and skills to identify insect pathogens! Special thanks to C Nielsen-LeRoux Vincent Sanchis Jörg Wennmann Elisabeth Herniou Ben Raymond + all those teaching on the course, it was brilliANT

Participated in the 🌱#greensolutions Department of Plant & Environmental Sciences PhD conference🌱in the beautiful Festauditoriet. Thanks also to Gitte Gravengaard for her workshop and inspiring thoughts on research communication!

If you're interested in women in STEM, history of science, biography, or just a remarkable story beautifully told, you must listen/subscribe to new podcast, Lost Women of Science, narrated & co-produced by my wife Katie Hafner & a superb team. scientificamerican.com/article/the-lo… Scientific American PRX

We have been very transparent with scientific information. We identified, made data public, and raised the alarm as the infections are just increasing. We did this to protect our country and the world in spite of potentially suffering massive discrimination.

Color palettes accessible to those with color vision deficiency (CVD) are often insufficient for working with #microbiome data...but not anymore! In #MRAJournal, researchers present microshades, an R package for creating CVD-accessible microbiome figures. asm.social/UE

Thanks again Ÿnsect (NL) especially Natasja, Koen and Niek!

Another exciting session discussing the importance of microbiota for insect health and in mass rearing. See published work by Loretta Mugo Jennifer Kate and Carlotta Savio on Bugs in Bugs, discussing pro- and pre-biotics in insect rearing research.wur.nl/en/publication…

It has been quite the year for PREPARE4VBD! See our #wrapped of 2024 to see all we have achieved so far. Follow us in 2025 for our final and best year yet!

Oh gtown. In and amongst your shitty restaurants and broke students you do have a certain charm.