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Also other symbionts matter: prof. Ellen Decaestecker KU Leuven Kulak Biology | KU Leuven abt microbiome in biodiversity and ecosystem services on WS "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN

Fellow Belgian parasitologists in our WS "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN Drs. Tine Huyse The AfricaMuseum & Cyril Hammoud Nioz At Sea: monitoring (un)known snail-borne trematodes!

More knowledge gaps on African trematodes presented by i am Aspire🌞 from Biology | KU Leuven KU Leuven Laboratory of Biodiversity & Evolutionary Genomics on our workshop "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" BiTElab CMK UHasselt Universiteit Hasselt IUCN Parasite Specialist Group IUCN Species Survival Commission IUCN FWO

1 week ago, our workshop "Red List assessment and its potential for parasite conservation" started! It was organised by BiTElab CMK UHasselt for the IUCN Parasite Specialist Group of IUCN & its IUCN Species Survival Commission, with funding from Universiteit Hasselt and FWO. Thanks contributors & participants!

Climate damages are "6X LARGER than previously thought", says new NBER working paper – every 1C wipes out 12% of global GDP – every tonne of CO2 causes >$1,000 of damages Gernot Wagner tells me: "Assuming nobody finds a flaw in this paper, it is going to truly change things"

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Let's talk parasites! And the sooner the better. What a great way to introduce the young to the fascinating world of parasites, congratulations dear Chelsea L. Wood , can’t wait to read it myself.

Proud to see our xenomonitoring tool being used by i am Aspire🌞 to reveal 15(!) trematode species in 🇿🇼. He also provides the first record of the invasive exotic 🐌Tarebia granifera in 🇿🇼 (Xeno tool 🧬) doi.org/10.1093/trstmh… (Mudavanhu et al. 2024) doi.org/10.1186/s13071…

Hoe redden we de biodiversiteit? eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milieu/…

We’ve had a number of enquiries lately from people worried about having a bumblebee ‘hive’ in their garden. ‘Are they dangerous?’ ‘Should I have them removed?’ ‘Will they be there forever?’ Here’s a quick bumblebee lifecycle thread to explain. Please #retweet for the #bees. 1/14

Schistosome eggs from liver and intestine are different! 😯 Thank you for inviting me to the project, I am happy to see this finally published. PLOS Pathogens Faculty of Science of Charles University

‘Are these very small #bumblebees we’re seeing out foraging of late (May/early June) a specific species?’ A good question. Thanks for asking us. Here’s a brief thread to explain these diminutive beauties. Please #retweet/#share with your crew. For the small bumblers. 🙏🏼🐝 1/9

The first animals in our 'microbe of the month' column for Eos Wetenschap vzw! rubenschols, Tine Huyse and me wrote about the most bizarre of creatures: trematode parasites! An initiative of Young Belgian Society for Microbiology (YBSM) eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milieu/… (in Dutch)

📢we report the first discovery of alien Ameriana snails in Central Africa, and the first molecular data from the African continent. They resemble schistosome snail hosts and can thus confound disease monitoring studies Kapour Germain Cecilia Wangari Wambui rubenschols

Job alert! 🚨 Fully funded (4 years) PhD position in my research group at Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ in the field of plankton metagenomics! This is a collaboration with @SVBelleghem from KU Leuven. Deadline for applications is approaching (16 June) vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz-r…

The purple emperor 🦋 making good use of the crushed slugs on our blinds! The first time I get to witness this amazing animal. Star-struck. We have many more crushed 🐌 so 🤞 for more observations!

Our new paper is out in STOTEN in which we demonstrate the role of human land use on the ecosystem state of aquatic environment with implications on the presence and abundance of freshwater snails. Many thanks to Tine Huyse, rubenschols and VLIR. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jtR4B8cd0VRT

What do Bosch's apocalyptic paintings, medieval childbirth and trippin' hippies have in common? the legacy of Claviceps purpurea! Always happy to write about fungi for the Eos Wetenschap vzw #microbe of the month - an initiative of Young Belgian Society for Microbiology (YBSM) ! eoswetenschap.eu/natuurwetensch…

Very proud to have successfully defended my PhD thesis on the role of the freshwater snail’s microbiome in trematode resistance! Thank you Tine Huyse and Ellen Decaestecker for the amazing opportunity and supervision! On to the next adventure KU Leuven Kulak The AfricaMuseum Belspo

Parasites, X-rays, and hippos—discover how cutting-edge 3D imaging and DNA barcoding are revolutionizing trematode taxonomy without destroying precious museum specimens. Download the in press version for free before July 22, 2025: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCE94j%7El7…