Research scientist · Mosquito 🦟 and Vector-borne disease Ecology · MIVEGEC @ IRD 🇫🇷 · Pole de Zoologie Médicale @ Institut Pasteur Dakar 🇸🇳
📣🦟 The third call for data papers describing datasets on #vectors of #humandiseases is closing this week!
GBIF has collaborated with #TDR, and GigaScience for a special journal issue in GigaByte Journal focused on publishing new datasets that present biodiversity data for research on vectors of human diseases.
📌 Deadline: 6 June 2025
More info: 🔗https://gbif.link/Vector-Paper-Call
📢 Offre de thèse en modélisation écologique !
Nous recrutons un·e doctorant·e pour travailler sur la diversité et la distribution des moustiques en Afrique de l’Ouest 🌍🦟
📍 Basé au Sénégal (contrat IRD Sénégal)
🎯 priorité aux candidatures du Sénégal et de la sous-région.
📅 Poste à pourvoir rapidement !
📎 Plus d’infos https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=336560da-283f-4553-8962-d7049b7b470a
Merci de partager dans vos réseaux 🙏
#Thèse #Modélisation #Écologie #IRD #AfriqueDeLOuest #Sénégal
🧵2/ What’s inside?
✔️ calculate_Exp() — Compute hourly exposure
✔️ summarise_exposure() — Summarize exposure statistics daily or for a time window
✔️ plot_exposure() — Stacked exposure plot (net users)
✔️ plot_behaviors() — Dual-axis plot of human & mosquito activity
🧵1/ Introducing ExpBites, a lightweight #rstats 📦 to analyze mosquito biting exposure according to hourly activities and locations of human and #mosquitoes. Built for modeling true expected #bednet efficacy.🦟⛺️
📦 GitHub: https://buff.ly/tImDQdv
🎚️ Shiny app: https://buff.ly/t9oMOwv
🧵3/ What’s needed?
Individual human hourly activity data and indoor/outdoor 🦟 hourly biting rates
Fake data can be generated for test purpose using:
✔️ gen_df_human() — Simulate human indoor/outdoor/net use behavior
✔️ gen_df_mosquito() — Simulate hourly indoor/outdoor mosquito biting patterns
🧵4/ Investigation examples:
📄 Soma et al. (2021). https://buff.ly/CROmoXr
📄 Moiroux et al. (2014). https://buff.ly/VFGdSrp
🧵4/ What's behind?
This package builds upon and extends the models described in:
📄 Killeen et al. (2006). https://buff.ly/P554Amz
📄 Geissbühler et al. (2007). https://buff.ly/j0Cwelq
It was detailed in:
📄 Soma et al. (2021). https://buff.ly/VBTwl6D
🧵5/ Feedback, ideas & collaborations welcome!
#RStats #Malaria #OpenScience #Ento #VectorControl #ShinyApp
📝 [Preprint] What if insecticidal bednets increased #mosquito attraction to humans? 🦟
We explored this counterintuitive effect using a transmission model for #malaria.
🧪 Available on medRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.02.25325102
Arthropod Photo of the Week: March 26, 2025
Montane paradise jumping spider
Habronattus altanus
Araneae: Salticidae
By Marshal Hedin, California, USA
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography
C'était un plaisir et un honneur d'être invité avec Yves Gaudin par @natachatriou sur @franceculture à La science CQFD pour parler de modélisation et des origines du #COVID.
rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics
#rstats 🌐🌍
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.14475
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Une tribune tellement pleine d'approximations sur le @cnrs et le @maxplanckgesellschaft dans @lemonde qu'on ne peut s'empêcher de se demander si elle a été écrite directement par la droite ou l'extrême droite
@krzysztof_dyba Thank you ! This will be done (most probably by my colleague https://github.com/ptaconet )
Our French translation of the identification keys for Afro-tropical Anopheles #mosquitoes is available! 🦟 This release addresses issues in the WHO (2021) version, which relied on an AI-assisted (bad) translation.
Discover our improved version here: https://zenodo.org/records/11505342
Coetzee, M., Rahola, N., & Moiroux, N. (2024). Clé d'identification des Anopheles femelles (Diptera: Culicidae) d'Afrique sub-saharienne (Version 1). Zenodo.
🚀 New Paper Alert! Introducing **modisfast**, an #RStats package for quick and easy downloads of key #EarthObservation (EO) data 🌍📈. Access #MODIS, VIIRS, and GPM products with custom filters and parallelized downloads ! @ptaconet.bsky.social
