@HesterWeaving

Post-doc at UC Davis studying malaria-resistant genetically engineered mosquitoes.

evelab.github.io
Joined December 2019
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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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🚨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! ✨ @RSocPublishing #ProcB 👇
Royal Society Publishing
@RSocPublishing31 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 @PatriceEcoEvo @SammyMarineB @szymekD @philiBeeDowning @Erin_Macartney_ @ayumizuno118 @pietro_pollo @LorenzoRicolfi
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Farewell to the EVE lab, the best PhD supervisor - @englishse, and my (almost) decade at University of Bristol! 👋
Sinead English - find me on Bluesky@englishse27 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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🚨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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Photos courtesy of the VGL vectorgeneticslab.ucdavis.ed…
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Costanza Zanghí@CosZan30 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 🇹🇹… 🧵1/10
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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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Heatwaves are detrimental to fertility in the viviparous tsetse #fly #ProcB #OpenAccess ow.ly/9KjP50QWolA @englishse @HesterWeaving #Physiology
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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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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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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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This is surprising, as for most insects male fertility is more sensitive to high temperature. 🦋🐞🦗 (3/6)
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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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Lucy Alford@DrLucyAlford27 Feb 2024
Last few days to apply. Deadline 1st March!
Lucy Alford@DrLucyAlford23 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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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…

A systematic map of studies testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction

We summarise 1600+ papers testing the relationship between temperature and animal reproduction, and identify major taxonomic, geographic and methodological research gaps. This database will provide...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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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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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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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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