Michael Reiskind

vector ecologist, family short-order cook, ultimate disc enthusiast, aspiring professor

[Michael Reiskind @MichaelReiskind]

#BugFest vampire outreach!

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Pssst. I've got a secret. "Academia" isn't a job. Neither is "Industry". They are a hundred thousand different jobs, with wildly different characteristics. The variation among jobs w/in these broad categories is way more important than variation between academia & industry.

[Michael Reiskind @MichaelReiskind]

@TrianglUltimate @USAUltimate @USAUltimateLive I enjoyed volunteering today! Great to be back around the sport! Love me some ultimate.

[Citrus Mosquito 🦟 @CitrusMosquito]

A look inside our lab after collecting mosquito eggs!

[Karen C. Poh @areyoukeddingme]

Had some fun learning about tick dissections from all-around tick and lab guru, Sara! 🤩

Did you know tick salivary glands look like #forbiddengrapes 🍇 and that tick ovaries looks like a long #forbiddennoodle 🍝? Well now you do. Thanks for coming to my #TickTok! 🙃

[Carolyn Anne Young @KiwiYoung]

Welcoming our new grad students with a pizza party. These students will always be special to me. They are my incoming cohort as we are all new to @NCSU_DEPP. It was fun getting the gang together. #departmentheadaventures

[Luis Fernando Chaves @kinparaluchav]

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to work on modeling climate change impacts on insect vectors and the diseases they transmit and/or coupled social/ecological dynamics of pathogen transmission. Full details at this link:

https://t.co/e3KO0Elbm3

[Neeta Pardanani Connally @ticklab]

I love puppies and all, but have you seen this adorable pile of larval Asian longhorned ticks? ☺️

[Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine @TriCEM_NC]

Getting to know our #TriCEMGrads - next up is @mdillonbio! Megan Dillon is a PhD student @NCStateGenetics in the Breen and @MobReiskind labs. She is currently studying the genetics of the dogs living around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 1/

[HamerLab @hamer_lab]

Always surprised by the clouds of Culex mosquitoes that feast on my backyard chickens. Took the opportunity over the weekend to capture some macro shots and yielded a bonus Culicoides feeding on the turkey legs. Peak #WestNileVirus season so dump/drain water to #FightTheBite!

[Everton @Everton]

An impressive first #PL start from Amadou yesterday 👏

[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

Happy anniversary to the biggest scandal of the Obama presidency.

[sophie klahr @sophieklahr]

I have put Twitter back on my phone specifically to show you these circular arrangements of petals i found around multiple dead bees. if you are a scientist who knows what the hell is going on here, please tell me!

[Michael Reiskind @MichaelReiskind]

#Everton How is it I already feel like we’re in a relegation battle. I should chill out, right? No need to panic. Frank’s got this.

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🙌 Brenden and Jack have been named in the @PremierLeague’s Team of the Week, after their performances against Chelsea!

[NCSU Entomology & Plant Pathology @NCSU_DEPP]

New Pub: RNA silencing signals can be transferred from host to an invasive fungus. HIGS has potential to generate rice resistant to M. oryzae. @RalphDean3 @NCSU_DEPP https://t.co/Sc8vAaGMzg

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Please watch this. It isn’t just a story of resilience & recovery. It’s also a reminder of the opposite —how easy it is for us to damage entire ecosystems, of which we are a part, with the human-caused loss of species. It affects everything. HT @MikeHudema

[Wildlife Photographer of the Year @NHM_WPY]

Today is #WorldMosquitoDay! 🦟🌍

#WPY57 Gil Wizen (@wizentrop) hopes to inspire people to take a closer look and consider their important role in nature. 🔎

Discover ‘the world’s most beautiful mosquito’: https://t.co/eLZYbHJzND

[Dominic Reisig @DominicDReisig]

When we collect #bollworm in the field and bring them into the lab they are truly wild. Nearly all will eat through these paper lids. Within one generation they will adapt to being in colony and stop this behavior. I avoid using colony insect when possible @ScottGraham72