Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRES
Medical Entomologist & Clinical Bacteriologist — Martinican 🇲🇶 — I talk about Public Health all the time and will even do so at your birthday party.
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESHoly moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
- Guess whose visa expires in May... apnews.com/article/h1b-...
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESHappy 3 year anniversary to this post
- You couldn't pay me to admit something like this 💀
- You need to brush up on your history friend. That is literally not true. These guys fled abroad and lived nice cosy lives. Some faced consequences, mainly because, after a few years, they started feeling nostalgic and began acting in a nazi-ish way again.
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRES“.. People take part in a rally on the day of a general strike to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of immigration enforcement officers on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota.” @reuters.com
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESYesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
- The way this man talks makes me feel I've forgotten to take my meds and I can't process what he's trying to say. We need to get off this ride. Expeditiously 😩
- I hate that students are now too young to get the "dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow" reference ☹️
- People are sharing photos from their best 2016 moments. 2016 is the year I found out I was very allergic to Anopheles stephensi saliva...
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FREScrazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESUS higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
- My dog makes it very clear he's not to be disturbed once he's sent himself to bed.
- I genuinely feel like we're all asleep and he's our sleep paralysis demon.
- Also announced it on LinkedIn and some guy private messaged me to say "Congratulations to your PI" lol. Maybe one day Academia will take its foot off my neck. Not today apparently 😅
- Fieldwork is so random. One moment things are going according to plan. The next, you're collecting ticks from a very polite cemetery-roaming sweet baby.
- I'm having one of the most important work meetings of my life tomorrow. Please sacrifice a metaphorical chicken to the Academia gods for me thank youuuu
- Very proud to announce that my baby is finally here! This new program at UTMB will support a variety of training opportunities in medical and veterinary entomology. It will also focus on developing a broad network of partners interested in vector biology and ecology across the state of Texas.
- Let's not even talk about those who call it "liberation" 🥴
- When people ask if Galveston is really that humid...
- My very insomniac brain is clearly aware that I'm going back to work tomorrow
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESIt’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.
- Reposted by Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRESObsessed with this juxtaposition
- I know productivity is radically opposed (in the mind of some) to any sort of rest but someone is going to have to explain to me the logic of expecting exhausted people to yield high productivity. I'm bitter. Just as last year. Because these academic deadlines on 12/31 and 1/2 are dumb.
- Some personal in/out suggestions for 2026: IN: - more regulated use of AI in higher ed - rebuilding trust in science - vaccines - more balanced life for public health academics. We nearly lost our minds this year. OUT: - measles - internal grant deadlines on January 2 - deadlines at 9 or 12AM
