🧪 Last chance! Registration for the #RigiWorkshop 2026 closes next week! Our guest speakers include @dudinlab.bsky.social, @michaelraissig.bsky.social, @annikaguse.bsky.social, @gautamdey.bsky.social & @jandevries.bsky.social. More details here 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26
whyyyyy?
bumblebee collecting polen from lavender flowers.
If you never petted a bumblebee you are seriously missing out. Go do it. Be gentle. Share the feelings.
Fast & Fair peer review A new initiative offering high-quality peer review within 7 working days of submission Biology Open logo
Looking to get involved in peer review?
Check out the Fast & Fair initiative run by @biologyopen.bsky.social.
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#PeerReview #PaidWork #Journals #Academia #Research #Biology #BiologyOpen
Ever wonder how Leishmania survives in a sand fly’s gut?
We just dropped a preprint where we CRISPR’d our way through the parasite’s transporter genes—and found the VIPs that keep it alive in its insect host. 🧬🦟
Check it out 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Leishmania #sandflies #parasitesrule
Wondering about the role of the Leishmania promastigote flagellum at the initiation of infection? It is essential but not via its motile function! Great work by Tom Beneke, Eva Gluenz @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social and colleagues 👍
www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/...
Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers.
annas-archive.org/scidb
I am very much looking forward to this!
Have a postdoc position to start October 2025 to develop vector-borne pathogen genomic assays on ONT platforms. International travel will be required to Southeast Asia (Singapore and Malaysia). Looking for a hybrid position of wet lab and bioinformatics. DM me for more information. Please share!
Join me as I dive in another fantastic piece by the group of Tom Beneke and colleagues using the recently Leish-adapted cytosine base edit approach. #leishmania #cytosinebasedit #genediting #crispr
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💼 PostDoc position (2 years) on Trypanosoma brucei | Bordeaux, France | Lab MFP with Dr. Frédéric Bringaud @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social
🔬 Glycerol and differentiation in Trypanosoma brucei
🗓️ Deadline: September 15.
Start: by November 2025
labex-parafrap.fr/fr/emplois/4...
PhD's log:
You aren’t a real researcher until you’ve had someone say to you
“I have more of a comment than a question.”
this.is.not.a.sandfly.
Is it fascism?
Also not this one.
Scary to see your family and friends freaking out because there are no conclusive explanations from trust worthy sources on what the cause of this is. Crossing fingers for this to be just a scary few hours and for everything to go back to normal soon 🙏🏼
#blackout #Portugal
you can remember it is the XXI century and there are a bunch of tools out there that can help you overcome this challenge.
Example:
Go to saymyname.io or www.name-coach.com/events/name-...
write the name & its origin, let's say "Andreia", "Portugal", hear it & say it out loud.
Works like a charm.
Saying someones' name accurately in an international context can be challenging.
If you are chairing a seminar or conference session I can highly recommend you either find your speakers ahead of time and ask them how you can pronounce their name to the best of your abilities or...
Beer bottles with illustrations of parasites, being reused to hold colourful tulips on a table towel displaying colourful beetles.
Contemplating my tulips in my upcycled @bspparasitology.bsky.social beer bottles from the Spring meeting in Aberystwyth in 2018 ❤️🥰
Speaking of spelling---> letting not leeting.
lol
Hi everyone, (usully I don't care, but today I guess I do) just leeting everyone know, in case you don't already know...
My name is Andreia.
Not Andrea.
Not Andria.
Not Anderia.
Not Andiria.
Not Andra.
Andreia.
Thanks.
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This steals their rightful time to do science, write science, grants.
More lucky privileged need to invest their time to champion DEI.
Stop the excuses to miss these meetings.
5/
care either way) but I want to highlight "outloud" the unfairness that is to have the already disasvantaged minorities that champion DEI meetings worldwide, to stop science for the time they are doing so, to teach other lucky priviliged people like me and others how we are discriminating them.
4/...
Hundreds to thousands of people worlwide face some form of discrimination from their peers.
Fear of retaliation in calling out on someone for innapropriate behavior perpetuates innapropriate behavior.
There is not enough space here to go on a full rant (also probably not enough that
3/...
My cultural background, my socio economic status in relation to my colleagues world wide, my support system, the political climate in the country I work and where I reside.
I realised I'm so lucky. Pure simple luck.
Luck that makes me privileged and gives me opportunities to be a scientist.
2/...
I was low key annoyed that I knew that my personal challenges in my career as a women in science were not even close to much more important issues affecting minorities who face way more discrimination than I will ever feel, understand or make sense of...
Then I looked at my skin colour,
1/...
I don't know if you had a chance of participating on a DEI session before, but today I participated on my first.
To be frank, at first, I thought, why am I being put forward to be part of a panel for diversity, equity and inclusion?
Am I supposed to be representing diversity?
So I've done a really poor job at reporting back from this meeting, sorry!
It has been a fantastic meeting with interesting new bits of science & fantastic updates from colleagues. It's particularly nice to put a face on virtual faces & have a chance to mingle with everyone during breaks!
