📢 Looking for a PhD in Biosciences at Warwick in 2027? 🔗 MIBTP: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 🔗 CENTA: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... 🔗 Warwick Life Sciences funded PhD opportunities: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... 🔗 Warwick Life Sciences PhD: warwick.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Exciting news! 🎉 Later in 2027, I’ll be joining the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick as an Assistant Professor and starting my own lab. 🔬🪰 I’d love to hear from graduating PhD students/ECRs interested in developing postdoctoral fellowship applications to join us. 1/2

🧪 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

SCNAT@scnat.ch · last yr.

Only 1️⃣ month left to apply for the #RigiWorkshop 2026! Are you a #PhD student or postdoc in #biology? Come join us for a 3-days interdisciplinary #workshop in the Swiss Alps 👉 biol.scnat.ch/rigiworkshop26

If you never petted a bumblebee you are seriously missing out. Go do it. Be gentle. Share the feelings.

Looking to get involved in peer review? Check out the Fast & Fair initiative run by @biologyopen.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa... #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

Identification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand flies

Leishmania amastigotes ingested by female phlebotomine sand flies are exposed to a harsh and dynamic environment, markedly different from that of their mammalian host. Within the sand fly s alimentary...

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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

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.”

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

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

Large parts of Spain and Portugal experienced major power outages, reports said.

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...

www.instagram.com/stories/swis... Happy Chagas day!

Contemplating my tulips in my upcycled @bspparasitology.bsky.social beer bottles from the Spring meeting in Aberystwyth in 2018 ❤️🥰

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.

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?

Andreia Wendt@albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Inspired by the upcoming diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) session @ the Joint Parasitology Meeting in Würzburg, I did a bit of unconscious bias selfcheck & reading. Highly recommend: tinyurl.com/4jx4tz7p #herminthology tinyurl.com/4s7awp8j #whatsinaname @scnat.ch synthesis video 1/3

Inspired by the upcoming diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) session @ the Joint Parasitology Meeting in Würzburg, I did a bit of unconscious bias selfcheck & reading. Highly recommend: tinyurl.com/4jx4tz7p #herminthology tinyurl.com/4s7awp8j #whatsinaname @scnat.ch synthesis video 1/3

A Synthesis of the 9 webinars about Gender Equality and Diversity in the natural Sciences

YouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT

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So excited to be back again in Würzburg and to meet up with old (and new!) friends and colleagues! Such a rich diverse program covering all things parasite <3 See you soon parasite gladiators!! #parasitesrule #parasites #parasitology

British Society for Parasitology@bspparasitology.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Three weeks until the big Joint #Parasitology Spring Meeting 2025 with the BSP, SSTMP, and DGP!! 🚨 - 𝟏𝟏-𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 - Würzburg, Germany - Website at parasitology-meeting.de - Registration at tinyurl.com/3x32vycr #parasitology

🧪 PubMed’s brief outage sent researchers into panic, underscoring global reliance on the free biomedical database. While restored, the incident raises concerns about access, resilience, and the need for backups. 🩺💻

'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s future

A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

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Pubmed and NIH websites are down. Probably consequences of the trash sitting in the white house. Here is an attempt at an alternative. europepmc.org Also, consider submitting your manuscript to preprint servers like connect.biorxiv.org/now/. #sciencewontstop #sciencedoesnotcareaboutyouropinion

If you are a budding parasitologist and you would like to spend a great summer full of science, networking, and fun with your peers, there is still time to apply for Biology of Parasitism course at @mblscience.bsky.social! Deadline 29th of January. tinyurl.com/applyBoP

rdcu.be/d5o3U it's out!!

TransLeish: Identification of membrane transporters essential for survival of intracellular Leishmania parasites in a systematic gene deletion screen

Nature Communications - A systematic gene deletion screen targeting all predicted transmembrane transporters of the protozoan parasite Leishmania identified forty mutants that had a significant...

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If today you had to feed your lab "children" before saying goodbye to 2024, you are not alone 🙏🏼🧘🏻‍♀️🦠🔬👩🏻‍🔬🦟🪰 Happy new year everyone! May 2025 bring us all more health and all the good things one can hope for.

I feel seen.

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · 2y ago

For tonight, enjoy this video of a sea cucumber feeding. #marinelife

It has been a while since I last used those cookie cutters :)

2 new interdisciplinary PhD projects on Insects, Robots and Computer Vision! Please re-post and email us with your CVs, Cover/Motivation letters and enquiries by the *22nd of January 2025* 🐝🦟🤖💻

InsectNeuroLab@insectneurolab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exciting news! We are advertising 2 more PhD projects in our and a collaborator's labs - please get in touch *by the 22nd of January 2025* with your *CV and a Cover/Motivation letter*: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

My spouse is trying to make baby 3D printed cages for me. Prototype 1 ☑️