Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026📢 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... 021
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Exciting 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 3122
Reposted by Andreia WendtSCNAT @scnat.ch · 08/10/2025🧪 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 0107
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025If you never petted a bumblebee you are seriously missing out. Go do it. Be gentle. Share the feelings. 020
Reposted by Andreia WendtThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Looking 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 0148
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Ever 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 #parasitesrulebiorxiv.orgIdentification of transporters essential for survival of Leishmania promastigotes in the digestive tract of sand fliesLeishmania 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... 072
Reposted by Andreia WendtPhilippe Bastin's Lab @bastinlab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Wondering 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/... 1164
Reposted by Andreia WendtSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers. annas-archive.org/scidbannas-archive.org🧬 SciDB - Anna’s ArchiveThe world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more. 010235
Reposted by Andreia WendtShaun Cross @shauntcross.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Have 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! 063
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Join 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...biorxiv.org 010
Reposted by Andreia WendtLabEx ParaFrap @parafrap.bsky.social · 10/06/2025💼 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... 043
Reposted by Andreia WendtThe Struggling Scientists @thestrugglings4.bsky.social · 07/06/2025PhD'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.” 022
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Scary 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 010
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Saying 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... 100
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.instagram.com/stories/swis... Happy Chagas day!instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 010
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Contemplating my tulips in my upcycled @bspparasitology.bsky.social beer bottles from the Spring meeting in Aberystwyth in 2018 ❤️🥰 071
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Hi 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. 240
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 14/03/20251/... 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? 130
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Inspired 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 1/3youtu.beA Synthesis of the 9 webinars about Gender Equality and Diversity in the natural SciencesYouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT 130
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025So 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 1111
Reposted by Andreia WendtScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 04/03/2025🧪 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. 🩺💻nature.com'Omg, did Pubmed go dark?' Blackout stokes fears about database’s futureA brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website. 35723
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Pubmed 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 2248
Reposted by Andreia WendtMarketa Novotna @marketanovotna.bsky.social · 09/01/2025If 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/applyBoPmbl.eduBiology of Parasitism: Modern Approaches | Marine Biological LaboratoryA unique course for advanced graduate students, postdocs, and independent investigators, who are seeking in-depth training in modern approaches to the study of protozoan parasites and parasitic worms. 02116
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025rdcu.be/d5o3U it's out!!rdcu.beTransLeish: Identification of membrane transporters essential for survival of intracellular Leishmania parasites in a systematic gene deletion screenNature Communications - A systematic gene deletion screen targeting all predicted transmembrane transporters of the protozoan parasite Leishmania identified forty mutants that had a significant... 4367
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024If 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. 030
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 25/12/2024It has been a while since I last used those cookie cutters :) 010
Reposted by Andreia WendtLena Riabinina @lenariab.bsky.social · 13/12/20242 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* 🐝🦟🤖💻 022
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 08/12/2024My spouse is trying to make baby 3D printed cages for me. Prototype 1 ☑️ 291
Reposted by Andreia WendtNadia Izadi-Pruneyre @nadia-izadi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024📣📣Group leader positions @pasteur.fr 👇 03225
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Went to a second hand shop in Basel, look at what I found! #parasitesrule 0170
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Folks. 🙃 Anyone else suffering with narrative CVs? #help #narrativecv 320
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Is this Christmas?Join me in welcoming the wonderful Czech Society for Parasitology to Blue Sky!! @parazitologiecz.bsky.social They are also selling really amazing 2025 calendars with amazing pictures, reach out to them to see whether they have any left ;) 0163
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I am soooo happy to see @bspparasitology.bsky.social joining this platform! YES! Me running to update that starter pack --> 🏃🏻♀️ 031
Reposted by Andreia WendtInsectNeuroLab @insectneurolab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024We are advertising a funded PhD project to work on bumblebees and their brains! If you are a non-UK applicant, please get in touch with me by the **6th of December** with your CV and Cover/Motivation letter. iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...iapetus2.ac.ukBrain evolution and comparative anatomy across bumblebee species 01314
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Mum's visiting Basel and I took her to #kunstmuseumbasel to see an exhibition on her favourite paintor - Paula Rego. I got particularly drawn to this tapestry. Is that a mosquitoe?! 040
Reposted by Andreia WendtEstela Gonzalez @aestadea.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Interesting update of CanL in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comUpdating the epidemiology of canine leishmaniosis in the United Kingdom through the use of electronic health dataDogs infected with Leishmania infantum have been increasingly reported in the UK mostly related to imported/travelled dogs. Up-to-date epidemiologic d… 011
Reposted by Andreia WendtThe Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 25/11/2024We are happy to report that our journals and community sites now have Bluesky accounts. Follow them at: @dev-journal.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @dmmjournal.bsky.social @biologyopen.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @focalplane.bsky.social 10437211
Reposted by Andreia WendtShirley Luckhart @shirleyluckhart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply. 13531
Reposted by Andreia WendtHeather Ferguson @drheatherferg.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Several PhD opportunities available for Oct 2025 related to #OneHealth #PlanetaryHealth #HealthInequalities & #GlobalHealth in @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social availabile through the College Future Programme. 3.5 yrs & £17.5research budget. Details 🔽 - Please share www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...gla.ac.ukUniversity of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences - MVLS Graduate School - PhD Research Opportunities - College Futures PhD ProgrammeSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon... 01019
Reposted by Andreia WendtMaik Bischoff @maikbischoff.bsky.social · 22/11/2024There are articles about the #science migration now! 😄 That makes it official ❤🦋 #Xodus #eXit #nature #bluesky #bsky #sciencetwitter #sciencebsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to BlueskyResearchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with. 0196
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Success!! 🩸🦟 #sandfly #newcolony #mybabies 170
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Have I mentioned how awesome @swisstph.bsky.social is? So proud to be able to work in this safe and wonderful environment ❤️🙏🏼 030
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I don't usually share very many pictures, but this was such an outstanding weekend, I want to remember this for years to come! I was so honoured to be part of this and share the stage with other passionate talented parasitologists. It was really great to meet old and new friends :) 040
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Do you think I should leave one of these at the mini hotel library? 110
Reposted by Andreia WendtFrank Venter @vfrank.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Please circulate 💼 Post doc opportunity in York with Mathieu Cayla: Interested in trypanosomes, and have a background in molecular/ cell biology, or microbiology? Then apply here to work with a great PI in a fantastic location: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...jobs.york.ac.ukJobs - The University of York 046
Reposted by Andreia WendtAndreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :) Feel free to extend the gap!! go.bsky.app/JWGLWrd 72715
Andreia Wendt @albuquerqueafrr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024In case you are resistant to the transfer from that other place, to bsky, because of all the contacts you do not want to loose. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...zdnet.comHow to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followersThis extension lets you easily migrate your follows and block list from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, but you need to act fast because its functionality may be short-lived. Here's why. 021