Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDAdam is Gone Froggin @gonefroggin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026American Toad 🐸 091
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Amazing work from @airdlab.bsky.social and @mzspectrum.bsky.social Labs led by insanely talented Apporva Uboveja! Very grateful to play a small part in this impactful work. 272
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDDr. DioxiNation @djzaber.bsky.social · 22/02/2026🧪World Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked Mammal ground.news/article/thes...ground.newsWorld Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked MammalThey are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again raising the plight of pangolins, the shy, scaly anteater... 14716
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Good article regarding academic hierarchy from the lens of someone outside the classic tenure track www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgStaff scientists shouldn’t feel invisible. We deserve more voice“I felt valued but not included,” this staff scientist writes 010
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Not going to lie, being a staff scientist is a very strange position to be in academia. Feels like limbo at times... #Academicchatter 030
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDKatherine Aird @airdlab.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgThe chemotherapy-induced senescence-associated secretome promotes cell detachment and metastatic dissemination through metabolic reprogrammingCellular senescence, characterized by a stable cell cycle arrest, is a well-documented consequence of several widely used chemotherapeutics that has context-dependent roles in cancer. Although senesce... 1145
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 28/05/2025New Paper is up! Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes academic.oup.com/jes/article/... 130
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDLuxomancer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It's almost #Friday, have a #frog friend. Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus #Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #Photography #Treefrogs #herps 2879
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 13/05/2025My final paper from my PhD has been accepted!! 🙌 I can graduate in peace next week 020
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Giving my plants away to other grad students / postdocs... I guess its really the end :,) 030
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDRose Albert @rosemalb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.” Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian... 516465
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 01/04/2025PhD thesis defense tomorrow???? What 130
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab 65729
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDPenn Talks Science @penntalksscience.bsky.social · 26/03/2025🌌 NEW EPISODE: "Exploring Exoplanets: The Search Beyond Our Solar System" takes you on an interstellar journey! Join us as we venture beyond our solar system with exclusive insights from exoplanet experts Dr. Cullen Blake and Dr. Sam Halverson. 🎧 Listen now - open.spotify.com/episode/7gl4... 021
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Sending my PhD defense invites to my old undergrad and masters mentors ahhhhhh I hope they're proud :,^) 050
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDJordan Williams (she/her) @jolybdenum.bsky.social · 18/03/2025My 1st op-ed with Devin Burris & Mark Bray (@mark531.bsky.social)! We look at how Trump’s funding cuts/changes to scientific resesrch threaten American biomedical research for small institutions & young scientists. Feedback/comments welcome! #scicomm markbraywrites.medium.com/the-goal-of-...markbraywrites.medium.comThe Goal of Killing Academia: ‘Small’ Science as a First StopCo-written by Jordan Williams, Devin Burris, & Mark Bray 064
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/03/2025A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒 go.nature.comCities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature MedicineUnderstanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 1121
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/03/2025Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪 27936
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 13/03/2025"Yeah I can tell you're pretty stressed. You haven't added a recently read book in a while" 020
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 12/03/2025One week left for dissertation writing 020
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025How do I write an acknowledgement section without mentioning everyone who has ever even walked by me????? 140
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDKushol Gupta @guptapenn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience 016317
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDJordan Williams (she/her) @jolybdenum.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Pharmacology 💊 women in STEM 👩🏻🔬 showed up & out for scientific funding! 🧬 #standupforscience2025 #standupforsciencephilly 1308
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDScience Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4scim.agThousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science eventsScientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration 151423490
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship 3355781227
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 02/03/2025legend has it if you stay late enough on the 13th floor of the biomedical research building you will hear the strange noise of a grad student singing while writing their thesis (its me) 040
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDKate Bradbury @katebradbury.bsky.social · 27/02/2025New Substack! On frogs, obviously: open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...open.substack.comOn frogs, hope and dreams of spring, plus how to make a really good frog pondIt's me, it's February, of COURSE I'm writing about frogs. 03411
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDJean-Marie galano @galanojeanmarie.bsky.social · 18/02/2025What is the link between PFAS type contaminant and oxylipins? None? Well mass spectrometry low resolution identification can always messed up somehow, and revealed to the lipid community the long forgotten space left by the Trioxilins… A thread doi.org/10.1021/acs.... #epilipid #massspec #oxylipinsdoi.orgAnnotating DHA Metabolites Interfering with the Quantification of Emerging Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic AcidsQuantitative analyses of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) commonly rely on low-resolution targeted tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) due to its high sensitivity and relatively low operational... 295
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDSara Peltola @sarapeltola.bsky.social · 13/02/2025"Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight." #tiedetaivas #AcademicSky 02413
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 02/02/2025My PI's comments on my latest dissertation chapter :,^) 120
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDElizabeth (Beth) Burton @bethbgenetics.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I don’t want to be so pessimistic, but it’s hard not to feel completely demoralized having gone through 4 years of undergrad and 6+ years of my PhD just to watch all my future biomedical career prospects slip away at the whim of a government that couldn’t care less about its (non-billionaire) people 041
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Hard to be motivated about defending a PhD in biochemistry during the worst time to be an American scientist 070
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDchristine liu / two photon art @christineliu.art · 24/01/2025Mentors and advisors, a very impactful thing you can do right now is to assure your mentees from all backgrounds that you will continue to support them because their worth is not contingent on any program or funding mechanism 💕 223264
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDAdam is Gone Froggin @gonefroggin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The Frog 🐸 of the Week is the endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toad or Sapo Concho (Peltophryne lemur) from Puerto Rico. It used to be found on more islands before being wiped out. 📸 Vera Ting learn more at bit.ly/3Od9Z4a 1395
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Woah, incredibly happy to see my work highlighted in Nature Reviews! So cool! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comPFOA affects androgen metabolism - Nature Reviews UrologyNature Reviews Urology - PFOA affects androgen metabolism 270
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDAdam is Gone Froggin @gonefroggin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024The Frog 🐸 of the Week is the Sky Blue Poison Dart Frog (Hyloxalus azureiventris) from east Andes of Peru. This beautiful frog is sadly Endangered due to habitat loss by humans. 📸 Claus Rasmussen learn more at bit.ly/41h8md2 17110
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDToxiMapp @toximapp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We're getting close to an inflection point. First there's growing awareness of exposure to plastics and forever chemicals. Next how much harm it's doing to human health. Then comes action. #PFAS #foreverchemicals #plastics 072
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDDr. DioxiNation @djzaber.bsky.social · 04/12/2024History repeating itself, this time with #PFOS. 🧵 "The fertilizer was promoted as an environmental win-win for years." www.texastribune.org/2024/12/02/t...texastribune.orgTexas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestockThe fertilizer was promoted as an environmental win-win for years. An untold number of farmers and ranchers across Texas have spread it on their land. 3147
Reposted by Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhDToxiMapp @toximapp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Forever chemicals turning up everywhere, including cosmetics. Puts a new spin on "buyer beware". Maybe these toxins should be included in label warnings. #PFAS #foreverchemicals #plastics 051
Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD @chemistandrea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024As my first on Bluesky post, I'm glad to announce my work on PFOA has been published! Please check it out! During our work we have uncovered a new mechanism which implicates PFOA in hyperandrogenism, as has been speculated in the past! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 2164