🧪 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

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

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

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?

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

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

🧪 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. 🩺💻

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!!

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.

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* 🐝🦟🤖💻

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

📣📣Group leader positions @pasteur.fr 👇

Went to a second hand shop in Basel, look at what I found! #parasitesrule

Cool parasite science alert.

Folks. 🙃 Anyone else suffering with narrative CVs? #help #narrativecv

Is 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 ;)

I am soooo happy to see @bspparasitology.bsky.social joining this platform! YES! Me running to update that starter pack --> 🏃🏻‍♀️

We 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...

Mum'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?!

Interesting update of CanL in the UK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We 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

We’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.

Several 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...

There are articles about the #science migration now! 😄 That makes it official ❤🦋 #Xodus #eXit #nature #bluesky #bsky #sciencetwitter #sciencebsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Success!! 🩸🦟 #sandfly #newcolony #mybabies

Have I mentioned how awesome @swisstph.bsky.social is? So proud to be able to work in this safe and wonderful environment ❤️🙏🏼

I 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 :)

Do you think I should leave one of these at the mini hotel library?

Please 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...

I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :) Feel free to extend the gap!! go.bsky.app/JWGLWrd

In 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-...

Trying to find my way around here. Have created a starter pack for parasitologists. Join, connect and spread the word! go.bsky.app/5UiPsYr

I tried making one of these "starter packs" for Parasitology peeps :) Feel free to extend the gap!! go.bsky.app/JWGLWrd