Kara Heilemann

Graduate student working on stingray & guitarfish tapeworms! @uconneeb 🪱🦈
Plant enthusiast looking to grow my plant pathology knowledge 🌱
She/Her🏳️‍🌈

[Jimmy Bernot, PhD 🦐🔬🧬🏳️‍🌈 @JimmyBernot]

There are multiple groups of #parasitic #copepods found on sea cucumbers (eg Cucumaricolidae & Nanaspidae). Would be really cool to check for them here. The direct life cycle of these parasites means they could reach very high densities on clumped hosts like this

[🇩🇲 Chelsea, Biologist/Magical Girl/Frogletito 🦎 @ChelseaHerps]

Hello. It’s me. Your adorable and funny Black foreign science friend who lives in a small town in TX for some reason.
Please vote. I know. I know you think both choices suck. But I regret to inform you that that’s what we got. You’re voting for more than just you & humans beings.

[#BLACKandSTEM @BLACKandSTEM]

It hurts to, once again, not be surprised.

[naya 𐚁 @curlynaya]

Breonna Taylor's and Emmett Till's murders were let off scott free on the same day 65 years apart.

[Amani Webber-Schultz @Curly_Biologist]

On this lovely Sunday I have exciting news!!!! I am now making #HowItPants stickers 😁 I’ll be adding new designs at the beginning of each month. They are for sale on redbubble here: https://t.co/5TlbQMV4t9 Here are a few that are already available: (1/2)

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

@HimajaNagireddy @unfoundation @LBell77 @UNAUSA Yessss Himaja keep it up!!! You’re amazing!

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

@HimajaNagireddy Ugh, relatable

[Black In Neuro 🧠 @BlackInNeuro]

In honor of Henrietta Lacks’ birthday, this day will be all about spotlighting people whose race AND gender have been traditionally marginalized in STEM.

Share your story using the hashtags, 👇🏾#BlackWomenInNeuro, #BlackNBInNeuro, #BlackFemmesInNeuro, #BlackTransInNeuro

[Sarah Knutie @SarahKnutie]

🔥LOOKING FOR A PHD PROGRAM?🔥

Love #SCICOMM & OUTREACH 📣?

Fond of cool PARASITES 🐉?

Diggin' EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION 🤓?

If you answered YESSSS above & are interested in applying for fellowships this fall....

LET'S CHAT! https://t.co/fJEJRAd12v

JOIN THE @Parasite_Squad! 🐣

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

@JillWegrzyn HAH yes!!

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

Came back to Twitter after a few days to #wormgate ??? Was excited for some sweet scicomm about parasites or worms in general at first, but unfortunately was not that - here’s a summary for everyone as clueless as me

[✨Tracy Simone @thetracysimone]

A synopsis of worms on Twitter:

A science account asked about over rated animals, an editor said c.elegans f*ck themselves, a bunch of scientists got offended, now they are calling it “locker room talk” and an example of discrimination 🤦🏾‍♀️

[Hunter👷‍♀️🦺 @firstgeninstem]

It is Latino Conservation Week, an annual initiative of the @HispanicAccess showcasing outdoor engagement & conservation advocacy by Latinx communities. Here are just a few of the conservationists sharing their work during #latinoconservationweek #LCW2020 to follow!

[Naomi Northage @NaomiNorthage]

DNA extractions just got better

[Ronald Gamblin @RamblinGamblin_]

Decolonial fact of the day; Indigneous people in the “Americas” had a complicated system of highways across the continents.

This included integrate waterway systems, burnt tracts of forest, and valley pathways.

The idea that this land was “undeveloped” was a colonial lie.

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

@astrotoya Just graduated with pathobiology and starting my masters in ecology and evolutionary biology!

[Dianna Cowern @thephysicsgirl]

Who else thinks we don't pay teachers enough 🙋‍♀️

[Kara Heilemann @HeilemannKara]

@soFISHtication @jmhuiee YUP. Definitely. In CT

[Mo Dwyer @MustelidDwyer]

Field Techs deserve a living wage, no exceptions.