Geraldine Oosthuizen

NWU-WRG “Elasmobranch team”🦈; MSc in Environmental Sciences; Exploring my passion for parasitology 🪱 - using integrative taxonomy to describe new cestode spp.

[Geraldine Oosthuizen @GeraldineOosth]

My first paper describing a new species with @AlineAngelinaA1 @NicoJSmit1 & Bjoern Schaeffner !! 🦈🐛

DM me for a pdf copy if you are interested! 🙌

My favorite part of being a Parasitologist will always be the drawing of these complex cestodes! 🖋️👀
@NWU_WRG

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When a Leader falls from the top of a hierarchy, why do we analyze the leader but ignore the hierarchy?

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Jesus' harshest words in the gospels were consistently aimed at religious leaders who focused on everyone's exterior behavior but never looked on the interior of their own hearts & the systems of hurt they perpetuated.

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8 TED talks that will teach you more than a 4-year degree:

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YouTube is free education.

But 95% follow the wrong channels.

Here are 10 channels that will teach you new skills:

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5 websites for drawing scientific figures: 👇 🧵

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Plantation techniques😊

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Male seahorse giving birth!😳

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9 PowerPoint hacks you'll wish you already knew:

[Geraldine Oosthuizen @GeraldineOosth]

Worldwide only three species are known, and we used both morphological and molecular tools to describe the fourth species.

[Geraldine Oosthuizen @GeraldineOosth]

ARTICLE ALERT 🚨
The description of Eniochobothrium acostae n.sp. (dedicated to @AlineAngelinaA1) belonging to an enigmatic and rare group of cestodes: Eniochobothrium (Lecanicephalidea).

@NicoJSmit1, K. Naidoo & B.C. Schaeffner

https://t.co/AUZTY97TN4

[Nico J Smit @NicoJSmit1]

New species alert!: @NWU_WRG MSc @_Geraldine_7 described a new tapeworm from the Oman cownose ray named Eniochobothrium acostae in honour of our @NWU_WRG post doc Dr @AlineAngelinaA1 for her contributions to the systematics of parasitic platyhelminths. https://t.co/wiBvPIMZoA

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My daughter named her new pet, Sir David Stickenborough, after her hero. She wrote to tell him this. Obviously he responded. Sir David is getting renamed, apparently, but my daughter’s fascination with nature has been reinforced. #NationalTreasure

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I am comfortably installed and attending ICOPA from France. Very impressed by the excellent technical quality of the online system they use.

#ICOPA2022 #ICOPAnhagen

[Nico J Smit @NicoJSmit1]

Great entertaining presentation by ⁦@NWU_WRG⁩ ex-post doc & current extraordinary senior lecturer Bjoern Schaeffner ⁦@ICOPAnhagen⁩ on the parasite diversity of sharks & rays of Iceland. Bjoern recently moved from Africa to Iceland and is already making his mark there!

[Nico J Smit @NicoJSmit1]

2nd poster from the @NWU_WRG parasite team @ICOPAnhagen is a really interesting study on the blood parasites of endemic South African catsharks. Interesting these parasites did not clade with other fishy haemogregarines but rather with frog Dactylosoma! Nature always surprise!

[Nico J Smit @NicoJSmit1]

How to recognize a worm parasitologist - the person who get REALLY excited about digging for worm eggs in 1 400 old viking toilets! Great talk by Plenary speaker of #ICOPA2022 Peter Nejum on Living with Parasites. @ICOPAnhagen

[Nico J Smit @NicoJSmit1]

This is it! Boarded and ready for liftoff to #ICOPA2022 ! In the luggage hold - 10 posters by the talented ⁦@NWU_WRG⁩ parasitologist and 5 presentation in the cloud ready to download and present in Copenhagen. ⁦@anja_erasmus20⁩