Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸

Brazilian/Luxembourguish , Scientist, ❤️ nature, married to a geek and mother of twin boys! 🇧🇷 to🇨🇦 then 🇺🇸

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

I was born and raised in the beautiful city of #Curitiba, southern #Brazil!
This region is famous for being cold and cloudy (yes it can be cold in Brazil!).
It is also famous for its very endemic and beautiful #Araucaria pine trees. #voicesIWS @IWS_Network @500womensci /1

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

So proud of you @CarlsonMarinaA ! Always missing the great @ehoffmanlab which I’m sure will propel many more amazing PhD graduates to the world!

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@MadS100tist

[Zebrafish Rock! @ZebrafishRock]

🚨 Please participate in the ZFIN 2024 User Survey (below). @ZFINmod are gathering data for their upcoming 5-year competitive renewal and your participation is invaluable to the #zebrafish community! The survey is open until October 4th. Don't delay 🙏

🔗https://t.co/PD4a7cCoz1

[Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @KavliAtYale]

📢 The @KavliAtYale 20th Anniversary Symposium is officially one week away! 🥳

Make sure to join us next Friday, September 20th🗓️, for a day of inspiring talks🗣️, groundbreaking science🔬, and celebration! 🎉

Image credit @ehoffmanlab

https://t.co/dbdSVISyWj

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

So true! Thankful for all the critical feedback I’ve received so far!

[Jen Heemstra @jenheemstra]

Critical feedback is never fun, but the people who are willing to kindly tell you when something needs improvement are so valuable.

Not only does their feedback help you to make your work better, but you also know you can trust those people when they say that something is good!

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@jdpereira @amazon I believe this is still a consequence of the national formula shortage a few years ago. We used to buy at Target (in 2022) and they used to be locked up and there was also a limit. (Did not matter that we also had twins)

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@ZebrafishRock Metronome in action

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@fahdananta Baby Brezza after having twins ! (Sorry this is very specific)

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@mjafreeman Shocking!

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

Very interesting thread about the most studied gene ever!

[Muhammad Hussain, MD @whosainastro]

Why is p53 called p53? 🤔

A 🧵 about the history and discovery of the most studied gene in human history, also known as the guardian of the genome. 🧬 #pathtwitter #pathX #molecular #history

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@jdpereira Long live the 80s ! 😅

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@jdpereira When I was about 7 I took a good long sip of what I though it was water from a glass at my friends house, it was her grandmother’s vodka

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@jdpereira Interesting indeed. Curious to know if internationals would also hold a J-1 (like Postdocs) for this Scientist I position...

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@jdpereira @BasedScience Curious to hear more about your story... particularly about the jump back to Academia!

[Joao Pereira @jdpereira]

An academic career progression can be perfectly linear:

PhD - Postdoc - Assistant Professor.

Here’s mine:

PhD - Postdoc 1 - Postdoc 2 - Postdoc 3 - Instructor - Senior Postdoc - Scientist II - Scientific Director - Assistant Professor.

And you know what? That’s ok.

AMA ;)

[Tina Termini @CterminiPhD]

The way people excuse bad behavior in academia is one of the hardest things to grapple with.

“Oh, that’s just how he is”
“They didn’t mean it like that”
Or worse… [SILENCE]

This culture where people are reluctant to hold each other accountable is debilitating.

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@GeoSantiagoM I miss the 90s

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@ana_salmeida If your Lab has international students, I highly recommend anything very local about your city/country. Something like going for a match of a popular sport, or visiting a very emblematic and popular spot.

[Hellen Weinschutz Mendes🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸 @hellen_cwm]

@CanadaAgora @Paulo_Dantas_CA Eu !!!