Andrea Andress Huacachino, PhD

World Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked Mammal They 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...

🧪World Pangolin Day Spotlights Plight of the Most Trafficked Mammal

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Good article regarding academic hierarchy from the lens of someone outside the classic tenure track

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Not going to lie, being a staff scientist is a very strange position to be in academia. Feels like limbo at times...
#Academicchatter

The chemotherapy-induced senescence-associated secretome promotes cell detachment and metastatic dissemination through metabolic reprogramming Cellular 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...

The summer has been busy! Along with the move and a PhD defense, we have updated two preprints:
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New Paper is up!

Excited that my final paper from my PhD work is out! Check out how we characterized androgen metabolism in Adipocytes

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A photo of the front of a pale green tree frog from the low side as it rests on some pale blue painted wood. The frog's head is turned slightly to the side, one golden filagree-like eye staring at the camera, one leg slightly tucked under its body, the other, toes splayed, grasping the surface upon which it rests.

It's almost #Friday, have a #frog friend.

Squirrel Tree Frog, #Hyla squirrellus

#Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro

#MacroPhotography
#Photography
#Treefrogs
#herps

My final paper from my PhD has been accepted!! 🙌

I can graduate in peace next week

Giving my plants away to other grad students / postdocs... I guess its really the end :,)

“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...

PhD thesis defense tomorrow???? What

A scientist in Marc Kirschner's lab

🌌 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.

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Sending my PhD defense invites to my old undergrad and masters mentors ahhhhhh I hope they're proud :,^)

The Goal of Killing Academia: ‘Small’ Science as a First Stop Co-written by Jordan Williams, Devin Burris, & Mark Bray

My 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

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Cities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature Medicine 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.

A 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. 🔒

This is figure 1, which shows simulated contrasting precipitation responses to deforestation at different scales (0–1,000 km) over the Amazon region.

Amazonian 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. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪

"Yeah I can tell you're pretty stressed. You haven't added a recently read book in a while"

One week left for dissertation writing

How do I write an acknowledgement section without mentioning everyone who has ever even walked by me?????

A great crowd here in Philadelphia at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally! #standupforscience

A group of smiling women posing in front of Philadelphia city hall with a sign that reads “science not silence”.

A women at Philadelphia city hall with her face partially obscured by a sign that reads “science not silence”.

A pair of smiling women posing at Philadelphia city hall with a sign that reads “science not silence”.

Pharmacology 💊 women in STEM 👩🏻‍🔬 showed up & out for scientific funding! 🧬
#standupforscience2025
#standupforsciencephilly

Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration

Breaking 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/41zlPv4

Left-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

legend 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)

On frogs, hope and dreams of spring, plus how to make a really good frog pond It's me, it's February, of COURSE I'm writing about frogs.

New Substack! On frogs, obviously:   open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

Annotating DHA Metabolites Interfering with the Quantification of Emerging Perfluoroalkyl Ether Carboxylic Acids Quantitative 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...

What 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
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#epilipid #massspec #oxylipins

"Science outlives dictators—but only if we stay in the fight."
#tiedetaivas #AcademicSky

Email stating: "Dear Andrea: You did an excellent job on this chapter. Relatively minor suggestions only. I like what you did on the.."

My PI's comments on my latest dissertation chapter :,^)

I 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

Hard to be motivated about defending a PhD in biochemistry during the worst time to be an American scientist