Reflecting on #BESMove2025, nice couple days chatting all things #MovementEcology and meeting friends old & new. Thank you @besmovesig.bsky.social and the meeting organisers for your hard work to deliver a stacked and smooth running schedule and fun socials. Looking forward to the next one!

Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮 I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science #sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social

It’s already been a week since #EOU2025! Fun week meeting and chatting cool bird science & geeking out at the cool tech! Presented another poster made from my tent in Bulgaria. 😅 Even got work done on the 14hr train journey, 🌱 but France took my Leatherman; rookie error not checking my field pack! 🥲

Very moving presentation from one of the recipients of the EUEA award from @eseb.bsky.social . As a trans academic myself, seeing effort being put into inclusivity has been refreshing. Thank you for platforming this topic and supporting people like this speaker 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm excited for my @eseb2025.bsky.social presentation later today. I'm part of the symposium on the Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations! I will have stickers to give out too (if bribery is required for attendance) 😁 #eseb2025 #sciart #eseb

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

Looking forward to presenting my poster later at ESEB 2025 🐸 board 166 come find me if you're here

I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧

the big butterfly count starts this friday! all you have to do is spend 15 mins outside and log your butterfly/day-flying moth sightings. it's super easy to log your sessions on the website or app (click the link in the below post) and they have id guides to help too! 🦋

why did nobody tell me that there is a small strait between two small islands off the westcoast of Scotland that has the worlds THIRD largest whirlpool, which also caused George Orwell (YES THAT ORWELL) to shipwreck with his 3-year old son

Using #genetics to sex #Seabirds? 👉 New #openaccess #Methods note published today (optimize don't reinvent👍). No PhD student is an island: huge thanks to co-authors, collaborators and funders. #ornithology @ukri.org @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s126... @springernature.com

#Question! For the #eDNA crowd. My lab has polyethersulfone membrane filters, but the expiration date is December 2023. Does anybody know if I can still use these filters? They're still sealed etc. #PhDSky #AcademicSky #environmentalDNA 🧪🧬

At the end of #Pride every year I post this because I would not be where I am without the friends, mentors, and Allies who have gotten me through the hardest years of my life at Aberdeen. Happy Pride to those who provide me with support, safety, and hope so I can do what I love, study seabirds 💙

I just got informed that whales are considered as ungulates. I am unhappy. (please don’t ask me to elaborate I still don’t fully understand) #phylogeny #whales #ungulates

Got to hang out with a bunch of cool people from Biota Trace testing out an automated sampler (lovingly known as my wee robot pal) to collect water samples from Loch Craignish. @seawilding.bsky.social were also kind enough to let us use their shed and kept us company 😁 🐟 🤖

I’ve reached the point in my PhD where I need to redo my experiments because the initial analysis was wrong which I found out by reanalysing said results a SECOND time with a different (better) program so I can generate results and analyse those for a THIRD time. ah joy #PhDSky #AcademicSky

first day back in work after a few weeks and it brings me a lot of joy seeing our pride month noticeboard 💕 (also knowing how mad this board makes the department bigot)

uhm since when can you catch pokemon in google!? There’s a progress bar and animation and everything!!? #Pokemon #Google #PokemonGo

I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation. ❤️🐝❤️🐝

hi. can we PLEASE stop with AI being pushed down our throats? #PhDsky #AcademicSky

Puffin(s), 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/1000 • f/5.6 • 300mm • 1600 ISO 🪶 #puffin #birds #wildlife #photography #symmetry #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm

A Tale of Two Birds 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 (L) & 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢 (R) The puffin got spooked by the razorbill who also wanted some of the limelight, looked at me, & said "hi :))" I love their little personalities 🪶 #puffin #razorbill #birds #wildlife #photography #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm

Another University that is using silence/lack of communication to keep people, within the uni and outside, in the dark. Thank you to the LGBTQ+ Staff Network for this open letter to shine a light on what's happening! #PhDSky #AcademicSky #LGBTSTEM #QueerInSTEM

After 2 years and ~1000 papers, I'm nearing the end of my broad-scale #synthesis thesis chapter! However there are still papers I can't access, if anyone has access to these journals (papers listed in link) and could send them to me, I would greatly appreciate it!! 🪶 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Lupine #EastCoastKin #Photography #MayBlooms #Pink #flowers #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #BloomScrolling

🚨Our latest special feature is open to proposals until the 29th of June! 🌍 🧪 💡This feature aims to highlight recent technological advances that address some of the challenges unique to sampling rare species using eDNA 👉Find out more and submit a proposal: buff.ly/k3hxZ3H

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Fort Point, San Francisco. March, 2015. 📷 Fujifilm X-T1 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞 55 mm – 1/850″ – f/8 – ISO 800 🏷️ #Photography

“Bluesky is dying!” The biggest news on Twitter is a bunch of transphobes celebrating a 17 year old girl killing herself. I’d rather be here than there.

Please enjoy these delightful images from a 1993 paper on walrus vision, showing estimated visual fields in different poses (I especially love how they look like alternate covers for a scifi novel about space walruses with ray-shooting eyeballs) Source: www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/u...

🚨TLOU S2 (mild) SPOILER WARNING 🚨 ——— Despite some faults this season, I’m lowkey happy they did not include THAT scene with Alice (the dog) in the finale #tlou #tlous2 #thelastofus #ellie #abby #alice

A Tale of Two Birds 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 (L) & 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘢 (R) The puffin got spooked by the razorbill who also wanted some of the limelight, looked at me, & said "hi :))" I love their little personalities 🪶 #puffin #razorbill #birds #wildlife #photography #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm

Puffin(s), 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/1000 • f/5.6 • 300mm • 1600 ISO 🪶 #puffin #birds #wildlife #photography #symmetry #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm

went on a lovely trip to bullers of buchan yesterday to see the puffins (and lots of loved up razorbills!!) very grateful for this lovely group of fellow phd students 🙏💕🐧 (pretend that's a puffin emoji)

When all is said and done, it’s pretty cool having your poster up next to an elephant skeleton 🧪 (mine is the blue one, covered in mussels) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #eDNA #CRISPR #mussels #UoA #SBSResearchDay

A selection of posters from the Aberdeen school of biological sciences post-grad research conference, a TOTALLY unbiased, definitely not just my friends whose wonderful posters I wanted to show off 🐸 #eDNA #entomology #herpetology #genetics @sebastianrvh.bsky.social @blahttodea.bsky.social

i feel like it may not be a coincidence that the PIs i most associate with creating a toxic culture in their lab groups are also the ones who are most excited about AI being able to do the work of PhD students... #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Wait, so you’re telling me, teeth are… fingers? Much to ponder on.

Something I always try to have on me during my presentations is my lucky coin with Rosalind Franklin and DNA, gifted to me by @shaunkeegan.bsky.social to remind me how cool it is to be a #WomaninSTEM 💪🏻👩‍🔬

A pleasure to wrap up the first day of the #SBSPGRConference here at the School of Biological Sciences! This conference is a great way to hear what all my friends are up to with their own cool projects - something we don’t often talk about in the lunch room or at coffee time! 🧬🥼🔬 #PhDStudents

Now for health and #forensic applications of #eDNA. Niamh Nic Daeid @dundee.ac.uk talks through whether we can and should use it in the criminal justice system. Many unknowns before it can be implemented in this space safely. Standardisation of methods, reporting, and data sharing needed #UKDNAWG25

Finally some good news! #herps #toads #conservation #BritishWildlife 🐸 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Common chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/500 • f/8 • 300mm • 1600 ISO The greens, the light, and the unexpected bokeh! Scratches my brain just right 🪶 #birds #wildlife #photography #green #forest #bokeh #fujifilm

Common chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/500 • f/8 • 300mm • 1600 ISO The greens, the light, and the unexpected bokeh! Scratches my brain just right 🪶 #birds #wildlife #photography #green #forest #bokeh #fujifilm

Green-veined white, Pieris napi 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/1000 • f/5.6 • 300mm • 200 ISO I absolute adore this picture Its little face, peaking out behind the flower There's a proper closeup in the skeet below 👇 🦋 #butterfly #bugs #insects #flower #photography #fujifilm

Green-veined white, Pieris napi 📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm 🎞️ 1/1000 • f/5.6 • 300mm • 200 ISO I absolute adore this picture Its little face, peaking out behind the flower There's a proper closeup in the skeet below 👇 🦋 #butterfly #bugs #insects #flower #photography #fujifilm

This week I participated at #Greyhope Bay Cafe's "Greyhope Morning" in #Aberdeen, where I talked about how #eDNA can be used to find and monitor species, & how my #PhD research is trying to make this more accessible to the general public 🧪🧬🐬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I had an amazing time & thank you for having me!