PhD candidate @UCLCBER @ZSLScience | using #genomics and #geoprofiling to understand alpine newt invasion in the UK 👽🛸 | #firstgen | she/her | 🇮🇪
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coming back down to earth after an amazing few weeks in Malaysian Borneo for #WCH10. Got to meet so many incredible people and hear about the most unreal herpetology research.
Was also over the moon to be awarded for my talk 👽
what an incredible piece of work by @EliasRugen et al… GSSP pending 🥕⚡️
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New paper alert 🚨
Very happy to publish this paper from my PhD where we provide the first age constraints for the Port Askaig Formation ‘snowball Earth’ deposit. 1/3
Scottish and Irish rocks confirmed as rare record of ‘snowball Earth’. Read more in the Lyell Collection lyellcollection.org/doi/full…
#Geology #Geoscience #EarthScience #SnowballEarth @UCL
#WCH10 if you like genomics, invasion biology and humans moving newts round come hear me talk tomorrow morning (11am Great Hall C) 🧬 👽
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Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab @UCLCBER @UCLEast! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring jobs.ac.uk/job/DIV449/resear… application deadline 19 Aug
not every day you meet a five-footed newt 👋🏻
caught this polydactylous alpine newt yesterday - presence of lots of leeches in the pond means it could be a trematode-induced developmental abnormality
Termites are complex but there’s no better man to unravel that complexity @LewisRevely
The diversity of social complexity in termites #ProcB #OpenAccess ow.ly/L8tK50S9iWe #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiologu
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The UCL MRes Biosciences Scholarship 2024-25 supports UK Black, Asian and ethnic minority students at the start of their academic career in biosciences research on any stream of the UCL MRes Biosciences programme in 2024-25. Find out more. ⬇️ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-facul…
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A life-sized reconstruction of Megalania, an extinct giant lizard, that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene era with an estimated length of 3.5 to 7 meters (11.5- 23 ft) and a weight between 97-1,940 kg (214-4,277 lb). CREDIT: Prehistoric Earth #Megalania
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Breaking: Ireland formally recognises state of Palestine, Taoiseach announces: ‘This is an historic and important day for Ireland and for Palestine.’
Follow for live coverage: irishtimes.com/politics/2024…
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Are you a moth-trapper with a spare 10 minutes? If so, please fill in the following survey aiming to understand moth-ers and their relationship with insects in traps 🐝🦋 Please share! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form…
(Best on computer/tablet)
give @ionace parasitoids plz ✉️ 🐝
I'm looking for a few more moth trappers who would be happy to help collect parasitoid wasps 🐝🦋 as part of my PhD (equipment and postage provided). Especially looking for people in the unfilled vice-counties and Northern Ireland! @BroadGavin @WaspWoman Message me for more info
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The five-day protest camp at Trinity College Dublin over the war in Gaza has ended, after the university tonight agreed to the demands of the protesting students
rte.ie/news/2024/0508/144806…
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Together with others colleagues, I have expressed our alarm regarding accounts of rape by the Israeli occupation forces in February this year.
It is abhorrent that such reports of sexual violence continue unabated - not to mention that this is but one of multiple forms of violence that Palestinian women are subjected to on the basis of being Palestinian and being women.
Rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide! It must stop!
Dr Boothman you absolute superstar!!
the most incredible scientist and an even better human and friend - will never stop beaming with pride for youuu @isabelleboothmn ⭐️
CONGRATS to CRT student @isabelleboothmn who passed her viva on Friday👏👏👏👩🎓
DR Boothman worked on Identifying genetic risk factors and developing predictive models for severe cutaneous adverse drug reactions @RCSI_Irl with supervisor Gianpiero Cavalleri Well done Isabelle!
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Useful chapter on #admixture and #pca analysis for #PopGen. Includes code, tutorials, and caveats. #OpenAccess (h/t Jamie Gorrell, @Research_VIU).
Lui et al. 2021: Exploring Population Structure with Admixture Models and Principal Component Analysis.
link.springer.com/protocol/1…
