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Laura McBride

@gallowayselkie.bsky.social
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Marine ecology consultant for Europe's #1 Crab Museum 🦀 | PhD student studying eDNA, seagrass and fish at Aberdeen Uni 🧬🐟 | Wild Swimmer 🦭

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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thanks to the @challengersoc.bsky.social I got to travel to Sri Lanka where I assisted a PhD collaborator with her eDNA research! What an amazing experience. The wildlife and natural surroundings there are nothing short of stunning 🇱🇰🐠🐡 #eDNA #marineresearch
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
When staying with birders it's only natural you join them for a night of owl ringing. This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🧬 We are so back 🧬 Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧 Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up! #naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.
A blue, yellow, and white Sea slug mascot stands in front of some tents.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Went to a #squidgoals themed 21st birthday party. Subsequently, went on to do a squid-related internship to keep the joke going. Got REALLY into cephalopods and did my MSc thesis with @autsquidsquad.bsky.social. Got REALLY into molecular ecology and then into eDNA. 🧬🦑
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟
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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Hold on. Are you sure the recipe called for a teaspoon of octopus?" 🥄🐙📷Sarah K. Grossman (inaturalist.ca/observations...)
A white plastic spoon that has three Giant Pacific Octopus paralarvae (Enteroctopus dofleini) in it. They are very small, have transparent skill, dark red organs and chromatophores and black beady eyes.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Stopped by @projectseagrass.bsky.social nursery hearing about the success and failures of restoration. I also got to indulge in a bit of culture visiting Dylan Thomas's boathouse. I feel the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night..." feels apt in my feelings against apathy in conservation.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A very successful #SeagrassSymposium25 last week rounding off the conference with some insights from future #marine scientists who talked about class and financial issues as ecology students. Howard Wood gave an inspiring talk on his work building #COAST in Arran and the power of being stubborn!
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Day 1 of the UK Seagrass Symposium done ✅ Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook. #seagrasssymposium #seagrass
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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A well written engaging article, an end of the week reminder that humans are capable of acting for the greater good, but also of what's at stake when we don't... www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
From fieldwork to festival with one day turnaround. #whatascientistlookslike
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
After an ∞ number of litres filtered and an ∞ number of podcast hours listened to, it's time to say tìoraidh to Èirisgeidh and tìoraidh to this years field season! Really lucky I got the good weather and a stellar crew to help me out with my sample collecting. Now it's time to rest 😌
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Again I ask: how did we go from half of parliament and all of the press up in arms denouncing racism as a weapon to hound out the left, to the PM giving Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the street without a word of criticism from the main parties, and active support in some cases.
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Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats
Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🏝 Sound of Barrabados 🏝 #Èirisgeigh #Hebrides #Alba
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
How it feels to be the only person in the monitoring team to get seasick.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Sunburnt and questionable fashion can be forgiven for doing seagrass/mileanach surveying in such a gorgeous location. Also an excellent place to practice my gàidhlig. Tha latha math ann! #gàidhlig #hebrides #hebrideanislands #alba #seagrass #fieldwork #mileanach
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
10pm at night and we're still up filtering water samples by hand for eDNA analysis. The grind never stops 😩 #neverstopneverstopping
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Listening to silly music whilst doing silly stats 😝
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Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit (CRRU) @crru.org.uk · 13/08/2025
Introducing our 2nd newborn bottlenose calf of the 2025 season with her proud mum "Barbi" (ID#253)! 🐬 This new youngster (5th known calf for Barbi), was probably only hours old when we met her yesterday, as evidenced from its bent-over dorsal fin and uncoordinated surfacing behaviour. 🧪
Newborn bottlenose dolphin calf surfacing next to its mother. Fetal folds and a bent over dorsal fin are visible on the calf.
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 09/07/2025
Fascism? Simply too much trouble to do anything about it. We’ve got lefties to scold and arrest
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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Jacob Simon (says) @jacobsimonsays.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
We’re officially halfway through 2025… Here’s what went right in every month so far. What impact will you have in the second half of the year?
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I don’t think enough of us talked about the footage of the Norwegian Orcas makin’ out yesterday. www.livescience.com/animals/orca...
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Orcas filmed making out in the wild for first time
Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other's tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think this rarely seen behavior could play a role in social bonding.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Is there a saint or goddess you can pray to for successful eDNA extractions? Asking for ME. 💁🏼‍♀️
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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Super cute Monterey pride parade today! The Monterey Gay Aqueerium float was amazing 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Squidney Sweeney 🦑
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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 😁 🐟 🤖
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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️
screenshot of open letter page 1 - full google doc available via link in postscreenshot of open letter page 2 - full google doc available via link in post
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My friend's so talented 😍
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Absolutely amazing!
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Here to share some propaganda about doing fieldwork in Scotland. It's definitely always this sunny and dry all the time. No sideways rain, EVER. The rainbow was NOT a paid actor. All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
V. jealous of the #SAMS students that get to see this view from their campus everyday ✨️ North west Scotland always delivers with the scenery.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Everybody drop what you're listening to whilst working. I have this on repeat all day ✨️💅
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A Nintendo Playlist for a Princess 👑✨
YouTube video by Anna
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Everything comes back in fashion, so stop throwing away your dead salmon fish hats!
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Who's that girl lalalalalalalalala. It's me, I'm that girl and I'm presenting some preliminary ideas for my PhD project.
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Incredible @tillysscott.bsky.social what a talent! Thank you for the wee baby fish drawing 😭🐟
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Laura McBride @gallowayselkie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
For my first Blue Sky post, I'm going to shamelessly plug my first author and first ever paper! A collaborative effort between the amazing team at ALCES at Auckland Univeristy of Technology, NIWA, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 🦑🦑🦑 #deathtotwitter #cephalopods www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Trophic ecology of the deep-sea squid Moroteuthopsis ingens (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) from the Chatham Rise, Aotearoa New Zealand
Cephalopods form important components of marine trophic systems worldwide, including those in the South Pacific. Moroteuthopsis ingens (Onychoteuthidae) is one of the most abundant deep–sea squids ...
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