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Laura Campbell

@lauracecampbell.bsky.social
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PDRA in bioinformatics education at Edinburgh University. PhD in genomics of ant-plant mutualism 🐜🌱

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Jonathan Drury @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!
The Durham cathedralA male smoky rubyspot damselfly
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
#A_day_in_the_life of a live oak (day 423): The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) tending a Disholcaspis cinerosa gall on a southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in New Orleans, Louisiana. #biodiversity
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Do you know a young person with an interest in insects? 🦋 The Douglas Boyes Fund aims to provide people aged 14-18 with access to entomology equipment, fostering their passion for insects and inspiring them to engage and share their interest with other young individuals 🔽
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Douglas Boyes Fund - Royal Entomological Society
The Douglas Boyes Fund has been established in honour of Douglas Boyes (1996-2021), an esteemed entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. The Fund aims to provide young people aged 14-18 with access…
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Laura Campbell @lauracecampbell.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Super excited to be starting my new job today as a PDRA in bioinformatics education at Edinburgh University! I’ll be working as part of the 4273pi project bringing bioinformatics to schools across Scotland
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Laura Campbell @lauracecampbell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Join a friendly and supportive team doing brilliant science in a great city!
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Laura Campbell @lauracecampbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fascinating talk, throughly enjoyed by myself and little Yumi 🐈‍⬛🐝
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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
How do complex social behaviors evolve and shape species' success? Here doi.org/10.1038/s420... we reveal how a key social behavior in ants - mouth-to-mouth food sharing #trophallaxis - emerged as ants opportunistically exploited new ecological niches as terrestrial environments changed.
A Paratrechina queen and worker engaging in trophallaxis. Photo by François Brassard
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