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Rachel Lennon @rachlenn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🚨New Paper🚨 Excited to share my latest @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD research with @strandings.bsky.social which used machine learning to reveal patterns in harbour porpoise pathology, showing how necropsy data can provide population level insights into cetacean health 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk · 04/09/2025

Did you catch our recent radio interviews with @drheatherferg.bsky.social , @rachlenn.bsky.social and Dr Andrew Brownlow (both @strandings.bsky.social. Catch them while you can 👂 Heather www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (18:45) Rachel 33 mins/Andrew 1hr47mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (17:47)

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Rachel Lennon @rachlenn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📢 New paper out! Cetacean strandings in Scotland have risen 125% over the past 30 years. Our study gives the first comprehensive picture of when, where, and which species strand, providing a baseline to guide conservation. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @strandings.bsky.social

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Rachel Lennon @rachlenn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Still buzzing from an inspiring weekend at the Marine Forum @strandings.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social 🌊 So great to meet so many brilliant people – and put faces to names! Huge thanks to everyone who shared their work & time and @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social for such a beautiful setting! 🐬

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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ever wondered what hoverfly sperm look like? 🪰💡… Well, me neither! But as you might imagine, they are really tiny: around 15 microns. 🔬 That’s approximately 100 times smaller than a 1mm measurement you’d find on a ruler. 📏 Female marmalade hoverflies store sperm (left pic) in spermathecae (right).

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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

New paper out today from our lab. doi.org/10.1098/rsob... We unpick the morphological 🧑‍🧒, physiological 🔬, behavioural 📟 and transcriptomic 🧬 differences contributing to female sex bias in migrating #hoverflies. See my work on flight performance in this paper 🪰💪🪽 @uniexecec.bsky.social

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Multiple factors contribute to female dominance in migratory bioflows | Open Biology

Migration is a widely observed phenomenon supported by morphological, physiological and behavioural traits that vary with season and sex in many species. Recently, the genetic components underpinning migration in the marmalade hoverfly (Diptera: Syrphidae)...

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵 🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊 #WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Rachel Lennon @rachlenn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A great PhD with a great team at a great University - what more could you want?! Highly recommend applying to this if you are interested in #viruses and/or #marinemammal health 🦠🐬 @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social

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Rachel Lennon @rachlenn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Download the new @strandings.bsky.social app, Beachtrack! 📲 By recording beach walks you can easily & effectively help monitor Scottish coastlines. Knowing where people are and aren't walking gives us a clearer picture of what’s happening along the shore🦭🌊

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Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme @strandings.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🌊The Marine Forum is back!🌊 We’re excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this year’s theme, "Sea Change” will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...

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WDC & SMASS Marine Forum 2025

A day of talks & workshops focusing on citizen science data collected from across Scotland to aid the protection of the marine environment.

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

✨ New Research! ✨ Efficacy of artificial nest shading as a #climatechange adaptation measure for marine #turtles at Ascension Island from postgraduate researcher Jack Wiggins & team 🐢 Read #openaccess here: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ExeterCEC #ExeterMarine 🌏 🧪 🦑

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