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Dr Rachel Glover

@rachomics.bsky.social
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MD of Taxa Genomics. We're based on a whole-nation UNESCO Biosphere called the Isle of Man. #eDNA #metagenomics #speciesID

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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Quick question to you all. What are @oxfordnanopore.bsky.social charging you all per delivery of kits or flowcells? We're on the Isle of Man (closer to Oxford than Belfast!) and are being charged £150 (ex. VAT) shipping per delivery. It would cost us less to get on an Easyjet and pick them up...
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One from a previous field I worked in that most of the public didn't understand: Why do the tomatoes in the supermarket have yellow spots and it is OK to eat the virus that causes them? 😇
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Please get in touch with the Manx Museum, I'm sure they'd love to know where you found it. manxnationalheritage.im/our-sites/ma...
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Manx Museum - Thie Tashtee Vannin : Manx National Heritage
The Manx Museum, based in Douglas, is bursting with artefacts and treasures unique to the Isle of Man and the Island's 10,000 year history.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I think people outside of the DNA barcoding bubble don’t realise what part Dan Jansen had to play in the early days of DNA barcoding in the 2000’s. It’s one of the reasons the best early work on DNA speciation was done on moths.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 12/05/2025
This #PlantHealthDay, a reminder: plant health depends on biodiversity, yet its decline affects water availability & quality while increasing disease emergence. 🧪 @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment shows these connections are vital for functioning ecosystems. 🌍 Let's protect plant diversity!
 A close-up photograph of bright green, glossy jade plant leaves (Crassula ovata) with the IPBES logo in the top left corner. Below the image is text that reads: "Biodiversity loss reduces water availability, increases pathogen emergence and exacerbates some forms of water pollution, undermining human, plant and animal health. SOURCE: IPBES NEXUS ASSESSMENT". The image is framed with a green border at the bottom. The succulent's thick, oval-shaped leaves are shown in sharp detail, highlighting their plump, healthy appearance.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
My guilty pleasure is analysing eDNA data from my own country, the Isle of Man. It's such a tiny Island but also the only whole-nation UNESCO Biosphere. Taxa Genomics uses locations on the Island for method development and I'm always excited to see what the sequences say about that point in time.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I have mixed feelings about the press reporting the five-year anniversary of COVID. My work back then to set up the Isle of Man’s testing laboratory is still my proudest scientific achievement, but the personal and professional fallout is still raw.
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Manx Wildlife Trust @manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🇮🇲 Manx Wildlife Trust are welcoming expressions of interest for the IIEM25. 🌎 The theme for IIEM25 will be Collaboration for Greater Impact. 🔗 To find out more and register your interest follow the link: www.mwt.im/IIEM25
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25th Inter-Island Environment Meeting 2025 | Manx Wildlife Trust
IIEM25 will be a celebration of 25 years of the Inter-Island Environment Meeting bringing together environmentalists, conservationists and other environmentally-minded people from the UK Crown Depende...
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We have to hope so.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Yes. When Trump is calling Zelensky a "dictator" then the post-WW2 checks and measures should really be taking priority.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you're interested in seeing a little of the Manx Wildlife Trust's work, then Guy Martin has highlighted the work of our wardens on the Calf of Man in his show "Proper jobs" u.co.uk/shows/guy-ma...
u.co.uk
Guy Martin: Proper Jobs, Series 1, Episode 2 - Wildlife Warden | Watch on U
Guy gets to grips with nature as a wildlife warden on the remote Calf of Man island.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A quick bump for this. If you're looking for an eDNA role to develop applied ecological services, whilst also getting to do some eDNA R&D within the only whole-nation UNESCO biosphere, then this role might be for you. Post-doc, £42k-£46k with significant tax breaks as we're a low-tax jurisdiction.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Taxa Genomics is looking for a staff scientist in #eDNA #environmentalDNA. Take a look at www.taxagenomics.com/careers for full info. Please share if you know an #eDNA post-doc looking for a permanent position!
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 07/01/2025
Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...
Two photos of Anna, a young white woman using an electric wheelchair, wearing a blue lab coat that fits her well with tables and dry-lab equipment in the background. Text reads: "A team of researchers and designers led by UCL is looking for wheelchair users working in wet lab environments to user-test what is believed to be the first-ever prototype of a lab coat adapted for wheelchair users."
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 17/12/2024
Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
European winter walkers keep 👀 out. A dead Kemp's Ridley turtle was reported on 13th December at Talacre, North Wales, UK. There will be more. Reporting guidelines here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a... 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #seaturte #marineturtle @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Rapid spread of bee-killing Asian hornets halted in UK
Action helps thwart advance of invasive yellow-legged hornet that can kill 50 bees a day and has devastated honeybee colonies in France and Italy
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Eric R. Larson @ericrlarson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🧪🦞 New from the lab led by Elle Sawyer: over 40 years, invasive rusty crayfish in Wisconsin lakes have become smaller (doi.org/10.1111/fwb....). What's the cause? We investigated lake temperatures, productivity, and intraspecific competition, but answers remain TBD.
A white bucket containing about 20 rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus), an olive brown crayfish species with a rust red spot on each side of the carapace.
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good news, Altmetric has now started watching BlueSky for mentions of publications. And by the way, provides an easy comparison between this and the old site for a recent preprint of mine which I posted simultaneousl at both. Numbers speak by themselves !
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For this #Crustmas #ArtAdventCalendar crossover event we have a Sally Lightfoot crab snacking on some algae. These agile crabs can move in four directions and are said to be named after a Caribbean dancer. They also have a fun scientific name - Graspus graspus
A bright red crab with an orange carapace, pink eyes, and light blue patches on the face. It is standing on algae covered rocks and has some algae stuck in its mouth.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Student reports: brought to you by Thermo. Co-authored by the latest six-month rotational account manager for the region.
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Prof Grant Stentiford @cefaschiefsci.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg... Defra are looking for a new Chief Scientific Advisor
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Chief Scientific Adviser - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK
Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
BlueSky is bringing back memories of how positive and collaborative “Science Twitter” was in 2009-2013ish. It’s so encouraging to see so many scientists migrating to this platform.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A great description of the world of #eDNA #environmentalDNA in science news. 🧪 #academicsky #womeninSTEM #ecology #conservation www.sciencenews.org/article/edna... 🧬🧬🧬
sciencenews.org
Stray DNA is all around us. It could revolutionize conservation
Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Could you add me please? Thanks for setting this up!
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’ve gained lots of science followers in the last 24h. Have I ended up on a list somewhere?
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It was fantastic to wake up to this news this morning! I've been a trustee of MWT for almost six years now and I know how valuable volunteers (and staff) have been to the progress the charity has made over the last decade. www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of...
manxradio.com
Manx Wildlife Trust receives King's Award for Voluntary Service
It's the MBE equivalent for voluntary groups in the UK and Crown Dependencies
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It’s nice to see so many new people joining here from the old place.
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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 03/07/2024
I sure wish ancient DNA and #eDNA researchers would collaborate and communicate more to avoid re-inventing the wheel www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
I was clearing some grass in my garden and came across this little smooth newt. Hopefully they're not too annoyed that I pulled up the grass and they found a new home ASAP.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
It's been a few years* since I had to produce a publication-quality phylogenetic tree. Back in the days of running Phylip from a ZipDisk there were few tools to do the job quickly and easily. I'm extremely impressed with iTOL (itol.embl.de). What a great tool! *more than I care to admit.
itol.embl.de
iTOL: Interactive Tree Of Life
phylogenetic tree viewer and annotation tool
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Welcome! It's so much better here compared to the Space Karen. I deleted my account there a couple of years ago but I remember the decision and it's like grief. The same people that were there are here, you just need to find them 😊
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
I had to get an app on my phone so I could scan in all the books I actually own so that I didn’t buy a second copy of “interesting looking” books that I had forgotten I already had, but hadn’t read yet.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
I finally got the toddler to bed after a day of parks, older cousins teaching bad habits, B&Q, Tesco and the general exhaustion of "Oh, so you want the BLUE bowl not the RED bowl for dinner?!" 😆
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Startling genome discovery in butterfly project reveals impact of climate change in Europe
Project to study all 11,000 species of butterflies and moths finds ‘two species in the act of being created from one’
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
You should see me in all my 3P shooting kit. It's very "computational biologist" vs "bioinformatician" 😂
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
Those were my sentiments two weeks ago. I hope you recover fast
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
I do find the level of hate aimed at Fauci deeply dispiriting- people have no idea how horrible it is receiving hate mail never mind regular credible death threats. The pressure he and his family are under must be huge
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Fauci describes ‘credible death threats’ for overseeing US Covid-19 response
Doctor, who was head of infectious diseases unit during height of the pandemic, tells Congress he and his family still get harassed
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
JOIN US
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
(oh, the date says March 2024, so it's definitely up to date 🤦‍♀️)
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
This one for microbiology did the rounds a few years ago (no idea how up to date it is). I'm sure there will be at least a few microbial bioinformaticians in there to get started. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Expert Women In Microbiology - March 2024 - Public Version
Sorted per last name First name,Last name,Institution / Company,City,Country,Position,Website,Research Interests / bio,Academia or Industry,Twitter Handle Link to the form to submit a new entry, or t...
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
Loving the Finding Nemo reference to benthic fishes. Speaking as someone who worked on plant viruses for more than a decade it's so great to hear someone talking about non-human viruses :)
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
H5N1 potentially in wastewater near dairy plants - future sequences from these samples could be key Detection of hemagglutinin H5 influenza A virus sequence in municipal wastewater solids at wastewater treatment plants with increases in influenza A in spring, 2024 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
"Leaky pipeline" serves systems & institutions, like there's one ideal STEM career path & oops the system passively loses some ppl along the way 🤷‍♀️ Alternatives: river/road metaphors, which allow for lots of career paths and for harmful ppl that drive folks out of 'their' way. "Oops" isn't accurate.
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
I'm all for reading any paper with "doofus" in the title.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 18/03/2024
They think it’s the Computer from Star Trek and no one has yet managed to communicate to them that it’s actually that new intern who is completely over their head but trying desperately to sound like they know what they’re talking about
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Dr Rachel Glover @rachomics.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
To update on this the antivaxxer got 8 months custodial sentence and there's effectively an indefinite restraining order keeping him away from me in person, and online. He also got an extra 119 days in prison for not paying the fines from his previous convictions during 2023.
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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
For International Women’s Day: #LuxPortraits by @jennifer.j.quinn of microbial scientists Rita Colwell, Abigail Salyers, Rosalind Franklin, and Esther Lederberg. @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology #IWD2024
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 05/03/2024
Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life. 🌏🧪 Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at www.ipbes.net/iasto learn more.
An infographic detailing facts about the impacts of invasive alien species from the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report. The infographic also depicts images of various different invasive alien species such as the grey squirrel, alexandrine parakeet and red fox.
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