PhD Researcher @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social || Working with @strandings.bsky.social to explore approaches to monitoring marine mammal health 🐳🔪
Rachel Lennon
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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).
As well as my wonderful co-authors: Jennifer Storm, Rylyn Koger, Elleigh Thompson, @rosiewilliams.bsky.social, Mark Dagleish, @simonab.bsky.social, @mariel-td.bsky.social, Nick Davison and Andrew Brownlow.
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)
Rachel Lennon
As always, thank you to the amazing SMASS volunteers and everyone who supported this work along the way including Sea-Changers who funded an intern to support data collection - this study wouldn’t have been possible without you! 🙏
Oliver Poole
🚨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...
Still buzzing from an inspiring weekend at the Marine Forum
@strandings.bsky.social @whalesorg.bsky.social
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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! 🐬
📢 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
🙏 Huge thanks to all the SMASS volunteers and everyone who has reported stranded animals, this work would not have been possible without you!!
And a big thank you to my co-authors: @mariel-td.bsky.social @rosiewilliams.bsky.social @simonab.bsky.social
School of Biodiversity One Health and Veterinary Medicine
