Rachael Clark

excited to receive my copy of the Niche today from @britishecologicalsociety.org and to see zebras featured on the front cover! 🦓

Something I always try to have on me during my presentations is my lucky coin with Rosalind Franklin and DNA, gifted to me by @shaunkeegan.bsky.social to remind me how cool it is to be a #WomaninSTEM 💪🏻👩‍🔬

Me standing at the front of a lecture theatre presenting my talk, with a title slide “Using wild deer as sentinels to explore the diversity of non-tuberculosis Mycobacteria in Scotland”

A pleasure to wrap up the first day of the #SBSPGRConference here at the School of Biological Sciences! This conference is a great way to hear what all my friends are up to with their own cool projects - something we don’t often talk about in the lunch room or at coffee time! 🧬🥼🔬 #PhDStudents

I will be forever grateful for this unique opportunity that my #internship allowed me!

The Grevy’s Zebra is such a wonderful species and I’m so proud to say I’m contributing towards their #conservation

Read more about my trip in the #blog linked below 🦓

After years of no public commitment from UoA to protect their #trans and #queer students, we have decided to publish this letter in hope for positive change

With the Supreme Court ruling in the UK, this is more important than ever

If you can, please sign below 👇🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#PhDSky #LGBTSTEM #QueerInSTEM

a fantastic closing ceremony to wrap up #IWEC2025 yesterday! including traditional samburu singing and dancing, followed by a very entertaining demonstration about the work Grevy’s Zebra Trust do 🦓

#WildEquidConservation #GrevysZebra #WildlifeConservation

very interesting talk from Prof Dan Rubenstein on the adaptive significance of zebra stripes - turns out there are many reasons why zebras have stripes ! They really are the coolest animals 🦓 #IWEC2025

a brilliant opening talk this morning from Peter Lalampaa, the Executive Director of the Grevy’s Zebra Trust on the importance of blending indigenous knowledge with scientific research for effective wildlife conservation! 🦓 #IWEC2025

Safely arrived in Nanyuki, Kenya ahead of the International Wild Equid Conference starting tomorrow! #IWEC2025

and of course, plenty of birding opportunities too!

a yellow weaver perched on a tree branch.

I’m in Kenya for the next 2.5 weeks as part of my PhD #internship with Grevy’s Zebra Trust and Marwell Wildlife! We are meeting with all the different partners involved in the Grevy’s zebra projects and will be attending the International Wild Equid Conference #IWEC 🦓

@quadratdtp.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to host Shaun for our weekly seminar! Grateful for all the support he has given me in my academic career so far, so it was great to have the chance to invite him here as a speaker.

thank you so much for coming and sharing your work with us! it was a pleasure to host you 😇

My opening slide of the presentation, titled “Life after Vet Bio”, alongside a picture of me from my graduation from that course, standing in front of bright pink Rhododendron flowers.

Had the pleasure of being asked to come back to speak to current students on #VeterinaryBiosciences at @uofglasgow.bsky.social about what I’ve been up to since I graduated from the programme in 2021!

Fingers crossed I’ve inspired some future #Ecologists today!

i feel your pain! i always dread trying to connect remotely with the university laptops when i’m travelling.

my favourite seabird 😍

time to play a game of spot the #kingfisher this morning! 🪶👀

Just a few more days to apply for a PhD with me! Use new technologies to study movement and ecology of serotine bats in UK. Evidence can guide future rabies control strategies, helping bats and people. Click on project 'Understanding transmission..' here: www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... #PhD #bats

so happy to finally add a pine marten to my wildlife spotting list, AND have the opportunity to actually photograph one too! 🥹

A greylag goose swimming on a lake with some blurred vegetation in the foreground. The picture is mostly grey and muted in colour, with the orange beak of the goose standing out in the centre.

A lovely, and much needed day #birding yesterday. Recorded 20 different species across two locations from some casual observations. Lighting wasn’t great for too many pics, but here’s a lovely Greylag on the water 🥰

EastBio - Invasive mammals, island biogeography, and the ecological epidemiology of a One Health pathogen at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - EastBio - Invasive mammals, island biogeography, and the ecological epidemiology of a One Health pathogen at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠

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proudly wearing some of @rowankuminski.bsky.social ‘s art this festive season! 😍🤣

Great to meet you too! Thank you so much - looking forward to it 🤩

Picture of my BES zebra notebook and my name tag from the conference

Thats me wrapping up from a brilliant #BES2024 - wouldn’t have been complete without my obligatory zebra notebook! 🦓

Thank you to everyone who came by my poster, asked questions, and those at the SIG socials! 🦓🦌🦠

See you next time!

Thanks! Yeah you’re right, it’s the lack of specificity - they can cause both false positive and negative results with the TB skin test which uses tuberculin.

Picture of me posing with my poster titled: “Using wild deer as sentinels to explore the diversity of non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in Scotland”

The poster’s up and it’s almost time for the second session at #BES2024 !

Find me at 13.7 to chat all things bacterial diversity in wild deer! 🦌 🦠

#WomenInSTEM

I will be ! That sounds great, I’d love to hear more about that - be sure to reach out when you’re here! 🦌

Attended my first @britishecolsoc.bsky.social in Liverpool in 2021, and excited to be back this year for #BES2024 presenting my #PhD research for the first time 🦌

Find me at Thursday’s #PosterSession : Using wild deer as sentinels to explore the diversity of Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in Scotland