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Wildlife disease ecology 🦇🐃🦌🦠📈🧑🏻‍💻— PhD candidate, University of Glasgow. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 Language addict 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇵🇪🇫🇮

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a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf ALT: a group of bats are sitting on top of each other on a green leaf

Happy #BatMas everyone! Follow this thread ⬇️ or check out the hashtag to find out about a new bat species everyday, for 25 days! 🦇🌎🧪

#BatSky🧵

01.12.2025 21:30 — 👍 373    🔁 100    💬 8    📌 12
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The ocean is such a weird and wonderful place. When baby eels first hatch, they are bizarre transparent little guys. But scientists think they may change shape to pretend to be other (more dangerous/less tasty) creatures like jellyfish or salps. Like raaaaar don't eat me I'm scary. Adorable. 🧪🦑

06.06.2025 03:35 — 👍 71    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 0
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How visa rejections are stalling Africa's health research Experts call for visa equity to boost participation of scientists from the global south.

Question for those with greater experience: What are actions that one can take as an early career researcher to help make science more inclusive and accessible to everyone, everywhere? These challenges feel so large, especially as a student, but I’m sure there are still things everyone can do?

25.02.2025 11:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why the European Journal of Public Health and EUPHA are opposing President Trump’s attack on the language of diversity The news that the Trump administration has ordered scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles co

“When governments decide which words can and cannot be spoken and dictate what research can and cannot be published, they are not defending the truth. They are erasing it. We in Europe have seen where this road leads. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.”

24.02.2025 19:26 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape.

UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues.

Here's what I think we should be doing...

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21.02.2025 11:57 — 👍 295    🔁 125    💬 3    📌 11

Sure

22.01.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Despair

20.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes and happy to chat. What’s this for?

16.01.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have always loved these things! I hope they’re doing well! Well, at least the ones still in the sea…

23.11.2024 17:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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