Early career vet epidemiologist @ Uni of Edinburgh. Interested in disease ecology, dogs, bTB, animal behaviour and welfare. Didn't write Bridget Jones. She/her.
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Joined November 2012
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🐮Cows prefer to hang out with those of a similar age, yet we didn't find any link between their social interactions amd milk yield or somatic cell count: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… the 5th and final paper from my PhD 🐮🥳
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Storm Babet is likely to have severely affected east coast shags. These could well be displaced birds from scottish colonies so please keep an eye out for them and check their legs for colour rings. [email protected] for sightings
Large numbers of Shags reported moving along the East coast in the past week, including along Northumberland coast and down past @spurnbirdobs.
Please report any colour ringed birds to [email protected]
#seabird #migration #birdringing
Two fantastic PhD opportunities in Cornwall UK exploring the link between climate warming and antibiotic resistance in microbial communities - please share! Contact @padpadpadpad for further details! exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
🐾Free-roaming dogs get harder to catch as sterilisation coverage increases - our team have now provided the evidence and values to improve modelling strategies and planning of dog population management - open access paper available now authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti… @DogsTrust
ALT Graph showing the negative relationship between sterilisation coverage and dog capture rates, also showing that cost increases as capture rates decline.
Listening to presentations at double-speed is just a dream for anyone with a hurry-up driver. It feels like I'm actually winning time. #smashingit
'The reader can digest the entire paper, or snack on each standalone section when required.' If only all papers were so enticing! peerj.com/articles/4794/ A great overview of mixed effects modelling from 2018 👍
Hoping I've gauged my Twitter audience correctly..... Is anyone collecting ticks?! (found on friendly dog in Scotland)
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Excited to advertise for a core scientist to join my research group at @roslininstitute @EdinburghUni! If you are an epidemiologist/modeller/statistician interested in One Health, this might be for you!
#OneHealth #epidemiology #Jobs #Edinburgh
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The second time in a week I have used a small chunk of code from my PhD - I knew it would pay off one day 🤑
Fantastic opportunity for a postdoc @EdinburghUni for the project 'Remaking One Health: Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies prevention in India'
We are looking for the newest member of the @ROHrabies team @wellcometrust : 4 year Human Geography PDRA position @EdinburghUni; multispecies research on street dogs and public health in India. Apply by the 24th Jan 22. edin.ac/3F3K6MM
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Free-roaming dogs that were petted were more optimistic in their interactions with humans than those that weren't petted (my opinion summary anyway) Interesting work - keep those scritches going! link.springer.com/article/10…
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Are you the proud human of an #Indie/Desi/street dog?
Then we welcome you to participate in our research to understand the in-house behavior of your dog!
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@Abhadra7 @BariaParizad @maitreyasil @doggiversity @PetsinBangalore @AdiG1990 @Arunita_13
Fantastic case study providing insight into cattle-cattle-badger-badger bTB transmission 👏
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🌞In summer 2018 we put hundreds of GPS and proximity devices on dairy cows on 7 farms in Cornwall 🐄 contacts were more frequent within buildings and cows free to roam over the farm showed more variation in their contacts. Open-access paper in PVM now! 🐄doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.…
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New #OpenAccess research on cat 🐱 play:
“Although correlational, these results suggest that laser light toys may be associated with the development of compulsive behaviors in cats, warranting further research into their use and potential risks”
New open access publication - on cats and laser light play #cats mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/8/2178
Bird found on Longniddry beach near Bent's 3 car park this evening @UKCEHseabirds - one of yours?
Fantastic work by the Mission Rabies Goa teams 🙌
The Indian state of #Goa has announced it finally has rabies under control after an extraordinary 61,143 dogs were vaccinated in just 30 days thanks to UK charity @MissionRabies.
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So this is what Labrador Retriever owners should aspire to? No wonder people think mine is crossed with a whippet....Shocked and saddened by this from the US Westminster dog show 2021.
So Twitter dog peeps... where would you place this winning Labrador on the @Purina body condition score scale?
