Rachael Clark
PhD Student studying environmentally transmitted pathogens in wild deer in Scotland 🦠🦌
University of Aberdeen
Research Intern at Grevy’s Zebra Trust 🦓
Research Interests: wildlife conservation, diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
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- At #BES2025 in Edinburgh? Come and find me at my poster stand B15.18 in Cromdale tonight at the poster session to chat about all things pathogens in wild deer 🦌 🦠
- excited to receive my copy of the Niche today from @britishecologicalsociety.org and to see zebras featured on the front cover! 🦓
- 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
- 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 💪🏻👩🔬
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- 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 🦓
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- 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
- 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
- and of course, plenty of birding opportunities too!
- 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.
- 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!
- my favourite seabird 😍
- time to play a game of spot the #kingfisher this morning! 🪶👀
- Reposted by Rachael ClarkJust 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 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 🥰
- 📣 #PhD Opportunity 📣 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 🐀🐁🦠 Please Share! Find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- spot me 👀
- proudly wearing some of @rowankuminski.bsky.social ‘s art this festive season! 😍🤣
- Fulmary Christmas and Happy New Deer from Rachael @rachaelclark.bsky.social, Elouise, and Rowan, ft. our PhD study species! Even though the goshawk proved insurmountably difficult to think of a pun for, this was by far the most fun design I've worked on and we had a lot of laughs in the process 😊
- 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!
- 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
- 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
- Reposted by Rachael Clark🚨Looking for two PhD students to join our lab in Fall' 25🚨 If you know someone that loves/works with Neotropical birds and/or species interactions, and is looking for a PhD please share this with them! (application deadline is January 3rd). More info here --> montanolab.com/join-us/
- Reposted by Rachael Clark🚨PhD ALERT! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomic approaches 🧬 to unravel the mysteries of migration using yellow-browed warblers. Think this is you or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 02/12 and check out the ad below!
- Reposted by Rachael ClarkThank you @britishecolsoc.bsky.social for allowing me to write this for #TransgenderAwarenessWeek and for being such an important support system for me. As co-chair of EDGE and as a non-binary PhD student who has experienced a great deal of transphobia at my uni, I'd love it if you gave this a read!
- As ecologists we celebrate diversity, both of the natural world and of the people in this field. This Transgender Awareness Week, @rowankuminski.bsky.social co-chair of EDGE Network shares 5 small steps you can make to support transgender ecologists www.britishecologicalsociety.org/five-steps-t...
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- Always exciting to spot one of my #StudySpecies when out hiking, and I find myself wondering what pathogens each of them might be carrying 👀🦠
- Reposted by Rachael ClarkA funded PhD is open on population genetics of the sheep scab mite, Psoroptes ovis, using genomic data to understand mite populations in the context of ongoing control programs. Co-supervised by a great team at @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and Stew Burgess at MRI. More details at tinyurl.com/a873cvb4.
