Rachel Hester

PhD candidate @UCLCBER @ZSLScience | using #genomics and #geoprofiling to understand alpine newt invasion in the UK 👽🛸 | #firstgen | she/her | 🇮🇪

[Elias Rugen @EliasRugen]

https://t.co/gaMqtFrSL9

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@ektinsley @WCHerp Ty El <3 you T and DD smashed your symposium too!!

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

coming back down to earth after an amazing few weeks in Malaysian Borneo for #WCH10. Got to meet so many incredible people and hear about the most unreal herpetology research.

Was also over the moon to be awarded for my talk 👽

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

what an incredible piece of work by @EliasRugen et al… GSSP pending 🥕⚡️

[Elias Rugen @EliasRugen]

New paper alert 🚨

Very happy to publish this paper from my PhD where we provide the first age constraints for the Port Askaig Formation ‘snowball Earth’ deposit. 1/3

[Elias Rugen @EliasRugen]

New paper alert 🚨

Very happy to publish this paper from my PhD where we provide the first age constraints for the Port Askaig Formation ‘snowball Earth’ deposit. 1/3

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

#WCH10 if you like genomics, invasion biology and humans moving newts round come hear me talk tomorrow morning (11am Great Hall C) 🧬 👽

[Dr Joanne Littlefair @JELittlefair]

Join us in team #eDNA at the People and Nature Lab @UCLCBER @UCLEast! I am recruiting a NERC funded PDRA to research air sampling for terrestrial biomonitoring https://t.co/cGjatjrx2X application deadline 19 Aug

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@FreshwaterIzzy massive congrats Izzy!! 🌸✨

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@wesleyjneely just another intermediate host in the aquatic environment! https://t.co/dmpEC4YIF7

They act as int host of strigeid trematodes (snails too but there’s not many snails in this pond), which cause polydactyly in infected amphibians. Could also be newts getting directly infected!

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

not every day you meet a five-footed newt 👋🏻

caught this polydactylous alpine newt yesterday - presence of lots of leeches in the pond means it could be a trematode-induced developmental abnormality

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@stevoallain on it 🫡

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@ARGroupsUK @wildlife_health @froglifers @ARC_Bytes Thank you!

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

@MarkusBhler10 so cool!!

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

kinda stole the show from this one with webbed feet which I’ve also never seen before 🕸️

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

https://t.co/cABZy8qMwg

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

Termites are complex but there’s no better man to unravel that complexity @LewisRevely

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

The diversity of social complexity in termites #ProcB #OpenAccess https://t.co/E7KADFXnCU #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiologu

[UCL Biosciences @uclbiosciences]

The UCL MRes Biosciences Scholarship 2024-25 supports UK Black, Asian and ethnic minority students at the start of their academic career in biosciences research on any stream of the UCL MRes Biosciences programme in 2024-25. Find out more. ⬇️https://t.co/oonxERN49Z

[Rachel Hester @_RachelHester]

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[rocksolidfossils @rocksolidfossil]

A life-sized reconstruction of Megalania, an extinct giant lizard, that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene era with an estimated length of 3.5 to 7 meters (11.5- 23 ft) and a weight between 97-1,940 kg (214-4,277 lb). CREDIT: Prehistoric Earth #Megalania

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Breaking: Ireland formally recognises state of Palestine, Taoiseach announces: ‘This is an historic and important day for Ireland and for Palestine.’

Follow for live coverage: https://t.co/fUuayvMaly

[Iona Cunningham-Eurich @ionace]

Are you a moth-trapper with a spare 10 minutes? If so, please fill in the following survey aiming to understand moth-ers and their relationship with insects in traps 🐝🦋 Please share! https://t.co/1klsSDyolf
(Best on computer/tablet)