Mrinalini Watsa
@surroundscience.bsky.social
Conservation geneticist @SanDiegoZoo|
Director @fieldprojects |
Maxwell Hanrahan Field Biology Fellow
Wildlife biologist | Venipuncture enthusiast | Twin mum | Immigrant | Science writer
Alumnus of WashU-STL & Grinnell College
Bangalorean ಕನ್ನಡ ಹುಡುಗಿ
Director @fieldprojects |
Maxwell Hanrahan Field Biology Fellow
Wildlife biologist | Venipuncture enthusiast | Twin mum | Immigrant | Science writer
Alumnus of WashU-STL & Grinnell College
Bangalorean ಕನ್ನಡ ಹುಡುಗಿ
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My journey with @nanoporetech.com began in 2018 - really glad to have stuck it out till today, for faster and more reliable pores/enzymes. Here to see how the latest tech can impact #conservation #genomics.🧪🐾
@arynwilder.bsky.social presents on the incredible ways in which conservation genomics has impacted reintroductions of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (which is not a mouse!) at the 50th anniversary of the #FrozenZoo #consgen 🧪🧬
September 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
@arynwilder.bsky.social presents on the incredible ways in which conservation genomics has impacted reintroductions of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (which is not a mouse!) at the 50th anniversary of the #FrozenZoo #consgen 🧪🧬
Absolutely amazing moment: the #FrozenZoo turned 50 today, and so many amazing scientists were here in San Diego to celebrate 🧪@sandiegozoo.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Absolutely amazing moment: the #FrozenZoo turned 50 today, and so many amazing scientists were here in San Diego to celebrate 🧪@sandiegozoo.bsky.social
1/ There’s just no doubt - the future of biobanking and de novo genome sequencing lies in a single (higher throughput) flowcell running ULK and pore-C together + hifiasm + dorado polish + teloseq! #oneflowcell #onegenome #orgone #NanoporeConf 🧪
May 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
1/ There’s just no doubt - the future of biobanking and de novo genome sequencing lies in a single (higher throughput) flowcell running ULK and pore-C together + hifiasm + dorado polish + teloseq! #oneflowcell #onegenome #orgone #NanoporeConf 🧪
Absolutely brilliant work at GOSH on targeted rapid metagenomics for same day results on respiratory infections at a hospital. 30 new centres across the UK to adopt this. #nextgen medicine. #Nanoporeconf
May 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Absolutely brilliant work at GOSH on targeted rapid metagenomics for same day results on respiratory infections at a hospital. 30 new centres across the UK to adopt this. #nextgen medicine. #Nanoporeconf
Reposted by Mrinalini Watsa
Rosemary Dokos #NanoporeConf
Project GargantION; maintains all of the richness of existing flow cell chemistries, but is based on voltage sensing; about 1 genome per hour per flow cell.
Project GargantION; maintains all of the richness of existing flow cell chemistries, but is based on voltage sensing; about 1 genome per hour per flow cell.
May 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Rosemary Dokos #NanoporeConf
Project GargantION; maintains all of the richness of existing flow cell chemistries, but is based on voltage sensing; about 1 genome per hour per flow cell.
Project GargantION; maintains all of the richness of existing flow cell chemistries, but is based on voltage sensing; about 1 genome per hour per flow cell.
Peptides are being detected directly, folks. PEPTIDES. #LakmalJayasinghe is delivering on his promise. Accurate and sensitive - peptides are grabbed by two DNA handles and run through the pore. #brush up on your #proteomics. This WILL happen. 🧪#nanoporeconf @nanoporetech.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Peptides are being detected directly, folks. PEPTIDES. #LakmalJayasinghe is delivering on his promise. Accurate and sensitive - peptides are grabbed by two DNA handles and run through the pore. #brush up on your #proteomics. This WILL happen. 🧪#nanoporeconf @nanoporetech.com
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It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf
It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf
May 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ok. 🤯🤯🤯
It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf
It’s not here yet, but it will be. 🧪#consgen is never going to be the same - this doesn’t only belong in a doctor’s office. Sample to sequence in a single device @nanoporetech.com #nanoporeconf
Boston Children’s Hospital showing DNA from samples in a fridge can be successfully assessed for methylation at #nanoporeconf 🧪
May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Boston Children’s Hospital showing DNA from samples in a fridge can be successfully assessed for methylation at #nanoporeconf 🧪
My journey with @nanoporetech.com began in 2018 - really glad to have stuck it out till today, for faster and more reliable pores/enzymes. Here to see how the latest tech can impact #conservation #genomics.🧪🐾
May 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
My journey with @nanoporetech.com began in 2018 - really glad to have stuck it out till today, for faster and more reliable pores/enzymes. Here to see how the latest tech can impact #conservation #genomics.🧪🐾
Excited to see what’s new in this #nanopore world. #nanoporeconf is live!
Live from London Calling 2025!
Speakers, attendees and the Oxford Nanopore crew are starting to fill into Old Billingsgate!
Ready for Gordon to kick things off for the 11th time!
Make sure you keep your posts coming using: #nanoporeconf
Speakers, attendees and the Oxford Nanopore crew are starting to fill into Old Billingsgate!
Ready for Gordon to kick things off for the 11th time!
Make sure you keep your posts coming using: #nanoporeconf
May 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Excited to see what’s new in this #nanopore world. #nanoporeconf is live!
Reposted by Mrinalini Watsa
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Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%.
That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...
Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%
French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...
www.pv-magazine.com
November 30, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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So excited that my favourite primates (they’re non-human!) are featured here - can’t wait to watch with the @fieldprojects.bsky.social crew! #congrats #theamericas #scicomm #tamarins 🧪
November 29, 2024 at 10:58 PM
So excited that my favourite primates (they’re non-human!) are featured here - can’t wait to watch with the @fieldprojects.bsky.social crew! #congrats #theamericas #scicomm #tamarins 🧪
Beautiful and prickly, these cholla cacti, or teddy bear cacti, actually launch at you unprovoked. This stand blooms where the Mojave transitions into the Colorado desert in #joshuatreenp and is stunning. What’s more, most are thought to be identical clones of parents with the same DNA 🧪🐾
November 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Beautiful and prickly, these cholla cacti, or teddy bear cacti, actually launch at you unprovoked. This stand blooms where the Mojave transitions into the Colorado desert in #joshuatreenp and is stunning. What’s more, most are thought to be identical clones of parents with the same DNA 🧪🐾
Setting up major Thanksgiving traditions with kids while secretly working on math skills #nerdymama #clevermama ?
November 28, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Setting up major Thanksgiving traditions with kids while secretly working on math skills #nerdymama #clevermama ?
Welcome to bsky @nanoporetech.com here’s your moment of joy! #flongle #shortreads #forensics #wildlife
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Welcome to bsky @nanoporetech.com here’s your moment of joy! #flongle #shortreads #forensics #wildlife
I have a slight flongle problem :) so hard to let go! #consgen #recycle #nanopore #portablesequencing 🐾🧪
November 22, 2024 at 10:45 PM
I have a slight flongle problem :) so hard to let go! #consgen #recycle #nanopore #portablesequencing 🐾🧪
A rather exciting Thursday night,quickly becoming the norm. #nanopore #flongles #fieldgenomics #consgen The new MK1d just soaring on my first ever Flongle with 90 pores. Fresh out the factory, run within a week. Savouring this rare moment :)
November 22, 2024 at 4:25 AM
A rather exciting Thursday night,quickly becoming the norm. #nanopore #flongles #fieldgenomics #consgen The new MK1d just soaring on my first ever Flongle with 90 pores. Fresh out the factory, run within a week. Savouring this rare moment :)
Last sighted in 1995, the slender-billed curlew is now considered extinct. 🧪🌎 #ornithology #wildlife #conservation #endangeredspecies
New publication indicates devastating extinction of the Slender-Billed Curlew
Slender-billed Curlew, a migratory shorebird that once bred in western Siberia and wintered around the Mediterranean is now extinct according to scientists. This is the first known global bird…
www.birdlife.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Happy birthday #google #scholar! You have made tracking the ever expanding lit-verse doable and even fun. You also make me feel a bit old, but it’s ok because I am :)
Since Google isn't on here yet, it falls to me to say Happy 20th Birthday Google Scholar! 🧪 www.infodocket.com/2024/11/18/g...
Google Scholar Turns 20! 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Scholar
Ed. Note: Google Scholar launched on Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Here’s a post about Google Scholar from November 18, 2024 (ResourceShelf via Wayback Machine) that I co-authored. Additionally, two ...
www.infodocket.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:01 AM
So excited to have backed this #consgen effort to get genetic data on the Indian #wolf in #Pakistan. They're #fullyfunded! The one year countdown begins. #experiment.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
So excited to have backed this #consgen effort to get genetic data on the Indian #wolf in #Pakistan. They're #fullyfunded! The one year countdown begins. #experiment.com
Reposted by Mrinalini Watsa
▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
▪️ Open postdoc position ▪️ 🔎🧬🐘
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me on mapping the genomic legacy of the elephant ivory trade in Europe using ancient DNA.
Hosted by Lund University 🇸🇪 with Bengt Hansson
Please RT!
Info and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Reposted by Mrinalini Watsa
Conservation Genetics and Genomics Community! We now have also a dedicate feed - which is linked to this Starter Pack. The Feed is dedicated to Conservation Genetic and Genomic discussions and you need to be part of the starter pack and use the hashtag #consgen or #conservationgenetics !
Let´s form a community of conservation geneticists here - I started with some people I know, but there are likely to be many more... I can happily add them to this list
go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi
go.bsky.app/VMqVSAi
November 16, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Conservation Genetics and Genomics Community! We now have also a dedicate feed - which is linked to this Starter Pack. The Feed is dedicated to Conservation Genetic and Genomic discussions and you need to be part of the starter pack and use the hashtag #consgen or #conservationgenetics !
Post mastectomy WARRIOR bodies. Mine feel like ticking time bombs I can’t defuse. This is magnificent, bold, and beautiful.
I suppose this is the test. I was dxed with breastcancer 26 yr ago. I am a Flat Closure advocate. I’ve posted for abt 5 yrs on on other apps. Will BlueSky support the breast cancer community when we work on normalizing all post mastectomy bodies?
November 17, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Post mastectomy WARRIOR bodies. Mine feel like ticking time bombs I can’t defuse. This is magnificent, bold, and beautiful.