Laura McBride
@gallowayselkie.bsky.social
Marine ecology consultant for Europe's #1 Crab Museum 🦀 | PhD student studying eDNA, seagrass and fish at Aberdeen Uni 🧬🐟 | Wild Swimmer 🦭
When staying with birders it's only natural you join them for a night of owl ringing.
This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.
This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When staying with birders it's only natural you join them for a night of owl ringing.
This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.
This beautiful young male barn owl behaved very nicely whilst we ringed, weighed and measured him.
🧬 We are so back 🧬
Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧
Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up!
#naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh
Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧
Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up!
#naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🧬 We are so back 🧬
Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧
Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up!
#naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh
Let's see what these Sound of Barra samples are saying 🫧
Some residents mentioned seeing some seahorses in the seagrass so fingers crossed we pick some up!
#naeseahorseemoji #eDNA #Eìrisgeidh
A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A wee peek at some of the members of the #ScottishSeagrassCollaboration group. Nice to put faces to names. I look forward to working with you all! 🌱🧬🐟
Stopped by @projectseagrass.bsky.social nursery hearing about the success and failures of restoration. I also got to indulge in a bit of culture visiting Dylan Thomas's boathouse. I feel the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night..." feels apt in my feelings against apathy in conservation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Stopped by @projectseagrass.bsky.social nursery hearing about the success and failures of restoration. I also got to indulge in a bit of culture visiting Dylan Thomas's boathouse. I feel the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night..." feels apt in my feelings against apathy in conservation.
A very successful #SeagrassSymposium25 last week rounding off the conference with some insights from future #marine scientists who talked about class and financial issues as ecology students. Howard Wood gave an inspiring talk on his work building #COAST in Arran and the power of being stubborn!
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A very successful #SeagrassSymposium25 last week rounding off the conference with some insights from future #marine scientists who talked about class and financial issues as ecology students. Howard Wood gave an inspiring talk on his work building #COAST in Arran and the power of being stubborn!
Also got to see University of Aberdeen alumni, Ethan Ross, talk about his PhD project where he catalogued new COI barcodes for a number of inverts found in Scottish seagrass beds. V cool!! 😎🦐🐌🌱
#eDNA #metabarcoding #scotland #UoA
#eDNA #metabarcoding #scotland #UoA
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Also got to see University of Aberdeen alumni, Ethan Ross, talk about his PhD project where he catalogued new COI barcodes for a number of inverts found in Scottish seagrass beds. V cool!! 😎🦐🐌🌱
#eDNA #metabarcoding #scotland #UoA
#eDNA #metabarcoding #scotland #UoA
Day 1 of the UK Seagrass Symposium done ✅
Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook.
#seagrasssymposium #seagrass
Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook.
#seagrasssymposium #seagrass
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Day 1 of the UK Seagrass Symposium done ✅
Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook.
#seagrasssymposium #seagrass
Great talks and a great chance to catch up with the seagrass crew across the country. Inspiring messages from J Brooke Landry showing us the Chesapeake playbook.
#seagrasssymposium #seagrass
From fieldwork to festival with one day turnaround. #whatascientistlookslike
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
From fieldwork to festival with one day turnaround. #whatascientistlookslike
After an ∞ number of litres filtered and an ∞ number of podcast hours listened to, it's time to say tìoraidh to Èirisgeidh and tìoraidh to this years field season! Really lucky I got the good weather and a stellar crew to help me out with my sample collecting. Now it's time to rest 😌
August 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
After an ∞ number of litres filtered and an ∞ number of podcast hours listened to, it's time to say tìoraidh to Èirisgeidh and tìoraidh to this years field season! Really lucky I got the good weather and a stellar crew to help me out with my sample collecting. Now it's time to rest 😌
August 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
How it feels to be the only person in the monitoring team to get seasick.
August 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
How it feels to be the only person in the monitoring team to get seasick.
Sunburnt and questionable fashion can be forgiven for doing seagrass/mileanach surveying in such a gorgeous location. Also an excellent place to practice my gàidhlig. Tha latha math ann! #gàidhlig #hebrides #hebrideanislands #alba #seagrass #fieldwork #mileanach
August 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sunburnt and questionable fashion can be forgiven for doing seagrass/mileanach surveying in such a gorgeous location. Also an excellent place to practice my gàidhlig. Tha latha math ann! #gàidhlig #hebrides #hebrideanislands #alba #seagrass #fieldwork #mileanach
All done by moi in my makeshift lab in oor accommodation. Oh she is TIRED. #eDNA #fieldwork
August 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
All done by moi in my makeshift lab in oor accommodation. Oh she is TIRED. #eDNA #fieldwork
10pm at night and we're still up filtering water samples by hand for eDNA analysis. The grind never stops 😩 #neverstopneverstopping
August 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
10pm at night and we're still up filtering water samples by hand for eDNA analysis. The grind never stops 😩 #neverstopneverstopping
Listening to silly music whilst doing silly stats 😝
August 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Listening to silly music whilst doing silly stats 😝
Got to hang out with a bunch of cool people from Biota Trace testing out an automated sampler (lovingly known as my wee robot pal) to collect water samples from Loch Craignish. @seawilding.bsky.social were also kind enough to let us use their shed and kept us company 😁 🐟 🤖
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Got to hang out with a bunch of cool people from Biota Trace testing out an automated sampler (lovingly known as my wee robot pal) to collect water samples from Loch Craignish. @seawilding.bsky.social were also kind enough to let us use their shed and kept us company 😁 🐟 🤖
Also enjoyed creating a wee make shift filtering station in the cottage. Then we were hosted by UHI Inverness, where they taught us how to carry out extractions!
April 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Also enjoyed creating a wee make shift filtering station in the cottage. Then we were hosted by UHI Inverness, where they taught us how to carry out extractions!
Here to share some propaganda about doing fieldwork in Scotland. It's definitely always this sunny and dry all the time. No sideways rain, EVER. The rainbow was NOT a paid actor.
All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜
All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜
April 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Here to share some propaganda about doing fieldwork in Scotland. It's definitely always this sunny and dry all the time. No sideways rain, EVER. The rainbow was NOT a paid actor.
All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜
All in all, it was a successful first mini PhD project collecting samples for eDNA. Big love to my wonderful helpers 💛💙💜
V. jealous of the #SAMS students that get to see this view from their campus everyday ✨️ North west Scotland always delivers with the scenery.
December 4, 2024 at 9:34 PM
V. jealous of the #SAMS students that get to see this view from their campus everyday ✨️ North west Scotland always delivers with the scenery.
Who's that girl lalalalalalalalala. It's me, I'm that girl and I'm presenting some preliminary ideas for my PhD project.
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Who's that girl lalalalalalalalala. It's me, I'm that girl and I'm presenting some preliminary ideas for my PhD project.