Martin Collinson
@docmartin2mc.bsky.social
Britain's Top Vicarious Birder.
Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research.
Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps.
Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab
Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research.
Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps.
Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab
The weather remains bleak but views of Ring-necked Duck get better at Loirston Loch. A Shag too.
January 31, 2026 at 12:02 PM
The weather remains bleak but views of Ring-necked Duck get better at Loirston Loch. A Shag too.
Prepare for Bird Photograph of the Year - found this male Ring-necked Duck having a kip at Loirston Loch. #patchbirding
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Prepare for Bird Photograph of the Year - found this male Ring-necked Duck having a kip at Loirston Loch. #patchbirding
Patches birding. Looking for Jack Snipes. Turns out John Millais had beaten me to it.
January 17, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Patches birding. Looking for Jack Snipes. Turns out John Millais had beaten me to it.
Regular as clockwork, a few days of snow cover and Bramblings start turning up in the garden 🤍🖤🧡
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Regular as clockwork, a few days of snow cover and Bramblings start turning up in the garden 🤍🖤🧡
Christmas Robin, 21st century birding style.
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Christmas Robin, 21st century birding style.
The fragment of ND2 DNA that @tessaroo.bsky.social got from Calshot GT Grackle doesn't tell exactly where it came from but it excludes a USA west coast (nelsoni) origin and puts it in the Panama-Central-USA populations. Orange shape overlaid on map from DaCosta et al., 2008 doi.org/10.1525/cond...
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The fragment of ND2 DNA that @tessaroo.bsky.social got from Calshot GT Grackle doesn't tell exactly where it came from but it excludes a USA west coast (nelsoni) origin and puts it in the Panama-Central-USA populations. Orange shape overlaid on map from DaCosta et al., 2008 doi.org/10.1525/cond...
Magnificent fully funded PhD position available with me, Rastko Sknepnek (Dundee) and Silke Henkes (Leiden) on epithelial cell migration. @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @epimechfc.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Magnificent fully funded PhD position available with me, Rastko Sknepnek (Dundee) and Silke Henkes (Leiden) on epithelial cell migration. @physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social @bscb-official.bsky.social @epimechfc.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Lovely and sunny
November 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Lovely and sunny
Labbie Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social is on a poop collecting mission. For science.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Labbie Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social is on a poop collecting mission. For science.
Orange Peel Fungus Aleuria aurantia.
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Orange Peel Fungus Aleuria aurantia.
8 year anniversary of my best ever but sadly ignored tweet
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
8 year anniversary of my best ever but sadly ignored tweet
October 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The sound of October.
October 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The sound of October.
Behold, a Lindisfarne Helleborine in all its October glory.
October 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Behold, a Lindisfarne Helleborine in all its October glory.
Blimey you don't bump into these every day
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Blimey you don't bump into these every day
Is it just me or is beer getting sillier?
September 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Is it just me or is beer getting sillier?
My first Pinkies of the autumn flying south out at sea. Still quite a few Little Gulls in this corner of the North Sea too.
September 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My first Pinkies of the autumn flying south out at sea. Still quite a few Little Gulls in this corner of the North Sea too.
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ménétries's Warbler in Poland this spring. DNA work by @tessaroo.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Ménétries's Warbler in Poland this spring. DNA work by @tessaroo.bsky.social
I got another one too yesterday!
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got another one too yesterday!
Bit of juvenile/ swee-oo Common Chiffchaff action in the garden this morning.
August 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Bit of juvenile/ swee-oo Common Chiffchaff action in the garden this morning.
We hosted a wasp at our lab picnic that helped itself to a bit of chicken.
July 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We hosted a wasp at our lab picnic that helped itself to a bit of chicken.
Labbie Alaa Alshwayyat did a science and is presenting it to the Anatomical Society. We are studying the vascular problems that occur in spinal muscular atrophy, a very nasty disease
#spinalmuscularatrophy #sma 🧪
#spinalmuscularatrophy #sma 🧪
July 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Labbie Alaa Alshwayyat did a science and is presenting it to the Anatomical Society. We are studying the vascular problems that occur in spinal muscular atrophy, a very nasty disease
#spinalmuscularatrophy #sma 🧪
#spinalmuscularatrophy #sma 🧪