Simon Spiro
@simon11235
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Wildlife pathologist. Scientist. Dog walker.
Joined April 2018
🎉 Amazing to have wildlife TV Presenter @IoloWilliams2 present us with our Wales Project of the Year trophy in the @LottoGoodCauses #NationalLottery Awards today. 💙 A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us! Read more here- https://t.co/EzHdfGiS3s
@OfficialZSL @NatResWales
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🌟MEET THE SPEAKER | H5N1 #AvianInfluenza Thomas Peacock is a fellow at @Pirbright_Inst /honorary lecturer at @imperialcollege working on interspecies transmission and adaptation of #influenza viruses 📅6 Dec @ 18.00 CET Register⬇️ https://t.co/hrxPTXwp5I
#Zoonoses #birdflu
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Excited to share our new #OA paper investigating trends in #contaminants in 11 marine mammal species 🐳🐬☠️ 🔗 https://t.co/VI9VRudZYO Published in @EnvSciTech We show that #chemicalpollution remains a threat to several species in the UK.
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Speaking now, John Bignall on why histopathology - the oldest medical discipline in the world - is crucial for understanding diseases old and new. @CefasGovUK #SciConf23
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#IAmABiologist working at @ZSLScience as a senior technician. As well as supporting staff, I'm involved with a whole host of projects including marine strandings, amphibian disease research and a host of others. #CSIoftheSea @OfficialZSL
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Gave a talk on the work of the CSIP to @OfficialZSL Fellows on Thursday evening- hope they enjoyed it (despite all the gory images and depressing news!), many thanks to my fab @OfficialZSL and @ZSLScience colleagues for facilitating the evening!
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🎉 There’s still time to vote for @ProjectSIARC as the National Lottery Project of the Year 2023! 💙 Please show your support by voting online at https://t.co/FTR71CZq0F &by posting the unique hashtag #NLASIARC (a repost of this post will count too!) @LottoGoodCauses #NLAwards
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1/2 Together with our collaborators at @APHAgovuk, we are reporting the first Usutu virus detection in a wild bird in the UK outside Greater London. For more information, check out our factsheet: https://t.co/zYq73ImbWq
#wildlifehealth
gardenwildlifehealth.org
We @APHAgovuk @ZSLScience are reporting the first USUV detection in a wild bird outside Greater London in the UK. If you see a sick or dead garden bird, please report it to https://t.co/F5H11XEIYL
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🎉 We are excited to announce that Project SIARC are through to the finals of The National Lottery Awards! 💙 Please support us by voting for us online https://t.co/unVZ4hLtYO and by tweeting our unique hashtag #NLASIARC (a retweet of this post will count too!) @LottoGoodCauses
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Thanks also to my co-supervisors, Amanda Guthrie and Tai Strike at ZSL and Jai Mehat at Surrey, and to our wonderful collaborators Mark Stidworthy and Andy Rich at IZVG, Damer Blake at the RVC and Nisha Bhardwaj at the Crick, plus many more at ZSL and beyond.
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Daniela Martinelli from Columbia studied the effects of iron on the growth of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis from zoo outbreaks and found that the bacterium evolved to possibly decrease virulence over the course of one outbreak. Thanks to the University of Surrey for their role!
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Akari Sando from Japan studied the effects of heartworm on meerkats and discovered a novel link between the worms and cholesterol diseases. Thanks to IZVG and the RVC for their contributions!
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Li-Hsin Yang from Taiwan studied the effects of iron storage disease on callitrichid primates, using a novel image analysis method based on tissue microarrays. Particular thanks to IZVG the Francis Crick Institute for their collaboration!
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Great work by all the MSc Wild Animal Health students at today's conference, but I'd like to single out the three students I supervised for their amazing work over the last nine months! #zsl #zslscience #rvc
https://t.co/MRKlaNNnZr
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Over the span of just 6 weeks, three sharks appeared in UK and Irish waters that had never before been seen this far north ZSL’s @DavidCurnick spoke with @mel_pud for @thetimes about unravelling the mystery of why they ventured into new waters https://t.co/lrGdo30Rqh
thetimes.com
The smalltooth sand tiger shark is an elusive creature, swimming in ocean waters at depths of up to 2,900ft, well away from humans. That is probably no bad thin
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🐌 Learn more about ZSL’s major victory for conservation by returning 11 species of Partula snails that were previously extinct in the wild to their native habitats in our July Bulletin article from @simon11235 at @OfficialZSL. https://t.co/kKlRXvAlhd
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In the early hours of July 16th, a pod of 55 long-finned pilot whales came ashore at Tolsta Beach on the Isle of Lewis. This short film shows a glimpse into some of the work undertaken by SMASS and colleagues following this mass stranding event.
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Here's a personal account of the recent pilot whale stranding on the Isle of Lewis
Looking for answers in the tragic mass-stranding of long-finned pilot #whales in #Scotland - EIA Senior Ocean Campaigner Sarah Dolman was part of the team carrying out investigations into the incident & shares her experiences in a special blog Read it at https://t.co/8fTli4aT50
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I'm very proud to be President of the Zoological Society of London. What wonderful work we do. ‘You sometimes feel like Noah’: the London zoo team bidding to save doomed species
theguardian.com
The birth of a Socorro dove, extinct in the wild, has boosted conservationists’ hopes of rewilding captive species
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