@yamnette

Swansea University Professor of maggots; Bigging up STEM gender equality; LOVES insects, wild dancing, Greek mythology, red wine, the Manics & Pierce Brosnan.

 swansea university
swansea.ac.uk/staff/human-and-health-sciences/allstaff/y.nigam/
Joined September 2013
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Amazing learning, with fun and games ❤
Love a Maggot@loveamaggot6 Jun 2025
Wonderful day with Year 2 pupils, visiting our Maggot Team @SwanseaUni! 😍
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Loved this public engagement 😍
Love a Maggot@loveamaggot8 May 2025
Wonderful to meet the ladies of Llandeilo WI yesterday, sharing our maggot stories! 🐛🥰
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Thank you so much for the invite! Loved talking about medicinal maggots with you all 😍
Gower Lore@BevJRogers5 Apr 2025
What a fabulous and inspiring event we have just had @GowerHeritage with @yamnette who spoke about her amazing @loveamaggot campaign and about the important and fascinating work being undertaken by her team @swanseauniversity Never again will I look at maggots with disgust!
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Oh wow Em!! Good on you!! How brilliant! 👏😍
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Lol! 😍
Love a Maggot@loveamaggot7 Nov 2024
Loving maggots coming to the National Botanical Garden of Wales! @SwanseaUni
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The amazing world of maggots comes to the Gower!! 😍
Love a Maggot@loveamaggot2 Nov 2024
So looking forward to this! ❤️
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Yay!! So do we! 🤣
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What a fab day today @SwanseaUni Science Festival @The_Waterfront! Totally exhausted but we are doing it all again tomorrow! #loveamaggot @ioan_humphreys Thank you to my awesome Team and my dancing Maggot!
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Wonderful news, believe in yourself Em, you are awesome!! 😍🤩
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Wonderful to be at the Grove Golf Club this morning, sharing our @SwanseaUni maggot research with the lovely gentlemen of Porthcawl Probus 🩵
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A brilliant research conference organised by @DrEmmaRees today! Fabulous to see so much awesome health research being undertaken @SwanseaHSC @SwanseaUni and, oh yes, and a little bit of maggot loving too! @ioan_humphreys ❤️
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Very interesting day, and what a fantastically organised conference! 😍 @DrEmmaRees @SwanseaUni
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Just awesome!! So well done!! 👏❤
Carys Davies@carysdavies_523 Sep 2024
Over the moon to receive a First Class Honours in Paramedic Science. All the hard work has paid off!🎉🚑💚
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Brilliant day, teaching our student nurses all about maggots for the treatment of chronic wounds! Nice one M23!👏 @SwanseaUni
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#InsectWeek24
Love a Maggot@loveamaggot27 Jun 2024
What a wonderful week to introduce our medicinal maggot campaign to @GowerHeritage and @walesbotanic @insectweek @BevJRogers Viva Lucilia sericata! 🪰
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A huge pleasure to chat with your students @themullanyfund, all really interested in pursuing healthcare degrees! So proud to be a mentor for your charity and looking forward to seeing some of these guys @SwanseaUni in the future!!
Cronfa Mullany@themullanyfund30 May 2024
Thank you to @yamnette and Dean Snipe from @SwanseaUni for speaking to e-Mentoring students about life in healthcare and the work they do! Students gained an insight into the process of applying to healthcare degrees and learned about the amazing power of maggots to heal wounds!
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Brilliant! Well done Carys! 👏
Carys Davies@carysdavies_5221 May 2024
Very honoured to have been nominated and to receive an award for my dedication and commitment as a course representative over the last three years🤩 @SwanseaUni @SwanseaHSC @ParaScienceSU
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A real pleasure ❤
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An absolute joy 😊
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Brilliant afternoon judging the final of @SwanseaUni #3MT competition! Such impressive and fab presentations by all PGR students! @ioan_humphreys @gideoncalder
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