Major #proudSupervisorMoment today! Rebecca Niklas at her #MSc defense: #Cetaceans and their #trophicEcology in the #Azores; #eDNA and #Metabarcoding for the win! 🐋🐳🐬

The one and only #eWHALE team! ❤️ Meeting today at @ifremer.bsky.social #Nantes for a productive day of updates and future planning. #eDNA @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @azwhlab.bsky.social

Kicking off a day of #biodiversity #data networking at the The Open Scientific Collections Austria meeting in Vienna. #OSCA #metabarcoding #eDNA

Very good to see our @pensoft.net journal @mbmg.pensoft.net continues to receive good CiteScores and also now the first #ImpactFactor with a good value of 3.1 ☀️ While I personally don’t care much about these metrics I know they are really relevant for many institutions. Thus: very happy about this!

🐋 Two teams, two oceans, one result: to detect #whale #eDNA, sample as soon as possible after a sighting! Unique co-publication experience! @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @savecetaceans.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/edn3... doi.org/10.1002/edn3... #OceanWise #CitizenScience #WhaleWatching #WomenInSTEM

New paper out from our crew on using #eDNA to detect the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Bsal) and characterise the surrounding amphibian community from pond samples in the Netherlands. Small number of samples but highlights the potential of eDNA for routine monitoring of both. bioone.org/journals/jou...

‪ New @ewhale-dna.bsky.social publication led by Eleonora Barbaccia & published in Ocean & Coastal Management! 🐋💙 #WhaleWatching, #citizenScience, and #eDNA sampling can foster public awareness and engagement in #marine #biodiversity #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA, doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

🚨Turning air quality networks into a global #biodiversity monitoring system? Air pollution filters were repurposed for #airborne #eDNA, enabling detection of #vertebrates, #invertebrates, #plants & #fungi at a national scale.🧬🌐🧪 📄Check out our new paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌲🌳🌲🌳 Out now! #eDNA #barcoding #metabarcoding and the potential of #DNA-based methods for "Monitoring #Connectivity in #Forest #Ecosystems" doi.org/10.1007/978-... A fabulous collaboration with J. Oettel, A. Szukala, L. Munishi, K. Lapin and the #BFW #Austria @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

What an amazing week! #ECSconference2025 together with the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team, just 👌🏻Can‘t wait for #Dundee and #ECSconference2026

🚨 Final opportunity for sharing your opinion on an „European Society for Environmental Omics“ #ESEO #eDNA #eRNA #omics #metabarcoding #academicChatter Especially looking for feedback from early career researchers or students! forms.gle/eurc7kierJcB...

#LaurenRodriguez summarizing 2 years of #eDNA sampling optimization and #marine #vertebrate #metabarcoding data from the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores samples #ECSconference2025 #CWAzores

@annaselbmann.bsky.social with an amazing presentation on #killerwhale response to #pilotwhale „bullying calls“ #ECSconference2025 Ohhh the #Asterix references! 🤩👌🏻

day 2 of #ECSconference2025: #CristinaBrito introducing the amazing #4-OCEANS project: assessing the importance of #marine life to human societies starting 2 millennia ago. #ERC

#ECSconference2025 🥳 more than 740 #cetacean enthusiasts meeting in #PontaDelgada #Azores @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

Starting the #ECSconference2025 off with the „from Genes to Whales“ workshop organized by the amazing #LauraMiralles #eDNA #genetics @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

#BlueWhale #eDNA samples ✅ Still hard to believe that such days are part of my job! 🤩 @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores #Pico and the amazing #CWAzores whale watching team!

Utilizing #aquatic environmental DNA #eDNA to address global #biodiversity targets: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧬🔬🐟🦫🍂🦐🧬 We discuss how eDNA can contribute towards Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Franework #GBF. Out now in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com

Interested in establishing a European Society for Environmental Omics? Let your voice be heard #eDNA folks!

#eDNA #eRNA #omics people: would you support the formation of a European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? Please share your thoughts in the questionnaire & spread this message! 🙏 Thank you, the ESEO core team! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

Congratulations Lauren Rodriguez! 🐳 Our #eWHALE #Phd student from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social won the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award at the #AquaEcOmics conference for presenting #eDNA sampling optimization results! 👏🏻 @bettinathal.bsky.social

Bye, bye #AquaEcOmics 👋🏻 What a well organized event! Extraordinary venue lots of fruitful discussions! Icing on the cake: Lauren Rodriguez taking home the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award for the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team! 🤩 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #eDNA

Great windfarm - elasmobrach #eDNA research by Auriel Summer-Hempel @reindertn.bsky.social @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Rein Brys providing amazing examples for #eDNA as an #invasive species detection tool! #aquaecomics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

#aquaecomics day 3 off to an amazing start with Silvia Acinas presenting insights into the #ocean #microbiome in today’s keynote.

Lake Geneva #eDNA sample taken! 🥳 Including a demo of @alpineedna.bsky.social‘s new sampling kit! @florianaltermatt.bsky.social @kamilhupalo.bsky.social @leeselab.bsky.social @grace-kotnik.bsky.social @tiinalaamanen.bsky.social @francoiskeck.bsky.social @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Erwan Quéméré on the immense diversity of trophic interactions in #KelpForrests using dietary #DNA; #AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@kamilhupalo.bsky.social introducing the „fish smoothie approach“ for detecting fish parasites! #AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Lauren Rodriguez representing @ewhale-dna.bsky.social in the #AquaEcOmics #CitizenScience session 🥳 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Karoline Faust doing a deep dive into #microbetag during her keynote & addressing the of key problems of the #omics #microbialNetworkAnalysis field! #AquaEcOmics @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

#AquaEcOmics 2025 here we go! #Evian #eDNA #metabrcoding #metagenomics #CitizenScience

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amazing to see these two pipette up a storm! #labwork #eDNA #metabarcoding Very much a #ProudSupervisor moment!

The final box of @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #eDNA filters has savely arrived in #Innsbruck! 🐳 Guess this counts as the official end of the 2024 fieldwork season 🥲

The program for the #aquaecomics2025 symposium is now available 🥳 (aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/program2) and registration is open unitl 31th Jan. aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr #eDNA #omics #metabarcoding #marine #freshwater #ecology #[email protected]

🚨new paper alert! 🚨 Inter-laboratory #RingTest for #eDNA extraction protocols: implications for #cetacean and #shark detection using three novel #qPCR assays doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... via @mbmg.pensoft.net @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

@ewhale-dna.bsky.social is hiring a #MSc student! topic: #eDNA and #BaskingSharks 🦈 Field work and labwork included; come and join the #Irish Team @ucc.bsky.social Please spread the word!

Hi @bsky.app! Let's see if this works. 😊 This week, I got to visit @geomarkiel.bsky.social and talk about #eDNA, #whales, #CitizenScience and @ewhale-dna.bsky.social. What an amazing experience! Thank you so much for having me!

Let‘s try a #metabarcoding starter pack to nucleate people interested. Welcome molecular #biodiversity monitoring people. Let’s try to keep us posted on updates regarding papers, projects, methods. Happy weekend.☀️#eDNA go.bsky.app/Qvqgknp