Don’t listen to me or any other non-experts when it comes to AI. Follow these experts instead: @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @janelleshane.com @timnitgebru.bsky.social

Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service. The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS. Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇. Get in touch

Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) butt in focus 😂

The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Today I started out the morning talking about long-read sequencing and prediction models and ended the day by showing Masters students how to take eDNA samples from a river. How cool is my job!? 🤓 Honestly if I told three-years-ago me what I do for a living he wouldn't have believed it 😃

3 weeks ago we reveived 30 tauros in #SaksfjedWilderness! Bred to fill out the missing ecological function of the aurochs (extinct in 1627). The replacement from NL was a major team effort and a process lasting c. 18 months. Now science begins! Info see 🧵 #rewilding #Natura2000 #biodiversity

TFW you've made a few academic-field-pivots and have to write a research-blurb that starts with: "Anders is a..."

My new office mate is being fed and watered today before it'll be IDed (my money is on Devils Coach-horse Beetle, Ocypus Olens) and, if native, it'll be set free in the university park 🔎🪲🌳

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Got a new office mate today🤓

We've recently published research basking shark breaching behavior. How kind of them to demonstrate it again on camera! Footage from Treas Heapes onboard Sally O’Keefee sailing to Inis Oirr.

Senator Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding - Cruz was on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re not clear on what a species is, at all

Sharing the raw data used in meta-analyses should be mandatory in all circumstances

Glad for at have bidraget til denne baggrundsartikel om genforvildning (rewilding) 🌿 🐎 🌸 🐺 🦬 #rewilding #naturgenopretning #naturnationalparker #dkgreen #dkpol

🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍 Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

Great timing with #WorldRewildingDay and just handed in my PhD dissertation,where I investigate ecosystem effects in relation to trophic rewilding with #environmentalDNA. Link to the first two published papers in comments - looking forward to share the remaining results later.. Stay tuned! 🦬🐎🌿

Smadder noget beskyttet natur. Få din ejendomsværdi til at stige med 1,5 million kroner. Slip med 2 * 100 timers samfundstjeneste og en 4 måneders betinget fængselsdom. Det svarer sån cirka til en timeløn på 7500 kroner 🙃 www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Trump har nu underskrevet en præsidentiel bekendtgørelse, for at udvide skovfældning til 113 millioner hektar skov, der ellers har haft til formål at beskytte truede arter. Det er offentligt ejet skov direkte overleveret til tømmerindustriens motorsave. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The depressing state of the western world aside... If the most important security conference in 85 years or so can start at 13:30, why do academic conferences always have to start with a plenary lecture at 8:30? 😅😴

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico

"Beavers always know best" 🦫💪 Land right disputes were delaying construciton of dam to protect downstream nature. Beavers moved in and built the dam in a couple of nights saving the government £1 million. #Biodiversity #Conservation #Rewilding english.radio.cz/beavers-buil...

Registrations are open for our next Data Use Club practical session - Data standards & processing! 📍 Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:00-16:30 CET. This event will be recorded. 🔗 gbif.link/datauseclu... #DataUseClub #GBIF #Biodiversity #Data #FreeEvent

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: [email protected]

@NatGeo just published an article about mound-building Formica wood ants, featuring a series of spectacular photographs by Ingo Arndt: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... Here is Ingo’s winning wood ant photo from @NHM_WPY last year:

📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes. What can you learn from sequencing 10,000 metagenomes, and 14.9 million bacterial and 13.4 million eukaryotic rRNA operons?🦠 If you haven't read our preprint, it might be the time now. 😁 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q

A new study reveals that developing new climbing routes is the biggest threat to cliff plants, cutting species richness by nearly 40%. 🧗‍♂️ In a study at the protected natural area of El Potrero Chico in Mexico, ecologists observed a decline in plant diversity along the developed climbing routes.

Some 3600 years later, dogs around the world still do not fully trust that the human will indeed throw the ball if only they drop the ball 😍

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

At a collaboration retreat in Rold Skov (Denmarks biggest forest) discussing mapping/prediction/modelling of biodiversity! How lucky can one be!? 😃🤓🍂🌳🦔🦟🦠

When it comes to AI I am _always_ the old man yelling at coulds! But I gotta admit, when you are this new to a field ChatGPT is such a life saver for the 1000s of basic questions 😅

I *finally* work in ecology!! 😀🙌 Today is my 1st day as a postdoc in Eva Sigsgaard's group in the department of biology at Aarhus University. I'll be looking at biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA) & unsequenced species ("dark taxa"). SO freaking excited! 🥳 And not a bad office view either

Powerful session “Research leaders discuss their intersecting experience of psychiatric illness and studying psychiatric conditions” , @j9austin.bsky.social, Lea Davis, Patrick Sullivan, @michelnivard.bsky.social audience interest +++ and contributions and a standing ovation to close #WCPG2023

The conference center I'm at has roof-bees! 🤓🐝 Go Canada!

Spending the morning with coffee and pastry, planning my WCPG 2023 conference schedule. And wow is it a great programme! But speaking from experience, you gotta schedule down-time/time to crash 🤓😴 Conferences can be a lot, look after yourselves pals 💚

Finally on my way to World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) 2023 🧬 in Montreal 🍁 Can't wait to catch up with old pals and of course to give my talk (Wed. 11/10 15:55, Room 513AB) on differences in DNA methylation associated with living in multiple deprivation (low socioeconomic status).