Happy #BiodiversityDay! Check out the cool forest biodiversity work we are doing at the SUPERB Project! Metabarcoding of about 1,600 malaise and 1600 soil samples from forest sites in Spain, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania and Serbia. forest-restoration.eu/biodiversity...

Echoing thanks to @royalsociety.org and @ukdnawg.bsky.social for hosting a great 2 days of broadening horizon talks, integrating more disciplines, countries and synergies into the #UKDNAWG25. Looking forwards to more @meebangor.bsky.social contributions to #eDNA research!

And the winner of best Y3 talk from Day 3 of the conference is : Sourish Kuttalam from SENS (Genomic insights into the population structure of India’s “Big Four” medically important snake species). Congrats!

First PhD sampling completed! I went to sample the blackout experiment with 20-year old bare fallow plots at the Henfaes Research Farm (Bangor University) Here, we want to study SOM/SOC and the cycling of “old persistent” carbon in the absence of new fresh plant input.

Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️ Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NEW PAPER: How do introduced Aesculapian snakes from Central Europe adapt to their new home in North Wales? find out in the new paper by @herphighlights.bsky.social' Tom Major, my former PhD student at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social and @meebangor.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1371/jour...

With me, @amyellison.bsky.social @briangratwicke.bsky.social, Louise Barwell, @lancasterlt.bsky.social & @gretabocedi.bsky.social. @meebangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org