Just received an invitation to volunteer as an editor for a for-profit publisher that charges thousands in fees. Nope. "But it counts on your CV!" 🙄

On our survey, someone "does not believe #eDNA" because it has given them "nonsensical results". Which result, you ask? Wolves in the city. 🐾 Well... 🐕🐩🐶🦮

New study finds autonomous #eDNA samplers are scalable ecological monitoring tools. 🧬 Read the publication at researchgate.net/publication/... #ecology #marinescience #environmentalmonitoring

Bird field guides that hide maps at the back: unacceptable. 🤦 No weight saved. Clarity gone. Range matters so much for ID — put the maps where they belong!! 🗺️🐦 #vent #birding

When I say I am lucky for bad luck, people think I am joking Have you ever been at the louvre and it got ROBBED the moment you arrived? Well, it just happened to me LOL

Happy 1000th life bird day!! 🐦 🥳 I went into a nearby hotspot today to get this done... it was a great one, complete with friendly local birders. 56 total sp with 13 lifers at once, which put me at 1004 life birds! Not sure who the exact 1000th bird was, my best guess is the Water Rail!

🚀 The @ednacollab.bsky.social just launched the DIYNAFLUOR Microgrant 2025! They’re offering materials + support to build a low-cost DIY fluorometer for eDNA quantification. It can be as effective as Qubit at a % of the cost. Great opportunity for anyone in #eDNA, #DIYBio, #CitizenScience 👇

It turns out you can buy a monthly public transit pass and save money in Paris!😄🐓 (But it is valid from the first calendar day of the month, not the day you first use it)😑 You can also buy a weekly 7 day pass! (But its valid from Monday to Sunday of a given week, not any 7 consecutive days)🥴

New paper shows that spotting rare birds increases the odds of people starting a checklist, thus data is a little biases. Makes sense ... I do the same! On routine walks or usual hikes I skip eBird, but when something unusual 🦤 (or a lifer!) appears, I can’t resist starting an eBird list 😅

Only negative controls amplified.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Pre-print em português (sorry @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ) do nosso artigo publicado recentemente na PECON disponível no @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Environmental #DNA! 🚨 Led by #TimGoodall @ukceh.bsky.social with @danread.bsky.social we tested whether #soil #eDNA metabarcoding can capture plant #biodiversity & vegetation cover across the UK 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

I have gone through Fig 2 of my upcoming paper ~20x now. Every time, I find a small error that I hadn't seen before, which triggers a series of ~10 steps and 5 min of work to update it. It`s a complex figure. If y`all find an error in it while reading the paper, please DO NOT tell me. Thank you 🥰

How many Nanopores is too many Nanopores to have running all at once? Well, @AdenIp has four (!!!!) up here at the @ednacollab.bsky.social right now 💢💢💢💢 Why, you ask? "Why not?" - he says Lots of air eDNA data coming out of the oven (literally, these basicalling GPUs warm up the room a lot 🔥🔥🔥)

Today the glove box gave me a glove with no thumb and dared me to do science without opposable thumbs. I rejected the challenge 👍

I feel like we tend to complain loudly and often when manuscript peer reviews are bad or unfavorable. But today I got reviews... and they were reasonable and polite! Faith slightly restored!!

Toxic trait of bioinfo folks: Everyone insists on building their own pipeline 👨‍💻 Is it (a) distrust, (b) dreams of citations, (c) tryna prove competency— or all? Even if it’s a wrapper on a wrapper, god forbid you just use an established one! I am half guilty as well. xkcd nailed it long ago.

Why are statistical methods so often explained as if the authors are afraid someone might actually understand what they did?

The Miseq i100 has a baby now

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/theodi... #smbc

If you are upset that I am shitposting, please understand: I am on a visa, I cannot not shitpost. I CAN not post, but once I do post, I cannot not shitpost. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I had a nightmare where I had to correctly identify 2 juvenile winter gulls in the PNW or my eBird lists would be all invalidated. 🦅 #birding

Define evil you said?👺 Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 4,200 (excluding taxes) (Mandatory) 🤡

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

My new favorite icebreaker: I have, in fact, sampled #eDNA just next to the (in)famous Epstein Island, near Saint Thomas at the USVI (Christmas cove. Great St. James) It was back in 2019 for a project looking for invasive seagrass. 🌾🐢 I also had a pizza from a boat pizzeria at the same ocasion.

Fresh Battus 🦋 #rarepuns #punintended

A metal scene to start #birding sunday🦅🐀

This spaghetti squash thing is kinda magic y'all. I am not gonna lie. The way it just falls apart in little al-dente spaghetti-like strings is so awesome. I wanna make micro slices of this thing and put it under a microscope like good old plant anatomy classes back in undergrad.

embarrassing myself

There are secrets under the dock! Plumose /Cauliflower Anemone (Metridium senile)

Reading #eDNA papers is also about learning animal names in English. Today I discovered Mummichog and Muskellunge. Real fish. Not Pokémon.

Lots of field work, lab work, and bioinformatics going on here at the @ednacollab.bsky.social #eDNA workshop. What an amazing group of enthusiatic, diverse, and hard working people! 15 instruments built, 84 samples collected and over 60 millions reads sequenced. Lots to harvest from this effort.

Pacific blood star (on a California mussel shell) ⭐️🌊 #seastar

Got some tidepool fun today. Pisaster ochraceus and its many feet!

I now have the perfect video for the intro slide on #eDNA presentations where I say "things shed DNA as they swim around". #polychaetes #epitoke

Shrimp night at the lamp! 🦐🦐🦐Very different from pre-Tsunami.🌊 We suspect it may have caused some interesting changes that triggered the shrimp to spawn. Good thing we had a time series running before the tsunami 😈. That paper just got a bit more interesting

Behold Aequorea victoria, best known for its fluorescent protein: GFP!🟢 Awesome to see this thing, specially in the very place GFP was first discovered! This very jellyfish individual is probably related to those who had their GFP isolated at FHL, which ultimately led to the 2008 Nobel prize.

Night sampling: canceled due to... checks notes... tsunami warning!? Not exactly what I had on my fieldwork bingo card, but sure, why not. Nature: 1 Our day/night time series: 0 🌊📉 Good think our housing is up a hill.

The ocean is a terrifying yet fascinating place. That eDNA sample will get swamped by #polychaete sperm.

If this made any sound, what would it sound like?

We are here at Friday Harbor Labs getting ready to receive 14 students from 12 countries for the @ednacollab.bsky.social eDNA 🧬workshop! It will be a fun but intense 3 weeks of eDNAing around and learning from a very diverse group. #eDNA #FHL #UW

I went to my local coin store and got $9,50 of collection supplies. I was handed this + a wink 😉 as change. Straight into the flip it went. As a visa holder in the land of the free🗽, I am advised against posting political opinions. But I am allowed to post #coins minted by the US itself, I think.

A Brazilian birding youtuber #PlanetaAves makes a video about top 10 weirdest woodpeckers of the world.🐦 My first thought: "He better have Lewis' Woodpecker and the Wryneck on that list". He did!! Top 2. Most random thing to be right about, ever. There really is every niche of content out there.

Sometimes we make friends when birding. 🦆 I suspect someone is feeding these ducks, or they were seeking some protection from the nearby bald eagle🦅

New toys out here in the Kelly lab! #ednacollab. Miseq i100. Cheaper runs, higuer output, and no instrument fluidics! So no risk of carryover and no maintenamce washes. Are the 2x500 cycle kits that are coming up going to live up to the hype? We shall see #eDNA #metabarcoding

Cool! Fun fact, the (now its own species) Saimaa Ringed Seal was featured in the 5 Markka coin of Finland until 2001, just before Finland adopted the Euro

🚨Paper published! Our manuscript on the differential decay rate of eDNA, erRNA and emRNA of Dolphin🐬 #eDNA is out! Is this the fastest turnaround for a manuscript ever? It certainly is for me. + Received 22 May 2025 Accepted 21 July 2025 Published 23 July 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y`all, this is serious and really shouldn’t need saying: 18S/16S/12S ribosomal RNA ≠≠≠ messenger RNA from any protein-coding gene. Stop lumping them together as "eRNA" and acting surprised when they behave differently. They are fundamentally different molecules. 🚫🧬 #eDNA #eRNA #StopTheConfusion