Nothing like spending several hours running an alternative statistical method/ different mathematical approach only to find the exact same answer.✖️ Yes, I should be happy. But it feels a bit like wasted time lol

Am I allowed to complain if the journal sat on my paper for 3 months and rejected it without sending it to reviewers because the editor felt like it? Name and shame? The journal is Biological Reviews.

Our eDNA survey has a US defaultism problem. 🌎 We started getting mysterious "Country" responses like "Jefferson" and "Maricopa." Turns out people read "Country" and thought "County" which... only makes sense if you assume everyone is American. We did this to ourselves.🤣

Me when I look at my old classes / presentation slides that I proudly presented to a room full of scientists / students at some point

Being In an interdisciplinary field, it is easy to feel dumb because you are a "jack of all trades, master of none" But that feel is greatly improved when you learn this sentence is often misquoted. The full version is: "jack of all trades, master of none, but often better than a master of one"🎃

Whales in a bottle of water? Yes… through eDNA. 🌊🐋 Nice feature on our research and the UW eDNA Collaborative by the Packard Foundation. @ednacollab.bsky.social Learn more here: www.packard.org/insights/gra... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0H8... #eDNA #scicom #science #outreach

🧬 My haplotype paper is out! We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample. No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics. #eDNA #PopGen

Imagine the great quotes we would get if Darwin had to code!

The blue throat and the display of the Brandt's cormorants are pretty amazing. #birding

My high school math teacher was great but convinced I should not become a biologist because "my math intuition would be wasted!" I just got a paper accepted with 10 equations plus more in the supplement 💀. Pretty sure he would be happy but relieved they are printed and not in my handwriting 😄✍️📄

New paper by Cristina Claver (@azti.bsky.social), published in @icesmarine.bsky.social JMS. We combine #eDNA and acoustic-trawl data in a Bayesian joint model to estimate biomass of the European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay. From the potential of eDNA to operational use 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Big milestone today: My first PhD paper is officially out! We took a deep dive into eDNA transport dynamics in flowing waters. Check out the full study in ES&T. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Me when I see a juvenile gull in the Pacific Northwest on an impatient day: NOPE ~confidently logs Gull sp. on eBird~ Me on a patient day: stares at juvenile gull for 10 minutes “Yeah… that’s definitely a Gull sp.” ✔️ eBird submitted #birding

We are on! Air 🌬️ Sea spray 💦 Surface 🌊 3000 m deep ⚓ ~1 million DNA molecules/hour sequenced live in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Shout out to Aden and Rhonda,l who can extract DNA, PCR, and library prep without getting seasick ⛵️ From sample to data in less than 48 hrs. #eDNA #nanopore #UW

Sea cowboys are at it again! A cast every 4 hours for our Shenanigans. #eDNA #CRESST Cruise

Gotta stay organized! #eDNA

Sunrise CTD cast!! This one went right inside the Toto caldera, which is an underwater volcano 🌋! We found the volcano did have a plume (meaning it is activelly erupting) - I got to see scientists cheering to a live feed of data when the plume appeared. NASA landing style 🚀👩‍🚀 #Cruise #Volcano

We call this trick "we forgot to pack a heatblock and now we have to improvise with a hotplate and sand". It is walnut shell sand. Smells nice.

Our first #CRESST CTD cast is out! A CTD is a rosette sampler full of sensors and water bottles. We can monitor sensors live and trigger the closure of each bottle from aboard as it comes back up through the water column (deep to shalow). We don't have much time, so this cast was only to 200m.

The Cruise is delayed one more day because the chemicals did not arrive. What do a group of bored scientists do? Come up with a new experiment, of course! #eDNA #rain

After a 7 day delay, we are finally on board of the RV Thomas G. Thompson! Getting ready for 14 days of #eDNA data collection and lab work going from #Philippines towards #Guam It is a data deficient area, so I will also be making the first ever pelagic bird surveys of this region.🐦‍⬛🐦 #unqualified

Getting ready to sequence #eDNA 🧬 while in a rocking boat! #CRESST Cruise

This was cool to watch! 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦎 But I have a feeling this monitor Lizard is not trying hard enough lol #hunting #wildlife

I was recently humbled by the presence of the type specimen of the first bird ever. The #Archeopteryx is truly a magical thing. This object here defines what a bird🐓 is.

Marion, idk who you are, but you are very funny.

We put this out as a preprint so the community can help pressure-test it. If we missed your work, misinterpreted something, or if you have data that alters any conclusion, please tell us. This only gets better with more eyes on it! #eDNA #Molecularecology #Ecology

Wouldn’t it be kind of wild if someone actually pulled everything we know about what happens to eDNA between shedding and detection? Decay, transport, microbes, temperature, rivers, oceans, all of it?! We did that. 📄 Preprint link: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... 🧬🔍🌊 #eDNA #MolecularEcology

There is a list of modern issues that have to be outlawed/regulated by ALL countries around the world ASAP, but people are too busy discussing non-issues. This is somewhere at the top of that list.

Packing for the #CRESST research cruise and preparing a manifest was not easy. The neat part is we will have a full #eDNA workflow going in the ship itself - sampling, extraction, PCR, sequencing, and bioinformatics! Our hopes are resting on many ways to tie things down 🪢 and seasickness pills!

Cool study, but the projections are🤪. -They predict fewer birds than we already have. -The Bayesian model goes off the rails. -Including prokaryotes is questionable as "species" hardly applies. Any species-count model that doesn`t have # of active taxonomists as a factor will be just broken.

Every time I have to write "°C" I just google "degrees celsius" and copy the ° symbol. Same for μ! . Sure, I can insert symbols, but it feels faster! I can`t be the only one, right?

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: -Maned wolf (lobo-guará) -Banded cotinga (crejoá) -Dwarf tinamou (carapé) -Whooping crane -Orca Cerrado + Atlantic Forest (where I grew up in the ecotone), plus Texas from my PhD years, and Washington now. Do google them if you have to :)

Save the date for a Global #eDNA 🧬 conference! More details to come soon.

Apparently bats 🦇 have never evolved to become flightless, while birds 🐓 have done it over 150 times and insects many others as well. Old news for many, but someone just told me that and now I have been thinking about it for a long time.

This tiny thing is a fully functional thermocycler for up to 16 tubes.🤯 🧬 We will pair it with a MinION sequencer, an e-Gel and a tiny centrifuge for a field deployable eDNA lab that fits inside a suitcase. #eDNA

Funny geographic coincidence: drill straight through my hometown in Brazil and you land in the Philippine Sea… where I’ll be on a #UW #CRESST research cruise in a couple of months!! Instead of New Year’s with family, I’ll be as far from home as I could get without being an astronaut 👨‍🚀. #science

Reason 272 to dislike coding: the code worked fine yesterday but does not work today.

Nothing like starting the day with a well-written and relevant paper. Today’s pick was genuinely rewarding to read, so I’m sharing it: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Kudos to @katfiishn.bsky.social

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...