Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust

Interested in giving a talk at the Plant and Animal Genome conference (PAG 33) in San Diego? Together with several colleagues, we are arranging 5 interconnected sessions. To submit an abstract, please fill out this Google Form before Oct 12th, 2025: forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

At last, #DNA #Divers is here! A blueprint for a transformative way of capturing #eDNA, from everywhere, through the engagement of #SCUBA divers - a huge team effort led by #ErikaNeave @ukri.org @ljmuimpact.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fluorescent bats!! #NatBatConf

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

Job opening! CSIRO @csiropublishing.bsky.social is currently hiring 2 #eDNA Postdoctoral Fellowships! sednasociety.com/2025/09/04/j...

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

Version of record published today. Deliberate burial practices by extinct hominin Homo naledi. 128 pages of detailed multi-strand analyses underpinning the funerary behaviours, including comprehensive work on archaeothanatology and spatial taphonomy #homonaledi elifesciences.org/articles/89106

So sad to hear the Ollie Horgan news. The LOI is a tight community yet I never met the man he's been like a part of the furniture for over a decade or my life, working miracles with Harps, going mad on the sidelines, making fun one liners in interviews A legend we will miss 🫡

Grimsby deepen ridicule for Ruben Amorim as he ploughs on with flawed, final stand | Jonathan Liew

Cunha and Mbeumo both miss penalties, Šeško opts to go tenth. What a transfer window.

I am very happy to share our latest paper published: "First Assembly of a Draft Genome of the Critically Endangered Northern Muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus, Primates, Atelidae) Including Non-Invasive Genotyping Strategies for the Species" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

One thing I love about pre-prints: shows everyone the story that the authors originally wanted to tell. What we sometimes end up with after peer review, sheesh.... 🤦‍♂️

New research has provided the most comprehensive analysis of predation events at birds' nests across the UK:

column on michael johnson’s failed attempt to reinvent athletics, and why just because you can breed a chicken without feathers, doesn’t mean you should www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

🚨🧬🦜 I'm proud to share this publication by a talented PhD student I had the pleasure of co-supervising at INPA. Congratulations to Waleska Barbosa on this fantastic contribution to Neotropical biogeography and phylogeography! doi.org/10.1016/j.ym... #Biodiversity #Amazonia #Ornithology

Our paper on using #eDNA from rainwater to study hidden biodiversity in #tropical #forest #canopies is now out in Science Advances! This method is a major step forward for the study and #conservation of this inaccessible compartiment. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Photo: J. Raynaud

📢 New #eDNA and #eRNA study!🧬 We used dPCR to compare #decay rates and #detectability across 4 #markers (16S, 18S, COI, LDHA) in 1000L freshwater mesocosms. Massive effort led by PhD student ‪@wbmorgadog.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉Our paper is out in Molecular Ecology Resources! We tracked eDNA vs eRNA decay in connected & isolated 1000-L mesocosms using dPCR. eRNA decays faster, and both signals can move across the network. OA: doi.org/10.1111/1755... With @otournayre.bsky.social & Melania Cristescu #eDNA #eRNA #Freshwater

Absolute pleasure to be involved in this review article on sustainable parasite control in ruminants. Full of lovely stuff on vaccines, nutrition, genetics, grazing and biological control! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

BBC News - Mission begins to save snails threatened by own beauty www.bbc.com/news/article...

As starvation worsens by the day in Gaza, the Netanyahu government has been using food as a weapon of war — with complicity from Trump and U.S. taxpayer dollars. This is painful to listen to but here’s what a U.S. Army veteran and Green Beret who witnessed it first-hand recounted to me:

Nothing like the All-Ireland ticket scramble. 'I've managed to get you a ticket. Meet Mark's bother in-law, Brendan at the tree behind Mulligans. He'll give you Hugh's number. Follow Hugh's instructions on where to meet Barry with the ticket. Payment will be in the form of two natterjack toads.'

Parasite extinctions in threatened species may be far more prevalent than previous estimates suggest. Our new study of kākāpō dung spanning from ~1,500 years ago to present, finds >80% of parasite species were lost as the host species declined.

Better version of the meme.

🚨 new research: "movement phases make a difference in habitat selection: Iberian lynx diversity of responses to human-modified landscapes" 📝 read the full paper here: buff.ly/T24zHuT @santiagosaura.bsky.social @pabcis.bsky.social @aitorgaston.bsky.social

Colossal Biosciences has announced it is exploring ways to revive the moa, which went extinct some 600 years ago. But the company’s suggestion that the project has the support of New Zealand’s Indigenous Māori groups has stirred controversy.

Our first paper on #eDNA based characterisation of biodiversity in the #Chumash Heritage National #Marine Sanctuary is out now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LenfestOceanProgram @pewenvironment.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social #oceankind

Until recently, rabies had never been seen in marine mammals.

Latest pre-print led by @jjackman27.bsky.social on seasonal/monthly monitoring of fish diversity in the River Mersey, UK using #eDNA. Gives a great indication of the recovery in this once ecologically barren system, with the return of lots of key migratory species. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The last time I saw a hedgehog alive in Ireland was 2011. Not surprising given its alarming decline. But lovely to hear some rustling in the hedgerow on a summer's night while drinking some beers in the garden in Donegal and finding one in 2025! All accompanied by bats and swallows hunting above us!

I never thought I'd be saying this, but if you see my work for sale on Temu, it's not me and it is of course just some random selling mass produced cheap knock offs 😭 Please feel free to support my work in any way you can, but maybe avoid stuff from cursed websites, thanks 😇

Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position) ➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/... Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social

Models of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Co Tyrone, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit

Sobering, well written article, the one word missing inexplicably is "sheep", overgrazing in most of our uplands is largely down to unsustainablly high densities of sheep. Deer undoubtedly are a huge issue too, esp Killarney, Wicklow and Glenveagh 🐦 🦉 🌎 theconversation.com/golden-eagle...

The Moygashel bonfire in Northern Ireland to “celebrate” the 12th of July.

Interesting paper on non-lethal stomach sampling of sharks & rays

A very enjoyable time presenting the first chapter of my PhD on the interactions between beaver and migratory fish at #FSBI2025

Brexit, US-style

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

3 days left to apply. Please note that this #postdoc is OPEN TO ALL 🌍. You do not need to be an EU citizen to apply. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

We've a special lens here in the north of Ireland. We've lived through a few things.... So here's the craic 😉 We're living under a political system here which, like the British political system, plays nice with bigots, fascists and white supremacists. Now we're here. Well done 👏

🚨 New publication out today. Bats are over 1480 species. In this latest article, we discuss the diversity within bats and their immune systems. Elegantly led by the Becker and Frank laboratories. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @danjbecker.bsky.social @bat-lady.bsky.social

Teeth infused with metal, the evolution of venom, an over-developed spine built to withstand great weight, a deciduous dentition that's shed before birth... and so much more. #Shrews are something else: tetzoo.com/blog/2020/6/... #mammals

Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin www.nature.com/articles/s41...