📣 New paper alert! @clareholleley.bsky.social and I share some thoughts on why you should be looking in wet specimen jars for historical gene regulation information Formalin preserves gene activity data going back a century! rdcu.be/eI4bY

Celebrating National Science Week, #CSIRO Superstars of STEM are sharing their favourite piece of science. Superstars of STEM is a #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia program smashing gender assumptions and creating diverse STEM voices to inspire the next generation. #SuperStarsofSTEM #ScienceWeek

For #NationalScienceWeek 🌏 I'm celebrating the incredible citizen scientists helping us test airborne eDNA capture devices — from tree canopies to bushland tracks. Every filter they collect holds a hidden record of the biodiversity in the air we breathe. 🧬💨 #CSIRO #ScienceAndTechnologyAustralia

🚨 New paper led by ANWC postdoc @liviagerber.bsky.social! We developed a high-yield 🧬 extraction method for FTA Elute cards - enabling long read AND epigenomic studies from field-collected nucleated blood 🦎 - even after 10+ years at room temp. 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📣 New paper! 📣 We summarise the outputs of last year's @sednasociety.bsky.social Airborne eDNA Workshop & chart a path for airborne eDNA as a transformative tool for #biodiversity, #biosecurity & #conservation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4a8vb6ja #eDNA #airDNA #SeDNAS

🚨 Calling all eDNA folks! 🚨 The 2027 Southern #eDNA Society Conference is coming to Canberra. We’re forming the Organising Committee—keen on science, comms, logistics, or hosting? Get in touch or tag a mate! Let’s make this a good one. @sednasociety.bsky.social

📣 Postdoc opportunity! Join absolute #eDNA legend @ceciliavr.bsky.social at JCU and take the next step in your career! careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

📢 New paper alert! Proud to co-author this effort to make #eDNA data more FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable 🧬🌍 We introduce a metadata checklist & formatting guide to boost reuse & impact across #eDNA science. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FAIRdata

The Australian National Wildlife Collection is representing at #pintofscienceAus! Postdoc Ash Porter is digging into the specimen vault and pulling out historical RNA I'm just doing my #airDNA thing

Last few days to apply for this 39month molecular ecology #eDNA postdoc position, deadline 12 March

🚀 Preprint alert! 🚀 #AirDNA – game changer or hot air? Fresh from last year’s @sednasociety.bsky.social Airborne #eDNA workshop, we’ve distilled the latest research, key challenges, and a roadmap to turn this emerging tool into real-world solutions. Check it out! 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2S...

New life mantra. Attack every challenge with the enthusiasm of a 14 yo at her first rock concert and the commitment of a 50 yo punk rocker playing his 30 yo classics. Then take a nap because everything hurts. #GreenDay in Sydney kicked ass last night!! #SaviorsTour #hairspray #dookie #concertmum

#SeDNA2025 closing panel, MCd by Chris Meyer Michael Marnane, @manpreetkdhami.bsky.social, @digleeson.bsky.social, & Olly Berry Aus/NZ don't yet have a "national eDNA strategy" but the real game changer for our region is that we have a great collaborative culture (e.g., @sednasociety.bsky.social!)

Wrapping up the final science session at #SeDNA2025, Chris Meyer from the Smithsonian shares the US's National Aquatic #eDNA Strategy Goals: Co-ordinate ➡️ Build ➡️ Apply "We need to be more efficient and effective with the resources we have"

Louise Weaver finds regional biodiversity variation across groundwater #eDNA samples #SeDNA2025

Charlotte Armstrong is monitoring tree microbiomes using #eDNA and finds temporal and spatial stability #SeDNA2025

Paul Nevill presenting on behalf of Josh Kestel - polinator #eDNA sampling from flowers has its challenges but further development may produce a useful tool #SeDNA2025

Adam Canning at TropWater JCU is characterising microbial 🦠 communities to assess success of restoration efforts #SeDNA2025

Porntep Punnarak is characterising microbial communities in water and sediment around petroleum drilling platforms. #SeDNA2025

Roller swabbing can pick up localised #eDNA but how the heck do you get it off the roller? PhD student Austin Guthrie recommends roller trimming and automated extraction. #SeDNA2025

Josh Newton found active air sampling and spiderwebs are efficient #eDNA samplers Collecting multiple substrates will increase species detection! #SeDNA2025

Andrew Cridge from Scion is using light traps and #airDNA to monitor for biosecurity monitoring #SeDNA2025

Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social is taking sediment cores containing "orthinogenic" (🐧 💩) soil to track populations through time and space! #SeDNA2025

Ayla Murray is exploring the Arctic using #eDNA and has found new indicator species and species assemblages! #SeDNA2025

Matt Campbell is using sediments on Australia's #1 beach as an #eDNA time capsule ⌛ #SeDNA2025

Georgia Nester from @minderoo.bsky.social shared her research advancing and improving deep-sea #eDNA methods for conservation #SeDNA2025

Alejandro Trujillo-González from EcoDNA rounds out this last day of keynotes with a reminder that all biosecurity #eDNA work comes down to risk - risk of inaction versus risk of inappropriate action #SeDNA2025

Bruce Deagle - CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection - encourages #SeDNA2025 to keep chasing the holy grail of pulling more information (spp abundance!) in eDNA from lessons learnt in diet metabarcoding

@maartendb.bsky.social, @sednasociety.bsky.social boardember, kicking off the final day of #SeDNA2025!

Ben Duran-Vinet is using the power of AI to fastrack CRISPR to #eDNA biosecurity monitoring #SeDNA2025

PhD student Nihan D. Dagtas is using semi-permeable capsules for DNA size discrimination buts finds it results in sample contamination #SeDNA2025

Foyez Shams from EcoDNA is testing if we can measure insect biodiversity 🐛🐞🪲 with an autonomous #airDNA sampling device ... We can! #SeDNA2025

PhD student Gary Young is recovering #eDNA from livestock water troughs to monitor birds. He found syringe 💉 filtering had higher positive hits compared to passive methods #SeDNA2025

@angmcgaughran.bsky.social is evaluating #airDNA in comparison to water sampling AirDNA seems to have higher variability and there's an effect of distance, suggesting signals can be localised #SeDNA2025

Cindy Bessey shares her open-close aquatic #eDNA sampling device #SeDNA2025

PhD student, Patrick Nichols, is using #eDNA to hunt down elusive pesky algae - slapping passive samplers everywhere! #SeDNA2025

Emma Carroll introducing CetSet for #eDNA monitoring of marine mammals 🐳 #SeDNA2025

@clare-edna.bsky.social is plucking whole mtgenomes from eDNA samples 🤯 - setting the stage for pop gen! #SeDNA2025

Nick Foster from Zero Invasive Predators is turning to #eDNA to reduce cost and increase effectiveness of rat detection in eradication areas. Terrestrial and aquatic species richness increases at different rates with deployment length! #SeDNA2025

Kevan Yamagata from @mbarinews.bsky.social has developed the FIDO - an autonomous #eDNA water sampler that is simple, cheap, & easy to deploy. (And he has a lovely view from his office) #SeDNA2025

Aden Ip from the eDNA Collaborative at U Wash is exploring nanopore adaptice #eRNA sequencing to examine salmon health and #airDNA for salmon monitoring #SeDNA2025

Amir Reza Varzandi is using nanopore sequencing for higher efficiency detection of liver fluke parasites from #eDNA samples #SeDNA2025

Thea Larsen is using #eDNA to detect green sea turtles 🐢 around Magnetic Island and elsewhere! #SeDNA2025

CSIRO Environomics FSP Director, Olly Berry, shares Yen Troung's work developing a novel controlled environment chamber for testing #airDNA collection #SeDNA2025

Laura Fitzgerald from CSIRO (co-author shout out!) presented results from our exploration of using MOFs for #eDNA capture and preservation #SeDNA2025

Wuthiwong Wimolsakcharoen shared his team's application of water and sediment #eDNA sampling to offshore ecosystem biodiversity assessments. #SeDNA2025

Water sample concentration giving you a headache? Ryo Iwamoto from AdvanSentinel has developed QuickCon for pain free #eDNA 🧬 concentration. Magic! ✨ #SeDNA2025

Laura Missen from @minderoo.bsky.social details their automated aquatic Sampling ➡️ Sequencing workflow using the @oceandiagnostics.bsky.social Ascension device #SeDNA2025

@willaanderson.bsky.social shares 3D-printable DIYNAFLUOR for cheap DNA quantification < USD$40 🤯 & #opensource #SeDNA2025

Jenn Soroka from EcoDNA shares their innovative automate #eDNA samplers for deployment in shipping containers! #SeDNA2025