Thrilled to see our latest paper on rainwash #eDNA to be featured in @mongabay.com. A huge thank you to Liz Kimbrough for this nice coverage. We appreciate you highlighting our work! news.mongabay.com/2025/09/rain...

Great to see more innovation with eDNA this time looking at rainwater in tropical forests for greater insights 🌍 #TropicalEcology #TropicalForests #eDNA phys.org/news/2025-08...

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

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

An isothermal workflow for low-cost and PCR-free field-based community metabarcoding #eDNA #environmentalDNA besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA, doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

The failure to correctly identify species using #eDNA may be biological rather than methodological. Find out how mitogenomics sequences can address this challenge. 👉 bit.ly/3vKxTh9 #DNA #genomics #Data #Observation #Science #Research

📢 #eDNA? @tdwg.org @gbif.org #SPNHC #idigbio @dissco.bsky.social @prairieresearch.bsky.social join #TWT2025 TaxonWorks Together: connecting eDNA to vouchers, inventories, provenance, scaling, identifiers, fieldwork, standards, AI & collections. Need new connections? 🪡https://together.taxonworks.org/

🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity andabundance in the global ocean rdcu.be/ehlG4

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪 @earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting. Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025 🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE

🚀 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...

Happy to share the preprint of our work on rain #eDNA to study tropical forest biodiversity 🌧️🧬🌴

Have a look at our final program #aquaecomics2025 #omics #edna #metabarcoding #metagenomics https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/program2

Sign up to our next MEE live now! Join Abby Keller for this free online workshop, to find out more about eDNAjoint, new eDNA modelling tool 🧬 🌎 🧪 📆 19th March, 4pm GMT Find more information and register here 👇 https://buff.ly/4k2hjO8

Special Feature available ahead of print! Stark et al. revisit assumptions in the metabolic theory of ecology that explains macroecological patterns in biological rates from individuals to ecosystems through fundamental constraints on metabolism. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

What separates life from death? Mary Shelley once wrote: "To understand life, we first need to understand death". In this movie, we see how a single-celled organism dies. The same matter in both pictures. It is not the same state or the same integrated complexity. youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6...

"Pollen Wars: Explosive Pollination Removes Pollen Deposited from Previously Visited Flowers" Anderson et al. find that explosive pollination may confer a pre-pollination, male-competition advantage to plants. Summary & analysis by Andrea Romero: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Super happy our paper on #eDNA #metabarcoding of North Sea fish using @nanoporetech.com sequencing is finally published in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ATL_FISHREF: A 12S mitochondrial reference dataset for metabarcoding Atlantic fishes frequently caught during scientific surveys in the Bay of Biscay #eDNA #environmentalDNA esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Accounting for false positives and negatives in monitoring data from sensor networks and eDNA #eDNA #environmentalDNA ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

🤖Want to know more about how Pl@ntNet makes AI and humans work hand in hand to better identify plants? You're in luck, we recently published on the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social, find out more about it here! plantnet.org/en/2025/02/0...

REVIEW: Design and regulation of engineered bacteria for environmental release by Chris Voigt & co #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣NEW PAPER: ‘Advocacy - defending science or destroying it?’ Our interviews with 47 climate scientists provide detailed explanations on all the good things about policy advocacy and the legitimate concerns with threats to the integrity and credibility of science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For open communication, give researchers a permanent e-mail alias www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interested in interactions between managed #honeybee & #wild #bees using #eDNA methods in a multidisciplinary consortium #Beenergia? Then apply for a postdoc in the Natural History Museum here in #Karlsruhe for environmental DNA (eDNA) research on bees! summ summ... www.smnk.de/museum/aussc...

EUKARYOME v1.9.3 now available in eukaryome.org A special release of long reads of marine microeukaryotes

The preliminary program for the AquaEcOmics symposium is now available: https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/program2 #eDNA #omics #metagenomics #metabarcoding #dPCR #marine #freshwater #ecology #biomonitoring #aquaecomics2025 Make sure not to miss out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

Tatiana Giraud a un message pour vous ! Rejoignez-nous le 4 février prochain sous la Coupole de l'Institut de France pour réfléchir sur l'effondrement de la biodiversité, et ses conséquences pour l'humanité. 🌍 Venez nombreux échanger avec des experts du sujet ! youtu.be/TbEI_PnhrO0?...

“People don’t want to be in a workplace if they feel disrespected, if they feel like their work isn’t valued, if they feel like they’re not seen,” she notes. “And I do think that in many, many academic workplaces, that is the experience that women have.” So! Much! This!

Small grants from Graduate Women International, for women already enrolled in a PhD, to aid research in science. Deadline in January! graduatewomen.org/what-we-do/g...

📚December issue alert! Check out the🧵for highlights👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...

Tired of NMDS and other ordinations methods to represent your #eDNA metabarcoding data, consider using this approach: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

***Help Us Enhance Training in Biomolecular and eDNA Research!*** The OBON Capacity Development Working Group is committed to supporting the professional growth of researchers in the field of marine biomolecular and #eDNA research. Take the survey: mailchi.mp/1e52091cfd81...

📢 As part of the #AquaEcomics Symposium, we're offering a 1-day course on #eDNA #metabarcoding with @nanoporetech.com Sequencing Technology with @shump.bsky.social on March 21st. 🧬🌊 Seats are limited—reserve yours today! 🔗 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last weekend I got to see NZ velvet worms in their native forest habitat. These animals are so bizarre, taxonomists gave them their very own Phylum, next to tardigrades - that's insane! This Ooperipatellus sp. is an egg-laying genus, but there's another here that gives live birth! Mind. Blown. 🧪

To reach new users if you have an interest in #eDNA #environmentalDNA as a scientist or user, please consider completing our survey. We are engaged in funded research on community perspectives on eDNA, ethics, risk and potential forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq #academicSkY #womenInSTEM 🧪

Curious about #eDNA and how it can best be used for Monitoring Marine Ecosystems? Want to know more about eDNA? 🧪🧬🤿🚨 #Science Check out this great webinar from @eDNAcollab.bsky.social & @oceandecadenep.bsky.social oceandecadenortheastpacific.org/events/mobil...

The program for #eDNA2025 is online. See you in NZ in February for the 2nd #eDNA conference! ednaconference.com.au/program

Really cool new paper showing evolution doing something completely sensible and also the opposite to what we probably lazily assume it should (again) @greghurst.bsky.social

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you! If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments. Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too! go.bsky.app/UxXTyxD

Alright, if everyone is putting together starter packs, here are some accounts to follow if you're interested in #phenology and how #climateChange affects the timing of biotic interactions! Please let me know if you want to be added or removed from the list 🌱🧪🌎 go.bsky.app/7TjLKe5