It’s me! 🧬 www.mba.ac.uk/pioneering-s...

A wonderful venue for the Collecting Stories launch 📖 Such a pleasure to be invited as part of the Q&A panel!

Yesterday, we celebrated the launch of Collecting Stories: The Cultural Collections of the University of Liverpool edited by Katy Hooper. This new book introduces 52 items from @liverpooluni.bsky.social’s collection, revealing its cultural heritage and research futures. bit.ly/LUPCollecting

Such a joy to be part of the Collecting Stories launch this evening! ✨ It’s a one-of-a-kind book celebrating the University’s archives and the stories each object holds. My piece explores the voyage through time of the lollipop sea squirt! 👉 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

If you ♥️ barnacles, time-series, fieldwork, modelling, and AI, apply for a PhD with myself, Phil Fenberg, @michaeltburrows.bsky.social, and Steve Hawkins @thembauk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Groundbreaking work on the use of eDNA for characterizing intertidal biodiversity, comparing it to my MarClim time-series from @dinathebiologist.bsky.social, myself, Tom Webb, Helen Hipperson, and Matt Spencer @thembauk.bsky.social @livuniresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 NEW PAPER: eDNA in the Intertidal 🧬 
We explored how eDNA reveals marine biodiversity across UK rocky shores from local patterns to national trends 🌊 
Read it in Journal of Environmental DNA 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #eDNA #Intertidal #Biodiversity #PhDlife

New blog post about my week at #ITRS2025! What happens at ITRS, stays at ITRS (or does it?) 😜🌊 www.dinathebiologist.com/post/what-ha...

After the conference, I took the chance to visit the Roscoff Biological Station founded in 1872 🌊🔬 It was a blast exploring the labs. Thanks to the lab manager for showing us around and #ITRS2025 for organising 🌊

Spontaneous final dinner was a blast (although I was running on 4hrs sleep)! Nice to meet you @trinebekkby.bsky.social 🌊

Huge thanks to my funders @challengersoc.bsky.social, @britishecologicalsociety.org and ACCE DTP for making my attendance at #ITRS2025 possible 🌊🦀🐚

ITRS 2025 ✅ 🌊 This week has been one of the best of my entire PhD. I met so many fantastic scientists doing meaningful work—and managed some well-needed exploring after sitting at a desk for so long. All my academic role models in one room? Amazing. #marinebiology #temperatereefs #ITRS2025 #ITRS25

I’m at the International Temperate Reef Symposium in France this week! My first ever international conference and biggest conference of my career so far! I’ll be presenting my work on Friday. If anyone is around, come find me!! 🌊 🧬 #ITRS25

Meet me and my supervisor, Nova, at #ITRS25 this week! Chatting all things rocky shores and eDNA 🧬 🌊

📢We're looking for a #MarineOrnithologist to join us! This varied role will include supporting a review of the Special Protection Area (SPA) network, data analysis & review of management measures. 📆 Closing date: 30 June 2025 👉 Learn more & apply here: bit.ly/JNCCpost202529 #JobOpportunity

Amazing time at @pintofscience.uk! The audience were so engaged and asked very insightful questions. Can’t wait until next year! 🧬 🌊 #pint25

I’ll be attending and talking at this year’s International Temperate Reef Symposium in Brest 🌊 Hit me up if you are attending too!

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :) Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Database: biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

Dina-Leigh Simons @liverpooluni.bsky.social used #eDNA to survey rocky reef #biodiversity. Many spatial + environmental influences on intertidal #eDNA, but local abiotic stress gradients and known biogeographical patterns captured. Scale-appropriate sampling needed #UKDNAWG25

A surreal experience standing at the Royal Society podium to share my PhD research at the @ukdnawg.bsky.social Conference. Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on eDNA for coastal monitoring and to connect with such a brilliant community of researchers 🧬

@dinathebiologist.bsky.social from U of Liverpool traditional monitoring of rocky shores by visual surveys, but limited eg lack of ID. Can #eDNA complement? Multimarker approach. Few shared species by marker. Detections reflected known biogeographical patterns. Yes, eDNA complements #UKDNAWG25

Just a quick hi. Still here, still thesising. T-minus 2 months and 3 weeks (ish)…

Can't remember who said it, but using ChatGPT for your college essays is like using a forklift to move the weights around at the gym. It's the process that's important to your development, not the end product.

Although I wouldn’t describe myself as a bird person, I absolutely loved hosting the Liverpool book launch of ‘The Life-Affirming Magic of Birds’ by the fab @charliebingham.bsky.social 🐦 Such a lovely chat and great book💕 Go buy it!!

I’m speaking at @pintofscience! 🍻🧬Join me to explore how climate change is transforming our oceans — and how DNA might be able to help🌊 🗓️ Tue 20 May 2025 🕖7–9 PM (Doors 6:30 PM) 📍 Frederiks, 32 Hope Street, Liverpool 🎟️ £5 (tickets linked) pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

Just mapped out the last 4 months of this PhD—and I think I’ve got this?! Wild feeling. Ask me again next month.

Reminder that it’s not all rainbows and sunshine in PhD land. Rejected from two travel grants and a postdoc position last week. Rejected from a third travel grant today. No one is currently willing to give me their money (sigh)! At least my R code is looking dishy 😎

Check out my latest blog post on how to secure a funded PhD in the UK! Whether you're just starting to think about a PhD or ready to apply, this guide offers practical tips and resources to help you navigate the process🎓 dinathebiologist.com/post/how-to-... #Funding #Academia #PhD

Spent the start of the week at a @jncc.bsky.social marine eDNA workshop, discussing how to advance the technique in UK marine monitoring 🧬 Amazing to be in the same room as so many skilled and experienced people!

Want to do a PhD in climate, with a focus on using machine learning to recover millions of lost weather observations and so better reconstruct climatic changes over the past century? Open to students from UK and Ireland, funded through @climatecocentre.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Are you interested in working aboard a multidisciplinary research vessel? We're looking for a Seagoing Research Coordinator to help lead exciting marine research & outreach activities! 🌊 🗓️ Apply by 2nd March 2025. 📍 Plymouth, UK. For more details and to apply ➡️ https://buff.ly/3EqRQO7 #OceanJobs

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

I keep getting distracted daydreaming about my alternate life if I weren't doing a #PhD in science—definitely a symptom of the final-year blues! Right now, in my head, I'm thriving as a West End dancer or a bestselling fiction author. What's your alternate career if #science hadn't been victorious?

Happy 2025! 🎉 As a New Year exercise, I’ve reflected on my #PhD journey. This blog offers a year-by-year breakdown of my progress as I approach the final chapter (pun intended). www.dinathebiologist.com/post/reflect...

My resurrection blog post from internet death is all about finding my place online again and my thoughts on the use of social media in the scientific community #phdlife #socialmediainscience #marinebiology www.dinathebiologist.com/post/finding...

Can we improve support for forest restoration just by tweaking advert designs? Check out our new paper on strategic conservation marketing in collaboration with @rspb.bsky.social !🌍📊 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Conservation #Marketing #Pro-environmental

Come and do a PhD with me! ACCE+ Funded studentship in association with Cefas on Global patterns of fish feeding behaviour in a changing world: implications for food webs and fisheries www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It seems the academic community is migrating! So, an intro - I’m a PhD canidate at the University of Liverpool using #eDNA to monitor rocky intertidal #biodiversity 🦀🐚. I’m interested in macro ecology, climate change and conservation. Science communication is my jam 👩🏽‍🔬🧬