A new special feature in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social  aims to highlight recent technological advances that address the challenges of sampling rare species using eDNA 🐬 🧬 The deadline for proposals is 29th June 🕐 Find out more here 👇https://f.mtr.cool/ydtkemkjov

1. It’s good to see this scandal being called out at last. My thanks and congratulations go to Lee Schofield, Karen Lloyd and Ian Convery. But it’s also absolutely infuriating that it has come to this point, as I explain in this thread. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Different worldviews and knowledge systems influence the ways people interact with and value nature. 🌿- IPBES #ValuesAssessment All these values must be considered to effectively address the #biodiversity crisis. 🌍🧪 Read the Values Assessment Report: www.ipbes.net/the-values-a...

🌊 Blue spaces survey 🌿 Our Rewild research group is exploring how blue spaces like rivers, lakes, and coasts support both people and nature. 🕒 It takes just 5 minutes and is completely anonymous. 👉 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/blue-...

Really thankful for the opportunity to present at #UKDNAWG25 - couldn’t ask for a lovelier audience!

Utilizing #aquatic environmental DNA #eDNA to address global #biodiversity targets: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🧬🔬🐟🦫🍂🦐🧬 We discuss how eDNA can contribute towards Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Franework #GBF. Out now in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com

#eDNA #eRNA #omics people: would you support the formation of a European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? Please share your thoughts in the questionnaire & spread this message! 🙏 Thank you, the ESEO core team! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌿 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...

Exciting new #PhD opportunity to thrust #DNA-based #shark and #ray stewardship into the future! most relevant to #indonesian and #south-asian applicants. @joanna-m-murray.bsky.social @dhikafishery.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @misselasmo.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social

Can #eDNA recover biotic interactions? Our new study says Yes sometimes! Co-occurrence network analyses with data for the Moray Firth marine ecosystem recovered subsets of known food web trophic links but methodological issues are still a challenge ⤵️ 🧪🧬🌍🐳🦭🐟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge step forward for beavers in England, been a long time coming! 🦫

Yet another study finds that diverse forests store far more carbon than monoculture plantations. Previous research in the tropics showed it could be 40x more. Natural forests also help stabilise the climate in other, equally vital ways. WHEN will this penny drop? scienceblog.com/tree-diversi...

NFU President Tom Bradshaw boasts that last year the NFU "fended off the Right to Roam". Labour must decide whether to side with an unrepresentative lobby group, or the grassroots @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign whose ask is backed by 69% of the public. www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...

Sheep Eat Oystercatchers, Curlew & Lapwings! Extraordinary new case study out in BTO's magazine showing that out of 20 predated nests observed by nest cameras, **30% of predation took place by sheep eating the eggs!** And we still see sheep as benign... www.bto.org/sites/defaul... (pages 4-5)

We found… 1) #eDNA #metabarcoding is underutilised in terrestrial contexts vs aquatic systems 2) Few studies sample multiple substrates or measure functional diversity metrics 3) sampling design, substrate(s) & assay choice should be carefully considered as they are highly context dependent.

Excited to share my new (and first!) paper. We reviewed how environmental DNA can be applied to terrestrial rewilding monitoring- particularly which sampling substrates to use and how eDNA compares to other monitoring approaches 🧬 www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

Shameful decision from Sweden which has no excuse for exterminating wolves like this. Imagine India decided to halve its tiger population, or Kenya its lions? There'd be an outcry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check out our latest paper on #eDNA and metabarcoding data reporting standards 🤓🧬🧪 These minimum reporting guidelines for metabarcoding workflows extend from the physical layout of laboratories through to data archiving enhance trust and reliability in data mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1286...

The first pre-print from Jake Jackman's PhD on #eDNA monitoring of the River Mersey, UK. We compare multiple filter types across a saline gradient (marine to freshwater) in a strongly tidal estuary. All filters generally work well, including the passive metaprobe! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

☎️ calling all budding #freshwater or #molecular ecologists! Great #PhD with me, Fred Windsor, @danread.bsky.social + @jordancuff.bsky.social looking at impact of stressors + climate change on #ponds with #eDNA #metabarcoding to inform conservation + health assessment Link below - apply by 13 Jan!

Finished up a fab week at #BES2024 by presenting my research on ‘multi-tool’ monitoring of rewilding. Thanks to everyone for being so lovely all week! #eDNA #Bioacoustics

So proud of this lot… 4 first big conference talks at #BES2024 by @clareycollins.bsky.social @clarecowgill.bsky.social Matthew Morgan and Tom Spencer from #UniofHull #Rewild research cluster + #EvoHull and they all smashed it! 👏👏👏👏

We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Golden eagle project plans England expansion www.bbc.com/news/article...