Tom Hughes presents LIMPET - a new pipeline for detecting erroneous sequences in reference databases for #metabarcoding. Some databases contain more errors than others, but even highly curated databases can contain errors that will impact taxonomic assignment and ecological inference #UKDNAWG26

@bettinathal.bsky.social explaining the four missions of #eDNA Europe to create an eDNA hub in Europe connecting to the greater global eDNA community #ukdnawg2026

The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

I had not heard heard about this article until it appeared last night. Cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #eDNA #environmentalDNA #WomeninStem #academicsky 🧪

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Estimating Organism Abundance Using Within‐Sample Haplotype Frequencies of eDNA Data Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides powerful insights into species presence and community composition but remains limited in its capacity to infer species abundance or population structure. Here, we sh...

🧬 My haplotype paper is out!

We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample.

No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics.

#eDNA #PopGen

Les savoirs écologiques au service de la santé - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité Les savoirs écologiques “biodiversitaires” sont importants pour prévenir les conséquences en cascade de la perte de services écosystémiques et rendre les sociétés humaines, les écosystèmes et les espè...

[ 📁 Dossier] Les savoirs écologiques au service de la santé

💊 À l’approche du One Health Summit, la FRB revient sur plusieurs articles éclairant différentes facettes de ce concept scientifique invitant à sortir des silos pour une approche systémique des questions de santé.

bit.ly/4m3qz5S

Accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities: promises and pitfalls Abstract. Whereas preventing species extinctions remains a central objective of conservation efforts, it must be complemented by the long-term preservation

Accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities: promises and pitfalls 🌎🌐🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

🚨PhD position opening in Montpellier (France) on how Quaternary climatic changes and recent anthropogenic pressures impact the genetic make-up, distribution, and demographic dynamics of lemurs in Madagascar 🐒🧬
All the info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224

PNAS – How to improve biodiversity measurement

New tech is transforming how we measure biodiversity—turning data into decisions requires shared standards. 📊

A new PNAS Updates post highlights two Perspectives from the 2025 US–UK Scientific Forum: https://ow.ly/jsVw50YuVUn

Forum: https://ow.ly/psUS50YuVUm

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

La Biodiversite en Infographies sort ce jeudi 12 mars! Pour comprendre l'effondrement du vivant, pourquoi c'est un grave problème et ce qu'on peut faire de vraiment efficace, avec des données scientifiques représentées clairement..aux editions Tana

couverture du livre introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec R

📘 Nouveau livre !

Introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec le logiciel R

Découvrez pas à pas la statistique bayésienne et sa mise en œuvre dans R : théorème de Bayes, MCMC, priors, régression, GLM/GLMM et comparaison/validation de modèles.

Aux éditions Quae 🙏

📷 Crédit photo : Yann Raulet

🧬 Registration is now open for the 12th #UKEOF #UKDNAWG Conference 2026 until 20th March via this link: lnkd.in/ekTUn_eZ

New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍

Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments.

Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@ylndmc.bsky.social

Improving #species #abundance information from #river #eDNA metabarcoding data: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🐜 🧬 📈 🌐🌍

New paper: eDNA metabarcoding at African savanna waterholes revealed 95 species. Wet season shows overall richness, dry season favors mammals. Primer choice matters. We’re excited about eDNA powering wildlife monitoring! 🦒🐢🪿🐍 doi.org/10.1111/eva.... #eDNA #Africa #wildlife

TULIP Summer School 2026
Applications are OPEN ✅

“Biological interactions from genes to ecosystems”
will take place from June 27 to July 3, in France 🏔️

Open to PhD, Masters students & Postdoc researchers in ecology, evolution and functional biology

www.labex-tulip.fr/eng/news/tul...

A healthy ecosystem requires a wide range of species interactions

Focussing only on, eg, pollination or predation, will not hep ecosystem-level conservation

📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique… | Andrew ... 📣 We are hiring! Please share far and wide... I am seeking an Engagement Officer to support the emergence of a Canadian Biodiversity Observation Network (CAN BON). This position is a unique opportunit...

📣 Join us - we’re hiring an engagement officer for the CAN BON 🍁 initiative!

An effort to transform Canada’s capacity to mobilize its knowledge about the changing state of nature.

See the job posting here👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

Beetle communities in agricultural landscapes: relative influences of climate, landscape, plant communities and agricultural practices Agricultural field margins are semi-natural habitats that play a key role in conservation and restoration, supporting threatened biodiversity of agroe…

Another important paper published today! 🌐🧪 This is a first characterization of the beetle communities in agricultural landscapes at the national scale. Work led by Benoit Penel @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The citizen science DNA monitoring guide's cover, shown against a backdrop of a grey, cloudy sky.

Our latest output is a practical guide to anyone considering running a citizen science project involving environmental DNA monitoring. Written by @laurens-colours.bsky.social and @lynseyrharper.bsky.social -- tinyurl.com/2cn9zdbx #DNA #CitizenScience #monitoring @ukdnawg.bsky.social

🚨NEW WEBINAR🚨

Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?

Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".

🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET

✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A hex sticker with a text that reads Hello Data Science with green, yellow and pink scatterplot points in the background. There is a web address www.hellodata.science

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇

🔗 www.hellodata.science

#rstats #datascience #tidyverse

GitHub - ranwez-search/SeqTUI: A fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for molecular sequences (DNA, AA). View, translate, convert (to FASTA), and combine sequences aligned or not — all ... A fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for molecular sequences (DNA, AA). View, translate, convert (to FASTA), and combine sequences aligned or not — all from the terminal. - ranwez-...

Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!

🔍Home PhD opportunity with funding to start in October 2026: "Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss" 🧬📊🐛🌳🪿supervised by me, Charlie Outhwaite (ZSL) and Eleni Matechou (School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL).

ERC Annual Conference: Frontier research for One Health https://erc.europa.eu/event-speaker/cornelius-schmaltzHuman, animal, and environm

📢 Registration for in-person attendance to the ERC's Annual Conference on "One Health" closes today (9/1). Register here 👉 link.europa.eu/K4YCvc

📅 28 January 2026

⏰ 9.15-18.00 CET

📍 Covent Garden, Place Rogier 16, Brussels

🌐 In-person & web streamed

A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE.

Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species.

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#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at @leibnizlib.bsky.social on Zoom next Tuesday, Jan 13, 3PM CET and listen to: Sarah Schmid from @usyseth.bsky.social @ele-ethwsl.bsky.social talk about #museomics to improve #eDNA #monitoring of marine fishes!
Email meegene@leibniz-lib.de for login details.

This paper is far overdue, so I am very happy to finally see it published! We show that herbicides have noticeable impacts on plant communities in agroecological landscapes at the national level. Must read!
@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social 🧪🌐
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

📢 Join us for the 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐕 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭!
We’ll present 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 & an 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 supporting biodiversity decision-making across taxa & facets.

🗓️ Jan 29, 2026 | 10:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online (MS Teams)

🔗 Register: vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...