This Wednesday, Professor Phillip Wilcox and I will be giving a webinar on #Indigenous #data #sovereignty and #environmental #DNA as part of the Wai Tuwhera o te Taiao programme webinar series run by the Environmental Protection Authority NZ. #eDNA
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5dbf89...
Check out our correspondence in Nature Reviews Biodiversity about the need for Indigenous voices when using genome engineering for conservation & frankly 'de-extinction' www.nature.com/articles/s44... - @universityofotago.bsky.social Phil Wilcox, @clare-edna.bsky.social, & Riley Taitingfong 1/12 🧵
and here's a cheesy one from our field #sample 'helper' Pebbles, a curious New Zealand #SeaLion. [note: we had DOC permits to walk in and around seal colonies for this eDNA sampling work & if you're keen to review the paper please contact Mol Ecol Resources].
@sednasociety.bsky.social #eDNAinFocus
Don't forget to submit your photos to @sednasociety.bsky.social 's #photo #contest with the hashtag #eDNAinFocus before the end of the month!! @peerj.bsky.social has kindly agreed to help sponsor a prize for the winner. ;)
#eDNA #genetics #laboratory #field #research
Save the date! Free webinar - 21st November:
Women in Ocean Science x environmental DNA
With superstars Dr Miwa Takahashi (@csiropublishing.bsky.social) and Dr Lara Denis Roy (@utas.edu.au)
#eDNA #WomenInOceanScience
@sednasociety.bsky.social (and Women in #Ocean #Science) are hosting a #webinar highlighting great work that our #marine #eDNA #community is doing! Be sure to tune in for some valuable #insights on new #results in the #eDNA field.
@ednaquaplan.bsky.social @csiropublishing.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
We're hosting a #career panel for #WomenInOceanScience with a lovely panel of #marine-focused #women. They'll talk about their #career #journey and how they contribute to #ocean #science.
@universityofotago.bsky.social @hollykoch20.bsky.social @zoologyotago.bsky.social @tuhura.bsky.social
Reference Library page is live!
Your go-to hub for reference libraries on aquatic #eDNA.
📖 Explore here 👉 ednaquaplan.com/reference-li...
#eDNA #Biodiversity #OpenScience #ReferenceLibraries #Data #Genetics #Biodiversity #Ecology
@tuhura.bsky.social @universityofotago.bsky.social @itiscolossal.bsky.social
#GFANZ is hosting @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social to talk about the de-extinction debate.
(Sorry, more #aDNA than eDNA)
Didn’t Scott baker get banned from Japan for finding whale meat at one point?
If you’re looking for a job where you travel to conferences this guy is hiring (shoot him an email):
Date: September 24th, 2025
New Zealand (NZST): 2:30 PM
Australia – East (AEST): 12:30 PM
Australia – West (AWST): 10:30 AM
More info here - sednasociety.com/2025/09/03/s...
Great news! We are restarting our eDNA webinar series this year to share exciting new research with the eDNA community.
Our first webinar is by Josh Koh (DCCEEW): Explainable Multimodal Machine Learning Using Combined environmental DNA and Biogeographic Features for Ecosystem Biomonitoring
At Queenstown Research Week, Ben Te Aikā talks about how Māori philosophy differs from Western philosophy:
The New Zealand Molecular Ecology conference returns for its 27th year! This meeting brings together students, researchers, & industry to divulge the latest in ecological genomics and eDNA. This year, the meeting is held in Raglan, 26-28th of November. You won’t want to miss it! shorturl.at/inWqz
@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social chats to the #public about how #feasible (not) #de-extinction is, and the #ethics surrounding this topic using his #aDNA expertise
@universityofotago.bsky.social
@nicrawlencenz.bsky.social chats to the #public about how #feasible (not) #de-extinction is, and the #ethics surrounding this topic using his #aDNA expertise
@universityofotago.bsky.social
📣 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
Shout out to my co-authors! Lead author Rachel Tulloch, @clare-edna.bsky.social @drbarnes.org @profbatgirl.bsky.social @digleeson.bsky.social @annajmhopkins.bsky.social @annamac.bsky.social
Wilcox Rōpū at @geneticsaus.bsky.social dinner last night: (L->R) Clare Adams, Phil Wilcox, Bruce Weir, Alastair Lamont.
@alexeidrummond.bsky.social gave a wonderful keynote at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about how Bayesian/MCMC #models can be used on #cancer cells to determine when they originated and updates on #LPhy for all those #evolutionary #biologists out there.
Libby Liggins and Claire Rye chat about the #Aotearoa #Genomics #Data #Repository, including how #metadata can be submitted (including #eDNA). They are hoping to take #indigenous #governance to the #Genomic #Standards #Consortium later this year…
@geneticsaus.bsky.social
@testeeves.bsky.social chats at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about how #genetics could play a role in careful #management of small endangered #bird populations.
Allyson Malpartida found #viruses in cattle troughs in NT #Australia using #eRNA and #eDNA techniques.
@geneticsaus.bsky.social
Introducing the SeDNAs Members Starter Pack 🧬
Connect with fellow members of the society, grow your eDNA network, and spark new collaborations!
Comment below or message to be added to the pack
go.bsky.app/GBwDbax
@sebasalco.bsky.social talks at @geneticsaus.bsky.social about #Hector and #Maui’s #dolphins, including chromosomal inversions which may help keep these species separate…
@laninsky.bsky.social
So proud of Teremoana Porter-Rawiri for doing fungal #eDNA in the #Wairarapa. Restored, unrestored, and remnant sites showed differences, correlating with nitrogen.
@geneticsaus.bsky.social
