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Counting the Invisible: New Tools to Estimate the Number of Contributors From Sequence‐Based Microsatellite Genotyping of Environmental DNA Samples - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MicrosatellitesNotDead #microsatnotdead

A simplified hybrid capture approach retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow Hybrid capture is a critical technology for selective enrichment of genomic regions of interest, enabling cost-effective focused sequencing in both clinical and research applications. We present a sim...

A preprint by @elembio.bsky.social Element Bio on a flowcell-based simplified hybrid capture approach that retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Figure from a paper - legend: Figure 2. Measuring changes in insect biodiversity can be achieved by focusing on drivers that directly or indirectly impact insect biodiversity metrics and trends (left). Where data on insect populations specifically are unavailable, data from other species and ecological processes can provide inferential support for changes in insect biodiversity (right).

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees As commercial monocultures increase, ecologists are calling for the remaining splinters of native woodland to be identified, protected - and expanded

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation.

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

#conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics

Wolf pollination is now a thing.