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Lucie Zinger
@luciezinger.bsky.social
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Researcher at
@cnrs.bsky.social, #CRBE, Toulouse. #communityecology for 🦠🍄🕷🐜, #metabarcoding, #eDNA 🧬. also @[email protected]
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luciezinger.bsky.social
Huge congrats to our dearest and now Dr. @emmafromm.bsky.social 🎓 ✨🥳✨, who brightly defended her PhD on climate warming direct and indirect impact the gut microbiota of lizards.🌡️🦎🦠

We are incredibly proud 😊 🥹

Co-supervised with Julien Cote
@erc.europa.eu #CRBE #Microbiome #ClimateChange #Ecology
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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florianaltermatt.bsky.social
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment

apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...

In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
luciezinger.bsky.social
Retour sur quatorze années de recherche sur la #biodiversité #tropicale d'Amazonie avec le Centre d’Etude de la Biodiversité Amazonienne (Labex #CEBA) 😍 - Un grand merci à Jerôme Chave et tous les autres acteurs du LabEx! anr.fr/fr/actus/det...
Plongée au cœur de quatorze années de recherche sur la biodiversité amazonienne avec le laboratoire d’excellence (Labex) CEBA (Centre d’Etude de la Biodiversité Amazonienne)
La Guyane est un laboratoire naturel idéal pour étudier la biodiversité tropicale. Depuis 14 ans, le Labex CEBA, basé en Guyane française et porté par le CNRS, cherche à comprendre l’origine et le mai...
anr.fr
November 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
luciezinger.bsky.social
Thrilled to see our latest paper on rainwash #eDNA to be featured in @mongabay.com. A huge thank you to Liz Kimbrough for this nice coverage. We appreciate you highlighting our work! news.mongabay.com/2025/09/rain...
Rainwater reveals the hidden life of rainforest canopies, study shows
In the rainforest, much of life dwells in the tree canopy. But getting up there to study it isn’t easy. By the time a human has clumsily lumbered up from the ground, most of the critters have scattere...
news.mongabay.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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ibioconsultants.com
Great to see more innovation with eDNA this time looking at rainwater in tropical forests for greater insights 🌍

#TropicalEcology #TropicalForests #eDNA

phys.org/news/2025-08...
DNA from rainwater provides a window into tropical canopy biodiversity
Tropical rainforests still represent a treasure trove of undiscovered species. While many species of plants, animals, and insects have been identified over the years, some parts of these tropical ecos...
phys.org
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
luciezinger.bsky.social
Our paper on using #eDNA from rainwater to study hidden biodiversity in #tropical #forest #canopies is now out in Science Advances! This method is a major step forward for the study and #conservation of this inaccessible compartiment. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Photo: J. Raynaud
August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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florianaltermatt.bsky.social
Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position)

➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/...

Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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envdna.bsky.social
An isothermal workflow for low-cost and PCR-free field-based community metabarcoding

#eDNA #environmentalDNA

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
An isothermal workflow for low‐cost and PCR‐free field‐based community metabarcoding
DNA metabarcoding has revolutionized our ability to monitor ecosystems. However, the method is still rarely used in developing countries where resources are limited and fieldwork is challenging. ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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bettinathal.bsky.social
🚨 Out now in #EnvironmentalDNA led by #MiwaTakahashi: Results of a huge, global effort to facilitate the publication of raw and processed #eDNA data & ensure that dataset we are currently generating, adhere to the #FAIR principles & won't be lost. @gbif.org, #ENA,
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
A Metadata Checklist and Data Formatting Guidelines to Make eDNA FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a transformative tool for biodiversity monitoring and species detection, yet inconsistent metadata practices hinder data interoperability and reuse. To address...
doi.org
June 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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antoinezalc.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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ednaquaplan.bsky.social
The failure to correctly identify species using #eDNA may be biological rather than methodological. Find out how mitogenomics sequences can address this challenge.

👉 bit.ly/3vKxTh9

#DNA #genomics #Data #Observation #Science #Research
Creating, curating and evaluating a mitogenomic reference database to improve regional species identification using environmental DNA
Species detection using eDNA is revolutionizing global capacity to monitor biodiversity. However, the lack of regional, vouchered, genomic sequence information—especially sequence information that in...
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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debpaul.bsky.social
📢 #eDNA? @tdwg.org @gbif.org #SPNHC #idigbio @dissco.bsky.social @prairieresearch.bsky.social join #TWT2025 TaxonWorks Together: connecting eDNA to vouchers, inventories, provenance, scaling, identifiers, fieldwork, standards, AI & collections. Need new connections? 🪡https://together.taxonworks.org/
screenshot describing the eDNA session at TaxonWorks Together 2025 (May 6 - 8) to talk about connecting eDNA data for more use and discoverability. https://together.taxonworks.org/
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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jcsvenning.bsky.social
🌿 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...
Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores - Nature Plants
Temperate forest plants favour heterogeneous semi-open woodlands associated with high herbivore densities, rather than uniform closed-canopy forests. Herbivore loss is therefore a probable driver of e...
doi.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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jjpk.bsky.social
Patterns and drivers of diatom diversity andabundance in the global ocean rdcu.be/ehlG4
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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florianaltermatt.bsky.social
Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲

Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
🧵1/5
March 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ipbes.net
Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 – approaching deadline! 🌍🧪

@earthjournalism.bsky.social is offering grants (up to €12k) to media organizations from low- or middle-income countries to boost #biodiversity reporting.

Deadline: 📅 March 30, 2025

🔗Apply 👉 loom.ly/oll1WRE
An announcement image for Biodiversity Media Grants 2025 featuring a vibrant close-up photo of a multicolored chameleon on a branch against a blurred green background. The text describes EJN's grant program offering €10,000-12,000 to organizations for biodiversity reporting projects. The deadline "APPLY BY MARCH 30, 2025" appears in white text on a green banner. The Earth Journalism Network logo is visible at the bottom. The image combines professional typography with nature photography, using a green color scheme that complements the biodiversity theme.
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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erinhahn.bsky.social
🚀 Preprint alert! 🚀

#AirDNA – game changer or hot air?

Fresh from last year’s @sednasociety.bsky.social Airborne #eDNA workshop, we’ve distilled the latest research, key challenges, and a roadmap to turn this emerging tool into real-world solutions.

Check it out! 👇
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2S...
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 AM
luciezinger.bsky.social
Happy to share the preprint of our work on rain #eDNA to study tropical forest biodiversity 🌧️🧬🌴
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Feb 28
Rainwash eDNA to monitor tropical rainforest biodiversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640397v1
February 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Have a look at our final program #aquaecomics2025 #omics #edna #metabarcoding #metagenomics

https://aquaecomics.symposium.inrae.fr/program2
February 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
Sign up to our next MEE live now! Join Abby Keller for this free online workshop, to find out more about eDNAjoint, new eDNA modelling tool 🧬 🌎 🧪

📆 19th March, 4pm GMT

Find more information and register here 👇

https://buff.ly/4k2hjO8
February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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asn-amnat.bsky.social
Special Feature available ahead of print! Stark et al. revisit assumptions in the metabolic theory of ecology that explains macroecological patterns in biological rates from individuals to ecosystems through fundamental constraints on metabolism. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Toward a More Dynamic Metabolic Theory of Ecology to Predict Climate Change Effects on Biological Systems | The American Naturalist
Abstract The metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) aims to link biophysical constraints on individual metabolic rates to the emergence of patterns at the population and ecosystem scales. Because MTE links...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What separates life from death? Mary Shelley once wrote: "To understand life, we first need to understand death". In this movie, we see how a single-celled organism dies. The same matter in both pictures. It is not the same state or the same integrated complexity. youtube.com/watch?v=4bj6...
February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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asn-amnat.bsky.social
"Pollen Wars: Explosive Pollination Removes Pollen Deposited from Previously Visited Flowers"
Anderson et al. find that explosive pollination may confer a pre-pollination, male-competition advantage to plants.
Summary & analysis by Andrea Romero: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...
deposited pollen exploding out of a flower when pollinated again
February 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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reindertn.bsky.social
Super happy our paper on #eDNA #metabarcoding of North Sea fish using @nanoporetech.com sequencing is finally published in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Long and the Short of It: Nanopore‐Based eDNA Metabarcoding of Marine Vertebrates Works; Sensitivity and Species‐Level Assignment Depend on Amplicon Lengths
To monitor the effect of nature restoration projects in North Sea ecosystems, accurate and intensive biodiversity assessments are vital. DNA-based techniques and especially environmental (e)DNA metab....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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frantecol.bsky.social
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM