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eWHALE @ewhale-dna.bsky.social · 5d

News from our team #Iceland at the #UniversityofIceland! Belén and Marianne explaining the eWHALE acitivities and new insights obtained in Iceland. youtu.be/_MbJ60R7qZ4?... #eDNA #CitizenScience #whales

Hvalir skilja eftir sig DNA í hafinu

YouTube video by Háskóli Íslands - HI

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 9d

Major #proudSupervisorMoment today! Rebecca Niklas at her #MSc defense: #Cetaceans and their #trophicEcology in the #Azores; #eDNA and #Metabarcoding for the win! 🐋🐳🐬

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 13d

The one and only #eWHALE team! ❤️ Meeting today at @ifremer.bsky.social #Nantes for a productive day of updates and future planning. #eDNA @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @azwhlab.bsky.social

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 27d

Kicking off a day of #biodiversity #data networking at the The Open Scientific Collections Austria meeting in Vienna. #OSCA #metabarcoding #eDNA

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing Charlotte, congratulations! 🥳

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Florian Leese @leeselab.bsky.social · Jun 28

Very good to see our @pensoft.net journal @mbmg.pensoft.net continues to receive good CiteScores and also now the first #ImpactFactor with a good value of 3.1 ☀️
While I personally don’t care much about these metrics I know they are really relevant for many institutions. Thus: very happy about this!

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 27

🐋 Two teams, two oceans, one result: to detect #whale #eDNA, sample as soon as possible after a sighting!

Unique co-publication experience!
@ewhale-dna.bsky.social @savecetaceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
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#OceanWise #CitizenScience #WhaleWatching #WomenInSTEM

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Allan McDevitt @shrewgod.bsky.social · Jun 24

New paper out from our crew on using #eDNA to detect the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Bsal) and characterise the surrounding amphibian community from pond samples in the Netherlands. Small number of samples but highlights the potential of eDNA for routine monitoring of both. bioone.org/journals/jou...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 20

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New @ewhale-dna.bsky.social publication led by Eleonora Barbaccia & published in Ocean & Coastal Management! 🐋💙

#WhaleWatching, #citizenScience, and #eDNA sampling can foster public awareness and engagement in #marine #biodiversity #conservation

doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 12

Aw, thank you! And so happy to hear that you find these tools useful! 🤩

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨 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...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congratulations @otournayre.bsky.social! ...and I'm so happy to see the BirT primers being put to good use! 🥳

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Orianne Tournayre @otournayre.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨Turning air quality networks into a global #biodiversity monitoring system?
Air pollution filters were repurposed for #airborne #eDNA, enabling detection of #vertebrates, #invertebrates, #plants & #fungi at a national scale.🧬🌐🧪
📄Check out our new paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Jun 2

🌲🌳🌲🌳 Out now! #eDNA #barcoding #metabarcoding and the potential of #DNA-based methods for "Monitoring #Connectivity in #Forest #Ecosystems" doi.org/10.1007/978-... A fabulous collaboration with J. Oettel, A. Szukala, L. Munishi, K. Lapin and the #BFW #Austria @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Monitoring Methods for the Protection of Connectivity in Forest Ecosystems

Forest ecosystems face increasing threats from climate change, resource exploitation, and other anthropogenic disturbances causing biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation. The conservation priorit...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 22

What an amazing week! #ECSconference2025 together with the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team, just 👌🏻Can‘t wait for #Dundee and #ECSconference2026

eWHALE @ewhale-dna.bsky.social · May 21

How amazing was this #ECSconference2025? 🐋🐬Extremely inspiring to meet 600+ fellow #cetacean enthusiasts and watch our #PhD students present their work. Fail of the week: we did not get a picture of the entire eWHALE „delegation“. #Azores #PontaDelgada #eDNA #citizenscience

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Final opportunity for sharing your opinion on an „European Society for Environmental Omics“ #ESEO
#eDNA #eRNA #omics #metabarcoding #academicChatter Especially looking for feedback from early career researchers or students! forms.gle/eurc7kierJcB...

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 16

#LaurenRodriguez summarizing 2 years of #eDNA sampling optimization and #marine #vertebrate #metabarcoding data from the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores samples #ECSconference2025
#CWAzores

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 15

@annaselbmann.bsky.social with an amazing presentation on #killerwhale response to #pilotwhale „bullying calls“ #ECSconference2025
Ohhh the #Asterix references! 🤩👌🏻

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 15

day 2 of #ECSconference2025: #CristinaBrito introducing the amazing #4-OCEANS project: assessing the importance of #marine life to human societies starting 2 millennia ago. #ERC

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 14

Did not chat with you, sorry, but congrats on the cool design! Made me look twice or more 👌🏻

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 14

#ECSconference2025 🥳 more than 740 #cetacean enthusiasts meeting in #PontaDelgada #Azores @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 14

Starting the #ECSconference2025 off with the „from Genes to Whales“ workshop organized by the amazing #LauraMiralles #eDNA #genetics @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

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Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · May 3

#BlueWhale #eDNA samples ✅
Still hard to believe that such days are part of my job! 🤩
@ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores #Pico and the amazing #CWAzores whale watching team!

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Apr 28

Utilizing #aquatic environmental DNA #eDNA to address global #biodiversity targets: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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We discuss how eDNA can contribute towards Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Franework #GBF. Out now in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com

Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Aquatic eDNA-based technologies offer the potential for universal and standardized biodiversity monitoring. In this Perspective, Altermatt et al. discuss how these technologies can help to achiev...

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Dr.Kat Stewart @ecoevoedna.bsky.social · Apr 29

Interested in establishing a European Society for Environmental Omics? Let your voice be heard #eDNA folks!

Bettina Thalinger @bettinathal.bsky.social · Apr 29

#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...

European Society for Environmental Omics (ESEO)

Dear Environmental Omics enthusiasts! At the AquaEcOmics meeting in Evian (March, 2025), an international group of 35 experts discussed the future of regular European meetings and collaborative effor...

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