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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · 20d

Was great to see Josh Wright presenting on the evolutionary history of mergansers at this year's @bes-egg.bsky.social meeting. Nice to know more of the background to the study ahead of Josh’s @nerc-eof.bsky.social-supported project on whole-genome re-sequencing of scaly-sided merganser.

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Aug 28

#EGG2025: On scales of time
📆17-19 September
📍 Online

Join the Ecological Genetics SIG for its 69th Annual Meeting, exploring all facets of ecological genetics with a focus on the impacts of time.
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#EGG2025: On scales of time - British Ecological Society

Join the Ecological Genetics SIG for their Annual Meeting focusing on the impacts of time on organisms and processes.

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Prof Richard Buggs @rbuggs.bsky.social · Jun 27

Just out in Science: we demonstrate a micro-evolutionary shift in a single generation, involving thousands of genomic loci, giving younger ash trees more resistance to ash dieback, on average, than their parents
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp2990

Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic

Rapid evolution through small shifts in allele frequencies at thousands of loci is a long-standing neo-Darwinian prediction but is hard to characterize in the wild. European ash tree (Fraxinus excelsi...

www.science.org

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Jun 17

An informal icebreaker session before the start of @nerc-eof.bsky.social @m-gemmell.bsky.social's R Community workshop this morning - "What would your walk-on song be if you were a wrestler?" - playlist compiled by Gavin Gouws from everyone's suggestions! music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

Our Wrestling Walk-On Songs by Gavin Gouws on Apple Music

Playlist · 17 Songs

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NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) @nerc-eof.bsky.social · Jun 16

Revolutionise your biodiversity surveys with eDNA! 🧬 Our in-person training (Sept 8-12, 2025) covers wet lab techniques (DNA extraction to Illumina library prep) & bioinformatics (raw data to taxonomy & diversity analysis). Choose one or both! Register by July 21st: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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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...

doi.org

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BES Ecological Genetics Group @bes-egg.bsky.social · May 19

📣 #EGG2025: On Scales of Time
📍 National Museum Cardiff & Online
📅 17–19 Sep 2025

✔️ Abstracts close 31 May
✔️ Registration closes 31 Jul
britishecologicalsociety.org/content/egg2...

Don’t miss cutting-edge talks, posters & socials across time-scales in ecological genetics! 🦊🦗🐡🌲🍄🌾

#EGG2025: On scales of time - British Ecological Society

Join the Ecological Genetics SIG for their Annual Meeting focusing on the impacts of time on organisms and processes.

britishecologicalsociety.org

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Dina-Leigh Simons @dinathebiologist.bsky.social · May 15

A surreal experience standing at the Royal Society podium to share my PhD research at the @ukdnawg.bsky.social Conference. Grateful for the opportunity to present my work on eDNA for coastal monitoring and to connect with such a brilliant community of researchers 🧬

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Soay Sheep Project @soaysheep.bsky.social · Apr 15

📰🐑New Paper! PhD researcher @lizziedrake.bsky.social and collaborators looked at how harsh environments in a Soay's first year can have lasting impacts on reproduction and lifespan, and how they differ for males and females.
Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Dina-Leigh Simons @dinathebiologist.bsky.social · Apr 14

I’m speaking at @pintofscience! 🍻🧬Join me to explore how climate change is transforming our oceans — and how DNA might be able to help🌊
🗓️ Tue 20 May 2025
🕖7–9 PM (Doors 6:30 PM)
📍 Frederiks, 32 Hope Street, Liverpool
🎟️ £5 (tickets linked) pintofscience.co.uk/event/scienc...

Science, Culture & Society

What is the logic behind certain food prices? What is the reality of raising a child with more than one language? How does climate change affect habitats f…

pintofscience.co.uk

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · Apr 14

🔎👀 TropEco Lab is hiring, please share! 🚨
🌍🌴 Position: Senior Research Associate / Research Associate in Field and Molecular Ecology.
🪲🐝🦋 Task: You will use iDNA & eDNA to build bee-plant and dung beetle-mammal networks in the Brazilian Amazonia, Ghana, & Malaysia.
Further details -> bit.ly/4lurR9z

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Mar 23

Project supported by @nerc-eof.bsky.social

Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Mar 23

eDNA (green) found the same species as hand-sorting (brown), but was better at detecting anecic earthworms and species richness. eDNA can also identify juvenile earthworms, which can make up >80% of a soil sample but are difficult to identify to species morphologically.

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Mar 23

Great to see @joellanos.bsky.social and Penny Watt's paper out this month highlighting the use of soil eDNA for monitoring earthworms. 🪱🧬

Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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Soay Sheep Project @soaysheep.bsky.social · Mar 20

📰🐑 We're on the cover! If you haven't already seen it, check out a piece about how our long term field research helps studying ageing in the wild.

Nature Aging @nataging.nature.com · Mar 20

🗞️Our March issue is live!📷This month we're featuring work on sarcopenia, senescence, cognitive resilience, the effects of body temperature on healthspan and much more… Read it all here: nature.com/nataging/vol...

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NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) @nerc-eof.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Feb 18

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

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NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) @nerc-eof.bsky.social · Feb 17

@uniofcam.bsky.social Zoology PhD candidate @sofiadartnell.bsky.social is SNP_typing at NEOF-VF to estimate the number of Bombus terrestris colonies invaded by cuckoo bumblebees (B. vestalis) across varying landscapes. These cuckoos are obligate parasites & may indicate healthy bumblebee habitats

Postgraduate Researcher Sofia Dartnell in the field collecting bumblebees

a bumblebee on a lavender flower in blossom

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 13

Tally heading towards 1500. Please keep going - share and sign.

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 13

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.

Please keep signing & sharing.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

docs.google.com

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UKEOF UKDNA Working Group @ukdnawg.bsky.social · Feb 13

We are delighted to announce that the 11th #ukdnawg conference will be hosted by the @royalsociety.org London on 13-14th May 2025.

For more information, and to register, follow the links from ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna

🧬 #eDNA #biodiversity

UK DNA Working Group | UKEOF

ukeof.org.uk

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UKEOF UKDNA Working Group @ukdnawg.bsky.social · Feb 13

🧬 Fantastic postdoc opportunity up for grabs to work with @jlittlefair.bsky.social - on monitoring biodiversity with airborne #eDNA at the UCL People and Nature Lab 🧬

Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · Feb 12

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Jan 28

'Igo Hungry' on London Rd and 'Humpit' hummus and pitta bread place in town, never ventured into either of those.

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NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) @nerc-eof.bsky.social · Jan 24

NEOF Pilot Funding for Early Career Researchers in the NERC remit has now opened! Further your career by gaining funding in your own name and generate pilot data for future fellowship or other applications: neof.org.uk/our-capabili...
#ECR #genomics #metabolomics #proteomics

Early career researchers 2025 - NEOF - NERC Environmental Omics Facility

NEOF is a centre of excellence that allows the UK to maintain and develop its world-leading position in environmental omics.

neof.org.uk

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · Dec 18

Day 18 of EMBL-EBI's on-demand training collection advent countdown.
I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's a good one if you're into DNA and biodiversity ...

EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Dec 3

Count down to the winter break with us! Open a door on our calendar each day to discover one of the online training materials that we made this year: ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...

What will be behind door number 3?

What's today's on-demand training?
Open the door to discover one of the recorded webinars, online tutorials or training collections that we created in 2024

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · Dec 12

Today there's much talk of the need of new housing. But, as co-author @drkierachapman says in today's Guardian article:

"When it comes to priorities, this is not an either/or situation: humans need healthy green spaces to flourish."

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