Matt Penney
@invertgenes.bsky.social
Molecular Lab Manager
Coffee Inhaler
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Molecular Ecology, Lab Techniques
Coffee Inhaler
Twitter Abandoner
Molecular Ecology, Lab Techniques
RFK Jr. is the last person I would seek advice from on this. Ignoring him was a good call.
After an 11-month legal standoff, the Canadian government has culled a flock of farm-raised ostriches that had survived an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1. https://scim.ag/3K4G674
Canadian government kills ostriches afflicted by H5N1 despite appeal from RFK Jr.
Culling proceeds after Canada’s Supreme Court ends heated 11-month battle over the fate of more than 300 birds
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November 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
RFK Jr. is the last person I would seek advice from on this. Ignoring him was a good call.
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"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
Found this on my windshield a couple of weeks ago when I was at Chapters on Bayer's Lake. The anti-vaxx crowd rehashing a debunked talking point about aluminum preservatives. Because sepsis is a better alternative, apparently.
August 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Found this on my windshield a couple of weeks ago when I was at Chapters on Bayer's Lake. The anti-vaxx crowd rehashing a debunked talking point about aluminum preservatives. Because sepsis is a better alternative, apparently.
#ACCESS2025 Has wrapped up. Had some fun conversations about high-sensitivity eDNA markers for Atlantic Salmon. ^_^
May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
#ACCESS2025 Has wrapped up. Had some fun conversations about high-sensitivity eDNA markers for Atlantic Salmon. ^_^
Inhibition is one of the main confounding factors in eDNA work due to increased risk of false negatives (Type II Error). I found diluting samples does not work well as it over-dilutes the samples. We've been using Recombinant Albumim (RA) as of late. #eDNA
April 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Inhibition is one of the main confounding factors in eDNA work due to increased risk of false negatives (Type II Error). I found diluting samples does not work well as it over-dilutes the samples. We've been using Recombinant Albumim (RA) as of late. #eDNA
November 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Hello there,
I'm with the Marine Gen Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada and we do a lot of #eDNA detection work in freshwater lakes around the province, especially within the Petite Rivière. My job is processing samples and optimizing methods.
Cheers, everyone. 🐟🧬
I'm with the Marine Gen Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada and we do a lot of #eDNA detection work in freshwater lakes around the province, especially within the Petite Rivière. My job is processing samples and optimizing methods.
Cheers, everyone. 🐟🧬
November 15, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Hello there,
I'm with the Marine Gen Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada and we do a lot of #eDNA detection work in freshwater lakes around the province, especially within the Petite Rivière. My job is processing samples and optimizing methods.
Cheers, everyone. 🐟🧬
I'm with the Marine Gen Probe Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada and we do a lot of #eDNA detection work in freshwater lakes around the province, especially within the Petite Rivière. My job is processing samples and optimizing methods.
Cheers, everyone. 🐟🧬
Let's all agree right now that Melon Husk should never, ever, ever be allowed to buy this platform.
November 13, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Let's all agree right now that Melon Husk should never, ever, ever be allowed to buy this platform.
When you have three multiplex PCRs to do, each one takes three hours, and your third machine decides to stop working so you spend 3 hours longer than planned on your work.
My day yesterday.
My day yesterday.
July 21, 2024 at 12:13 AM
When you have three multiplex PCRs to do, each one takes three hours, and your third machine decides to stop working so you spend 3 hours longer than planned on your work.
My day yesterday.
My day yesterday.
For a previous experiment we put out several of these devices around our laboratory space to determine if we could gather detectable levels of fish DNA from the air (i.e. is aerial contamination of eDNA samples a risk).
The answer was yes for at least Atlantic Salmon and Atlantic Whitefish.
The answer was yes for at least Atlantic Salmon and Atlantic Whitefish.
May 26, 2024 at 4:39 PM
For a previous experiment we put out several of these devices around our laboratory space to determine if we could gather detectable levels of fish DNA from the air (i.e. is aerial contamination of eDNA samples a risk).
The answer was yes for at least Atlantic Salmon and Atlantic Whitefish.
The answer was yes for at least Atlantic Salmon and Atlantic Whitefish.
Do you like coastal science and cozy little towns in New Brunswick but never seem to enjoy them together? Well, do we have a solution for you!
The upcoming ACCESS-BoFEP joint conference in St. Andrews!
Register here: access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
The upcoming ACCESS-BoFEP joint conference in St. Andrews!
Register here: access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
ACCESS - Registration / Inscription
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April 29, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Do you like coastal science and cozy little towns in New Brunswick but never seem to enjoy them together? Well, do we have a solution for you!
The upcoming ACCESS-BoFEP joint conference in St. Andrews!
Register here: access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
The upcoming ACCESS-BoFEP joint conference in St. Andrews!
Register here: access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
Vous-voulez attendre une petite conférence á propos les sciences des estuaires et côtières dans Canada atlantique ? Aussi, est-ce que vous aimez les petites villes du Nouveau-Brunswick ?
La conférence jointe entre ACCESS et BoFEP est un solution parfait !
access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
La conférence jointe entre ACCESS et BoFEP est un solution parfait !
access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
ACCESS - Registration / Inscription
access.wildapricot.org
April 29, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Vous-voulez attendre une petite conférence á propos les sciences des estuaires et côtières dans Canada atlantique ? Aussi, est-ce que vous aimez les petites villes du Nouveau-Brunswick ?
La conférence jointe entre ACCESS et BoFEP est un solution parfait !
access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
La conférence jointe entre ACCESS et BoFEP est un solution parfait !
access.wildapricot.org/Registration...
We didn't hear about this in time to join in (MGPL at Dalhousie) but we'll keep an eye out for future opportunities.
On International day of #Biodiversity -> May 22, hundreds of people will join forces to sample the world's biodiversity from the lens of #eDNA. Together we'll make a dataset like no other about the state of life on 🌍
Listen more on about it on #ScienceFriday www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cit...
Listen more on about it on #ScienceFriday www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cit...
April 21, 2024 at 2:46 AM
We didn't hear about this in time to join in (MGPL at Dalhousie) but we'll keep an eye out for future opportunities.
www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...
5-month Full Time position as a Lab Instructor at Cape Breton Universty available now.
5-month Full Time position as a Lab Instructor at Cape Breton Universty available now.
Lab Instructor, Biology (5 Month Term) - Cape Breton University
The Department of Biology in the School of Science & Technology at CBU invites applications for a Full-Time Limited Term…
www.cbu.ca
April 18, 2024 at 3:36 PM
www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...
5-month Full Time position as a Lab Instructor at Cape Breton Universty available now.
5-month Full Time position as a Lab Instructor at Cape Breton Universty available now.
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I knew about passive water filters (e.g. Wilder Lab kits, see here: www.wilderlab.co.nz) but hadn't heaed of anything passive for air. So this is promising.
I knew about passive water filters (e.g. Wilder Lab kits, see here: www.wilderlab.co.nz) but hadn't heaed of anything passive for air. So this is promising.
March 23, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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I knew about passive water filters (e.g. Wilder Lab kits, see here: www.wilderlab.co.nz) but hadn't heaed of anything passive for air. So this is promising.
I knew about passive water filters (e.g. Wilder Lab kits, see here: www.wilderlab.co.nz) but hadn't heaed of anything passive for air. So this is promising.
Canadian politics in one shot.
Okay. Now that THAT'S out of my system, I recently discovered you can still manage to overload a MiSeq v2 flow cell when you load at 6pM (low diversity library). And that's even with a 20% PhiX spike-in.
Time to check the qPCR standards!
Okay. Now that THAT'S out of my system, I recently discovered you can still manage to overload a MiSeq v2 flow cell when you load at 6pM (low diversity library). And that's even with a 20% PhiX spike-in.
Time to check the qPCR standards!
February 27, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Canadian politics in one shot.
Okay. Now that THAT'S out of my system, I recently discovered you can still manage to overload a MiSeq v2 flow cell when you load at 6pM (low diversity library). And that's even with a 20% PhiX spike-in.
Time to check the qPCR standards!
Okay. Now that THAT'S out of my system, I recently discovered you can still manage to overload a MiSeq v2 flow cell when you load at 6pM (low diversity library). And that's even with a 20% PhiX spike-in.
Time to check the qPCR standards!
January 20, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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If you extract DNA using kits but keep running out of columns, I recommend trying these. Bulk spin columns.
Si vous utilisez les kits extraire l'ADN mais vous etez limité parce que les tubes collecteurs, essayez-ces.
www.enzymax.net/columns/mini...
If you extract DNA using kits but keep running out of columns, I recommend trying these. Bulk spin columns.
Si vous utilisez les kits extraire l'ADN mais vous etez limité parce que les tubes collecteurs, essayez-ces.
January 7, 2024 at 12:18 AM
epochlifescience.com/products/eco...
www.enzymax.net/columns/mini...
If you extract DNA using kits but keep running out of columns, I recommend trying these. Bulk spin columns.
Si vous utilisez les kits extraire l'ADN mais vous etez limité parce que les tubes collecteurs, essayez-ces.
www.enzymax.net/columns/mini...
If you extract DNA using kits but keep running out of columns, I recommend trying these. Bulk spin columns.
Si vous utilisez les kits extraire l'ADN mais vous etez limité parce que les tubes collecteurs, essayez-ces.
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Position with DFO as a Hatchery Management Biologist in Coldbrook, NS.
Position with DFO as a Hatchery Management Biologist in Coldbrook, NS.
Lead Hatchery Management Biologist
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January 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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Position with DFO as a Hatchery Management Biologist in Coldbrook, NS.
Position with DFO as a Hatchery Management Biologist in Coldbrook, NS.
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Happy to announce two PhD positions in fish ecophysiology 📣
Fully funded, fun fish temperature physiology, supervision by me, @shaunkillen, @NPilakouta! @Naturvetenskap
Please spread the word 🙏
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Fully funded, fun fish temperature physiology, supervision by me, @shaunkillen, @NPilakouta! @Naturvetenskap
Please spread the word 🙏
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Doctoral students in biology with focus on ecophysiology of fish
Doctoral positions in biology with focus on ecophysiology of fish
At the Department of Biological and
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December 22, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Happy to announce two PhD positions in fish ecophysiology 📣
Fully funded, fun fish temperature physiology, supervision by me, @shaunkillen, @NPilakouta! @Naturvetenskap
Please spread the word 🙏
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
Fully funded, fun fish temperature physiology, supervision by me, @shaunkillen, @NPilakouta! @Naturvetenskap
Please spread the word 🙏
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...
Tenure-track faculty position in Comparative Animal Physiology with the UPEI Biology Department.
Tenure-track faculty position in Comparative Animal Physiology with the UPEI Biology Department.
January 3, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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Tenure-track faculty position in Comparative Animal Physiology with the UPEI Biology Department.
Tenure-track faculty position in Comparative Animal Physiology with the UPEI Biology Department.
Was looking through my feed and noticed that I have yet to roast CBU for irresponsible enrollment inflation. This error must be corrected.
Also, this is a horribly transparent attempt to exploit a university for a dollar and shame on Dingwall.
There. All is in balance once again.
Also, this is a horribly transparent attempt to exploit a university for a dollar and shame on Dingwall.
There. All is in balance once again.
December 30, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Was looking through my feed and noticed that I have yet to roast CBU for irresponsible enrollment inflation. This error must be corrected.
Also, this is a horribly transparent attempt to exploit a university for a dollar and shame on Dingwall.
There. All is in balance once again.
Also, this is a horribly transparent attempt to exploit a university for a dollar and shame on Dingwall.
There. All is in balance once again.
Conditional bathing aside, I've never heard of showering with a rubber duck. Do they just hang out by the drain the whole time?
December 24, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Conditional bathing aside, I've never heard of showering with a rubber duck. Do they just hang out by the drain the whole time?