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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 25

How about some #eDNA, bird biology and a murder mystery by Steve Burrows? A book i consulted on is now out - it's got our airborne #eDNA it in (watch for the cameo...) #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSKY 🧪 here's to my true partner in crime @jlittlefair.bsky.social - our research is now a plot point 🤣

A Deceit of Lapwings

A Deceit of Lapwings : Burrows, Steve: Amazon.ca: Books

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Air pollution filters help scientists produce first UK wildlife survey using eDNA

Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oh yeah. Let’s not even talk about that complexity!

Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Several of my very clever students even sent me papers called "co-evolution of sperm and egg" etc. by people who clearly dismissed the standard definition. I'm with my students on this one. Broaden the definition....

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why would we consider reciprocal compensatory mutations anything other than co-evolution. Why focus on "two species" in our definition? I've asked a number of other evolutionary biologists and I'm getting a surprising look of ... well... yeah maybe our definition in the text is out of date...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hi 🧪 Every text defines co-evolution as "reciprocal genomic changes between two species". Clever students in my class wrote about co-evolution of interacting genes, X and Y chromosomes, mt and nuc DNA. I agree with them this is co-evolution. Why do texts say "two species"? #academicSKY #womeninSTEM

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hardcore mosquito protection for field work! #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 30

A new #beeDNA paper from the lab. Innovative Airborne DNA Approach for Monitoring Honey Bee Foraging and Health - Pepinelli - 2025 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#eDNA #environmentalDNA #bee #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪

Innovative Airborne DNA Approach for Monitoring Honey Bee Foraging and Health

Using a novel modification of our simple hand airborne eDNA samplers this pilot study demonstrates that eDNA filtered from the air of a honey been colony has the strong potential for rapid screening ...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 23

New paper from the lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Describes the extreme stress of the Lake Xochimilco ecosystem of Mexico. #eDNA #biodiversity #AcademicSky 🧪

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jun 2

And then we surveyed a country.....

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#biodiversity #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪

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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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · May 22

www.npr.org/2025/05/22/g...

My grad student and post doc, featured on NPR

🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky

Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity using DNA in the air

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all kinds of species around the world.

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

A handsome sheep frog - looks like a good leaf mimic out in our field site.
🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky

Sheep frog. A small frog with a back which mimics a dead leaf.

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Hahaha!

Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Walking back from our field location at night we ran into this lovely neotropical porcupine

🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 28

Scorpion.

Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 27

Field work! #WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 27

Found this friend in our field lab. Sitting in someone’s N95 mask.
Stunning under black light
#WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ever wonder how we date ancient events (or ever need to explain it to your class?) Today on the BioAudio Podcast we're talking about dating (the ancient kind). It's Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks! #WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis...

Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past - BioAudio

Today on the BioAudio podcast, it's all about dating! (no not that kind). Have you ever wondered how we figure out when things happened way in the past? When a scientist says "it's 100 million years o...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Feb 9

Love it! I’ll have to use that!

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Feb 9

All right biology students following along here... this week we are learning about isolating barriers and speciation. Start with this podcast made with a former student from my class - just like you! #academicsky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis...

Reproductive isolating barriers and modes of speciation - BioAudio

In this episode of the BioAudio podcast I'm joined by Christian Nakla, a former student in my senior evolution class, someone who always had a good question for me. Now i'm flipping our roll and he's ...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jan 30

Ok Students who follow me... a reminder - you should have listened to Darwin's evidence for natural selection on BioAudio for Friday. www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis...
#womeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪
And for my older listeners I have 3 new recordings I'm editing now! new content on the way.

Darwin's evidence for natural selection - an Encore Presentation - BioAudio

This is an encore presentation of the third episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. I am re-posting the first three episodes form season 1 because they also set the stage for new content in Season 2. ...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jan 28

I have one written. Waiting on a friend to record it, he’s traveling. Or would you like to help?

Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jan 27

Ok Students in my class that are on here... You should have already listened to last week's podcast episode on the life of Darwin. Here www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis... #womeninstem #academicsky 🧪

Charles Darwin: the making of a scientific theory - an Encore Presentation - BioAudio

This is an encore presentation of the second episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. So before we get into new content, I am re-posting a conversa...

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Slows down submissions I guess….

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · Jan 13

Yes. And having to do all the formatting before submission.

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