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Stefaniya Kamenova
@stefaniyak2.bsky.social
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Molecular ecologist studying trophic interactions 🇵🇸🇱🇧
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia | University of Oslo
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The #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school was a success! All the credit goes to the tireless @magnen.bsky.social! 🐭

Many thanks to #IRSAE & @uniinnlandet.bsky.social for the generous support, as well as to #UiO for providing access to the beautiful marine station in #Drøbak 💙
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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10klepgenomes.bsky.social
Second call for our #STSM is already open!!!!!!
10klepgenomes.bsky.social 10kLepGenomes @10klepgenomes.bsky.social · 9d
(1/4) 📣 Exciting news! 📣
The #10KLepGenomes COST Action has opened the second call for Short Term Scientific Missions #STSMs
Keep reading for all the details 👇
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Last days of the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in #Drøbak. Great lectures by Ella Thoen, @christinalynggaard.bsky.social & @gbif.org Dag Endresen 🪱🪰🍄🧬
#IRSAE @magnen.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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www.newarab.com/opinion/unes...
From UNESCO to GEM, Egypt hides a dark side to grand archaeology
By appointing Khaled El-Enany as head, UNESCO proves heritage has become spectacle & soft power for the institution, argues Mohamed Elshahed.
www.newarab.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Stellar team of presenters so far at the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in #Drøbak. Eeva Soininen, Helena Wirta and @quentinmauvisseau.bsky.social sharing about their eDNA research on small mammals, pollinators and marine life.
#IRSAE @magnen.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social 🐋🐀🐝🧬
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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anders-bergstrom.bsky.social
A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
Historical genomics of the declining red squirrel in Britain | Aries
Dr Anders Bergström, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Professor Cock van Oosterhout, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Selina Brace…
aries-dtp.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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orlyrazgour.bsky.social
Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Pierre Taberlet kicking off the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in beautiful #Drøbak. Youngsters from 16 countries, including faraway places such as Hong Kong and Nepal! @uniinnlandet.bsky.social #IRSAE
@ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @eric.coissac.eu @magnen.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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📣 Online seminar open to all: The impact of philosophy and theoretical thinking on ecology.

More details 👇

philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/event/philin...
Dialogue between Alkistis Elliott-Greaves and Sam Scheiner (virtual): The impact of philosophy and theoretical thinking on ecology – philinbiomed
philinbiomed.cnrs.fr
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Lower-middle-income countries disproportionately face the burden of the Open Access publication model
While the Open Access (OA) publishing model may promote equity in the readership of scientific publications, its implications for global research authorship remain poorly quantified. We analysed 504,7...
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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H is For Hawk Official Trailer In Theaters January 23
YouTube video by RoadsideFlix
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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www.science.org/content/arti...
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
www.science.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The Bulgarian Barcode of Life has a Bluesky profile! Please consider followig us 🇧🇬🧬🦋

@iboleurope.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

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October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Experimental community ecology in decline: A call to embrace technology
Community dynamics are complex and thus challenging to infer from observational data alone. Experiments, with their ability to control variables and isolate mechanisms, are a powerful tool for uncover...
www.biorxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Close encounters of the Salamander Type #bulgaria #firesalamander
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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www.science.org/content/arti...
Smart dogs have a humanlike knack for naming new objects
In games with toys, “gifted” dogs can extend names to new objects with the same purpose as known ones
www.science.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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nielsmede.bsky.social
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A very special encounter in the Bulgarian woods 🐍
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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martinswarren.bsky.social
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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The quest to sequence the genomes of everything

@projectpsyche.bsky.social
@10klepgenomes.bsky.social

spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome...
Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology
spectrum.ieee.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism
We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
📖Published📖

Chen et al. comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of invertebrate metabarcoding primers in (e)DNA-based biodiversity assessments in both freshwater and marine habitats 🪳 🧬 Find out more here 👇

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September 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM