From April to July 2025, Franka Gaiser, a PhD candidate from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, stayed with the TEB Lab in Bellaterra, Barcelona. When Franka moved to the Universitat de Autònoma d...

Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’

This summer, Mariana spent two weeks in Finnish Lapland conducting fieldwork for her BIPOLAR Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. The aim of this project is to quantify the potential for adaptation to clim...

From April 28th to June 9th 2025, Sandra, Sergi, and Judit from TEB Lab returned to the Seychelles Islands for another exciting round of fieldwork. This time, they were joined by Jaume Pellicer, a bot...

Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’ It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year. The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world with judges praising its approach to addressing its complex past and its extensive work with communities. Continue reading...

Scientific Reports - The network nature of language endangerment hotspots

From the 8th to the 10th of April 2025, the TEBLab team, together with two collaborators from Bayreuth University – Dr. Manuel Steinbauer and Franka Gaiser (PhD student) – headed to La Garrotxa for a ...

Every human action has a fingerprint on the ecosystems, whether it is direct or indirect. Given the intense use of land and human resources, the human fingerprint is also a geochemical fingerprint. Es...

Last year, I had the pleasure to attend an eDNA metabarcoding course in the Arctic University Museum of Norway, Tromsø.Environmental DNA (eDNA) is that which is obtained from environmental samples suc...

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity assessment by providing a rapid, cost-efficient, and non-invasive method to characterize ...