🐋🐳🐋 new publication!

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New publication from team @ewhale-dna.bsky.social: mitochondrial SNP panels & molecular sexing from eDNA let by the amazing Lauren Rodriguez doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Our #CitizenScience ready #eDNA sampling protocol is now available as video publication. 🎥

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧬 #eDNA sampling video publication 🎥 To make it easier for non-experts and #CitizenScientists to carry out eDNA sampling, we turned the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social sampling protocol into a video publication! Please spread and use widely! 😊 www.jove.com/v/70334/envi... @biodiversa.eu

The eWHALE team at the #ECS2026 in #Dundee. What a week! Started with an #eDNA + #Cetaceans workshop together with @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social & Elena Valsecchi and ended with a #Ceilidh! 🤩

eWHALE #PhD student Lauren Rodriguez got awarded a "Promotion of young Researchers in Tyrol" for her project on eDNA-based genetic individual identification for sperm whales. 🐋🐋 Congratulations Lauren! 🥳 #eDNA #population-genetics #cetaceans photo credits: © Land Tirol/Sedlak.

🧬 New year, new job! 🧬 I have started a position as Group Leader at #WasserCluster #Lunz (Austria). Stay tuned for job openings at all levels in the TRIDENT group @trident-wcl.bsky.social and collaboration opportunities in upcoming national and international #eDNA Projects.

🐋🚨 New publication alert! Integrating #CitizenScience and #eDNA sampling activities on #whaleWatching tours fosters public engagement for #marine protection! Gigantic team effort led by Eleonora Barbaccia. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @apanec-lab.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu

Hello North #Iceland! Presenting findings of the #eWHALE project in #Husavik tomorrow and exploring some of the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen! #whales #eDNA @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

News from our team #Iceland at the #UniversityofIceland! Belén and Marianne explaining the eWHALE acitivities and new insights obtained in Iceland. youtu.be/_MbJ60R7qZ4?... #eDNA #CitizenScience #whales

Hvalir skilja eftir sig DNA í hafinu

YouTube video by Háskóli Íslands - HI

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Major #proudSupervisorMoment today! Rebecca Niklas at her #MSc defense: #Cetaceans and their #trophicEcology in the #Azores; #eDNA and #Metabarcoding for the win! 🐋🐳🐬

Super exciting day for the #eWHALE team! Stay tuned for our big plans for the final project year! 🐋

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · last yr.

The one and only #eWHALE team! ❤️ Meeting today at @ifremer.bsky.social #Nantes for a productive day of updates and future planning. #eDNA @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @azwhlab.bsky.social

Check out our new publication! Co-published with colleagues from #OceanWise who detected the same pattern for different #Cetaceans 😎 doi.org/10.1002/edn3... doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · last yr.

🐋 Two teams, two oceans, one result: to detect #whale #eDNA, sample as soon as possible after a sighting! Unique co-publication experience! @ewhale-dna.bsky.social @savecetaceans.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/edn3... doi.org/10.1002/edn3... #OceanWise #CitizenScience #WhaleWatching #WomenInSTEM

🚨New publication alert! Led by Eleonora Barbaccia. #WhaleWatching, #citizenScience, and #eDNA sampling can foster public awareness and engagement in #marine #biodiversity #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · last yr.

‪ New @ewhale-dna.bsky.social publication led by Eleonora Barbaccia & published in Ocean & Coastal Management! 🐋💙 #WhaleWatching, #citizenScience, and #eDNA sampling can foster public awareness and engagement in #marine #biodiversity #conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

How amazing was this #ECSconference2025? 🐋🐬Extremely inspiring to meet 600+ fellow #cetacean enthusiasts and watch our #PhD students present their work. Fail of the week: we did not get a picture of the entire eWHALE „delegation“. #Azores #PontaDelgada #eDNA #citizenscience

#LaurenRodriguez summarizing 2 years of #eDNA sampling optimization and #marine #vertebrate #metabarcoding data from the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores samples #ECSconference2025 #CWAzores

#ECSconference2025 🥳 more than 740 #cetacean enthusiasts meeting in #PontaDelgada #Azores @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

Starting the #ECSconference2025 off with the „from Genes to Whales“ workshop organized by the amazing #LauraMiralles #eDNA #genetics @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

#whales #dolphins #sharks and #eDNA #eRNA people: interested in the creation of an European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? share your thoughts! 🐋

Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · 2y ago

#eDNA #eRNA #omics people: would you support the formation of a European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? Please share your thoughts in the questionnaire & spread this message! 🙏 Thank you, the ESEO core team! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bye, bye #AquaEcOmics 👋🏻 What a well organized event! Extraordinary venue lots of fruitful discussions! Icing on the cake: Lauren Rodriguez taking home the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award for the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team! 🤩 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #eDNA

Congratulations Lauren Rodriguez! 🐳 Our #eWHALE #Phd student from @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social won the @physaliacourses.bsky.social best presentation award at the #AquaEcOmics conference for presenting #eDNA sampling optimization results! 👏🏻 @bettinathal.bsky.social

Lauren Rodriguez representing @ewhale-dna.bsky.social in the #AquaEcOmics #CitizenScience session 🥳 @aquaecomics.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Let's kick start with some sperm #whales just dozing off, somewhere around the #Azores islands after what must have been an exhausting day searching for squid. Enjoy.

❄️ Winter is for labwork (at least in this project)! Belén and Lauren, 2 eWHALE #PhDs, are working hard to generate some highly anticipated #eDNA #metabarcoding data! 🐋🐬🪼🦐🦑🐟🦆

The final box of @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #eDNA filters has savely arrived in #Innsbruck! 🐳 Guess this counts as the official end of the 2024 fieldwork season 🥲

First big collaborative eWHALE publication out now @mbmg.pensoft.net 🥳 underlining the importance of inter-laboratory calibration for #eDNA analysis; bonus: 3 new species-specific #qPCR assays for 🦈 & 🐋 mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1282...

Inter-laboratory ring test for environmental DNA extraction protocols: implications for marine megafauna detection using three novel qPCR assays

The comparability of methods applied to environmental DNA (eDNA) samples across laboratories remains a significant challenge for biodiversity monitoring on a global scale. Performance differences betw...

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Bettina Thalinger@bettinathal.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨new paper alert! 🚨 Inter-laboratory #RingTest for #eDNA extraction protocols: implications for #cetacean and #shark detection using three novel #qPCR assays doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... via @mbmg.pensoft.net @ewhale-dna.bsky.social

We are hiring! #MSc position @ucc.bsky.social; topic: #BaskingSharks 🦈 more information: www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

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Hi @bsky.app! Let's see if this works. 😊 This week, I got to visit @geomarkiel.bsky.social and talk about #eDNA, #whales, #CitizenScience and @ewhale-dna.bsky.social. What an amazing experience! Thank you so much for having me!