🔍Home PhD opportunity with funding to start in October 2026: "Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss" 🧬📊🐛🌳🪿supervised by me, Charlie Outhwaite (ZSL) and Eleni Matechou (School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL).

Our lab has a PhD advertised on detecting heat stress in the UK's rapidly warming freshwater habitat - it will be a blend of transcriptomics, experiments, global change and British fish species! With Cefas as CASE partners: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/non... #fish #fisheries #eDNA #globalchange

📣 WE'RE HIRING! Are you a curious problem solver interested in using your mechanical #engineering skills to advance ocean innovation and conservation? Join our collaborative R&D team designing cutting-edge #eDNA and #microplastics technologies. Apply at oceandiagnostics.com/employment

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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One of the post fascinating scientific paper that I've read in months. A pleasure to discuss with the team and to write up for the @theguardian.com

Dr Joanne Littlefair@jlittlefair.bsky.social · last yr.

Some great press coverage of our work on a national biodiversity survey conducted with airborne #eDNA, led by @otournayre.bsky.social @profbatgirl.bsky.social. Thanks for the writeup!

Some great press coverage of our work on a national biodiversity survey conducted with airborne #eDNA, led by @otournayre.bsky.social @profbatgirl.bsky.social. Thanks for the writeup!

Dr Gary Fuller@drgaryfuller.bsky.social · last yr.

A chance link via social media led to the first national survey of UK biodiversity using eDNA collected in #airpollution samplers. My latest for @theguardian.com Research by @ucl.ac.uk York University, Canada & the National Physical Laboratory. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A great FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Resuseable) hosted by Miwa Takahashi of CSIRO, @lynseyrharper.bsky.social @nidunn.bsky.social last Friday. Recording great metadata for #eDNA studies, #futureproof

Some fun from the summer: collecting #eDNA using drones above grasslands and woodlands. A super interdisciplinary project led by UCL MRes student Kat Cutler with supervision from @peggybevan.bsky.social vimeo.com/1100687066

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Not easy giving a talk on conflict in science, which I was invited to do as part of a GEE Department away day, but here was my attempt describing conflict, collaboration and resolution in interdisciplinary science!

Interested in making #eDNA data FAIR? A workshop on 25th July at UCL will cover: - FAIR data principles, data standards, and best #eDNA data practices - Using FAIRe tools and guidelines to format data (fair-edna.github.io) - Q&A / discussion Register by 4th July at www.surveymonkey.com/r/MN8ZS3Y!

FAIR eDNA data workshop in London

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Happy that everyone had a great time at the CBER retreat, featuring ECR research talks, PI career paths, great food and drink, and dastardly two truths and a lie with an ecological twist. And an eco haiku competition! @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social Thanks to my fellow organisers!

What a fabulous couple of days @royalsociety.bsky.social @ukdnawg.bsky.social, with truly brilliant presentations at the cutting edge of eDNA and omics. I leave super excited to see what will emerge next!

UKEOF UKDNA Working Group @ukdnawg.bsky.social · last yr.

@jlittlefair.bsky.social kicks off session on novel and emerging methods for #terrestrial 🧬 monitoring with airborne #eDNA. Aquatic #eDNA development gave airborne #eDNA a running start. Proof-of-concepts in zoos provided evidence for also detecting UK species of importance #UKDNAWG25

Our 2025 Bicentenary Medal winner, Dr Joanne Littlefair, has developed an exceptional research programme—the first studies to adapt molecular biodiversity monitoring by isolating DNA from the air, which will have major implications for conservation. @jlittlefair.bsky.social www.linnean.org/the-...

What an honour, thank you to the Linnean Society and my nominators!

The Linnean Society of London@linneansociety.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2025 Medals and Awards. We’ll be spotlighting each of our amazing awardees from across science, conservation and the arts over the coming days. www.linnean.org/news... Please like, share and join us in congratulating them all!

Are you a policy maker or end-user, interested to know more about #eDNA based methods for monitoring of #biodiversity, #pathogens or in #forensics? If so, check out this policy explainer published today by the @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

We are hiring for a 30 month research technician position on my Future Leaders Fellowship award! This would suit an organised and proactive person with experience in environmental genetics analysis looking to join a friendly and expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity group at the new UCL East campus

Last few days to apply for this 39month molecular ecology #eDNA postdoc position, deadline 12 March

Dr Joanne Littlefair@jlittlefair.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Featuring the lab's research on #eDNA and #biodiversityloss at @ucl-pnl.bsky.social in the full video version!

UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · last yr.

Discover how our researchers are creating real-world impact, developing innovative solutions to tackle humanity's most pressing challenges. Watch the full video here: shorturl.at/mYLQV

We are delighted to announce that the 11th #ukdnawg conference will be hosted by the @royalsociety.org London on 13-14th May 2025. For more information, and to register, follow the links from ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna 🧬 #eDNA #biodiversity

UKDNA Working Group now has a bsky account! 👋 please give them a follow #eDNA community

UKEOF UKDNA Working Group @ukdnawg.bsky.social · 2y ago

The UK DNA Working Group aims to: 1) Link researchers, developers of DNA-based monitoring methods, and end users to ensure that activities are focussed on meeting priority information needs and that knowledge is transferred effectively within the wider community...

Presenting our vision and research for airborne #eDNA sampling assets as part of @ukri.org NERC/Defra Innovation in Environmental Monitoring grant programme, with collaborators @naturalengland.bsky.social and National Physical Laboratory

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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A write-up of our research and training internship funded by The Fishmongers'​ Company for Tianna Hewitson where she developed genetic tools to detect Arctic charr, a native UK salmonid vulnerable to climate change. fishmongers.org.uk/new-survey-m...

New survey method reveals Britain’s most vulnerable salmonid in two previously unverified locations in Scotland - The Fishmongers' Company

Freshwater Arctic charr are restricted to cold water lakes and rivers of the northern hemisphere, including in Scotland, and are considered to be the UK’s

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I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q

The Rutgers eDNA lab developed a novel method to collect #eDNA from tree surfaces that we call the 'roller method'. A game-changer for monitoring terrestrial forest biodiversity (insects, vertebrates). Here is a short methods video if you want to try it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2306...

Terrestrial Environmental DNA (eDNA) Sampling Method: Roller Aggregation

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The latest from my collaboration with the IISD Experimental Lakes Area, our preprint on the rank based abundance of fish and #eDNA, showing that we consistently distinguish between areas where fish are rare, moderate and abundant www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A strong relationship between environmental DNA metabarcoding and rank-based abundance of fish

1. Increasingly, molecular methods of species monitoring are integrated into freshwater biodiversity surveys and fisheries management. Inferring organism abundance or biomass from sequence counts deri...

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The latest from a lab collaboration @ucl-pnl.bsky.social with Molly Williams (Nature Metrics/ UWarwick) and Sam Poultney (West Sutherland Fisheries Trust) - we worked on detections of vulnerable Arctic charr in a rapidly warming landscape: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

From anecdotes to evidence: Environmental DNA detection of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus L.) at the southern limit of its circumpolar range

The urgency of rapid species monitoring is at an all-time high due to the increasing threat of climate change to global ecosystems, in particular freshwater habitats. Fish such as Arctic charr, Salve...

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