Sailing in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ready for summer, our study on the iconic Portuguese man o' war 🪼 is out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We use (epi)genomics to understand a critter that fascinates me since childhood. Massive team effort with @obog.bsky.social, Cummins and Neely groups. 🧵

1/4 🔴 Se cierra la temporada del salmón y se confirman los peores pronósticos. 106 salmones capturados en Asturias (mínimo histórico) y 3 en Cantabria. Las cifras de 2026 vuelven a reflejar el grave declive que sufren las poblaciones de salmón atlántico en España. #SalmónAtlántico #SalmoSalar

Dr. Kim Parsons is a research geneticist at @fisheries.noaa.gov in Seattle. Her team uses Ocean Diagnostics' #eDNA depth and surface samplers to study large #marinemammals. By uncovering how #cetaceans travels in marine waters they can better inform conservation measures. 🐳🐬 (Video by Paul Hillman)

🌍 Cat colonies reshape the abundance and body size of lizards doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

The deadline has been extended, due to high number of abstracts coming in, to June 12th! Are you working on #corals, #biodiversity, #restoration, #conservation, #ocean, #monitoring, #eDNA spaces and have questions on this? Let the organizing folks know or DM here. www.mtsociety.org/global-edna-...

Pedro Brandão-Dias F Pinto@pedrobd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Save the date for a Global #eDNA 🧬 conference! More details to come soon.

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Gene body methylation suppresses intragenic transcription and permits epigenetic inheritance in a cnidarian - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Experiments in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis show a role of gene body methylation in transposable element suppression and that epigenetic inheritance is constrained by chromatin context and tra...

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"Uno de los aprendizajes más duros de estos días es que la ciencia, cuando entra en directo, pierde la esencia de su espacio natural".

Doce días, 82 entrevistas y una lección: la ciencia en directo

Un experto inmunólogo cuenta para The Conversation el torbellino mediático que vivió durante la crisis del hantavirus, una labor de servicio público que llegó a poner a prueba su resistencia.

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Después de más de un mes han capturado un salmón en Asturias. Que "orgulloso" posa con posiblemente uno de los últimos salmones de su Región. El gobierno asturiano ha asistido impasible a la extinción de la especie, sin hacer nada por evitarlo. Son unos auténticos irresponsables.

Prospects of multipurpose biomonitoring for fisheries assessment based on environmental nucleic acids onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Prospects of multipurpose biomonitoring for fisheries assessment based on environmental nucleic acids

Methods using environmental nucleic acids have become highly effective for monitoring aquatic biodiversity, with an array of suitable use cases, including metrics for fisheries assessment. Traditiona...

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🧵¡Nueva lista en YouTube! 'Preservar es investigar. Las colecciones del Museo'. 🎥El Archivo conserva + de 250 años de historia científica a través de documentos, fotografías, grabados... que testimonian la evolución de las ciencias naturales en España. youtu.be/8Px_8ISgiZY?...

Archivo Histórico del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

YouTube video by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)

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🐟 monitoring can be non-invasive. 🐟💧 = eDNA + eRNA Check out this comprehensive perspective article on how eNA can improve fisheries monitoring without harming the fish! The aim is to move beyond species detection, from estimating abundance to capturing reproductive status and lots in between.

Prospects of multipurpose biomonitoring for fisheries assessment based on environmental nucleic acids

Methods using environmental nucleic acids have become highly effective for monitoring aquatic biodiversity, with an array of suitable use cases, including metrics for fisheries assessment. Traditiona...

doi.org

We are pleased to share that our book “ #RoadEcology: Synthesis and Perspectives ”, published by @springernature.com, is now online, with the full volume and all chapters available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @ebdonana.bsky.social

Road Ecology

This book is the first to comprehensively present both the current state of knowledge and future directions in the emerging discipline of Road Ecology.

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🔥Population genetic inferences from #eDNA going strong 💪: check out my lab's recent work on screening for hybrid zones using nuclear SNPs #conservationbiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hybrid Horizons: Screening Hybridisation Through Nuclear Environmental DNA

Effective monitoring of hybrid zones is essential for understanding evolutionary dynamics and mitigating species loss caused by human-mediated hybridisation. Conventional methods rely on sampling num...

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Scientists have long pulled DNA from water and soil, but they have only just started to see the air as a source of genetic information go.nature.com/4tUdRcA

The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for

Nature - Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.

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Fishing a species to extinction. Seven days and not even a single salmon captured. And still, it is claimed to be sustainable and stable. www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/astu...

El campanu se resiste a salir en el séptimo día de la temporada de pesca de salmón

En consecuencia, tampoco se ha celebrado su esperada subasta

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1/8 🐺📢 Our study in Behavioral Ecology is out now! We explore the drivers of daily movements of wolves in human-dominated landscapes and found out that they shorten considerably their movements 🔗 Paper: sl1nk.com/xkue00q 🧵👇 (📸 Francisco J. Lema Fuentes).

#seminario 'Gritando a los cuatro vientos: the emergence of airborne eDNA analysis'. Por @drbarnes.org (Department of Natural Resources Management, Texas Tech University) 📆10 de abril, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/DkHby6D...

How many ways are there to wear a sea sponge? Check out these dolphins for some fun fashion! #Ocean #Dolphins #Seasponge #environment #wildlife #VitaminSea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Male dolphins spotted donning sea-sponge wigs to attract females

Scientists observe male humpback dolphins parading sea sponges on their heads to impress females off Western Australia's northern coast.

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Han analizado las reacciones de los ejemplares monitorizados en 26 enclaves de ríos de Asturias y León a través de más de 200 videos como este: youtu.be/Ry3A2mgnk2g?...

otter exploring sniffing and marking

YouTube video by Vincenzo Penteriani

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Very interesting thread on #eulachon below! Where do #eulachon actually go when they hit the ocean? 🐟 🌊, We used #eDNA to track their marine phase. Check it out. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Mapping the marine distribution of eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus) in the Northeast Pacific using environmental DNA - Communications Biology

This manuscript combines eDNA data with a statistical model to describe the spatial distribution of eulachon, a threatened smelt. DNA was positively associated with river mouths, offshore banks, warme...

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Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Eulachon could once be found along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska, but today, they’ve been greatly reduced in the southern part of their range (BC, CA, OR, and WA). In 2010, the Southern distinct population was listed as federally threatened #25DaysofFishmas

Eulachon have such a high oil content (15-20% of their entire body weight!) that they burn can like a candle when dried - hence the name “candlefish." Their valuable rendered oil was also historically traded among tribes along the Pacific coast on routes known as grease trails #25DaysofFishmas

#BellaCoola sees biggest #eulachon run in almost 20 years - https://www.coastmountainnews.com/news/bella-coola-sees-biggest-run-of-eulachon-in-almost-20-years/

Out now and led by the impeccable GJ Jeunen: a new way to squeeze #eDNA sequences from preserved natural samplers! NO need to damage the old specimens: just take out the DNA leached into the ethanol! Also: we have a new entry into the #nsDNA world: #bryozoa! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Magnesio, melatonina, ashwaghanda, maca… todos los suplementos de moda son un timo sin evidencia científica que los sustente. No caigas en la trampa. elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

Magnesio, la nueva píldora milagro para mejorar el sueño sin evidencia científica

Los expertos advierten de que es más adecuado revisar el estilo de vida y su efecto en el dormir que incorporar este suplemento de moda, que en el último año tomó el 15% de los españoles

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This has to be cause someone told him it’s called gut flora.

Free science (a giant book I coauthored & edited-my name appears way too many times for what I did). I worked w/ 108 coauthors over many years to produce this third-iteration of the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan. Have it for free. Enjoy!🐸Download it here: portals.iucn.org/library/node... Enjoy!

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Recién publicado (descarga libre): especies crípticas en el tritón alpino: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#seminarioMNCN 'The New Paleobiology: Fossils, Technology, and the Biology of Deep Time' Por Jesús Marugán Lobón (@uam.es) 📆6 de marzo, a las 12h Presencial y online👉 www.youtube.com/live/YV4RtEd...

More than 30 researchers question the scientific, ethical, and legal validity of a method that involves the use of live decoys #birds to conduct censuses. This method would be helping to give the return of 'silvestrismo' a scientific appearance. #ornithology doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...