New paper by Cristina Claver (@azti.bsky.social), published in @icesmarine.bsky.social JMS. We combine #eDNA and acoustic-trawl data in a Bayesian joint model to estimate biomass of the European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay. From the potential of eDNA to operational use 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Integrating eDNA and acoustic-trawl data to provide small pelagic biomass estimates for fish stock assessment

Abstract. Accurate abundance estimates of fisheries resources are essential for sustainable fisheries management. In response to the growing need for devel

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🧬📘 New publication! "Invasion Genomics" explores how genomic techniques and data are revolutionising the study of biological invasions. ✍️ by @dan_g_bock and @riuslab.bsky.social 👇https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/9781800626263.0000

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

In this blog post, Guest Editor Dr Luke Holman discusses their recent #PhilTransB issue, 'Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on #marine ecosystems': royalsociety.org/blog/2025/08...

Some thoughts on how our recent theme issue came together

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In this blog, Guest Editor @lukeeholman.bsky.social discusses their recent #PhilTransB issue, 'Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems':

Here's an illustration I did for the Royal Society Publishing journal and their special release "The shifting seas". It was great fun to work on this hugely educational piece and I wanted to thank @lukeeholman.bsky.social in particular for giving me this opportunity 😊

New theme issue of #PhilTransB out today ‘Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on #marine #ecosystems’. Read here: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

🐚 Out today “Shifting Seas – Understanding Deep-Time Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems.” 🌊 A theme issue asking how, when, and where humans have impacted oceans over millennia. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0026 🧶 below on how it came to life!...

Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Humans have interacted with, and impacted, marine ecosystems for millennia. During this time, the oceans have experienced ecosystem degradation through harvesting, habitat change, pollution, the introduction of invasive species and climate change. Despite ...

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New paper out now in @natcomms.nature.com! Multiproxy analysis reveals the earliest evidence of whale bone working and broadens the range of taxa known to have been used in the Bay of Biscay during the Late Paleolithic 🐋 Paper 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that most 18/19thC coastal plantations were located at places where the largest Indigenous towns once stood centuries earlier? A great example of how deep-time land use practices create legacies that drive future, cumulative human-ecosystem engagements. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Did llamas make it to southeast South America before Europeans? 🦙 Our manuscript used #archaeology, isotopes, and palaeogenomics #aDNA to find out 🦙🦴🧬 In summary, nope. Just guanacos hanging on into early historical times. Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kvQy,rVDB... Reposts appreciated 😁

🚀 Excited to share our new paper: “Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing #Metabarcoding and #Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment eDNA” DOI: doi.org/10.1111/1755... We dive into 8,000 years of marine life from Skagerrak sediments to show what different tools tell us about past #oceans! 🌊🧬

Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing Metabarcoding and Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment Environmental DNA

The condition of ancient marine ecosystems provides context for contemporary biodiversity changes in human-impacted oceans. Sequencing sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) is an emerging method for gene...

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🎉 Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬👩‍🔬✨ 🌍🚀 I’m incredibly lucky to work with some amazing women in science! 💙 If you’re not following these fantastic researchers yet, you definitely should! 📢 🔗 www.un.org/en/observanc... #WomenInScience #STEM #RepresentationMatters

International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

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Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience 👩‍🔬 May your experiments work, may your research be impactful, and may those papers be accepted with minor revision 🧬

#Moonfish, caught by a dutch fisherman in 1560 and drawn by Adriaen #Coenen, fishmonger and author of three 'fish books' Moonfish/ #Sunfish are rare in the North Sea. Three(!) are recorded 1560-83 1/6 🖼️https://galerij.kb.nl/kb.html#/nl/visboek/page/154/zoom/2/lat/-59.355596110016315/lng/20.7421875

Today I'm accepting the inevitable reality of students using generative AI in my course and helping them navigate it

Loved this fascinating review from @ejmilnergulland.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social & many i cant find on Bluesky. We in #eDNA world would do well to look up and out thinking about how our work might meaningfully bend the biodiversity curve.... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

What is a unit of nature? Measurement challenges in the emerging biodiversity credit market | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss requires the business and financial sectors to disclose and reduce their biodiversity impacts and help fund nature recovery. This has sparked interest in develop...

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Very shortsighted change, New Zealand risks becoming isolated and alone in their approach to funding... Utility, prosperity and innovation are tricky to predict and come from across academic disciplines!

Marsden Fund@marsdenfund.bsky.social · 2y ago

Important update from the Marsden Fund. New Terms of Reference and revised Investment Plan from the Minister now available www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Tired of NMDS and other ordinations methods to represent your #eDNA metabarcoding data, consider using this approach: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A spatial matrix factorization method to characterize ecological assemblages as a mixture of unobserved sources: An application to fish eDNA surveys

Understanding how ecological assemblages vary in space and time is essential for advancing our knowledge of biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDN...

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Hubble Vs James Webb

Interesting, thoughtful perspective on #eDNA from Elaine Shen link.springer.com/article/10.1...