Abstracts for the Global #eDNA conference at due this Friday! Get yours in, y`all! Early bird registrations also go until the end of July. Come on up!
Pedro Brandão-Dias F Pinto
@pedrobd.bsky.social
Biologist, molecular ecologist🧑🔬 , eDNA nerd 🧬, birder 🐦, coin collector 🪙, insect enjoyer 🐜, Brazilian mineiro, and more. Currently a Postdoc in the Kelly Lab at UW.
Birding yesterday at forest edge: Me: "Oh, no... oh, no. It's an Enpid...It is small... small haeaded... greyish. Not a Western then. I guess let's check the length of the wing relative to the..." Bird: "Peer!!" Me: "Oh, Hammond. Thanks fing God" Learning the flycatcher calls gives back :)
I maintain that every Canadian I’ve ever met has been incredibly nice. This one🪿, however, hissed at me from a nest under a bridge I couldn’t even reach, so it has been excluded from the dataset. #birdingwhilecommuting
Yay! Another mainstream‑media article covering a scientific study! 😀 Nay! Another article that doesn’t cite the paper, doesn’t link it, and doesn’t even say which study it’s talking about. 🫠 How is this still not standard practice?!
Y'all, my review paper has been under review for 6 months. It will be born obsolete.💀 Please say yes if you get it for peer review. Meanwhile I have reviewed 6 papers already this year. I am doing my half. Yes, it sucks we have to do it for free and then pay to publish among so much else. But plz?
This weekend I witnessed Wilson's Phalarope famous whirlpool feeding!! Spin spin spin! Roadside #birding ftw
Here at #SFS2026 in Spokane! Looking forward to meeting people and catching up with others! Come on down to my three talks on -eDNA haplotypes -Caddisflies and GMOs -Land-water monitoring with eDNA from the air and water
I will be giving three (!!!) talks at SFS in a couple of weeks. It sounded like a great idea 3 months ago. Sadly though they put my #haplotype talk at the same time as other very cool #eDNA session. Lame.
This remains to be the best comic ever made. Just had another one of these moments today. @mrlovenstein.bsky.social
I cannot post my slides on Canvas because *checks 📝* that DECREASES the accessibility score of my class on canvas. That is because the canvas software has a hard time reading slides and assigns it 0 accessibility. The only solution is to not post them. The world is backwards in 1 additional way 🙃
As the end of the semester approaches and I feel overwhelmed even with my exceptionally light class load, I'm reminded of the old saying, "Work inevitable expands to occupy the entirety of the time allotted to it"
What is “#pseudopersistence”? It refers to contaminants like pharmaceuticals or pesticides with short environmental half lives that are continuously observed in ecosystems due to constant replacement from a source. In this case, Cry proteins leach year round from GE crops & detritus. (2/3)
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New paper led by #RiceUniversity undergrad Ethan Bull & former PhD student @pedrobd.bsky.social in collaboration with @notredamescience.bsky.social assessing the role of a pseudopersistant contaminant, Cry1Ab leaching from GE crops, on aquatic caddisflies. @entsocamerica.bsky.social (1/3)
Transgenic crops release Cry proteins into streams. But what does that mean for aquatic insects?🌱💧🐛 We measured and barcoded 1,800+ caddisflies across 25 streams. Environmental factors like temperature, land use explained most patterns. Cry1Ab had limited impact. academic.oup.com/ee/article/5...
Assessing morphological, developmental, and genetic responses of Hydropsychid caddisflies to Cry1Ab exposure
Abstract. Transgenic crops expressing Cry proteins are widely cultivated to reduce crop damage from insect pests. However, Cry proteins can leach from tran
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Nothing like spending several hours running an alternative statistical method/ different mathematical approach only to find the exact same answer.✖️ Yes, I should be happy. But it feels a bit like wasted time lol
Am I allowed to complain if the journal sat on my paper for 3 months and rejected it without sending it to reviewers because the editor felt like it? Name and shame? The journal is Biological Reviews.
Our eDNA survey has a US defaultism problem. 🌎 We started getting mysterious "Country" responses like "Jefferson" and "Maricopa." Turns out people read "Country" and thought "County" which... only makes sense if you assume everyone is American. We did this to ourselves.🤣
Me when I look at my old classes / presentation slides that I proudly presented to a room full of scientists / students at some point
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Being In an interdisciplinary field, it is easy to feel dumb because you are a "jack of all trades, master of none" But that feel is greatly improved when you learn this sentence is often misquoted. The full version is: "jack of all trades, master of none, but often better than a master of one"🎃
Whales in a bottle of water? Yes… through eDNA. 🌊🐋 Nice feature on our research and the UW eDNA Collaborative by the Packard Foundation. @ednacollab.bsky.social Learn more here: www.packard.org/insights/gra... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0H8... #eDNA #scicom #science #outreach
eDNA is Changing the Way We See the Ocean
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🧬 My haplotype paper is out! We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample. No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics. #eDNA #PopGen
Estimating Organism Abundance Using Within‐Sample Haplotype Frequencies of eDNA Data
Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides powerful insights into species presence and community composition but remains limited in its capacity to infer species abundance or population structure. Here, we sh...
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Imagine the great quotes we would get if Darwin had to code!
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 6mo agoFound an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
The blue throat and the display of the Brandt's cormorants are pretty amazing. #birding
My high school math teacher was great but convinced I should not become a biologist because "my math intuition would be wasted!" I just got a paper accepted with 10 equations plus more in the supplement 💀. Pretty sure he would be happy but relieved they are printed and not in my handwriting 😄✍️📄
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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Big milestone today: My first PhD paper is officially out! We took a deep dive into eDNA transport dynamics in flowing waters. Check out the full study in ES&T. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Laboratory Study on Fate and Transport of Water-Borne eDNA: A Tale of Tempered Tails and Parafluvial Processes
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has emerged as a powerful marker for assessing species presence in flowing waters; however, estimating the spatial and temporal origins of these signals remains a challenge. T...
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Me when I see a juvenile gull in the Pacific Northwest on an impatient day: NOPE ~confidently logs Gull sp. on eBird~ Me on a patient day: stares at juvenile gull for 10 minutes “Yeah… that’s definitely a Gull sp.” ✔️ eBird submitted #birding
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