#CLEARNeagh is our exciting project about pollution coming into the UK & Ireland's largest freshwater lake - #Lough #Neagh Find out more below 👇

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)@ukceh.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌊 What's driving pollution on Lough Neagh? This #WorldLakeDay, learn more about our CLEAR-Neagh project, which is using environmental DNA and advanced microbial analysis to trace sources of pollution across the catchment. 🧪 Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting our #CLEARNeagh project in the UK Freshwater Quality Research Programme webinar. We’ll explore #eDNA and #AMR monitoring across the catchment which may identify drivers of degradation and support long-term recovery. #freshwater #river #riverpollution #LoughNeagh 🌍💧

Yorkshire iCASP - University of Leeds@yorkshireicasp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/3 Find out about a new research project which will generate scientific evidence to help restore #LoughNeagh - Northern Ireland’s largest & most iconic lake. Join the next Uk Freshwater Quality Programme webinar 📅Wed 25 March ⌚ 11am Presented by @susheelbusi.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

The @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social group in full strength at this year's #MMEG2025 at University of Birmingham

Super excited to see this amazing paper out. Brilliantly led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social in the #MolecularEcology group at @ukceh.bsky.social A huge collaborative effort with the #EnvironmentAgency revealing microbial 🦠 diversity, function, and environmental drivers across England's rivers!

Amy Thorpe@amycthorpe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our national-scale study of bacterial biogeography and function in river biofilms has just been published in Nature Communications! @natcomms.nature.com 🦠🧬 Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am privileged to be working with an amazing set of #AMR researchers. See below for new studentships starting in the group 👇

UKCEH Molecular Ecology@ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It's the final day of World #AMR Awareness Week #WAAW #WAAW25 🦠🧬🧫 Our researchers have a number of #PhD studentships studying #AMR which will start in Sept/Oct 2026. The @ukceh.bsky.social LinkedIn page has collated all our available PhD studentships here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mabvvus

Happy World #AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW #WAAW25 At @ukceh.bsky.social our AMR researchers work on both #bacterial and #fungal AMR! We undertake research monitoring AMR in many different environments (water 🌊, wastewater 💩, air 💨, soil 🌱 & plants 🌿), which means we get out in the field a lot!

In October, @brionyjones.bsky.social presented at the European Commission's Joint Research Council in Ispra for a AI4SoilHealth meeting earlier in the month. The presentation title was 'Global F.A.I.R.ness of co-located microbial and soil health data in public genomic repositories.' 🌱🦠🧬

@laurens-colours.bsky.social was recently invited to present at a @britishecologicalsociety.org & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social event on art & science 🎨 Lauren's full talk on scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling can be found here ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdA...

Scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling with Dr Lauren Cook

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@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social also gave a talk recently on the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) at the AgZero+ all staff meeting! 🍯 Find out more via the links below ⬇️ NHMS: honey-monitoring.ac.uk AgZero+: agzeroplus.org.uk

📢 Check out below our latest work on national-scale river biofilms led by the brilliant @amycthorpe.bsky.social

UKCEH Molecular Ecology@ukceh-moleco.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Check out the latest from #MolecularEcology @ukceh.bsky.social Led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social, new research highlights the utility of river #biofilm #bacteria for freshwater biomonitoring.

@oxonandrew.bsky.social has been on a paper publishing streak recently! As well as the above he has also published a paper on emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa 🧪💊💧 check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Effect-based and (non-)target chemical analyses reveal concerning levels of emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa

Water contamination by micropollutants is a global issue, yet there is limited information from low-income regions. To address this, we evaluated surf…

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PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils” www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Linking antimicrobial resistance, climate warming, and carbon use efficiency in Arctic soils (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA_UEA_ARIES26) at University of East Anglia, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Environmental #DNA! 🚨 Led by #TimGoodall @ukceh.bsky.social with @danread.bsky.social we tested whether #soil #eDNA metabarcoding can capture plant #biodiversity & vegetation cover across the UK 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

Deciphering Landscape‐Scale Plant Cover and Biodiversity From Soil eDNA

Biodiversity surveys are essential but challenging to conduct at scale, prompting this study to evaluate soil-extracted eDNA as a proxy for traditional field-based surveys for describing plant commun...

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Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"? With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇

Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠

🧪 NEW: Emily Williams reflects on a recent visit to the Falkland Islands as part of a project working with UK Overseas Territories to tackle invasive non-native species — a major threat to island #biodiversity and livelihoods🌿 Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #INNS #blog

Protecting the unique biodiversity of the Falklands

Emily Williams, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses a project to tackle invasive non-native species on the Falkland Islands, which included a recent visit to share knowled...

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🆕 Vacancy! If you want to work with sequencing data derived from cultivated and natural soil microbiomes to understand the role of prokaryotes in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, check our vacancy 🦠 @bioinf.bsky.social‬ 💷 £36,720 to £42,000 p/a 🗓️ Apply by 08 July 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/BSB0Qfh

We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change. Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word: jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...

Rain or shine ☔️🌞, our #NERC-funded #MICROCYCLE teams are sampling Thames & Avon, uncovering how microbes influence the fate of organic matter🧫💧. @amycthorpe.bsky.social & #TimGoodall in #MolecularEcology in action at @ukceh.bsky.social 🧪 🔗 tinyurl.com/46469ztn #FreshwaterQuality #RiverHealth

🎂👏 Congratulations to the Natural Environment Research Council on 60 years of enabling world-leading environmental science and the launch of an ambitious new 10-year vision. We look forward to working with NERC to make a meaningful difference. 🔗 NERC Forward Look: www.ukri.org/publications... 🧪

The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are hosting this great community engagement event a Loch Leven, Scotland. A chance to talk to our scientists about what the Loch means to you: eu1.hubs.ly/H0knhrs0 @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪💦

Hi all, have you seen that the Aquatic Ecology & Microbial Ecology Groups of the BES are holding a science conference at the Zoological Society of London in September? Registration/abstract submission still open... @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @bes-microbialgroup.bsky.social #BESAG2025 (1/5) 🧪🌊

@clairecarvell.bsky.social showing how collaborative work between @ukceh.bsky.social & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social leveraged the #BIOSCAN pipeline to uncover 135+ insect families sampled as part of the #UK @pomscheme.bsky.social Presented at @ukdnawg.bsky.social conference at the #RoyalSociety

This weekend, Ellie Mackay from the UKCEH Aquatic Ecosystems Group will be talking to the community about the ecology of Windermere (by canoe safari!). A great public engagement event! www.windermeresciencefestival.org/portfolio/ca... #UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social @ellie-mackay.bsky.social

Canoe Safari - Windermere Science Festival

Did you know that it takes around 260 days or 8.5 months for water to travel through Windermere? Take a canoe trip with freshwater ecologist Dr Ellie Mackay and learn...

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Are you an undergraduate student interested in a PhD? Apply now to gain experience in a NERC-funded Research Experience Placement this summer – UKCEH scientists are leading some of the projects! E4 placements: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/further-nerc... GW4+ placements: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/undrgrad-pla...

Research Experience Placements 2025 — NERC GW4+

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📢 We're excited to announce the #ROBINHydro dataset & paper are published! 🌏 This makes available for wider use data for 2,386 global gauging stations with natural or near-natural catchments— a major step forward in accessible, global-scale streamflow data. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

🌡️ A new study by UKCEH & @universityofleeds.bsky.social reveals how wet soils can amplify heatwaves in vulnerable regions See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... Read the full study: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... @johnmarsham.bsky.social @agu.org #heatwaves #HeatStress

Study reveals how wet soils can amplify heatwaves in vulnerable regions

A UKCEH-led study investigates how humid heat extremes are influenced by soil moisture, particularly from recent rainfall, in regions vulnerable to heatwaves. It highlights the potential for high-reso...

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I’m happy to share our recent review published in The ISME Journal! Here, we explore the role of CO and H₂ oxidisers in oligotrophic environments. This work was a collaboration with Philippe Constant, Gary King, and @hendrikschaefer.bsky.social. Hope you enjoy it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Metabolism of CO and H2 by pioneer bacteria in volcanic soils and the phyllosphere

Abstract. Trace gas degradation is a widespread metabolic adaptation in microbial communities, driving chemosynthesis and providing auxiliary energy that e

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🧪 How do you embed #FAIRdata principles into research workflows? Our data stewardship team share how they've customised @fair-wizard.com to improve data management & collaboration—and support the wider NERC research community. 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience

Implementing FAIR Wizard at UKCEH

Our implementation of FAIR Wizard showcases the value of innovative tools in transforming research data management. By simplifying the creation of high-quality data management plans and promoting unde...

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GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org