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Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

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[PODCAST] A US biotech company made headlines last month revealing photos of genetically modified “dire wolves,” a species that hasn’t existed for more than 10,000 years. This hasn’t stopped some observers from asserting to the public that “de-extinction” is real. But it’s not, says our guest.

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This would be a great opportunity for a foundation/university to step in, open source these products, and maybe even make them better and more useful.

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After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in #BalticSea mud, researchers bring prehistoric #algae back to life phys.org/news/2025-03... Resurrection of a #diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment: Sarah Bolius et al. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl... #Protists #Diatoms #Microbes

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Nice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l... 🧬 🖥️

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"The world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates" by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/clim...

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#eDNA #eRNA #omics people: would you support the formation of a European Society for Environmental Omics #ESEO? Please share your thoughts in the questionnaire & spread this message! 🙏 Thank you, the ESEO core team! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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US algal bloom death toll raises "serious concern for ocean health" - Oceanographic

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"Naturschutz gern, solange er nicht stört". Lesenswerter Kommentar zum Koalitionsvertrag von Petra Ahne in der @faznet.bsky.social.

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New Paper: The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health. bit.ly/nutrientssau

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Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

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There’s a small chance of very high warming even with moderate future emissions, reports @newscientist.com, referring to a new PIK study. It’s the first to make long-term projections over 1,000 years while accounting for established carbon cycle feedbacks. www.newscientist.com/article/2473...

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The Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, attended the screening and panel discussion of Fatal Watch at the DC Environmental Film Festival. This documentary shows the dangers faced by fisheries observers. Learn more about the film ⬇️ news.mongabay.com/2025/03/fata...

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Deadline approaching soon! #microbiome #sedaDNA

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📣 We are hiring! 📣 Are you a #microbiome enthusiast? And would you like to explore the deep biosphere in #Arctic marine sediments? Then we hope you apply! 🧪🦑🧬 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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To perform your scientific searches you can use Europe PMC freely europepmc.org as feared, #pubmed is not working reliably & even if it runs, imo it cannot be trusted to provide uncensored search results given the list of banned words we’ve seen circulating

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Paper out in Ecology Letters from @akrinos.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Exploring intraspecific diversity of thermal performance of G. huxelyi in lab experiments and ocean ecosystem models 🧪🌊🌡️#protistsonsky

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A high-throughput ancient DNA extraction method for large-scale sample screening! Without using robots! Read the new methods paper (Open Access) by our PhD student @alexgilardet.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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New internship opportunities at UKCEH, as part of one of our major science programmes: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... You could join our team and work with 80 years of data on iconic lakes in the English Lake District! @ukceh.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social 🧪💦🦠

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I am thrilled to share that I was awarded a #Villum Young Investigator grant. Using marine #sedaDNA, we will investigate how Arctic marine ecosystems and their functioning have responded to climatic changes over the past ~1 million years #IODP #Exp400 #biodiversity villumfonden.dk/en/news/mill...

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The 3rd Ancient Environmental Genomics PhD course (2025) is now open for registration. This has been a true pleasure to teach (and hard work) both times. Come join us and have a week of in-depth hands-on work with ancient metagenomic data and the latest analysis tools. phdcourses.dk/Course/124659

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#addOcean

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Biogeographic gradients of picoplankton diversity indicate increasing dominance of prokaryotes in warmer Arctic fjords www.nature.com/articles/s42... #jcampubs

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We need to work towards standards with respect to DNA #metabarcoding. Not strict ones. Minimum standards plus QA/QC. We just must make sure that we measure what’s around in a comparable way. Often but not always the case. Interested to join a special session?

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Our preliminary report for IODP Expedition 400 to Northwest Greenland is finally out. ⛴🌊 Part of the expedition was a sedimentary ancient DNA 🧬 program to answer how the Greenlandic #marine #ecosystems have responded to #climate warming in the past publications.iodp.org/preliminary_... 📸L.Crowder

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the Preliminary Report for IODP Expedition 400 (NW Greenland Margin) is now out! — it's always satisfying to see all our efforts and hard work done on the ship available to the community just a few months after the expedition — a genuine team effort ⚒️🧪⛴️ 🌊 publications.iodp.org/preliminary_...

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Beatiful iceflowers on a frozen lake 😍

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