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hhippers.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Genomics at University of Sheffield
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Great to see @joellanos.bsky.social and Penny Watt's paper out this month highlighting the use of soil eDNA for monitoring earthworms. 🪱🧬 Environmental DNA is more effective than hand sorting in evaluating earthworm biodiversity recovery under regenerative agriculture doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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📰🐑 We're on the cover! If you haven't already seen it, check out a piece about how our long term field research helps studying ageing in the wild.

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Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿

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Sign up to our next MEE live now! Join Abby Keller for this free online workshop, to find out more about eDNAjoint, new eDNA modelling tool 🧬 🌎 🧪 📆 19th March, 4pm GMT Find more information and register here 👇 https://buff.ly/4k2hjO8

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@uniofcam.bsky.social Zoology PhD candidate @sofiadartnell.bsky.social is SNP_typing at NEOF-VF to estimate the number of Bombus terrestris colonies invaded by cuckoo bumblebees (B. vestalis) across varying landscapes. These cuckoos are obligate parasites & may indicate healthy bumblebee habitats

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Tally heading towards 1500. Please keep going - share and sign.

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We are delighted to announce that the 11th #ukdnawg conference will be hosted by the @royalsociety.org London on 13-14th May 2025. For more information, and to register, follow the links from ukeof.org.uk/our-work/ukdna 🧬 #eDNA #biodiversity

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🧬 Fantastic postdoc opportunity up for grabs to work with @jlittlefair.bsky.social - on monitoring biodiversity with airborne #eDNA at the UCL People and Nature Lab 🧬

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NEOF Pilot Funding for Early Career Researchers in the NERC remit has now opened! Further your career by gaining funding in your own name and generate pilot data for future fellowship or other applications: neof.org.uk/our-capabili... #ECR #genomics #metabolomics #proteomics

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Day 18 of EMBL-EBI's on-demand training collection advent countdown. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's a good one if you're into DNA and biodiversity ...

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#NEOF supported @CamZoology PhD researcher @dan_cossey is using metabarcoding to detect potential bacterial pathogens and so investigate mass mortality events of #endangered freshwater mussels.

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NEOF provide ONLINE bioinformatics courses for UK based researchers working within the NERC remit; these are held online over 2 days and ... they are FREE! Visit neof.org.uk/training/ for more info and to register. Next one is Python for bfx: 14th & 16th January 25 - Register by Monday 16/12 noon

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