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Professor of Molecular Ecology, Bangor University, UK
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We are proud to share that Professor Nick Casewell is a finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom – an internationally renowned prize for exceptional early career scientists. Find out more: https://lstm.ac/Blavatnik.

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🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️ Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

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A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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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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I am happy to share a new preprint from the team on using #eDNA for monitoring diadromous species, led by @mukeshbhendarkar.bsky.social from @azti.bsky.social and with the collaboration of several institutions and administrations: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🚨 New fully-funded PhD project 🚨 "Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience" 🌳🌲 tinyurl.com/4nv253hw Closing date for applications 28th February Contact: Professor John Healey [email protected] #findaphd

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What do deer eat in the winter? In the UK a common assumption is that they subsist on over-wintering crops or grazing land. In our new paper led by Amy Gresham we overturn that story. 1/7 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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News article from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social on our deer diet study in North Wales led by @amygresham48.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

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New paper out today led by Amy Gresham exploring fallow deer diet using metabarcoding. Results were very different to what we expected! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Graphical abstract: @linecordes.bsky.social @markuseichhorn.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #deer

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Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

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Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

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We are recruiting for #PhD opportunity funded by NERC RedAlert CDT investigating novel ways to identify #salmonid diseases in #freshwater ecosystems using #eDNA - closing date 7th Jan, full details here: findaphd.com?pj=176410 @thefsbi.bsky.social @sosbangor.bsky.social @nerc-eof.bsky.social

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