We are delighted to announce the launch of eDNA Explorer, a platform for exploring, analyzing and sharing eDNA data. We’ve developed this site to help practitioners, researchers, land managers, and policy makers. ednaexplorer.org

Paper from post-doc with Pierre Martre >10 years ago finally published: nature.com/articles/s4159… While I am researching a different area now, it is fitting that a major result is that the function of our gene of interest is strongly dependent on the environment!

Women are constantly told to change their vocabulary — to make it less apologetic and more assertive. But the truth is, we need to worry less about editing women, and more about editing incompetent and inappropriate men. s.hbr.org/41T1IYC

After reading this and watching Jonathan Foley's TED talk, it seems clear that a part of the problem is that investors fund pointless projects that appeal to the 1% but without any potential for real impact (thinking of the urban vertical farms too). ted.com/talks/jonathan…

Check out the team from University of Plymouth @plymouthbiol ! Good luck Billy, Danny, Jess and Simon 🤞

The Plymouth Pears finished third of the first round of the Botanical University Challenge! What an impressive result 👏👏👏 So happy for them and very proud. Can't wait for the second round next week! University of Plymouth @plymouthbiol

Another win for the Plymouth Pears who pass the second round of the Botanical University Challenge finishing fourth! Congrats Billy Fullwood Danny Hunt Simon Cowhig and Jess!! You're great ambassadors of botanical expertise at @plymouthbiol University of Plymouth

Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024. Team Plymouth came 3rd in Rounds 1 & 2. Very impressive. How will they do in quarterfinal? See 14:00 Weds 28 February, streamed live on YouTube, and recorded for later youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... Billy Fullwood Simon Cowhig Danny Hunt

Was not able to watch, probably for the best as far as the ears of my office neighbours are concerned... So proud of the Plymouth pears!

📢Two exciting PhD projects currently available at the University of Plymouth - both looking at the interaction of plastic pollution and the gut (either fish or humans). See below! PI's, please share with your students!

Long live the Entente Cordiale, Vive l’amitié franco-britannique !

Thought provoking article about plants, science communication, the definition of consciousness, and more... Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Farmers across the Philippines will now have to rip up their crops after Greenpeace successfully convinces a court to block golden rice cultivation. This decision will have dire consequences for the lives of millions of children in some of the world's poorest countries.

🎉The author copies of the 3rd edition of 'Effective Science Communication' from IOP Publishing have just arrived! 🎉 To win a signed copy, just re-tweet and I'll pick 2 re-tweeters at random on Thursday 9th May Also, order here: doi.org/10.1088/978-0-… #scicomm

Applications open for a few more days! This is a great project (not that I am biased) to learn core in vitro and in vivo methodologies to assess chemical toxicity and accumulation in fish, as well as advanced analysis at DLS, to set up a future research career! Prof. Richard C Thompson OBE FRS

*Research Technician* 📢 #job - Join our fantastic wet-lab team at Resurrect Bio Ltd discovering ways of using gene editing to develop disease resistant crops! 📌 White City, London #plantsci #plantscience #biotechnology #gradjob BSc/Masters ✍️Apply here: forms.gle/twdHPUk61rahpf…

Congratulations to our new School of Biological and Marine Sciences graduates!

Day 1 of 2024 Azores field trip. The scenery at this new field site is not too bad. We are looking at plant adaptations to salinity in buck's horn plantain and the Azorean species of sea lavender Biological and Marine Sciences University of Plymouth Billy Fullwood