Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance. dlvr.it/R9T62l

Today’s #labautomation on the @OpenTrons_ OT-2 is setting up PCRs in specific wells for temperature gradient testing.

Our Darren Evans @DarrenMarkEvans talking quickly about upcoming South American work by our group at #network2019

Congratulations Dimitris Petsopoulos for winning the best Early Career Researcher Award at the #IAFRI science symposium Fera Newcastle University

Justin Byrne with some excellent public engagement on woodland soil networks NCL Network Ecology

The group is giving 2 talks (Fredric Windsor Kirsten Miller) and presenting 3 posters (@oconned5 Justin Byrne James Kitson) in Belfast British Ecological Society #BES2019. @DarrenMarkEvans will be attending his first Journal of Animal Ecology Editors meeting. Looking forward to seeing you there!

15 different languages are spoken in the #YMBS19! #metabarcoding #diversity

FULLY FUNDED PhD position in our lab! Molecular diagnostics and biocontrol of a UK invasive species. Advert now live on findaphd (tinyurl.com/y4rqe6lj) and the Newcastle University website (tinyurl.com/yyl7o6k6). Please RT! #phd #phdchat #biocontrol #molecularecology

Evolution of language. It’s curious how names of Greek philosophic schools have survived in our modern language(s) with meanings that seem to have no connection with the originals. Sophistry. Sceptical. Cynical. Epicurean. Stoical. Probably more examples?

Kirsten Miller presenting research on “scaling up the utility of ecological networks in agriculture” EcoStack NCL Network Ecology Ecology Group, Newcastle University #BES2019 #networks

Well done to ⁦Justin Byrne⁩, telling #BES2019 all about soil changes over time. #metabarcoding ⁦@WoodlandTrust⁩ ⁦Ecology Group, Newcastle University⁩ ⁦Sciences at Newcastle⁩

My supervisor has just put out an interesting piece in The Conversation on #bushfiresAustralia, how do we consider the interconnectedness of living things when looking at the impact of such a tragic event.

Environmental DNA #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/263749… … is calling papers for a Special Issue #eDNA for #biomonitoring, #resource #management and #conservation. Publication will be free of charge! #Metabarcoding #Metagenomics #AncientDNA #Diet #Pathogen SEE DETAILS BELOW

Complex long-term biodiversity change among invertebrates, bryophytes and lichens nature.com/articles/s4155… Analysis of occupancy changes in >5000 UK species over 45 years shows substantial turnover in community composition, but declines evident only among non-insect invertebrates

Based in the UK and interested in trees? As part of #IYPH2020 Conker Tree Science is running a new #CitizenScience project examining whether pest controlling insects are having an impact on the highly inverse horse-chestnut leaf miner moth. Go to conkertreescience.org.uk to sign up

The research director of a mosquito control district reports on discoveries made over years of examining bycatch in surveillance traps—and makes the case for bycatch as a resource with the potential to aid in invertebrate conservation efforts. entomologytoday.org/2020/07/17/une…

PAPER ACCEPTED: Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long-term insect declines Ecological Entomology. By Dimitris Petsopoulos Dave Lunt James Bell Insect Survey James Kitson Larissa Collins🇱🇹🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Neil Boonham Ramiro Morales Hojas and @DarrenMarkEvans

Using network ecology to understand and mitigate long-term insect declines #biomonitoring #ecologicalnetworks #InsectWeek21 #entomology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ee…

Interested in a #PhD in #Entomology/molecular ecology? We would love to talk to you. Royal Entomological Society Royal Society of Biology PhdJobs.com

We are #recruiting to fill four #entomology positions. And PhD studentship in entomology and metabarcoding. Royal Entomological Society Royal Society of Biology capita.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CapitaGl… capita.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CapitaGl… capita.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CapitaGl… jobs.ac.uk/job/CMW748/iaf…