*in Kendrick Lamar voice* VACCINATE VACCINATE VACCINATE theguardian.com/news/datablog/…

So much info! So easy to comprehend!👏👏👏

Broke: Send your DNA to 23andMe, deanonymizing your relatives and descendants Woke: Don’t send DNA to 23andMe but risk a relative defecting Bespoke: Use CRISPR to encode a computer virus in your DNA, send DNA to 23andMe and Stuxnet their database

Even as an omnivore, I didn't realise people ate *so much* meat. Even with ~ 5 or 6% veggies in the UK, we're at 50-100 kg per capita?!? bbc.co.uk/news/health-47…

*Incoherent screaming* THIS IS SO WRONG 1. The study didn't look at whether gut bacteria CAUSE depression 2. This had ~nothing~ to do with diet 3. This was PRELIMINARY RESEARCH

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A silver sunfish swims amidst a sparkling sardine sky—a splendid way to start the day in the Open Sea this Mola mola Monday ☀️

I know 16 degrees in February is not good news really... but I am enjoying the warmth and the yells of the Pied Wagtails drifting through the office window.😎

Forget about that Microsoft (Android) app everyone’s been talking about, here’s a PDF table to excel table browser extension

Me “working independently.” #rstats

Love the detailing on the NZ jaeger!

I helped with the illustrations that will feature in the #uglycup over the next two weeks. While waiting for your tea to brew you could learn about some gross-looking creatures, and vote for your favourite!

Helen Arney and Matthew Highton killing it with top-knowledge (🧠) on their #uglyanimals. The illustrations may be redundant now - but having made them - I WILL post them!

Why don't #eDNA #metabarcoding results look like any other kind of ecological data? Here's why: tinyurl.com/y656kw5f Our new paper out today. How to think about PCR-based data and how to make it quantitative.

The Dinner Plate Diversity interactive, which lets you plot the species you eat on a phylogenetic tree (I showed you at #2019EFL Dr M still going wild! @Debbie1Alstonis) is available as part of this free online course. A link to just the tree is not yet available. open.edu/openlearn/natu…

Publishing at the end of the week is always a great pick-me-up! 😊 Have a look at recommendations for including jellyfish in ecosystem models here: academic.oup.com/icesjms/advanc…

This might be a really dumb question, but is there a reason you couldn't use long oligos to test primers? I've been asked about some work on a rare and endangered species - so it's not like I can just pop out and grab a sample...

Very excited to announce two #PhD #studentships as part of INSITE - one on #bluecarbon tinyurl.com/4e2w72m6 with The National Decommissioning Centre Ruth Parker Cefas and one on #eDNA with @EcoGareth Dave Paterson Philip Lamb tinyurl.com/2p8cmtjx School of Life Sciences, University of Essex Research at Essex

Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. wired.com/story/malware-…