Arctic soils are globally important ecosystems and climate-sensitive carbon stores 🌱🦠🏔️ But what happens during the long, cold, 24-hour dark winter? 🥶🌚 Our new paper shines a spotlight on seasonality, bridging observations and models 🔦❄️ 🧵 & 📜 see👇 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Meet Adam, Dan, Aidan, and Bonnie from the Schistosome Snail Resource team, they provide live schistosome stages and #Snails as hosts for crucial schistosomiasis #Research. In partnership with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by Wellcome. Learn more 🔗 nhm.ac.uk/our-science/re…

The media and political class is complicit in the far right, racist and Islamophobic violence we’re seeing across our country. This morning, I experienced the visceral denial of this reality.

Our (w/Andrew Swafford, Ethan Garner, and Lillian Fritz-Laylin) review "Actin network evolution as a key driver of eukaryotic divesification" is out now in J Cell Science! doi.org/10.1242/jcs.26…

Holobionts and microbial consortia represent ecological units that can be investigated by eDNA/eRNA, and may be more sensitive indicators of ecosystem function and health than other eNA approaches

Very proud to share the first paper from my PhD! 🥳 We review approaches for enhancing ecological assessments through environmental DNA (#eDNA) / eRNA surveys of microorganisms, host-symbiont units (holobionts) and biodiversity across the tree of life 🦠🦊🌳🦆🧬🦀

Ever get #Antarctica and the #Arctic confused? 🤔❄️ Which has polar bears and which has penguins? 🐧🐻‍❄️ And where does Santa live? 🎅 You’re not alone! The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land, while Antarctica is a continent surrounded by ocean. 🌍

Pleased to share I submitted my PhD thesis earlier this week!! Grateful for all the support along the way, it has been a busy 4 years! Science at the Natural History Museum NHM_Students NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership University of Bath Milner Centre for Evolution

Change of plans! Newcastle Uni have pulled funding for post PhD submission bursaries. So I'm on the look out for jobs to start in Jan/Feb 2025, including short term opportunities. Please let me know if you're aware of any invasive species research/management positions. Thanks!

Also drifting off here... bsky.app/profile/protis…

🚨#Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biology and #seaweed horticulture! 🌊 Join my lab at the University of Gothenburg in research on polyploidy in #Ulva, breeding & sustainable #aquaculture. Learn more & apply: linkedin.com/safety/go?url=…

Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ? Come join our team in Potsdam. Application deadline Jan 5th 2025 via gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/job-…

Ban bottom trawling in UK MPAs. Please sign if you have a moment: Nets as big as football pitches scrape away reefs and destroy marine life. Urge Secretary of State Steve Reed to take action now and truly protect the ocean. #BanBottomTrawling act.for-the-ocean.org/act/protect-uk…