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Counting the Invisible: New Tools to Estimate the Number of Contributors From Sequence‐Based Microsatellite Genotyping of Environmental DNA Samples - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MicrosatellitesNotDead #microsatnotdead

A preprint by @elembio.bsky.social Element Bio on a flowcell-based simplified hybrid capture approach that retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out this new paper just out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution on better understanding genetic extinction debt for conservation.

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

#conservationgenetics #PopulationGenetics

Wolf pollination is now a thing.