Olivia Ruppert
@oliviaruppert.bsky.social
PhD student @ OSU
Interested in population & landscape genetics, genomics, eDNA, herpetology
MS @ MSUFW | (they/she) #HERper 🏳️🌈🦎🧬
Interested in population & landscape genetics, genomics, eDNA, herpetology
MS @ MSUFW | (they/she) #HERper 🏳️🌈🦎🧬
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All wildlife research at USGS will be eliminated. All research and science centers. All coop units. BBS, BBL…. gone.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research
Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress
www.science.org
April 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
All wildlife research at USGS will be eliminated. All research and science centers. All coop units. BBS, BBL…. gone.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wolves with genetic edits intended to make them resemble the lost species
www.newscientist.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
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Splicing random eDNA from a singing group into a wolf to make canis musicalis, or the choir wolf
splicing random eDNA from a peat bog into a wolf to make canis sphagnumis, or the quagmire wolf
Splicing pipeweed DNA into wolves to make canis hobbitus, or the shire wolf.
April 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Splicing random eDNA from a singing group into a wolf to make canis musicalis, or the choir wolf
Mentoring my first undergraduate student this semester on an amphibian monitoring project for a school district in rural Ohio. Some crazy field days and finds including this leucistic small-mouthed salamander (photo 3)!
March 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Mentoring my first undergraduate student this semester on an amphibian monitoring project for a school district in rural Ohio. Some crazy field days and finds including this leucistic small-mouthed salamander (photo 3)!
Who is collecting #stories from #federalworkers who have been fired? We are including them in a mapping project. The live map will also allow story submissions pfrom anyone who has lost their job/funding from these cuts. Please DM if you have info or a story to share (anon)
#DOI #OPM
#DOI #OPM
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Who is collecting #stories from #federalworkers who have been fired? We are including them in a mapping project. The live map will also allow story submissions pfrom anyone who has lost their job/funding from these cuts. Please DM if you have info or a story to share (anon)
#DOI #OPM
#DOI #OPM
My first first-author publication is out now in Environmental DNA!
The first portion of my MS project focused on comparing sampling methodology for eDNA metabarcoding for reptiles and amphibians in wetlands. 🧬 🐸
The first portion of my MS project focused on comparing sampling methodology for eDNA metabarcoding for reptiles and amphibians in wetlands. 🧬 🐸
January 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My first first-author publication is out now in Environmental DNA!
The first portion of my MS project focused on comparing sampling methodology for eDNA metabarcoding for reptiles and amphibians in wetlands. 🧬 🐸
The first portion of my MS project focused on comparing sampling methodology for eDNA metabarcoding for reptiles and amphibians in wetlands. 🧬 🐸
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I made one! I’ve realized when going to conferences that graduate students and early career professionals in the wildlife world are constantly communicating and will be working together later down the road. LMK if you want to be added, I def missed folks! go.bsky.app/FFFHs9U
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
I made one! I’ve realized when going to conferences that graduate students and early career professionals in the wildlife world are constantly communicating and will be working together later down the road. LMK if you want to be added, I def missed folks! go.bsky.app/FFFHs9U
First real post on this app is a summary of TWS 2024 in Baltimore.
Presented preliminary results on habitat suitability modeling of the gray fox in Ohio, eDNA workshops at the National Aquarium, fun with Out in the Field, and time with OSU folks!
Presented preliminary results on habitat suitability modeling of the gray fox in Ohio, eDNA workshops at the National Aquarium, fun with Out in the Field, and time with OSU folks!
November 16, 2024 at 8:22 PM
First real post on this app is a summary of TWS 2024 in Baltimore.
Presented preliminary results on habitat suitability modeling of the gray fox in Ohio, eDNA workshops at the National Aquarium, fun with Out in the Field, and time with OSU folks!
Presented preliminary results on habitat suitability modeling of the gray fox in Ohio, eDNA workshops at the National Aquarium, fun with Out in the Field, and time with OSU folks!
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Reality check by Kardos et al: while purely genomic analyses of genetic load promise to improve our understanding of the composition of the genetic load, they are currently of little use for evaluating population viability.
We need it combined with good demographic and ecological data 👇
We need it combined with good demographic and ecological data 👇
What can we learn about population viability from genome sequence data?
Preprint from Lukas Keller, Chris Funk, and me
www.authorea.com/users/391302...
Preprint from Lukas Keller, Chris Funk, and me
www.authorea.com/users/391302...
What can genome sequence data reveal about population viability?
Biologists have long sought to understand the impacts of deleterious genetic variation on fitness and population viability. However, our understanding of these effects in the wild is incomplete, in pa...
www.authorea.com
November 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Reality check by Kardos et al: while purely genomic analyses of genetic load promise to improve our understanding of the composition of the genetic load, they are currently of little use for evaluating population viability.
We need it combined with good demographic and ecological data 👇
We need it combined with good demographic and ecological data 👇