Stefaniya Kamenova
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Stefaniya Kamenova
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Molecular ecologist studying trophic interactions 🇵🇸🇱🇧
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia | University of Oslo
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October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Close encounters of the Salamander Type #bulgaria #firesalamander
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A very special encounter in the Bulgarian woods 🐍
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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📖Published📖

Chen et al. comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of invertebrate metabarcoding primers in (e)DNA-based biodiversity assessments in both freshwater and marine habitats 🪳 🧬 Find out more here 👇

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September 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Ready for the #EuropeanResearchersNight at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia! 🇧🇬

Spotlight on #biodiversitygenomics with our brand new exhibit, generously supported by @biogeneurope.bsky.social 🧬🧪🦣

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September 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

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September 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost
September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Israeli-backed aid in Gaza "deadly by design”
Research groups Forensic Architecture and the World Peace Foundation have published a report titled The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza, which found Israel to have used aid distribution to displace and starve Palestinians in Gaza.
Israeli-backed aid in Gaza "deadly by design" according to report
Forensic Architecture and the World Peace Foundation have published a report that found Israel to have used aid distribution to starve Palestinians in Gaza.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
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September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Do you work with data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (@gbif.org)? Please take our survey as we conduct a broad review of current experience and beliefs within the biodiversity data community on issues related to Indigenous data governance & sovereignty

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September 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Each year our Linnean Medal for Research recognises someone who has made a lifetime contribution to the study of natural history. This could be through science, or humanities research.

Submit a nomination by the deadline of 30 September.
The Linnean Medal for Research
An awarded to scientists for an outstanding contribution to the natural sciences.
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September 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM