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The Mariani Lab
@marianilab.bsky.social
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Marine Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Ocean Conservation, Sustainability, DNA monitoring.
Made in Rome, Based in Liverpool.
Own views.
Equity, Inclusivity, Compassion, Justice. ✊🏽🇵🇸
https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Stefano-Mariani-Lab
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If there is anything that you always wanted to know about the #metaprobe but were afraid to ask,
Mark your diary: THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER!
More news soon…
#eDNA
@britishecologicalsociety.org
A metaprobe device, used to sample environmental DNA
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Everyone with a shred of intellectual honesty left in them knows full well that any preposterous excuse is good for these maniacs to continue their atrocities…

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Excerpt from an Al Jazeera article noting that the IDF continues to kill Palestinians despite the bogus ceasefire “agreement”
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Thank you #Orbetello
#Mediterranean #Lagoon #Fish #Flamingo
@webdnaproject.bsky.social
The silhouette of flamingoes at dawn
October 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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So powerful… Thank you, Ta-Nehisi Coates, for this stunning book.
#TheMessage
#FreePalestine
An excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “The Message”
September 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Show me your shape and i’ll tell you where you live!
#marine #fish #ecology
#Puglia #Mediterranean
Nine Mediterranean Fish Species
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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It was HUNGRY!!!
#scorpaena #fish #marine #ecology
A scorpionfish and its meal of crabs and squid
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Show me your fish and I’ll tell you where you are
16 fishes belonging to 13 Mediterranean species
September 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The current Labour government iterations: Tories 2.0
In literally everything.
The grotesque posturing of the current Labour government portrayed as they bootlick Trump’s shitshow
September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Take notice that this is the guy who said that at least “50 Palestinians must die for every Israeli victim: they need a nakba every now and then, to remind them…”.
This is the “centrist” perspective in today’s Israeli society.
Excerpt from a Guardian article highlighting the reckless drift to far-right positions in Israeli society
August 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Good on the pope!
But the @theguardian.com still referring to this as the “Israel-Gaza War”? What sort of sick joke is it? How do these editors sleep at night?
Screenshot of a Guardian article that still refers to the genocide as a “war” between two forces…
July 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Impetus comes from many brilliant people along the journey, facilitated by the intercontinental collaboration between @ljmuimpact.bsky.social and @stanforddoerr.bsky.social
@spalumbi.bsky.social
But it’s impossible not to praise the driving force of this work: @giumaiello.bsky.social #brilliant
Giulia Maiello (right) and Gwen Donahue juat before a fourth summer survey along the central California coast
July 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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This is probably the most comprehensive comparison of #eDNA capture methods in #kelp habitats to date and has been hugely beneficial in laying the foundations for the forthcoming results coming from subsequent sampling seasons
A view of the coastline at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California
July 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Thank you @lucilialorusso.bsky.social and the #DiPintoLab at Bari’s #DiMeV for an enriching visiting experience!
And we’re doing more in september!
#seafood #DNA #traceability #sustainability
Examples of laboratory and seminar activities at the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”
July 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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A #fish and its #food.
Exploring the meanders of #marine #trophic #ecology
Trachinus draco and its decapod prey
July 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Shake up
Instagram announcement of the establishment of a new political party in the UK QR Code to access the full post
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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You’re totally having a good old wanton laugh
An academic journal’s outlandish claim around their speed in handling manuscripts
June 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Difficult to post smiling pictures these days. But we stay connected and try to do our best. Thank you for making work so stimulating and enriching!
@mgenner.bsky.social @giumaiello.bsky.social @rdowell.bsky.social @jjackman27.bsky.social et al!
Marianilab members Stefano, Giulia, Rosie, Martina, with collaborators Iliana and Martin, enjoying some hawker food in Liverpool
June 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Write to your MP.
Speak out against the atrocities committed by Israel.
#FreePalestine
Text of an email submitted to a local MP to encourage them to fight for freedom and justice in parliament
June 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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There is always something new and fascinating to discover when you take time to speak to your colleagues! #mantella #frogs @lfpassos.bsky.social
@ljmubiocon.bsky.social
Dorsal and ventral view of one of the Malagasian brown mantella frogs housed at LJMU
May 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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A seemingly simple gesture, and we’re suddenly expanding the frontiers! Not much we can say yet… but let us share some enthusiasm!
#eDNA #ocean #fisheries #nanopore
@giumaiello.bsky.social
@shump.bsky.social
@mgenner.bsky.social
Drs Maiello & Shum loading a particularly exciting metagenomic library on a nanopore sequencer
April 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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It’s rather unfair to call #Trieste “the little Vienna by the sea”. It’s more a case of #Vienna being a big Trieste without the sea.
Images of sunset in Trieste
April 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Exciting new #PhD opportunity to thrust #DNA-based #shark and #ray stewardship into the future!
most relevant to #indonesian and #south-asian applicants.
@joanna-m-murray.bsky.social @dhikafishery.bsky.social
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social @misselasmo.bsky.social
@ljmuimpact.bsky.social
advert for a PhD position on DNA-based identification of shark and ray catch and bycatch in Indonesia
April 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Fieldwork tenet number 1: the gifts of nature shall not go to waste
@webdnaproject.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk
#eDNA #FoodWebs #Mediterranean #Lagoon
Fresh catch from a Mediterranean lagoon
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Oh… poor beauty! You had to give your life…
But if @webdnaproject.bsky.social works, your friends can all stay alive!
Stefano holding a seabass
March 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Delighted!
A. Watson, MSc
A. Cunnington, PhD
E. Neave, PhD

May the world be kind to you.
Stefano enjoying Annie, Alice, Erika all graduating in Liverpool
March 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM