Looking forward to presenting our #CLEARNeagh project in the UK Freshwater Quality Research Programme webinar.
We’ll explore #eDNA and #AMR monitoring across the catchment which may identify drivers of degradation and support long-term recovery.
#freshwater #river #riverpollution #LoughNeagh 🌍💧
#MichaelBennett presenting his work on bee pathogens as part of the #NationalHoneyMonitoringScheme at @ukceh.bsky.social
Supervisors: @lindsaynewbold.bsky.social and #BenWoodcock
#LaraWalsh & #AlexandraLewis presenting their posters on #Zooplankton #parasites and #AMR at #MMEG2025
#LaraWalsh supervised by @joedtaylor.bsky.social presenting their flash talk on parasites in Zooplankton
The @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social group in full strength at this year's #MMEG2025 at University of Birmingham
Super excited to see this amazing paper out.
Brilliantly led by @amycthorpe.bsky.social in the #MolecularEcology group at @ukceh.bsky.social
A huge collaborative effort with the #EnvironmentAgency revealing microbial 🦠 diversity, function, and environmental drivers across England's rivers!
I am privileged to be working with an amazing set of #AMR researchers.
See below for new studentships starting in the group
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Happy World #AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW #WAAW25
At @ukceh.bsky.social our AMR researchers work on both #bacterial and #fungal AMR!
We undertake research monitoring AMR in many different environments (water 🌊, wastewater 💩, air 💨, soil 🌱 & plants 🌿), which means we get out in the field a lot!
In October, @brionyjones.bsky.social presented at the European Commission's Joint Research Council in Ispra for a AI4SoilHealth meeting earlier in the month. The presentation title was 'Global F.A.I.R.ness of co-located microbial and soil health data in public genomic repositories.' 🌱🦠🧬
@laurens-colours.bsky.social was recently invited to present at a @britishecologicalsociety.org & @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social event on art & science 🎨
Lauren's full talk on scientific storytelling through merging logic and feeling can be found here ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGdA...
@lindsaynewbold.bsky.social also gave a talk recently on the National Honey Monitoring Scheme (NHMS) at the AgZero+ all staff meeting! 🍯
Find out more via the links below ⬇️
NHMS: honey-monitoring.ac.uk
AgZero+: agzeroplus.org.uk
📢 Check out below our latest work on national-scale river biofilms led by the brilliant @amycthorpe.bsky.social
@oxonandrew.bsky.social has been on a paper publishing streak recently!
As well as the above he has also published a paper on emerging contaminants in urban streams in Sub-Saharan Africa 🧪💊💧
check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
PhD opportunity to work in my lab at UEA, together with @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont “Linking AMR, global warming and CUE in deglaciated soils”
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Huge thanks to our team across @ukceh.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social, @uor-research.bsky.social & @ukri.org #NERC #ASSIST & #BBSRC #DECODE 🙏
🧬Soil eDNA isn’t a replacement for traditional surveys!
📣It’s a powerful complement, boosting scale & efficiency⚡ in biodiversity monitoring 🌿🌍
Even more exciting → #eDNA abundances correlated with plant cover in multiple habitats 🌳🌾
🌾 Grasslands & 🌳woodlands showed the strongest associations.
And #MachineLearning🤖 models could 📊 predict habitat types from eDNA data with promising accuracy!
From nearly 800 soil samples paired with 1 m² field surveys, we found:
✅ Genus-level eDNA captures comparable richness & composition to field surveys
📉 Slightly lower Shannon diversity, but strong overlap
🚨 New #OpenAccess paper in #Environmental #DNA! 🚨
Led by #TimGoodall @ukceh.bsky.social with @danread.bsky.social we tested whether #soil #eDNA metabarcoding can capture plant #biodiversity & vegetation cover across the UK 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Have you ever looked at some differentially occurring gene clusters in a microbial #pangenome and thought to yourself "I wonder if they contribute to any metabolic modules"?
With the most recent changes, the answer is a few clicks away in #anvio 😇
Welcome to our "meet the researcher" series!👩🔬👨🔬
Tune in over the next week as we introduce you to our UKCEH Molecular Ecology PhD researchers and tell you a bit about their projects! 🧪🧬🦠
🧪 NEW: Emily Williams reflects on a recent visit to the Falkland Islands as part of a project working with UK Overseas Territories to tackle invasive non-native species — a major threat to island #biodiversity and livelihoods🌿
Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
#INNS #blog
Social card for vacancy which reads "Research Scientist. Develop pipelines for metagenomic and amplicon sequencing data to understand the role of prokaryotes in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Salary: £36,720 to £42,000. Contract length: 9 months. Apply by 8 July 2025".
🆕 Vacancy! If you want to work with sequencing data derived from cultivated and natural soil microbiomes to understand the role of prokaryotes in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, check our vacancy 🦠
@bioinf.bsky.social
💷 £36,720 to £42,000 p/a
🗓️ Apply by 08 July 2025
➡️ buff.ly/BSB0Qfh
We have a new 3-year postdoc position in our group at the @hifmb.de to study plasmids and plasmids systems of the marine environment to survey their utility in microbial responses to environmental change.
Please see the official job ad here, and spread the word:
jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/20...
Rain or shine ☔️🌞, our #NERC-funded #MICROCYCLE teams are sampling Thames & Avon, uncovering how microbes influence the fate of organic matter🧫💧.
@amycthorpe.bsky.social
& #TimGoodall in #MolecularEcology in action at
@ukceh.bsky.social
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🔗 tinyurl.com/46469ztn
#FreshwaterQuality #RiverHealth
Dr Stuart Wainwright and quote "It's great to see the launch of NERC's Forward Look, with themes that closely align with our own. This highlights both the global challenges we face and the essential role of environmental science in addressing them. Our shared priorities reflect a common belief in the power of world-class science to drive positive change-and we look forward to working closely together to make a meaningful difference
🎂👏 Congratulations to the Natural Environment Research Council on 60 years of enabling world-leading environmental science and the launch of an ambitious new 10-year vision.
We look forward to working with NERC to make a meaningful difference.
🔗 NERC Forward Look: www.ukri.org/publications... 🧪
The Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH are hosting this great community engagement event a Loch Leven, Scotland. A chance to talk to our scientists about what the Loch means to you: eu1.hubs.ly/H0knhrs0
@ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪💦
A banner for our conference, which is on the 15th-16th September 2025 at ZSL London
Hi all, have you seen that the Aquatic Ecology & Microbial Ecology Groups of the BES are holding a science conference at the Zoological Society of London in September?
Registration/abstract submission still open...
@bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social @bes-microbialgroup.bsky.social #BESAG2025
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@clairecarvell.bsky.social showing how collaborative work between @ukceh.bsky.social & @sangerinstitute.bsky.social leveraged the #BIOSCAN pipeline to uncover 135+ insect families sampled as part of the #UK @pomscheme.bsky.social
Presented at @ukdnawg.bsky.social conference at the #RoyalSociety
This weekend, Ellie Mackay from the UKCEH Aquatic Ecosystems Group will be talking to the community about the ecology of Windermere (by canoe safari!). A great public engagement event!
www.windermeresciencefestival.org/portfolio/ca...
#UKCEH_AquaEco @ukceh.bsky.social @ellie-mackay.bsky.social
Are you an undergraduate student interested in a PhD? Apply now to gain experience in a NERC-funded Research Experience Placement this summer – UKCEH scientists are leading some of the projects!
E4 placements: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/further-nerc...
GW4+ placements: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/undrgrad-pla...
