@annamac
Uses DNA to study wildlife | plays hockey 🏑 | drinks tea | hikes | adventures with dogs | open heart surgery x2 #conservation #genetics #consgen #eDNA #ecology #Antarctica #biodiversity #seabirds #marsupials #WildOz Live in lutruwita / Tasmania 🇦🇺🇬🇧🏳️🌈 she/her
🧬📸 Calling all eDNA enthusiasts, researchers, students & practitioners!
We want to see eDNA through your lens 👀
The #eDNAinFocus Photo Competition celebrates the creativity, diversity & real-world impact of environmental DNA research across Australia, New Zealand & beyond 🌏
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Another belated "new paper". We used passive #eDNA sampling to evaluate the risk of biofouling species being introduced to Macquarie Island (and other Antarctic / subantarctic locations) by ships.
Story from AAD: www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2026/ed...
and link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
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While I was down South, this paper was published: MetaZooGene Intercalibration Experiment (MZG-ICE): Metabarcoding Marine Zooplankton Diversity of the Global Ocean. A nice collaboration via SCOR MetaZooGene Working Group - we evaluate #eDNA data comparability among labs. doi.org/10.1111/1755...
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A great explainer on the targets and indicators for the Global Biodiversity Framework. #consgen
A black browed albatross against the waves of the Southern Ocean. Photographed from RSV Nuyina near McDonald Islands #subantarctic #MarineScience
McDonald Islands viewed from the ship - remote, steep, rocky islands rise from the southern ocean
McDonald Islands viewed from the ship - remote, steep, rocky islands rise from the southern ocean
McDonald Islands viewed from the ship - remote, steep, rocky islands rise from the southern ocean
McDonald Islands viewed from the ship - remote, steep, rocky islands rise from the southern ocean
Yesterday I got to enjoy something special. RSV Nuyina passed near the McDonald Islands. I spent time on deck in the wind, spray & swell of the Southern Ocean, watching hundreds (thousands?) of seabirds hunting for food and travelling around the islands. #volcano #subantarctic #MarineScience #eDNA
Will do 🐧 👋
It’s a small world :)
Big Ben - a snow and ice covered volcano, dominating the view of Heard Island from the ocean. Some blue sky through the clouds.
Big Ben - a snow and ice covered volcano, dominating the view of Heard Island from the helicopter deck of RSV Nuyina, with a colleague taking in the view. Some blue sky through the clouds.
Big Ben - a snow and ice covered volcano, dominating the view of Heard Island from the ocean. In this photo a glacier flowing down the mountain reaches the sea
Big Ben - a snow and ice covered volcano, dominating the view of Heard Island from the ocean.
Stunning views of Big Ben from the deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island. Big Ben is an active volcano and Australia’s highest peak. It’s usually swathed in cloud, but not yesterday! #subantarctic #MarineScience #eDNA
Moonrise last night, from the heli deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island #subantarctic #MarineScience 🧪🧬
Close up picture of me (in warm clothing) standing on the deck with sea ice behind me
Looking back along the port side of the ship, over two orange life boats, to see views of sea ice next to and behind the ship. A trail of disturbed ice shows where we came from
A large ice berg in the blue ocean, with paler blue sky and clouds behind
Sunset over the ocean, and reflected in the ship’s windows at the edge of the picture
Season’s greetings from the Southern Ocean! I’m spending the summer on RSV Nuyina collecting #eDNA samples for biodiversity surveys 🌊❄️🐧🧬🚢🇦🇶 #antarctica
very interesting work on mosses in the arctic and their change in spore dispersal over time - also an important argument why we need long term monitoring programs #eDNA #consgen 🧪🌏🦤
jecologyblog.com/2025/11/18/s...
🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.
Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
#PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics
Happy solstice! This is my longest longest day ever ☀️#Antarctica
🧬 DNA from a biopsy sample taken from a surfacing beaked whale with a modified crossbow confirms these specimens as ginkgo-toothed beaked whales (mesoplodon ginkgodens), a species never (knowingly) seen alive. #consgen 🦊
Sorry but no!
This is a selfie of me in my bright green jacket, standing on the heli deck of RSV Nuyina. There is distant land (southern Tasmania) in the background, across the water. The deck has “NUYINA” written in large white letters behind me.
So long Hobart, see you in February! I’m on board Australia’s icebreaker RSV Nuyina, heading south for the summer to collect environmental DNA samples to study biodiversity. We left yesterday afternoon, heading to Casey Station in #Antarctica and then Heard Island ❄️ 🐧 🧬 #eDNA
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
We have another publication out! 🎉🎉🎉
“Hybrids along a natural–anthropogenic gradient: improving policy and management across all levels of biodiversity.”
We explore how to deal with hybrids in conservation — scientifically and practically. A thread 🧵
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This is 💙 Science & Fiction 💙 where scientific results & fictional stories intersect.
A space for people who like to a) learn about #science & b) read exciting fictional stories ✨
🇬🇧 www.scienceandfiction.net
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Support: ko-fi.com/scienceandfi...
#scicomm #wisskomm
DNA in sediments tells a longer story!
New research shows sedimentary #eDNA can persist up to 132 days & be up to 1800x more concentrated than in water.
What do you think about this?
tinyurl.com/mtr947tn
#Genomics #Biodiversity #Conservation
PhD opportunity: improving #eDNA methods to better understand estuarine health.
A collaborative university-government project to provide solutions and improve the management of estuaries in Australia.
sednasociety.com/2025/10/10/p...
why we need genetic diversity
new paper out #consgen 🧪🦤🌏
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
Picture of cover page of the biobanking guidelines for conservation with title author list and four images of a fern, frog, cryotubes and a seastar
what is biobanking about? find our more in these guidelines just published today 🌏🦤🧪
They are freely available and can be downloaded here:
portals.iucn.org/library/site...
#consgen
For the first time this Spring, NOAA adopted eDNA into a formal stock assessment of Pacific Hake and this was supported by the Scientific Review Group for the Pacific Fisheries Management Council.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2025-03/2...
Portrait of a dog in the kitchen, looking happy and expectant and optimistic that she will get some cheese
“Cheese?”
Gorgeous :)
I mean look at this
It is her trademark. I think it’s a malamute size tongue in a kelpie size face!
Two husky type dogs, one wolf grey and one black and white, standing on a train in the forest with green trees behind. Both dogs look happy
A little more dog spam, Sakura and Syra enjoying a forest walk 🐾 🐾
#RescueDog #AdoptDontShop