Laura Weldon PhD

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Environmental DNA 🧬scientist 🧪founder of The eDNA Consultancy. Harbours a fondness for bees, European eel, b&w collies and all things freshwater especially the River Severn.

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Long day but arrived home to a glow worm in the garden! Haven’t seen one of these for years!

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www.seti.org/seti-forward The SETI Forward Award was established in 2018 to support undergraduate students interested in careers in SETI and astrobiology and aims to bridge the gap between internships and jobs in SETI and astrobiology research. This year's application window opens on August 1. 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

SETI Forwardwww.seti.org */ /*-->*/ This award was established in 2018 to support undergraduate students interested in careers in SETI and astrobiology. Each year, dozens of students intern with SETI and astrobiology scientis...

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📢 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Applications now open for our Small Research Grants and Career Development Bursaries Funding #ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...#ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

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Hi aquatic ecology people! The 2024 conference of the British Ecological Society's aquatic ecology group is open for registration! Spread the word! 🧪💦🦠🐟🚣‍♀️ #marine #freshwater #ecology www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2024-...

#BESAG2024: Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting 2024www.eventbrite.co.uk Get together with the freshwater and marine research community to hear the latest research, share skills, and build your network!

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This has been in the works for about a month, but check out our new website!!!! My technician did an amazing job!! www.partridgelabs.com

Home | PartridgeLabwww.partridgelabs.com

(I think) Female blue-tailed damselfly #odonata #damselfly #ukwildlife at Westhay Moor, Somerset

In my series of wildlife at a distance, here is a grass snake hunting on a pond in Somerset. #ukwildlife #reptiles

Clump of caterpillars (peacock butterfly) feasting on nettles #ukwildlife #butterflies

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Remember *last month* when residents of Devon got infected with Cryptosporidium from drinking polluted tap water supplied by South West Water? The boss has just been given a £300,000 pay rise. Yay, capitalism! www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Boss of South West Water’s owner gains £300,000 pay risewww.theguardian.com Pay rise for Pennon Group CEO Susan Davy comes despite outrage over Devon diarrhoea outbreak caused by polluted water

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New paper shows how #eDNA analysis captures inter-estuary inter-seasonal differences in #fish assemblages: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🦑 🐟 🧬

Sainfoin, field edge possibly a stray from a seeded margin #WildFlowerHour

Common spotted orchid for #WildFlowerHour

Narrow leaf plantain, one of my favourite little plants #WildFlowerHour

Fernleaf dropwort at Westonbirt this morning #WildFlowerHour

Lichen on a monkey puzzle tree

There’s a barn owl hunting it’s in the middle of this picture (honestly) I just spent a happy half hour watching it #ukwildlife #glosbirds

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Do you work in ecology/evolution? Did you do a study that is too small to publish as a full manuscript? Negative results? Part of a larger effort? Consider publishing in microPublication Biology: EEB! www.micropublication.org/journals/bio... Short papers, one figure. And we peer review! Please RT

microPublication - Get Your Data Out, Be Citedwww.micropublication.org

Soldier beetle #ukwildlife #beetles #invertebrate on the hunt

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Breaking newt news! The embargo has finally been lifted and we can reveal the discovery of palmate newt in Ireland for the first time following a recent Bioblitz.

First-ever Irish discovery of rare salamander in West Corkwww.corkbeo.ie BREAKING NEWTS - an entirely new species discovered in the Rebel County

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On working with the funding landscape, rather than waiting for funding to come to your personal research hilltop. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/06/04/d...

Doing interesting science with a boring grantscientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com Early in my career, I was something of a purist about applying for grants. I was convinced that I was only interested in discovery/basic science (as opposed to applied science), and I didn’t apply to ...

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National Aquatic eDNA Strategy released today www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Exciting development in pushing eDNA to meet our nations aquatic biodiversity monitoring needs

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I’ve been puzzling over this one….it keyed to dytiscidae larvae (water beetle). It’s the right habitat and was deffo in attack mode. It’s abdomen is curled up and over. #freshwater #uknature #coleoptera

Damselfly larvae #ukwildlife #odonata #freshwater

Blue tit fledgling #ukwildlife

Water stick insect #ukwildlife #freshwater #invertebrates

Not quite the right plane to focus all of this blue-tailed damsel also at Westhay Heath #odonata #damselfly #uknature

Male and female variable damselfly at Westhay Heath today #odonata #damselfly #uk wildlife @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Variable damselfly (thanks to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for the id) #odonata #damselfly #ukwildlife near threatened status

Returned to the same spot to see if I could get some better pics…large red damselfly #odonata #damselfy #ukwildlife

Hundreds of Azure damselflies at Westhay Moor #odonata #damselfly #ukwildlife