Laura Weldon PhD

Colourful flyer with details of a one day eDNA workshop with Heal rewild.

Calling all conservation orgs in the UK (SouthWest), come and improve your eDNA skills at the beautiful @healrewilding.org.uk, hope to see you there.

Not a Harebell but a Nettle-leaved Bellflower (Campanula trachelium) growing in a shady spot in our garden with one of our smallest bees - a Small Scissor Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) which is strongly associated with Harebells and other bellflowers. #WildflowerHour

One in focus striped yellow and black caterpillar resting vertically on the stalk of a ragwort plant

Cinnabar moth caterpillars resting on heavily grazed ragwort. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

Common carder bee on bird vetch
#bees #ukwildlife

Mostly white winged moth with brown markings and a striped abdomen

Clouded magpie moth. #mothsmatter #ukwildlife

Thanks Emma, hope all well with you!

How do we continue to promote join up between researchers and end users? How do we broaden scope of work? How do we work internationally? Share your thoughts before the end of the conference! #UKDNAWG25

Laura Weldon @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social tells us about impact of water chemistry on European #eel. Seasonal #eDNA sampling used to assess barriers to #eel movement. Higher phosphate levels associated with lower #eel detection #UKDNAWG25

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Buffy Smith @theednaconsultancy.bsky.social compared #iDNA and airborne #eDNA for #biodiversity in fragmented forest landscape. #iDNA more spatially sensitive. More domestic species detected with #iDNA than #eDNA tended to capture larger native mammals - differential shedding rates? #UKDNAWG25

We must be nearby we were walking the holloway Hells Lane!

Shiny smooth black leaf beetle on bare ground very rounded in appearance

Leaf beetle (Timarcha app) but not bloody nose beetle #invertebrates #ukwildlife #beetle

Medium sized brown butterfly with creamy white patches and distinctive dots on the wing, widespread in the Uk

Speckled wood #butterfly #ukwildlife #invertebrates

Large black beetle with huge abdomen, climbing through grass

Black oil beetle (male) uk south coast #ukwildlife #buglife #invertebrates

Common alderfly, canal-side walk today.

Get Off My Land Again! This has been quite a week.

After a hectic time working on the campaign to stop the export of elvers to Russia, and trying to get a book ready, Countryside Insider is back up and running with a new post about farming's missed opportunity to respond to the biodiversity crisis.
richardfleming.substack.com/p/get-off-my...

The covers of the BAS Factsheets

With spider activity increasing, we're looking at spider ID resources, starting today at the beginner's end of the spectrum with our 17 Factsheets on common and conspicuous species - freely available to read online or print from www.britishspiders.org.uk/factsheets. #spiders #arachnids #arachnology

Based on the science, diversity matters www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"...science has established the importance of diversity time and time again."

Eight paid internships for the summer at UKCEH, at Wallingford, Bangor, Edinburgh or Lancaster. For current students or recent graduates of Masters/PhD.
#environment #ecology

Bright crimson cup shape fungi amongst leaf litter

Pop! Signs of spring, scarlet elf cap #fungi

Hallo. I can do basic, thanks @kanebrides.bsky.social

Xavier Pochon - Citizens of the Sea Program

Enabling ocean biodiversity monitoring at SCALE

"Acquisition by the people - Analysis by the scientists"

#SeDNA2025

Curlew calling, River Severn at Splatt Bridge opp Frampton Church.#Glosbirding

Sign the Petition Stop export of baby eels from UK to Russia

www.change.org/p/stop-expor...

55,000 signatures. Please help the impressive growth of this petition and persuade Defra we need our elvers (baby eels) in the UK to restock our depleted rivers. Don't let the Russians eat our future.

Please consider submitting to this special issue for #eDNA work conducted in Southeast Asia OR led by Southeast Asian researchers!

Swans and lead fishing weights: a systematic review of deposition, impacts, and regulations in Europe.

Our new open-access paper: wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wi...

🌍 🧪 🦤 #ornithology

Computational Methods in Landscape Ecology - Current Landscape Ecology Reports Purpose of Review Landscapes can be defined as mosaics of different land covers, habitats, ecosystems, or land-use systems. The link between spatial heterogeneous patterns and ecological processes is ...

Out this week! We review recent developments in landscape ecology computational methods! topics=spatial patterns, connectivity, landscape genetics, sampling, simulations and modeling, and spatial planning: doi.org/10.1007/s408...

Why does investing in women entrepreneurs matter? Barclays and Aviva see it is a matter of importance for the wider economy matter as they feed into new fund occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...

NAMERS: a purpose-built reference DNA sequence database to support applied eDNA metabarcoding Applied eDNA metabarcoding is increasingly being considered as a tool to inform management decisions, regulations, or policy development. Because these downstream considerations are coming to the fore...

Publication day! This was a long time coming. From an idea during a Sunday conversation on a mountain top to this today means a lot to me. Most of the work was done by others but I have been involved throughout. #eDNA #fish #BCfreshwaterfish

mbmg.pensoft.net/article/1250...

👋 Hey Kane!

‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the River Severn? Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared

The River Wye is dying—& the River Severn is going the same way.
Blistered fish, algal blooms, sewage fungus sludging the riverbed.
The only good news is the response: a “volunteer army” of citizen scientists & activists rising up to protect & heal the river.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...