Leandro Capurro

Environmental DNA: What's behind the term? Clarifying the terminology and recommendations for its future use in biomonitoring The last decade brought a spectacular development of so-called environmental (e)DNA studies. In general, “environmental DNA” is defined as DNA isolated from environmental samples, in contrast to geno...

#eDNA should be used in its generic sense, as originally defined, encompassing the DNA of all organisms present in environmental samples, including microbial, meiofaunal and macrobial taxa.

What do you think about this statement?

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#Science

NASA’s trailblazing mathematician made the moon landing possible.

What inspires you most about Katherine Johnson? 🧠🚀🧪

#RocketScience #KatherineJohnson #NASA #Science

Illustration of a large black and yellow dragonfly, seen in side view.

Dragonhunter (Hagenius brevistylus), one of the largest North American dragonflies, specializes in hunting other dragonflies.
🧪🌿🌎 #garden #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insects #dragonflies #odos

Always... Do not be a reviwer #2!

🧪⚒️ You probably know that arthropods, such as insects and crustaceans, need to molt (shed) their exoskeleton in order to grow. But you might not have known that female lobsters mate right after molting. Why? Because they carry and brood their eggs on the undersides of their tails, and if they molt,

Hi, I'm Leandro. I'm a Molecular Ecologist. I study environment DNA to detect and quantify no native species in aquatic systems. I'm also into DNA barcoding and species delimitation by DNA sequences.

Two caecilians in the shape of a double helix.

I'm not procrastinating.... making #Pride caecilian DNA stickers is a requirement of my dissertation. Schistometopum thomense and S. ephele, the iconic duo of my PhD work.

For all of my LGBTQ+ friends & allies 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

OK @gbif.org I'm confused. How come metabarcoding says a moth from Northern Europe and Canada is in Madagascar? #dnabarcoding This is a pretty striking distribution pattern.

Morty dropping those truth bombs

I would be interested, but in my country (Uruguay), there are several restrictions about imports. Thus, it could be difficult for me, like it happend with others entrepreneurs...

I need one

Mutualism breakdown underpins evolutionary rescue in an obligate cross-feeding bacterial consortium - Nature Communications Rapid genetic adaptation to environmental change, or evolutionary rescue, can be constrained by a less adaptable mutualistic partner. Here, the authors explore evolutionary rescue in an obligate mutua...

1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue.

We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social

#microsky #evosky #mevosky

🧬 Happy #DNADay from the NMDC! Genomics & metagenomics have transformed how we investigate microbiomes. How are you using genomics in your research? 🧪 #DNADay25

Pedi un reactivo y en vez de pedir mg pedi g 🥺🥲. Increíblemente no fue tanta la diferencia.

There are better AI tools out there than ChatGPT, especially for researchers.

Here are a couple of them 👇

In Uruguay we just say: "La pija" -"the dick". Simple and beautiful.

We do not use "Latinx" we prefer "Latine". Moreover, most latin america and europe can exclude France and sleep well...

NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency NOAA, the US government science and management agency in charge of sustainable fisheries, the national weather service, and ocean exploration, is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration and P…

The US government’s first scientific agency focused on ocean science, and its discoveries were vital in our emergence as an economic superpower.

The Trump administration is trying to destroy NOAA, its successor.

Learn the history here 🧪🦑🌎🐠

www.southernfriedscience.com/noaa-carries...

Genuine question: is there any precedent for a Presidential executive order -- or just its implications -- being adopted so fast and so widely across the government?

sí soy

El fascismo ya ha empezado a actuar.

Trump y Musk están borrando datos sobre ideología de género, cambio climático y equidad racial.

Es el equivalente a quemar libros.
www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2...

My magister program come up with new rules and they are annoying. the bureaucracy is harder than the lab job...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Why are there people posting ChatGPT prompts on ResearchGate? 🤔

Es complicado boicotearlos porque van a pensar que los censuran. El mejor boicot es mejorar la educación para que el pensamiento del siglo XXI no sea el de la edad media, porque sino en cualquier momento van a acusar gente de brujas por saber matemáticas y leer...

No es una guerra civil, Ruanda está invadiendo el Congo para robar recuerdos naturales. lo hace hace varios años al igual que otros países de Africa, Europa y medio Oriente. Si les interesa el tema, busquen Genocidio silencioso del Congo. Del Uruguayo no sé nada 🤷🏻‍♂️