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Anders Jespersen

@jespersen.bsky.social
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Postdoc in ecology (eDNA, biomonitoring) Former neuroscientist All round nature-nerd SciComm enthusiast, runner, and baker Born at 354.8 ppm He/him

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
1/5: Hej danske medier - kan vi lige stoppe agurketids-hysteriet om #egeprocessionsspinder = "Larven fra helvede"). Herunder lidt perspektivering & praktisk info➡️ #larvenfrahelvede (Foto fra Wikipedia's udmærkede tyske side om arten)
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Scott Marek @smarek0502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Anyone else constantly getting distracted online by XYZ, but also don't want to be tracked by a website blocker? Here's a homemade chrome extension by Sharon Zheng that will be ready in less than 15 mins: github.com/skinsshark/s... It needed a small update and I changed some visuals (see comments).
Screenshot of a web browser blocking the website bbc.com and showing the message "Focus" instead.
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Great day yesterday at Molslaboratoriet collecting horse and cattle dung for eDNA analysis 💩🐂🐎🪲🪰 After a minor morning setback in a snowdrift 😂 it felt like we got to witness the change from winter to spring😀☀️
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A superb fairy wren (Malurus cyaneus) to brighten up your day 😊 From O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat in Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. Sometimes the best pictures happen in the carpark 😉
A superb fairy wren sitting on a sign that reads "strictly no parking"
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Laura Cooper @transitionalform.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
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Peter Funch @biofunch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🔬 PhD position in zoophysiology and sustainable fisheries 🦞 “From Physiology to Fisheries: Biological Limits of Live Storage of Lobsters.” Experimental physiology, applied fisheries science, field work, and hands-on laboratory work. 👉 Apply here: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Excellent example of specialisation of sapwood (as opposed to heart wood) fungi! Really cool picture!
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Gilles Vanwalleghem @drgillesv.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
international.au.dk/about/profil... Aarhus University is looking for a director to establish and lead a centre working at the circuit level to tackle brain disorders. Please circulate if you know people who may be interested
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Director of new research centre in biological psychiatry with focus on brain circuit dysfunction - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Prestigious journal “Science” retracts 2017 paper that concluded herbicide Roundup is safe Env regulatory agencies that protect endangered species should stop accepting studies conducted by consultants who have been funded by developers, development agencies, etc www.science.org/content/arti...
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Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’
Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Super excited to be at the Biodiversity and Health symposium at University of Copenhagen. Starting out with sage words from @carstenrahbek.bsky.social: >30% of new human diseases are driven by our consumption and land use. Our health is tied directly to the health of the Earth's ecosystems!
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There's something almost comforting about the fact that *even* an early edition of 'On the Origin of Species' gifted by Charles himself, still gets clear, bold, utalitarian, and slightly wonky library stamp!
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Rosie Williams @rosiewilliams.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📣New paper out today! We’ve found concentrations of mercury in UK-harbour porpoises is increasing. 📈🐬 We also found concentrations of mercury were associated with an increased risk of dying from infectious disease.☠️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Temporal Increases in Mercury Concentrations are Associated with Increased Risk of Death by Infectious Disease in Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena Phocoena)
Trace elements, particularly heavy metals like mercury, pose significant risks to marine ecosystems due to their toxic and bioaccumulative properties. Concentrations in some marine species show concer...
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
With Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social we consider the greatness and bigotry of James Watson. Watson was not just a great scientist who turned out to be a bigot in his personal life. His bigotry was rooted in misunderstanding of the very science he created. Free link when I get one.
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The Paradox of James Watson
The discovery of DNA was evidence of how deeply interconnected humans are, but the late scientist saw only difference.
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 05/11/2025
Don’t listen to me or any other non-experts when it comes to AI. Follow these experts instead: @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @janelleshane.com @timnitgebru.bsky.social
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Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Calling ALL health data folk: Re UK Health Data Research Service. The UK gov & Wellcome have pledged up to £600 million to create a HDRS. Myself & an ace team have been tasked by Wellcome to assess the existing health data ecosystem & identify what is needed to support the HDRS 👇. Get in touch
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) butt in focus 😂
Picture of a red dragon fly called a common darter. The back end of the dragon fly is in perfect focus while the head and wings are out of focus.
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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth! New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell! Paper: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Today I started out the morning talking about long-read sequencing and prediction models and ended the day by showing Masters students how to take eDNA samples from a river. How cool is my job!? 🤓 Honestly if I told three-years-ago me what I do for a living he wouldn't have believed it 😃
Picture of a small river with vegetation on both banks
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Thor Hjarsen @thorhjarsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
3 weeks ago we reveived 30 tauros in #SaksfjedWilderness! Bred to fill out the missing ecological function of the aurochs (extinct in 1627). The replacement from NL was a major team effort and a process lasting c. 18 months. Now science begins! Info see 🧵 #rewilding #Natura2000 #biodiversity
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
TFW you've made a few academic-field-pivots and have to write a research-blurb that starts with: "Anders is a..."
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a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .
Alt: a man in a suit looks around in confusion
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My new office mate is being fed and watered today before it'll be IDed (my money is on Devils Coach-horse Beetle, Ocypus Olens) and, if native, it'll be set free in the university park 🔎🪲🌳
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Got a new office mate today🤓
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Irish Basking Shark Group @irishbaskingshark.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We've recently published research basking shark breaching behavior. How kind of them to demonstrate it again on camera! Footage from Treas Heapes onboard Sally O’Keefee sailing to Inis Oirr.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Senator Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding - Cruz was on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re not clear on what a species is, at all
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sharing the raw data used in meta-analyses should be mandatory in all circumstances
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Glad for at have bidraget til denne baggrundsartikel om genforvildning (rewilding) 🌿 🐎 🌸 🐺 🦬 #rewilding #naturgenopretning #naturnationalparker #dkgreen #dkpol
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍 Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology
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2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University
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Emil Sloth Thomassen @emilst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great timing with #WorldRewildingDay and just handed in my PhD dissertation,where I investigate ecosystem effects in relation to trophic rewilding with #environmentalDNA. Link to the first two published papers in comments - looking forward to share the remaining results later.. Stay tuned! 🦬🐎🌿
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Smadder noget beskyttet natur. Få din ejendomsværdi til at stige med 1,5 million kroner. Slip med 2 * 100 timers samfundstjeneste og en 4 måneders betinget fængselsdom. Det svarer sån cirka til en timeløn på 7500 kroner 🙃 www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Ægtepar får hver især fire måneders betinget fængsel i sag om naturhærværk
Ægtepar i 40'erne idømt betinget fængselsstraf i sag om hærværk mod naturen
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Alexander Holm @alexanderholm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trump har nu underskrevet en præsidentiel bekendtgørelse, for at udvide skovfældning til 113 millioner hektar skov, der ellers har haft til formål at beskytte truede arter. Det er offentligt ejet skov direkte overleveret til tømmerindustriens motorsave. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The depressing state of the western world aside... If the most important security conference in 85 years or so can start at 13:30, why do academic conferences always have to start with a plenary lecture at 8:30? 😅😴
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Alex Mitchell @agmitchell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico
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Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico | Greg Grandin
Environmental disasters have plagued the water body for decades. Now the region is thrust in the global spotlight
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Beavers always know best" 🦫💪 Land right disputes were delaying construciton of dam to protect downstream nature. Beavers moved in and built the dam in a couple of nights saving the government £1 million. #Biodiversity #Conservation #Rewilding english.radio.cz/beavers-buil...
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Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area, while local officials still seeking permits
A beaver colony has gained overnight fame by building several dams in the Brdy protected landscape area, creating a natural wetland exactly where it was needed.
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GBIF @gbif.org · 23/01/2025
Registrations are open for our next Data Use Club practical session - Data standards & processing! 📍 Wed 12 Feb 2025 15:00-16:30 CET. This event will be recorded. 🔗 gbif.link/datauseclu... #DataUseClub #GBIF #Biodiversity #Data #FreeEvent
cream coloured graphic with a drawing of a stingray
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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee
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Daniel Kronauer @danielkronauer.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
@NatGeo just published an article about mound-building Formica wood ants, featuring a series of spectacular photographs by Ingo Arndt: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... Here is Ingo’s winning wood ant photo from @NHM_WPY last year:
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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel. Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs Please repost!
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Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel | Royal Society
Are you interested in shaping the future of scientific communication? Apply to join our new ECR Advisory Panel.
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)
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Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action
Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection among these animals.
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Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm @mkddueholm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes. What can you learn from sequencing 10,000 metagenomes, and 14.9 million bacterial and 13.4 million eukaryotic rRNA operons?🦠 If you haven't read our preprint, it might be the time now. 😁 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dr.Kat Stewart @ecoevoedna.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I started an #eDNA starter pack as one didn’t exist yet. Feel free to message me to get your name added. Open to all! go.bsky.app/U2vgV5Q
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 15/11/2024
A new study reveals that developing new climbing routes is the biggest threat to cliff plants, cutting species richness by nearly 40%. 🧗‍♂️ In a study at the protected natural area of El Potrero Chico in Mexico, ecologists observed a decline in plant diversity along the developed climbing routes.
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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Edinburgh Zoo is calling for stricter restrictions on fireworks following the death of 3-month-old Roxie, an endangered red panda kit, on bonfire night. The zoo’s vet team believes stress from fireworks likely led to Roxie’s death. 🧵
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Anders Jespersen @jespersen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Some 3600 years later, dogs around the world still do not fully trust that the human will indeed throw the ball if only they drop the ball 😍
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.
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