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Cardiff Molecular Ecology and Conservation lab

@molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social
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researchers at Cardiff University working on molecular ecology, conservation biology and genomics, incl. field work, analysis of ancient/historical DNA and lots of other fun.

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Cardiff Molecular Ecology and Conservation lab @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new #PhD is in the house! Congrats Lucy, #Dr Rowley!
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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Very glad about this new paper by former Cardiff Uni @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social PhD student Annalea Beard @annaleabeard.bsky.social come out in #MovementEcology. Documenting very different foraging behaviours and ranges in cool versus hot season breeding populations #stormpetrels from #StHelena.
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annaleabeard.bsky.social @annaleabeard.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Band-rumped storm-petrels from St Helena in the South Atlantic reveal differing seasonal #foraging preferences. Thanks to all involved in this manuscript @o-o-frank.bsky.social @steffopp.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social #seabirds #biologging #StHRS #conservation doi.org/10.1186/s404...
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Contrasting foraging strategies of seasonally segregated populations of the band-rumped storm-petrel at St Helena, South Atlantic - Movement Ecology
Movement Ecology - Allochrony can be a cause or consequence of speciation, either creating temporal reproductive isolation that reduces gene flow between diverging populations or reinforcing...
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Cardiff Molecular Ecology and Conservation lab @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New paper out by our group! #otters
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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Nice to see Eurasian #otters increasing in coastal areas of the UK, as part of their ongoing Britain-wide recovery. We're currently studying coastal otters particularly. More on that in due course... 🦦 @otterproject.bsky.social @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social BBC News share.google/iZkPpK5lV0jt...
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Otter ignores humans as it hunts on Mudeford Quay
The otter was filmed trotting past humans at Mudeford Quay as it hunted for its breakfast.
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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Pleasure hosting Prof Carl Jones from #Durrell today for a seminar at @cardiffuni.bsky.social. Inspiring to hear first hand accounts of how he saved several nearly extinct species on #Mauritius. @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social
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Cardiff Molecular Ecology and Conservation lab @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Huge shout-out to Prof Lynne Boddy from @cardiffuni.bsky.social School of Biosciences, for #BES award for a lifetime of incredible achievements in fungal ecology and conservation
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ICP2026 Stockholm @palaeogenomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🦴🧬🦴🧬🦴 Abstract submission is now open for the 1st International Conference on Palaeogenomics! June 23–26 2026, in Stockholm. Join researchers from across the field for 4 days and >100 talks (+ poster sessions)! Submit abstracts here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Deadline: Nov 30th
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds
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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#Wanted: running and alive: Someone with an active #SEQUENCHER software license. I have a few old Sequencher project data files with #DNA sequence data (*.spf), but no access to the software. Anyone with access could perhaps help me export the files? Please RT
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Frank Hailer @o-o-frank.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sharing this thread by brilliant Dr @sduplessis.bsky.social about another chapter of her @cardiffuni.bsky.social PhD thesis published. Very pleased to see her museum DNA results looking so promising for us to find out more about #otters. More specimens currently in the pipeline, but 🤫
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Leon Hilgers @leonhilgers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
‼️These #PSMC #peaks are #artifacts‼️ Seen #PSMC results like this🤔? They are caused by ill-set parameters, #very #common, and #easy #to #solve! For details see 🧵& OA paper @currentbiology.bsky.social 🙂🐢🧬🎉! cell.com/current-biol...
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Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies
Hilgers et al. detect and solve a common artifact in PSMC and related methods for historical population size inference. Analyses of real and simulated genomes show that ill-set default parameters fals...
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Cardiff Molecular Ecology and Conservation lab @molecol-cardiffuni.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Please to share this recent paper in Nature, incl. three of our PI's (plus in memoriam Mike Bruford): Isa-Rita Russo, @orozco-terwengelpa.bsky.social and @o-o-frank.bsky.social
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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It’s not all doom and gloom! We show in @nature.com that genetic diversity is in decline, but in @theconversation.com we dive into five strategies to help maintain or restore biodiversity @robynshaw.bsky.social @katefarquharson.bsky.social theconversation.com/gene-pools-a... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #popgen
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Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species. We found 5 ways to help
Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline.
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Robyn Shaw @robynshaw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We’ve also created a 2-page policy brief for anyone wanting to learn more about conserving #GeneticDiversity- available in 14 languages (and more to come)! Follow the link below ⬇️ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/uWHeC71Zo8...
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