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Prof. Elizabeth Clare

@profbatgirl.bsky.social
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Molecular Ecologist, Field Biologist at York University Ontario, wildlife photographer, bat biologist, mum, eDNA from the air www.yorku.ca/professor/eclare/ Host of the BioAudio teaching podcast bioaudio.buzzsprout.com/2234324

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper on eDNA and native pollinators from PhD student Kat Lunn! 🧪 #eDNA #bees #womeninstem #academicsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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<fc>eDNA</fc> Analysis for Native Cavity‐Nesting Bee Ecology: A Comparison of Data From Brood Cells Contents and Larval <fc>DNA</fc>
Artificial bee homes become eDNA reservoirs of insect, plant, fungal, and bacterial taxa providing a non-invasive way to assess the ecology of wild bee larvae.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
100th manuscript from the Clare lab accepted. Lead author is PHD student Kat Lunn. 🧪 #acadenicskt #womeninstem
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
After a couple years of work, our newest paper on the #ethics of #eDNA is now out. #environmentalDNA #womeninStem 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Community Perspectives on <fc>eDNA</fc> and Ethics: Results From a Mixed‐Methods, Cross‐Sectional Survey
In this manuscript we conduct a global, cross-sectional mixed methods survey targeting the eDNA end user community to identify areas of ethical interest and concern within the research field. We iden....
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New paper from the lab on #eDNA sampling strategies for air. Well done Nina Garrett #womeninStem 🧪 . Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces - Garrett - 2026 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces
The majority of species richness was detected using as little as four samplers in this enclosed space and the greater the number of sampling events, the fewer samplers were needed. eDNA also appeared...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bat biologists work in the shadow of the Mayan high temple and the constellation Orion visible over the jaguar temple #CSEEinFocus
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Teams of bat researchers working in the glow of their headlamps. Scientists in the wild #CSEEInFocus
Groups sitting in the dark lit only unheard lamps
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Checking id’s on bats in the moonlight. Fieldwork #CSEEinFocus
Bat researcher checks the ID of bats with the full moon overhead.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New paper from the lab. Fine scale measurements of honey bee ecology from airbone eDNA in the hive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #beeDNA #womeninstem #eDNA #EnvironmentalDNA
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Sitting out in a tropical forest at night. Full moon, howler monkeys displaying, coyotes hunting calls nearby, something moving in the canopy shifting the branches, a chorus of katydids. Quiet murmur of biologists at work. 🧪
Picture of trees in a tropical forest at night
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fantastic picture of me taken by my friend Kevin. Checking IDs on a “bat line” in the Maya forest under a full moon. Slightly haunting, very beautiful. #womeninstem #academicsky 🧪
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Fantastic picture of me taken by my friend Kevin. Checking IDs on a “bat line” under a full moon. Slightly haunting. Very beautiful #womeninsetm 🧪 #academicsky #bats
Checking a bat line under the moon.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Tree frog
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Orion rising over the jaguar temple. Our field site for the night. 🧪
Jaguar temple
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Coati snacking on scorpions. He’s braver than me….
Coati
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Totally cute
Ducklings with mom
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
My office today is in an ancient Mayan city… what a job! 🧪 #womeninstem #academicsky
Field research set up in a Mayan cityi
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Field teams at work 🧪
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I had not heard heard about this article until it appeared last night. Cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #eDNA #environmentalDNA #WomeninStem #academicsky 🧪
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify humans.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Don't forget! the PISCeS #eDNA conference is coming up. Abstracts and registration are open. #academicsky #environmentalDNA 🧪 www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/events/2...
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PISCeS Conference | College of Biological Science
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The impacts of human activity on national #biodiversity patterns - air quality grids become biodiversity monitoring systems. Amazing work by wonderful collaborators and Post Doc Orianne Tournayre #eDNA #environmentalDNA #WomeninStem #academicsky 🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Contrasted effects of human pressure on biodiversity in the UK: a multi‐taxonomic assessment using airborne environmental DNA
Human activities have significantly modified habitats, resulting in a global biodiversity crisis. In this study, we leveraged the first national-scale biodiversity survey based on airborne environmen...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It’s the colourful time of year
Tree in fall colour red
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Disgusting inappropriate and nonsensicle comments on my post to 🧪. Comments hidden and account blocked. Keep an eye out….
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Amazing full ark rainbow over campus today at sunrise 🧪
Rainbow over a building
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
How about some #eDNA, bird biology and a murder mystery by Steve Burrows? A book i consulted on is now out - it's got our airborne #eDNA it in (watch for the cameo...) #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSKY 🧪 here's to my true partner in crime @jlittlefair.bsky.social - our research is now a plot point 🤣
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A Deceit of Lapwings
A Deceit of Lapwings : Burrows, Steve: Amazon.ca: Books
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Air pollution filters help scientists produce first UK wildlife survey using eDNA
Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Hi 🧪 Every text defines co-evolution as "reciprocal genomic changes between two species". Clever students in my class wrote about co-evolution of interacting genes, X and Y chromosomes, mt and nuc DNA. I agree with them this is co-evolution. Why do texts say "two species"? #academicSKY #womeninSTEM
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hardcore mosquito protection for field work! #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A new #beeDNA paper from the lab. Innovative Airborne DNA Approach for Monitoring Honey Bee Foraging and Health - Pepinelli - 2025 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #eDNA #environmentalDNA #bee #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪
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Innovative Airborne DNA Approach for Monitoring Honey Bee Foraging and Health
Using a novel modification of our simple hand airborne eDNA samplers this pilot study demonstrates that eDNA filtered from the air of a honey been colony has the strong potential for rapid screening ...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
New paper from the lab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Describes the extreme stress of the Lake Xochimilco ecosystem of Mexico. #eDNA #biodiversity #AcademicSky 🧪
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
And then we surveyed a country..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪
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First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - First national survey of terrestrial biodiversity using airborne eDNA
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.npr.org/2025/05/22/g... My grad student and post doc, featured on NPR 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky
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Scientists want to track the world's biodiversity using DNA in the air
Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health and well being of all kinds of species around the world.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A handsome sheep frog - looks like a good leaf mimic out in our field site. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky
Sheep frog. A small frog with a back which mimics a dead leaf.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Walking back from our field location at night we ran into this lovely neotropical porcupine 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #scisky #biosky #academicsky
Neotropical porcupine
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Field work! #WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Found this friend in our field lab. Sitting in someone’s N95 mask. Stunning under black light #WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky
Scorpion under black light
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Ever wonder how we date ancient events (or ever need to explain it to your class?) Today on the BioAudio Podcast we're talking about dating (the ancient kind). It's Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks! #WomenInSTEM #academicsky 🧪 #scisky #biosky www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis...
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Fossils, Rocks and Radioactive Clocks: How to date the ancient past - BioAudio
Today on the BioAudio podcast, it's all about dating! (no not that kind). Have you ever wondered how we figure out when things happened way in the past? When a scientist says "it's 100 million years o...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
All right biology students following along here... this week we are learning about isolating barriers and speciation. Start with this podcast made with a former student from my class - just like you! #academicsky #WomeninSTEM 🧪 www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis...
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Reproductive isolating barriers and modes of speciation - BioAudio
In this episode of the BioAudio podcast I'm joined by Christian Nakla, a former student in my senior evolution class, someone who always had a good question for me. Now i'm flipping our roll and he's ...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Ok Students who follow me... a reminder - you should have listened to Darwin's evidence for natural selection on BioAudio for Friday. www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis... #womeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 And for my older listeners I have 3 new recordings I'm editing now! new content on the way.
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Darwin's evidence for natural selection - an Encore Presentation - BioAudio
This is an encore presentation of the third episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. I am re-posting the first three episodes form season 1 because they also set the stage for new content in Season 2. ...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Ok Students in my class that are on here... You should have already listened to last week's podcast episode on the life of Darwin. Here www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis... #womeninstem #academicsky 🧪
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Charles Darwin: the making of a scientific theory - an Encore Presentation - BioAudio
This is an encore presentation of the second episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. So before we get into new content, I am re-posting a conversa...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hay students in my class (i know some of you are now following here). A reminder that this week's podcast to accompany lectures is www.buzzsprout.com/2234324/epis... I've had three requests for an episode on taxonomy. I haven't done that topic. What a good idea. I'll see what I can do.
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Evolution before Darwin - an Encore Presentation - BioAudio
This is an encore presentation of the first episode I made of the BioAudio Podcast. Season 2 is an introduction of Evolution and Ecology. So we will start with an encore presentation of a discussion I...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/dont... 🧪
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Don’t write off logged tropical forests – converting to oil palm plantations has even wider effects on ecosystems
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
theconversation.com/nature-benef...
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Nature benefits when logged tropical forests are left to recover – here’s how
While tropical forests are home to rare species, logged forests still feel and sound like forests, while oil palm plantations are agricultural landscapes.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
phys.org/news/2025-01... 🧪
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Logging and conversion of tropical forests to oil palm plantations have wide effects on ecosystems, study shows
A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems. The r...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
www.downtoearth.org.in/forests/stud...
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Study reveals impact of old-growth forests and oil palm plantations on biodiversity in Malaysian Borneo
A study from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, has highlighted the severe impact of tropical forest loss on biodiversity, forest structure, and ecosystem functioning. Co
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Very pleased that my students were able to work at SAFE and contribute. #AcademicSKY 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure
The impacts of degradation and deforestation on tropical forests are poorly understood, particularly at landscape scales. We present an extensive ecosystem analysis of the impacts of logging and conve...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Calling all #EnvironmentalDNA people. The journal eDNA is now having a special issue on airborne #eDNA Do you have something interesting to submit? #AcademicSKY #WomeninSTEM 🧪 Details are found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Advertisement for eDNA journal call for papers on eDNA traveling in air. Sows some balloons in the sky. Submission date Deptember 2025.
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New year, new manuscript accepted. #academicsky #womenINStem
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Need something new for biology next term? I host the BioAudio podcast rather than use textbooks. Students love it and even help me make it. Free on apple, spotify etc. Feel free to use it. Have an idea? contact me to help make an episode. #womeninStem #academisky 🧪 bioaudio.buzzsprout.com/2234324
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Welcome to BioAudio: The Teaching Podcast. After many years teaching biology in universities in the UK and in Canada I've come to the conclusion that we can do better than text books. I always want so...
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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Job Alert: Post doc in environmental genomics #academicsky 🧪 www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Postdoctoral Scholar: Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) - UCLA - Los Angeles, California job with University of California Los Angeles | 12834425
UCLA Mentor/Scholar Postdoctoral Position in Environmental DNA metabarcoding and metagenomics with a community engagement focus
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