Join the Terrestrial Ecology Lab VacanciesOPEN [closing 3 June 2026] PhD: Irish wood ant conservation project (4 years) Postdoctoral ResearchersReach out to me if you are interested in pursuing sup…

18-21 May 2026

Effective monitoring of hybrid zones is essential for understanding evolutionary dynamics and mitigating species loss caused by human-mediated hybridisation. Conventional methods rely on sampling num...

TASKED with overseeing a new 10% wave of layoffs, Meta has unveiled an incredible new AI-powered humanoid robot to cut its global workforce by approximately 8,000 staff. “Humans are flawed creatures who require too much recharging …

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

PhD student in Archaeology in Graduate School GRASS, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of Archaeology, Ancient History and Conservation, Uppsala Univer...

Over the Easter break, I had a really engaging conversation with Jessica Lueders-Dumont, Senior Research Associate at Boston College, for the latest Atomic Ecology Meets.Jessica uses stable isotope…

Róisín Ní Thomáin explores whether she may be neurodivergent and hears from parents seeking support for autistic children

Prior to the formation of the present-day North Sea during the mid-Holocene, North-Western Europe was connected through the Doggerland landmass. Wh...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Conservation Genetics Resources - Fecal samples are valuable for wildlife genetic studies where invasive tissue sampling is difficult, expensive, or negatively impacts welfare. However, fecal DNA...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) provides powerful insights into species presence and community composition but remains limited in its capacity to infer species abundance or population structure. Here, we sh...

We are seeking a highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Reading, focusing on sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA / environmental DNA) from soils and sediments from the project’s case study regions in Spain and North Africa. You will contribute to the reconstruction of past landscapes and human-environment interactions through the analysis of sedimentary DNA. This includes analysing samples from terraces, irrigated fields and archaeological sites, and using eDNA metagenomics and metabarcoding approaches for multi-species detection, with the aim of characterising changing plant and animal species diversity and richness over time. The position will involve fieldwork, laboratory work, data analysis, and collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, palaeoecologists and historians.

The 2026 UKDNA-WG conference will be held on 13-15th April 2026 at the University of Sheffield, including a joint day with the Ecological Genetics Group on the 15th to explore the possibilities of how...

Listen to the audiobook Invasive Species, written by Julie Lockwood;Dustin J. Welbourne, narrated by Wendy Tremont King.