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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Very happy to have contributed to this Parasite of the Month! How many of you have heard about the neurotropic cousin of Schistosoma, the Trichobilharzia regenti? 🪱🧠

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It was great to be able to travel to Copenhagen, sample eDNA, have fruitful discussions and overall great time with colleagues from University of Copenhagen!

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Easter egg with #parasite eggs. 🥚🪱 What more could one wish for!

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Exploring R Package Usage in Academia

I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

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Tomas Machacek @trichotom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New tools for environmental detection of swimmer's itch presented by Honzik from our lab! 🏞🧬 #eDNA #LAMP

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Excited for the start of the Joint Parasitology Spring Meeting organised by @bspparasitology.bsky.social, DGP & SSTMP! Looking forward to the next couple of days in Würzburg! 🍷 If you are interested in eDNA and Trichobilharzia, come check out our posters in session one and session three! 🪱🧬🥳

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

To compensate for all the terrible news in the world, here are some 35mm pictures I took couple of dozens of metres below Prague few weeks ago. The new metro tunnels are so impressive (unlike my manual exposure and focusing skills).

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FishEvo Zuzana Musilova @fishevo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Loving deep-sea fish and molecular evolution? We're hiring!:-) Looking for a motivated PhD student to join us to study evolution of vision & to explore limits of vertebrate eye in extreme environment. Deadline 15th March. Thanks for applying and sharing! more info: www.fishevo.com/erc-funded-p...

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Dr Joanne Littlefair @jlittlefair.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It turns out that Planorbarius corneus shells are really useful for when you need to make medals for a departmental competition!

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

they’re calling it a PhD

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Prof. Elizabeth Clare @profbatgirl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

To reach new users if you have an interest in #eDNA #environmentalDNA as a scientist or user, please consider completing our survey. We are engaged in funded research on community perspectives on eDNA, ethics, risk and potential forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq #academicSkY #womenInSTEM 🧪

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Zikmund Bartonicek @zikmund.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’m new here, so why don’t I show you some of my study animals! 🪱 The little white speck in the foreground is a #cercaria of #Schistosoma, a #parasite infecting hundreds of millions of people, mostly in Africa! Behind is a #Biomphalaria freshwater snail - it’s intermediate host 🐌

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