February 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Firstly... a project we started in 2020: we show the factors influencing precision and accuracy of metabarcoding freshwater macroinverts for biomonitoring👏
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... 2/8
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... 2/8
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring
Advancements have been made in the use of DNA-based methods for the detection of single species. However, the routine application of DNA-based methods to monitor whole communities using a metabarc...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Firstly... a project we started in 2020: we show the factors influencing precision and accuracy of metabarcoding freshwater macroinverts for biomonitoring👏
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... 2/8
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... 2/8
Yeah, as far as our macroinverts are concerned I think salt is the least of their problems!
May 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yeah, as far as our macroinverts are concerned I think salt is the least of their problems!
In my “natural” environment with my intern and her partner. We are creating a long term dataset of macroinverts in forested and residential parks.
We collect stream fishes too, but in spring. Macs are fall, spring, and summer.
These two were so fun in the field! That matters…
#freshwaterscience
We collect stream fishes too, but in spring. Macs are fall, spring, and summer.
These two were so fun in the field! That matters…
#freshwaterscience
November 16, 2024 at 9:50 PM
In my “natural” environment with my intern and her partner. We are creating a long term dataset of macroinverts in forested and residential parks.
We collect stream fishes too, but in spring. Macs are fall, spring, and summer.
These two were so fun in the field! That matters…
#freshwaterscience
We collect stream fishes too, but in spring. Macs are fall, spring, and summer.
These two were so fun in the field! That matters…
#freshwaterscience
Next up…from our fieldwork in 2018🤣 we ask how does biodiversity control decomposition in river networks? Macroinverts drive decomposition, while functional diversity reduces decomposition variability! Network-scale #BEF Great to have this out @rubendelcampo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 5/8
doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 5/8
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Next up…from our fieldwork in 2018🤣 we ask how does biodiversity control decomposition in river networks? Macroinverts drive decomposition, while functional diversity reduces decomposition variability! Network-scale #BEF Great to have this out @rubendelcampo.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 5/8
doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 5/8
Hiii I am a marine biologist with a background in freshwater macroinverts! I did my thesis on bioassessment of small streams :3 I hope to post more about both terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates as the weather warms and I come across more of them!!
February 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hiii I am a marine biologist with a background in freshwater macroinverts! I did my thesis on bioassessment of small streams :3 I hope to post more about both terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates as the weather warms and I come across more of them!!
We are in Italy, Orbetello, for our first field campaign! #webDNA has officially started! the Torre Vergata Team is a great host! @marianilab.bsky.social @rdowell.bsky.social @EoinOgorman #foodweb #eDNA #fish #plankton #macroinverts #marinescience 🐟🦠🌊🕸️
April 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We are in Italy, Orbetello, for our first field campaign! #webDNA has officially started! the Torre Vergata Team is a great host! @marianilab.bsky.social @rdowell.bsky.social @EoinOgorman #foodweb #eDNA #fish #plankton #macroinverts #marinescience 🐟🦠🌊🕸️
Macroinverts are totally sampleable. Come play in the streams!
December 2, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Macroinverts are totally sampleable. Come play in the streams!
Microscopes make you lose perspective after a while. I was identifying hydropsychids and thinking "these seem a little small", when I moved the dish and a massive insect came into view... a chironomid larva.
That, dear reader, was when I decided to take a break.
#insects #macroinverts
That, dear reader, was when I decided to take a break.
#insects #macroinverts
December 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Microscopes make you lose perspective after a while. I was identifying hydropsychids and thinking "these seem a little small", when I moved the dish and a massive insect came into view... a chironomid larva.
That, dear reader, was when I decided to take a break.
#insects #macroinverts
That, dear reader, was when I decided to take a break.
#insects #macroinverts
Can you spot the phytoplankton that we found under the frozen pond today? (We were hoping for macroinverts, but this is cool too)
February 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Can you spot the phytoplankton that we found under the frozen pond today? (We were hoping for macroinverts, but this is cool too)
Picking through leaf packs to find aquatic macroinverts is always one of my favorite ecology labs. Great group of students in this lab!
October 31, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Picking through leaf packs to find aquatic macroinverts is always one of my favorite ecology labs. Great group of students in this lab!
Some photos from this summer of me doing some WAV testing with my grad school cohort.
October 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Some photos from this summer of me doing some WAV testing with my grad school cohort.
After the first time I spent a few hours over a microscope id'ing aquatic macroinverts, I had nightmares for a week. Little outer space monsters they are.
February 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
After the first time I spent a few hours over a microscope id'ing aquatic macroinverts, I had nightmares for a week. Little outer space monsters they are.
#insect lovers, help an #entomologist out.
Late May in #Scotland #UK: Where are the MUST GO places to view insects? #macroinverts appreciated too, but i know I'll be disappointed, as Megaloptera aren't real diverse in the UK.
Late May in #Scotland #UK: Where are the MUST GO places to view insects? #macroinverts appreciated too, but i know I'll be disappointed, as Megaloptera aren't real diverse in the UK.
March 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#insect lovers, help an #entomologist out.
Late May in #Scotland #UK: Where are the MUST GO places to view insects? #macroinverts appreciated too, but i know I'll be disappointed, as Megaloptera aren't real diverse in the UK.
Late May in #Scotland #UK: Where are the MUST GO places to view insects? #macroinverts appreciated too, but i know I'll be disappointed, as Megaloptera aren't real diverse in the UK.
I regularly have my students try to find basic life history information for our most common macroinverts and they are SO confused that there's nothing in the literature for most of them.
That's what happens when we reward grants and glory and not good science.
That's what happens when we reward grants and glory and not good science.
May 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I regularly have my students try to find basic life history information for our most common macroinverts and they are SO confused that there's nothing in the literature for most of them.
That's what happens when we reward grants and glory and not good science.
That's what happens when we reward grants and glory and not good science.
happy to be added as my group works on wider range of aquaric macroinverts. thx!
November 19, 2024 at 4:11 PM
happy to be added as my group works on wider range of aquaric macroinverts. thx!
I still remember taking a 5th grade class to look for benthic macroinverts and one kid was still on his belly looking at the bugs while the rest had moved to the playground.
The teacher came over and told me that kid hadn't sat still for >20 min all year.
Macros are the best!
The teacher came over and told me that kid hadn't sat still for >20 min all year.
Macros are the best!
September 15, 2024 at 3:43 PM
I still remember taking a 5th grade class to look for benthic macroinverts and one kid was still on his belly looking at the bugs while the rest had moved to the playground.
The teacher came over and told me that kid hadn't sat still for >20 min all year.
Macros are the best!
The teacher came over and told me that kid hadn't sat still for >20 min all year.
Macros are the best!
I don't know if I'm what you're after, but I do a lot of photography of macroinverts on my dissecting scope. Here's one from a recent publication, the recently describe Cyerce piercei
November 22, 2024 at 4:10 PM
I don't know if I'm what you're after, but I do a lot of photography of macroinverts on my dissecting scope. Here's one from a recent publication, the recently describe Cyerce piercei
First stonefly of the new year (for me)! Probably Allocapnia, but I haven't had a chance to key it yet.
#insects #macroinverts #entomology #ecology #rivers
#insects #macroinverts #entomology #ecology #rivers
January 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
First stonefly of the new year (for me)! Probably Allocapnia, but I haven't had a chance to key it yet.
#insects #macroinverts #entomology #ecology #rivers
#insects #macroinverts #entomology #ecology #rivers
Let’s get crackin’! This is a recording of an Invasive Mussel Collaborative webinar where I discussed how urbanization impacts how macroinverts use dreissenid shells as a novel substrate.
Check it out!
invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/webina...
Check it out!
invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/webina...
Webinar: The duality of shell deposition: how zebra mussel shells introduce a novel substrate in urban and degrade habitat in rural streams - Invasive Mussel Collaborative
The duality of shell deposition: how zebra mussel shells introduce a novel substrate in urban and degrade habitat in rural streams by Darrin Hunt with the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arka...
invasivemusselcollaborative.net
November 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Let’s get crackin’! This is a recording of an Invasive Mussel Collaborative webinar where I discussed how urbanization impacts how macroinverts use dreissenid shells as a novel substrate.
Check it out!
invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/webina...
Check it out!
invasivemusselcollaborative.net/event/webina...
Future champions of #limnology, 2022 edition. Students in BIO 480 sampled macroinverts on the White River with guest Sam Gradle of the #Muncie Bureau of Water Quality. Samples will be processed in a later lab to assess diversity and habitat quality @BallStateCSH @BiologyBSU
November 29, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Future champions of #limnology, 2022 edition. Students in BIO 480 sampled macroinverts on the White River with guest Sam Gradle of the #Muncie Bureau of Water Quality. Samples will be processed in a later lab to assess diversity and habitat quality @BallStateCSH @BiologyBSU