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My first first-author paper, "Hitchhiking into the future on a fly", is out in Systematic Entomology with Open Access! See how lice get from one bird species to another: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11….

A small reminder on #WorldWildlifeDay of what wild (animal) life really looks like...

In 3 steps, anyone can use flies to monitor rare mammals, birds, and reptiles: Step 1: attract flies with bait. Step 2: dissolve fly "poop" with water. Step 3: sequence the DNA. Roadside sampling in Nee Soon finds 20 vertebrate species in 25 fly species: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🧬Express barcoding: NextGenPCR revolutionized COVID detection - now it's accelerating DNA barcoding🐝🐞! See how 2 students barcode 250 flies 🪰 in 6 hrs with equipment that fits on a lab bench: better and faster than morphospecies sorting. Video 1 of 2: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

🧬Express barcoding II: How to get 250 DNA barcodes in 6 hrs with equipment that fits on a lab bench. Video below covers phase 2: MinION library prep, sample loading, and bioinformatics 💻. Video 1 is still here: x.com/i/status/16537… Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Rudolf Meier @rudolf-meier.bsky.soci At Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart with Biologie Uni Hohenheim undergrad Parasitoid biology course putting the Express barcoding protocol to test: barcoding 95 🐝🐝 Scelionidae in one day with #MINION. This is the perfect teaching technique and the students get to see the actual results by the end of the day!

This paper calls for scientists to stop collecting specimens. Unfortunately, that will lead to greater taxonomic confusion and will make the research non-repeatable/invalid. Reimagining the future of natural history museums with compassionate collection dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

ONTbarcoder 2.0: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION´s R10.4. Now you can find out what species are in your sample, while you are still sequencing. Get more and better barcodes faster than ever. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

XPRIZE Rainforest Seminfinals. Sampling for 24 hrs, data analysis for 48 hrs. Watch team XiniX AI compete with robots and the latest MinION tricks: fly poop iDNA: doi.org/10.1111/mec.16…, express barcoding: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…, real-time barcoding: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Dark taxonomy on a small island: 115 new species of fungus gnats from Singapore; of course, with proper molecular & morphological diagnoses; 25% increase of known Oriental fauna; Thousands of spp to come! tinyurl.com/5frk5pux ICZN Entomological Collections Network Sergei Tarasov 🇺🇦 Dimitri Forero | dimitriforero.bsky.social

Out now: Real-time DNA barcoding with MinION! DNA barcoding isn't only for fancy labs - you can now discover global biodiversity in your kitchen while frying an egg (almost)! Reminds us of Dorothy Parker´s "Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye" tinyurl.com/2fx5pzak

Now published: DIY microscope🔬 for insects of all sizes, even those preserved in ethanol! Designed for developing holistic biomonitoring with AI tools. Most animal species and much of animal biomass are arthropods. They need frugal identification methods! ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10401…

ONT reunion on the same lab bench at the Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery: it won't last long because some family members will depart soon. Fortunately, the P2i will stay for real-time species discovery in overdrive. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cl… Oxford Nanopore @mfnberlin