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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Elena Baños Lara I am currently completing my PhD at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) in Spain, where I use environmental and sedimentary ancient DNA to explore past marine ecosystems. As part of my PhD, I had the opportunity to spend three months at the Globe Institute in Copenhagen, joining Kristine Bohmann’s group and working side by side with &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blog post provided by Ann Russell The Need for Authentic, Open Educational Resources Given the rapid changes underway in undergraduate STEM education, the teaching community aspires to move beyond models that involve static content to develop agile, scalable ways to create authentic open educational resources (OERs). Researchers can provide authentic case studies, but they may lack the skills to create engaging OERs based on their &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Pouria Ramazi When Alberta Environment and Parks brought this problem to our group in 2018, the question was practical. Whirling disease had been detected in Alberta, but testing every stretch of a river was impossible. Could a few scattered fish and worm tests show where the parasite Myxobolus cerebralis was most likely to occur across the Oldman River? I had just begun &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Its never too late – Risk of Bias in ecology and evolutionary biology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Antica Čulina Hi, I am Antica. I work as a senior researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia. This is a story about how something that bugged me 15 years ago was finally formalised in a paper on a Risk of Bias assessment in ecological and evolutionary meta-analysis. The take away massage – it is never too late to do the &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Make insect metabarcoding quantitative? Challenge accepted.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht The journey from scepticism to abundance estimates When I moved to Sweden in 2019 to start a postdoc, I entered a completely new research field. My background was in evolutionary biology, but I knew very little about DNA metabarcoding (identifying many species at once by sequencing barcode DNA from mixed samples). I was joining a project that was developing methods &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reflecting on the past: developing hyperspectral reflectance spectroscopy for herbarium specimens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Aaron Lee Complicated instruments and simple solutions It was an abnormally warm and balmy December in Minnesota, and Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares and I were in the lab. The lights were off, blinds were closed, and we had fashioned a makeshift stand to hold a large tungsten halogen lightbulb, angled perfectly to shine into the long fiber optic cable of a spectrometer connected &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Biotic Interactions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Post provided by Quinn Asena Uncovering signals from the past Understanding interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment, has been a cornerstone of ecology as long as we have been busying ourselves with the lives of other species. How do plants and animals facilitate or compete with each other? How do they respond to the continuous challenge of changing climates or new neighbors? &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welcoming new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following an open call for applicants at the beginning of 2026, we are pleased to welcome 44 new Associate Editors to Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The researchers joining us span 18 different countries. We are really delighted to have further expanded the expertise on our board so that we can continue to promote the development of new methods in ecology and evolution. Welcome aboard! &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blog post provided by Hubert A. Szczygieł Origins Back in 2022, I was in Panama working on landscape-scale biodiversity monitoring. The system I was testing included a lot of standard approaches – for example trail cameras for mammals, point counts and passive acoustic monitoring for birds, and Gentry transects for trees. However, I realized that none of the standard insect monitoring methodologies work for large-scale &#8230;]]></description>
		
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