Wow, it has been an entire year since I wrote the last blog. And what a year of contrasts - there have been the highest highs (with family and work) and the lowest lows (markedly my health took a bit of a hit over the winter of 2024/2025).   This year, the third year of my PhD, has been the most varied and enjoyable but also stressful of the experience so far. I have been rediscovering statistics (after a 10 year hiatus with it), learning about DNA extraction and amplicon seq

We are nearly halfway through the UN decade on ecosystem restoration which aims to halt the degradation of the world’s ecosystems and...