Stefaniya Kamenova
Molecular ecologist studying trophic interactions 🇵🇸🇱🇧
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia | University of Oslo
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaLearn eDNA and invasive species monitoring from leading European experts at the GuardIAS Summer School. Explore workflows, policy, and real monitoring applications. Meet the trainers & register: guardias.eu/meet-the-tra... #GuardIAS #InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #InvasiveSpecies #BioInvasions
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- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova❄️ #ERGANews January is here! www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-ne... Highlights: 📄 New SSP Publication 🎤 BG Connects policy roundtable report now available @biogeneurope.bsky.social ❔Help choose the new ERGA logo! #newsletter #community #science #logo #genomics @ebpgenome.bsky.social
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenovavan Klink et al 2020 receives an expression of concern in @science.org @retractionwatch.com also cites our technical comment on this paper published in WIRES Water in 2021 🧪
- If you haven't already done so, do fill out this EU public consultation about the future of the European Research Area. Everything that matters to us is in there - funding, employment stability, AI regulations, open science, etc. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaApply for Sepkoski Grants $1000 USD if you are a paleontologist from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia www.paleosoc.org/sepkoski-gra... deadline March 1 @paleosoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova🌿SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS🌿 #AppsPlantSci invites proposals for “Plant genome skimming: Special uses and future potential,” led by Quentin Cronk, Nolan Kane & Kyle Keepers. Proposals due by 16 March 2026 More info at botany.org/home/publica... #botany #phylogenetics #genomics #plantscience
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaOne of my concerns with AI-assisted research in biology is that we're already looking only in the lamplight and AI incentivizes us to narrow the beam. Seems like it's happening... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaPlease help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova🦋🧬 A milestone for biodiversity genomics. Project Psyche is building chromosome-level genomes for ~11,000 European butterflies & moths — 1,000 sequenced, 3,000+ collected, across 34 countries. 🔗 Read the publication: bit.ly/ProjectPsyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social #BiodiversityGenomics 🧬🌍
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- The most comprehensive, multifaceted study to date shows it is hard to measure social and economic impacts of open science. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reformation of Science Publishing – Join the Call to Action – Co-Sign the Stockholm Declaration sciii-it.org/stockholm-de...
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova[3/3] 3) free butterfly taxonomy course: The Pollinator Academy has launched a free, online butterfly identification course. With flexible lessons taking just 10–30 minutes, you can master European butterfly characteristics at your own pace 🦋 pollinatoracademy.eu/training/eu-... #PollinatorAcademy
- Our first exhibit for visually impaired visitors at the Natural History Museum in Sofia. Feeling so privileged and humbled, it was a great learning experience too! Looking forward to setting up more projects like this in 2026 🐕🦺👩🦯💙 #Inclusivity #Accessibility #NaturalHistoryMuseums
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaAn accessible, easily understandable description of the Earth BioGenome Project @ebpgenome.bsky.social - a worldwide effort aiming to read the complete set of genetic instructions (genomes) for every known eukaryotic species on Earth kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #biodiversity #genomics
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaThe @ergabiodiv.bsky.social December newsletter ⏩ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-ne... ⏩ Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season! #biodiversity #genomics
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaOur friends at the University of Florence have been looking into the aesthetic appeal of European butterflies and does this bias the species we choose to protect. You can help their research by completing a simple online survey. Many thanks in advance www.unveiling.eu?fbclid=IwZXh...
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- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova📢 #PhD opportunity! Interested in #eDNA and protecting our #rivers? We are recruiting a PhD researcher to tackle a very topical challenge: Empowering citizen scientists with an eDNA toolbox to safeguard #freshwater fishes. Deadline: January 16th 2026. #PhDPosition #CardiffUniversity bit.ly/49bl4gO
- Unrecognised DNA Degradation in Flash-Frozen Genetic Samples in Natural History Collections. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Babies born downstream of PFAS-contaminated sites in New Hampshire had a 168% higher chance of extremely premature birth and a 191% higher chance of dying in their first year, compared with babies whose mothers drank from uncontaminated wells. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaThe traditional pipeline view of academia no longer reflects the reality of scientific #careers. In this Perspective, Alexandra A-T Weber @eawag.bsky.social reframes success as a network of paths that recognizes excellence in its many forms 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/4pSgzx5
- The fall of STOTEN explained. Meanwhile, publisher @elsevierconnect.bsky.social realised a 38% profit margin, reachibg $1.5 billion in 2024. english.elpais.com/science-tech...
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova"Rediscovery of the greater chestnut #weevil highlights the power of digital platforms in biodiversity research and conservation" spkl.io/63326Ad07u @Michael A. Charles & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social
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- National Emergency Briefing by ten of the UK’s leading experts about the climate and nature crisis www.newscientist.com/article/2506...
- The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia is offering several quite attractive fellowship schemes for postdoctoral researchers from the social sciences and the humanities, including one specifically dedicated to Ukranian scholars. Check it out! Application deadline: 31 March 2026. cas.bg/en/cas-sofia...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaTo put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
- Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
- The #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school was a success! All the credit goes to the tireless @magnen.bsky.social! 🐭 Many thanks to #IRSAE & @uniinnlandet.bsky.social for the generous support, as well as to #UiO for providing access to the beautiful marine station in #Drøbak 💙
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- Last days of the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in #Drøbak. Great lectures by Ella Thoen, @christinalynggaard.bsky.social & @gbif.org Dag Endresen 🪱🪰🍄🧬 #IRSAE @magnen.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social
- Stellar team of presenters so far at the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in #Drøbak. Eeva Soininen, Helena Wirta and @quentinmauvisseau.bsky.social sharing about their eDNA research on small mammals, pollinators and marine life. #IRSAE @magnen.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social 🐋🐀🐝🧬
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaA PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaCome to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪 Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Pierre Taberlet kicking off the #eDNA and #DNAmetabarcoding school in beautiful #Drøbak. Youngsters from 16 countries, including faraway places such as Hong Kong and Nepal! @uniinnlandet.bsky.social #IRSAE @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @eric.coissac.eu @magnen.bsky.social
- 📣 Online seminar open to all: The impact of philosophy and theoretical thinking on ecology. More details 👇 philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/event/philin...
- The Bulgarian Barcode of Life has a Bluesky profile! Please consider followig us 🇧🇬🧬🦋 @iboleurope.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bgbo...
- Close encounters of the Salamander Type #bulgaria #firesalamander
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaPublished today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
- A very special encounter in the Bulgarian woods 🐍
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaThe new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
- The quest to sequence the genomes of everything @projectpsyche.bsky.social @10klepgenomes.bsky.social spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome...
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- Ready for the #EuropeanResearchersNight at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia! 🇧🇬 Spotlight on #biodiversitygenomics with our brand new exhibit, generously supported by @biogeneurope.bsky.social 🧬🧪🦣 #ResearchersNight2025 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
- Reposted by Stefaniya Kamenova3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaFresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt
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- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaThis paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41... "Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.
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- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaAssistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaOur new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there. doi.org/10.3127/ajis... #languagebarriers 1/4
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- Can't wait to read @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's latest book, the wordsmith among wordsmiths 💙 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Stefaniya KamenovaWhat is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org
- I am very happy to share this paper that provides the conceptual synthesis for our forthcoming special feature in Ecology on spectral biology and the NSF ASCEND Biology Integration Institute (Advancing Spectral biology in Changing Environments..) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK...
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- #colossalbiosciences, such a disgrace. www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Thank you so much, @biogeneurope.bsky.social and big kudos to our 🇬🇷 and 🇵🇱 colleagues for all their efforts. For little Bulgaria, this is an important event. Many thanks to @pensoft.net and @iboleurope.bsky.social too, for their unwavering support.
- 📸 This week, our consortium at the Bulgarian Barcode of Life, #BgBOL, together with @biogeneurope.bsky.social & @iboleurope.bsky.social, we organised the 1st practical course on #DNAbarcoding & #sequencing, targeted at early-career scientists. ℹ️ Read more about the event: bgbol.org/en/news/prac...
- First independent survey reports more than 80,000 deaths in Gaza as a result of the onging conflict
- "Academia normalizes poverty - as a "rite of passage"". Someone has finally written it.
- I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
- Largest study of its kind explores the ‘Matthew effect’ in research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Great opportunity for #Bulgarian students, possible thanks to the generous support of @biogeneurope.bsky.social and our colleagues from the University of Lodz, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the International Hellenic University 🇵🇱🇬🇷🇧🇬 @iboleurope.bsky.social bgbol.org/en/news/prac...
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- Fieldwork joys - sampling mycorrhizal fungi within the species-rich steppe prairies of Vitosha mountains #bulgaria. Thanks @salzap.bsky.social for always bringing to me to such beautiful places. And right on time for the Stipa grass bloom 💚
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