Happy World Otter Day! 📷 Our Spring newsletter for 2024 is out now! Haven't signed up yet? No problem! You can view our newsletter here: tinyurl.com/men9uz4a Thank you to everyone for your continued support. Photo: Freddie Montague-Dennis

Tune in to BBC Two at 8pm tonight to hear about how otter skull morphology has adapted in response to feeding ecology, based on our publication which can be found here: doi.org/10.1371/journa… #spring #wales #anatomy #lutralutra #otter #ecology #EurasianOtter #springwatch

Really enjoyed hearing about the importance of Hologenomics in biodiversity and conservation at the Applied Hologenomics Conference 2024 yesterday 🧬🦠

When your collection is older than you are... Huge thanks to all of those who have kept this project running over the past 30 years - what a milestone!

Ever wondered about woolly mammoth jerky? Huge congrats to Juan A. Rodríguez and co-authors on such a cool paper!

Sharing this course I'm helping teach at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology institute! 🧬🐺🐻🧬🐦 It's a hands-on course covering conservation genomics, held in October 2024. A few spots still open, and two scholarships available! smconservation.gmu.edu/programs/gradu…

Congratulations/Llongyfarchiadau to our Otter Project 2024 graduates! Sarah du Plessis (second right), completed her PhD using new genomic tools to assess the impact of the population bottleneck on the genetic health of Eurasian otters in Britain and across Europe and Asia.

Very proud of my team, having taught a successful course on biodiversity genomics with k_nasvall and nicol rueda at Ikiam in Ecuador with participants from 5 Neotropical countries. All course materials are free to use here: github.com/rapidspeciatio…

A blurry bbq night for the EvoMorphoLab! Thanks @BlomStine Merin Joji Sarah du Plessis Ricardo Ely, PhD for the great picture!

Brilliant course last week learning all things geometric morphometric - time to start applying it! 💀👩‍🔬

It's International Wolf Day today! 🐺 I've been studying wolves for over 10 years now. I wanted to share some facts and findings about one of my favorite populations of wolves -- the Indian wolf.

MSc student Mohammed Naushad Khumri engaging the public at Copenhagen's Kulturnat with his project on the impacts of ice loss on Arctic marine mammal neurobiology. Kids 🩷 skulls!

Gone to the brighter side... Stephen du Plessis.bsky.social