Our own Sarah du Plessis unboxing her very first wolf skull borrowed as part of our DFF-funded project DOG-ROOTS. We will now CT scan it and add it to our growing linked genome-phenome dataset of canids to look for signatures of domestication. #detfrieforskningsraad

Lab outing to Bastard Café where we learned about birds by playing Wingspan. Or rather, my students learned while I pretended to understand the rules.

Lots of interesting talks on Monday, I hope to see lots of you there!

I am recruiting a PhD student CAGToulouse in association with my ERC project anthropYXX. Palaeogenomics, bioinformatics and gender archaeology. More information here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/232339 Université de Toulouse UT3 Paul Sabatier CNRS Occitanie Ouest

Last week at Globe Institute, we hosted the "Evolutionary Modelling with SLiM" workshop by Ben Haller. 40 scientists from 14 countries learned about this amazing tool! Thanks to my co-host Bárbara Parreira, Carlsbergfondet for funding, and Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics for their support.

Excited to share some Otter Project and otter genomics work at the IOSF #WorldOtterDay webinar tomorrow morning!

Today is #WorldOtterDay, a day to raise awareness and support for otter conservation globally. Here are two otters from Amgueddfa Caerdydd which we use in outreach events and exhibitions to highlight otter conservation

Great example of otters as sentinel species for biomonitoring of PFAS/forever chemicals among others!

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!

Big announcement! The Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics (#WPSG25) will be taking place in wintery Cesky Krumlov from Jan 19 to Feb 1, 2025! Apply until Sept 18, 2024: evomics.org/workshops/work…

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 Stine Keibel Blom 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.