¿Qué comieron los leones ‘devoradores de hombres’ de Tsavo? Los pelos conservados en sus colmillos revelan su dieta eldiario.es/1_b2d7a7?utm_c… via elDiario.es

Check out this wonderful cover Storie of our paper that's out today on how compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic Tsavo lions! Thanks Diana Yates University of Illinois news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1474…

News podcast: Steven Jeffery Birmingham City University on electrical stitches; Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. University of Illinois on man-eating lions; Andy Stewart Cambridge University on kidney defence; the The Nobel Prize awards, with Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton; and Mark Hoon @NIDCR on pain. thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked…

Famed lions’ full diet revealed by DNA — and humans were among their prey nature.com/articles/d4158… (a round-about way to get into Nature 😍 it was nice chatting to Emma Marris about these lions!)

DNA reveals surprises trapped in teeth of ‘Tsavo man-eater’ lions | CNN via ⁦Ashley Strickland⁩ cnn.com/2024/10/11/sci…

Things get hairy inside the mouths of man-eating lions | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

I would have loved an opportunity like this when I was still at UP! Check it out 🧬🧬🧬

Using hair found in the teeth of the infamous lions named the "Tsavo Man-Eater's," scientists uncover their diet consisted of humans, giraffes, and more. Current Biology Learn more: cell.com/current-biolog… Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D. Ripan Malhi

Mapping elephant movement across Africa  nature.com/articles/d4414…

Rocking some #ancientDNA method development labwork this morning with the wonderful Taiye Winful, PhD at Genomic Biology #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEAM

Love elephants and conservation genomics? Want to do a postdoc in applied conservation? Please apply, we have extended the deadline until monday the 18th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Out today! Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid (Canis spp.) relationships in subarctic Alaska | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How did humans and dogs become friends? Connections in the Americas began 12,000 years ago | University of Arizona News news.arizona.edu/news/how-did-h…

Out this week! We review recent developments in landscape ecology computational methods! topics=spatial patterns, connectivity, landscape genetics, sampling, simulations and modeling, and spatial planning: doi.org/10.1007/s40823…

Back into the ancient DNA lab this morning 🦴🧬 #paleogenomics #ancientDNA

Take a moment and look at the abandoned joy of these elephants soaking up the mud (taken in Addo elephant park on a recent visit). I bet you’ve never seen an elephant side-slide into a pool 🤣#endangeredspeciesday2025