Alida de Flamingh, Ph.D.
@adeflamingh
Conservation genetics, eco & evo biology, ancient DNA, paleogenomics, modern&ancient elephants, ancient fish, lions, canids: personal views 🇿🇦 (she/her)
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Read more about our recent Cape lion paper here: Cape Lion was genetically diverse prior to extinction, researchers find igb.illinois.edu/article/cape-l… @IGBIllinois @arcolon14 @MalhiRipan @jcatchen @AlfredLRoca @VelizarSim & others 🦁🦁🦁
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
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…
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 today! Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid (Canis spp.) relationships in subarctic Alaska | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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…
Rocking some #ancientDNA method development labwork this morning with the wonderful @twinanthro at @IGBIllinois #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEAM
Mapping elephant movement across Africa nature.com/articles/d4414…
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Mapping elephant movement across Africa
Nature Africa - An integrated approach to understanding connectivity between herds.
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. @CurrentBiology Learn more: cell.com/current-biolog… @adeflamingh @MalhiRipan
I would have loved an opportunity like this when I was still at UP! Check it out 🧬🧬🧬
📢📢📢Great opportunity in South Africa 🇿🇦: Workshop/Course on Conservation Genetics & Wildlife Management, 9-13 December. Note: African nationals can get a scholarship! More info here: umt.edu/ces/conference…
Things get hairy inside the mouths of man-eating lions | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…
DNA reveals surprises trapped in teeth of ‘Tsavo man-eater’ lions | CNN via @CNNAshley cnn.com/2024/10/11/sci…
News podcast: Steven Jeffery @MyBCU on electrical stitches; @adeflamingh @UofIllinois on man-eating lions; Andy Stewart @Cambridge_Uni on kidney defence; the @NobelPrize awards, with @demishassabis and @geoffreyhinton; 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!)
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_ @UofIllinois news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1474…
¿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 @eldiarioes
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