Charlie Taylor

Pine marten seen in London for the first time in more than 100 years newscientist.com/article/233721…

Super excited to share that we found a pine marten in our recent London HogWatch survey in SW London! 😱

Remember the spine our team found last year in a footprint tunnel? Well, we finally got around to extract DNA from it and the suspense is over! We have beautiful 'spine' shaped DNA bands 😅 on the PCR product. Though not your typical band shape, there's no doubt we have 🦔🧬!

If you can take 5 mins to complete my MSc students survey on opinions of Red and Grey squirrels, I'd be very grateful. Even more so if you would retweet. Thanks redandgrey.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/red-versus-gre… .@AcademicChatter

Surprisingly little is known about the Malayan colugo, or 'flying lemur', but one naturalist is hoping to change that. @BBC_Future finds out more... bbc.com/travel/article…

Today, one of @cardiffuni visiting #hedgehogs left one of its spines in a footprint tunnel for our surveying team to find! Safely stored now @MolEcolCU lab for future genetic analysis 🥼🧪🧬. @HogFriendly @CharlotteT916 @hartlandchloe1 @MeganHooker17 @MikeBruford

Another successful morning! All 10 tunnels had hog prints in and we found a hedgehog spine! 😍🎉🦔@HogFriendly @CharlotteT916 @CUHedgehogs

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Absolutely delighted to say that, after 10 years(!) and an awful lot of hard work, our paper exploring the genetic history of two iguana populations is out now in #ConservationGenetics. I started this work as an Undergraduate, and was my first foray into #molecularecology

I’m offering a #PhD position to look at #soil #biodiversity using #genomics at the interphase of agriculture and tropical rain forests. Application deadline is coming soon!

A few photos from our Halloween #Pick4Prickles ! Another 7 bags of rubbish collected for the @HogFriendly #LitterPickChallenge 👏 Thanks everyone for coming along! @CUBiosciences @MolEcolCU

It’s been a long time coming but I have now officially graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc (Hons) and MSc! Couldn’t have done it without these amazing people (and others, you know who you are❤️). Congrats classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022!🥳🎓

Congratulations undergrads and master students that I had the pleasure to work with and teach over the last years and who this week graduate! Congrats @hartlandchloe1 and @CharlotteT916, and also Darius Pease, @JessBrocklebank, @MeganHooker17 and Ellie Thomas. @CUBiosciences

The Government consultation on banning LGBTQ+ conversion therapy is now open. Queer ppl and allies you NEED to complete this. There is overwhelming evidence of harm and UN calls for a global ban. Submit your response below. Allies, its time to turn up equalityhub.citizenspace.com/government-equ…

Great article highlighting the need for natural forest in the monitor lizard habitat despite their adaptations to the anthropogenic environment!

Masters dissertation✅ Masters presentation✅ Can’t quite believe it’s over. I’m so privileged to have been a part of this project - thank you @OrozcoterWengel for trusting me with it! Long live the ploughshares🐢🇲🇬

🧵 🧵🧵🧵 If you’re reading about Afghanistan and feeling sick and helpless about the unimaginable situation people there are facing, now would be a good moment to donate to a refugee-supporting charity. I’m putting together some links. Take your pick. Give what your can.

Today on the @CUBiosciences Marine Ecology Field Course, we will be mostly trying to avoid conflict with… #CUMarineEcology #BarryIsland

It’s been so much fun - hope to do more work with @HogFriendly in the future! @CUHedgehogs 🦔🦔🌿

Another good day for @CUHedgehogs with all ten tunnels being used for the second day in a row! Have enjoyed the surveys so much the last two weeks 🦔🦔🦔 @CharlotteT916 @hartlandchloe1