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The following is a blog post written by Marie Gamaz, a masters student from the University of Strasbourg who is working with us on the...

There doesn't seem to be any concrete evidence about how and when tanuki were introduced to Yakushima, although Sato et al. published...

If I had to make a word cloud about my research project and the terms that people use to describe our work on invasive tanuki, the word...

A blog by MacLab Intern, Alexander Hendry. Greetings! My name is Alexander Hendry. I was introduced in Kasia’s recent post about...

Christopher Attewell-Hughes poses next to a waterfall in Yakushima. The following is a blog post written by one of our interns,...

"Is that a latrine there?!" One of our interns asks me, excitedly pointing to a perfectly feces shaped seed casing which had started to...

The three of us huddle over the phone screen as the familiar black and white videos flick on and off, 25 seconds at a time, taken...

Never before have a I felt more like Sherlock Holmes trying to solve a who-dunnit mystery than when I arrived on Inakahama Beach at the...

The camera switches on to a black and white video with a muffled click. It's 25 seconds long - just long enough to capture a tanuki, or...

Important scientific data can weasel its way into the most unlikely of places. Earlier this year we were alerted that a Japanese weasel...

With much of the world still shut due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, just being able to set foot on the island of Yakushima already...

A quick blog post to report that we're launching a new project in the MacIntosh Lab aimed at studying the tanuki (the Japanese word for...

"Kenneth's blend of wit, cheese and science will be forever engrained in the annals of great science communication." - quote by Andrew...

For any of you unfamiliar with the concept, "Nerd Nite" delivers fun and informative events around the world, featuring knowledgeable and...

In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, everyone's just trying to figure out how to keep things rolling. While our institute...

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