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🎓 Bethel’s Graduation Ceremony at the University of Bordeaux
Bethel has successfully graduated with an International Master’s in Agro-Biomedical Science a joint program between the University of Tsukuba (Japan), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), and the University of Bordeaux (France).
Congratulations to...
Post · November 02, 2025
A Balancing Act Between Seeking the Unknown and Living With It
If you’d walked up to someone in the 14th century and told them, “Listen, friend, there are things we just can’t understand,” they probably would’ve shrugged, crossed themselves, and gone back to plowing dirt or something.
Mystery was part of the...
Post · November 01, 2025
Redefining the demise and extinction of the woolly mammoth
Interview to our November AaRC-TikTalk speaker Marianne Dehasque
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was a greatly successful species characteristic of the Pleistocene megafauna in Eurasia, roaming around the whole northern part of the co...
Post · November 01, 2025
The mysteries of chicken domestication and its worldwide expansion
Interview to our November 2024 AaRC TikTalk speaker Ophélie Lebrasseur
The domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is one of the main sources of animal protein consumed worldwide (1). Given its importance in the current human diet and food i...
Post · November 01, 2025
Sustainable ancestral fisheries across millennia
Interview to our January 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Jesse Morin
Vancouver is currently the major city across the Canadian Pacific coast, and the third biggest urban area in Canada after Toronto and Montreal. Located along the Burrard Peninsula, i...
Post · November 01, 2025
Achieving better techniques for DNA preservation and recovery
Interview to our February 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Alexander Salis
Natural History Museums around the world hold vast collections of plants and animals, seized, catalogued, preserved and stored in an attempt to capture a snapshot of their livin...
Post · November 01, 2025
Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of bush babies
Interview to our February 2025 AaRC TikTalk speaker Anna Penna
“When I reached England in the spring of 1862, I found myself surrounded by a room full of packing-cases, containing the collections that I had from time to time sent home for my pri...
Post · November 01, 2025
🎉 This week marks 10 years since I defended my PhD!
It’s hard to believe how much has happened since that moment: the excitement of every discovery, the incredible mentors, and fantastic colleagues who shaped my path.
In the ten years since, I’ve had the chance to keep exploring the questions that...
Post · October 31, 2025