diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ada6eaf5..8c40a92e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ scipy = "*"
 seaborn = "*"
 matplotlib = "*"
 umap-learn = { version = "*", extras = ["plot"] }
+pacmap = "*"
 pandas = "*"
 h5py = "*"
 PyYAML = "*"
diff --git a/vital/utils/plot.py b/vital/utils/plot.py
index 40e642c6..e6f9adae 100644
--- a/vital/utils/plot.py
+++ b/vital/utils/plot.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import logging
-from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, Iterator, Union
+from typing import Any, Dict, Iterable, Iterator, Literal, Union
 
 import matplotlib
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 import seaborn as sns
-import umap
 from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
 from matplotlib.axes import Axes
 
@@ -13,18 +12,23 @@
 
 
 def embedding_scatterplot(
-    data: pd.DataFrame, plots_kwargs: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]], umap_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = None, data_tag: str = None
+    data: pd.DataFrame,
+    plots_kwargs: Iterable[Dict[str, Any]],
+    data_tag: str = None,
+    method: Literal["tsne", "umap", "pacmap"] = "pacmap",
+    **embedding_kwargs,
 ) -> Iterator[Axes]:
-    """Generates 2D scatter plots of some data, reducing its dimensionality to 2 using UMAP if it's not already 2D.
+    """Generates 2D scatter plots of some data, reducing its dimensionality to 2 if it's not already 2D.
 
     Args:
         data: Dataframe with each column representing a dimension of the data, and relevant metadata being stored in a
             multiindex.
         plots_kwargs: Sets of kwargs to use to generate different versions of the scatter plot, e.g. modifying the
             variables used for hue and/or style.
-        umap_kwargs: If the data has more than 2 dimensions, UMAP is used to reduce the dimensionality of the data for
-            plotting purposes. This parameter is passed along to the UMAP estimator's `init`.
         data_tag: String describing the data used in the titles/logs, etc. If not specified, it defaults to 'data'.
+        method: If the data has more than 2 dimensions, this parameter specifies the method to use to reduce the
+            dimensionality of the data for plotting purposes.
+        **embedding_kwargs: Parameters passed along to the embedding's constructor.
 
     Returns:
         An iterator over the generated scatter plots.
@@ -40,15 +44,31 @@ def embedding_scatterplot(
     elif len(data.columns) == 2:
         plot_title = f"2D {data_tag}"
     else:  # len(encoding_dims) > 2
-        if umap_kwargs is None:
-            umap_kwargs = {}
-        plot_title = f"2D UMAP embedding of the {len(data.columns)}D {data_tag}"
-        logger.info(f"Generating 2D UMAP embedding of {len(data.columns)}D {data_tag}...")
-        umap_embedding = umap.UMAP(**umap_kwargs).fit_transform(data)
+        if embedding_kwargs is None:
+            embedding_kwargs = {}
+        match method:
+            case "tsne":
+                from sklearn.manifold import TSNE
 
-        # Update the encodings dataframe with the new UMAP embedding
+                embedding_cls = TSNE
+            case "umap":
+                import umap
+
+                embedding_cls = umap.UMAP
+            case "pacmap":
+                from pacmap import PaCMAP
+
+                embedding_cls = PaCMAP
+            case _:
+                raise ValueError(f"Unknown embedding method '{method}'. Must be one of: ['tsne', 'umap', 'pacmap'].")
+
+        plot_title = f"2D {embedding_cls.__name__} embedding of the {len(data.columns)}D {data_tag}"
+        logger.info(f"Generating 2D {method} embedding of {len(data.columns)}D {data_tag}...")
+        data_2d = embedding_cls(**embedding_kwargs).fit_transform(data.to_numpy())
+
+        # Update the encodings dataframe with the new 2D embedding
         data = data.drop(labels=data.columns, axis="columns")
-        data[[0, 1]] = umap_embedding
+        data[[0, 1]] = data_2d
 
     # Generate a plot of the embedding for each set of plot kwargs provided
     for plot_kwargs in plots_kwargs: