So happy to be back 🐬🌊☀️

We have a new paper out in Animal Cognition led by Whitney Friedman on Inter-group alliance dynamics in Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins - you can find the paper here ➡️rdcu.be/dg22h. Congrats Whitney Friedman for a really important piece of work from your PhD 🥳🍾

Thank you Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social and Christoph Grüter for making my PhD viva such a pleasant experience!

Pernille M Sørensen, Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social and co Dolphin Research Ctr and University of Bristol Biological Sciences have discovered that human-made noises are disrupting wild dolphins’ ability to communicate and complete cooperative tasks >>> biotechniques.com/veterinary-sci…

🌊 (5/7) #WorldOceanDay

🌟CONGRATULATIONS🌟 Isla Keesje Davidson on the #PhD #thesis submission. An epic journey including #fieldwork at Lizard Island & Mo'orea, huge covid disruptions, many 🐠 & fantastic research. A job very well done. Now... relax! 🥂
Prof. Steve Simpson #ProudSupervisors
Natural Environment Research Council NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership

Congratulations Taylor Hersh, Lara Burchardt and @AndreaRavignani on your new paper! Will without a doubt be valuable for me diving into this area of research! :)

OI members Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social and Dr Simon J Allen highlight the complexity of relationships among male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay.

Our 2023 field season has begun 🙌🏻 we will be in Shark Bay from April to November this year, continuing our long-term research on this incredible population + collecting data for 2 Masters, 7 PhD + 3 postdoc projects plus collaborators 🐬🐬🐬

#WebinarWednesday TODAY at noon EDT*, Pernille M Sørensen will discuss how noise affected two dolphins' ability to cooperate.
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(Photo: Dolphin Research Ctr.)

*Note: U.S. changed clocks on March 12th, so confirm your local time!

Might be cold & wet outside University of Bristol Biological Sciences at University of Bristol but these early career members of staff are not backing down. Take note USS Employers Universities UK UCEA please take note. They’re in this for the long run. They’re in it for the win. Bristol UCU UCUSOUTHWEST UCU

Pernille M Sørensen and Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social from University of Bristol Biological Sciences collaborated with Dolphin Research Ctr in their recent paper published in Current Biology detailing how loud noises affect dolphin communication and cooperation in captivity 🐬🐬
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Experiment shows #dolphins must “shout” over anthropogenic noise when working together to complete tasks.
Pernille M Sørensen Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Dolphin Research Ctr

Read more in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…

Dolphins working collaboratively are less successful in the presence of sound generated by humans, our very own Pernille M Sørensen and Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social et al. have found!

Find out more about this top class research at the below link:

bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/janu…

Current Biology

This is such a great summary by Inverse of our new paper in Current Biology on noise pollution and cooperation in dolphins: 📜doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… Pernille M Sørensen Dolphin Research Ctr Frants Jensen, PhD

Human-made noise pollution was found to seriously hinder dolphins' ability to work together. inverse.com/science/noise-…

Scientists have discovered that human-made sound makes waves in the #dolphin world. 🐬🔊

The study shows dolphins working collaboratively are less successful in the presence of noise generated by humans.

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Pernille M Sørensen
Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social
University of Bristol Biological Sciences

Humans blast the oceans with noise from shipping, oil exploration and military operations. For dolphins living in a world of sound, that might be making it harder to work together.

Mine in NYT Science

& thanks Pernille M Sørensen, Shane Gero @[email protected] for talking with me

nytimes.com/2023/01/12/sci…

Experiment shows #dolphins must “shout” over anthropogenic noise when working together to complete tasks.
Pernille M Sørensen Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social Dolphin Research Ctr

Read more in Current Biology: cell.com/current-biolog…