Phase 2 of the 2024 Shark Bay Dolphin Research field season is underway with a new base set up on the remote Dirk Harthog Island. With brilliant weather, we have thoroughly explored this new + stunning field site. Meeting new dolphins, tiger sharks, dugongs + turtles, is a very happy team!

CONGRATULATIONS to SBDR team member Emma Chereskin for this exciting award! #SMM #dolphins #communication #cooperation

Another amazing few weeks of fieldwork collecting data for a number of Shark Bay Dolphin Research projects: a very tired but very happy team 🙏🏻 #SharkBay #Gathaagudu

So happy to be back 🐬🌊☀️

Hello Shark Bay 🫶

There is a lot of misunderstanding about the evolution of menopause in animal (and human) societies - a new preprint just out today (with Simon Chapman Sam Ellis Mirkka Lahdenpera and Virpi Lummaa) addressing some points from a recent commentary in Cell

In the last years, Shark Bay's remarkable dolphins have appeared on the BBC's Animal Einsteins, Netflix's ANIMAL, and in The Secrets of Friendship on CBC. Now it's Switzerland's turn, with the two-episode Under the Spell of the Dolphins on SRF's Einstein. Enjoy it if you can! :-)

Wrapping up another incredible field season in Shark Bay🐠🐟🐬🐋 - our fourth year of eDNA samples are safely tucked away in their tubes 🧬🧪! Greatful for the incredible support that made it all possible! Shark Bay Dolphin Research

Great perspective on our new paper in Science Magazine 🦇🦘🐑🐀🐐🦏🐘🐈‍⬛🐈🐁🦌🦓🦭🐏🐖🐕🐳🐬🧪🧬A mammalian DNA methylation landscape | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Shark Bay Dolphin Research UZH Science UOW Research UOW UOWEnviro

So stoked to be part of the Mammalian Methylation 🧬🐬consortium publishing 2 (!) papers in Science Magazine and Nature Aging today 🥳👩🏼‍🎓! Thank you Michael Krützen and Livia Gerber for making this possible 🐬 UZH Science University of Zurich UOW Shark Bay Dolphin Research UOW
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So unbelievably happy to be back in Shark Bay with the brilliant Shark Bay Dolphin Research team to collect data for my PhD at University of Bristol Biological Sciences! I'll be spending the next 3.5 months with these amazing animals, follow along for updates from the field!

Field work is always great but it is even greater with good company! Looking back on a wonderful two weeks of the BIO341 field course UZH Science where students learned how to conduct boat-based research and got to experience what field work with Shark Bay Dolphin Research

🐬🧬 Dive into my splash of science! 🌊📚 Excited to share my new blog post! Investigating bottlenose dolphin predators and prey distribution in Shark Bay, Western Australia using #eDNA . Grateful for the support from The eDNA Collaborative Shark Bay Dolphin Research #MarineScience

Very happy to see our manuscript “Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters” out today in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

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 🥳🍾

HUGE Congratulations to newly minted Dr Pernille M Sørensen 🍾 We are so proud of all the amazing work you have done with the world’s bestest boys 🐬🐬🐬 and so grateful for your endless dedication and enthusiasm for the Shark Bay dolphins. We salute you Dr Sørensen!

And we are off! Our 2023 field season has begun with Dr Simon J Allen Brendan Lumley and Héloïse + Céline from Magnus Wahlberg lab kicking things off with research on dolphin biosonar. We have lots going on this year so stay tuned for field updates!

Absolute cracker of a day learning how to fly! Baby steps so far 😊 Excited to use this new skill in the field this summer! Feeling very lucky I get to use this technology as a part of my PhD! Many thanks to Dr Simon J Allen for the wisdom
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Congratulations to Pernille M Sørensen for her fascinating new study in Current Biology on dolphin cooperation, communication and noise pollution - read a thread on this important work below 👇🏻

And here is a blog version to ease into it: whalescientists.com/dolphin-age-dn…