Oops, I didn't realize George was on Twitter! If you're interested in fine scale kinematics in cetacea (and who isn't?) go follow him George

And finally Patrick's MRes student Ellen Hayward managed to snag a best poster award for her work on acoustic prey capture proxying in killer whales using video logging tags. It should still be online if you missed it! BLS8 Tokyo

My labmate George Sato presented some of his PhD work on pilot whale kinematics at the poster session and his undergraduate dissertation (!) on diving gas volume in elephant seals at the physiologging workshop. BLS8 Tokyo

I'm really grateful for the opportunity to give my first conference talk at BLS8 Tokyo, presenting our work on body condition and sonar response in sperm whales. I learned a huge amount from the questions, discussions and other talks, such a unique and exciting meeting!

Really enjoyed giving my first-ever lecture as part of the Science of Race and Racism module in School of Biology at University of St Andrews today. I taught about the history of scientific racism and how scientists, and specifically biologists, need to reckon with our fields’ past. (1/5)

Had a great time and learned a lot at the WMT wilderness medic course in Aviemore. It's pretty full on, but I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to learn how to manage emergencies in remote environments.

From Ellen's current PhD student: this is a dream team of supervisors! They bring together a wide set of skills and expertise, a supportive environment, a lot of kindness and a great sense of humor. + what a cool topic!!!

Looking for a PhD opportunity? This could be you! 👇🏽

My lab group is searching for 2 new PhD students interested in the demography and movement ecology of elephant seals to join us at UC Santa Cruz!

roxannebeltran.sites.ucsc.edu/join-us/gradua…

Application deadline Nov 1.

And if you want to read more about the Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales, here's a chapter I wrote together with Ellen Garland and Emma Carroll.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Here's a new, comprehensive collection of knowledge on the morphology, behaviour, and evolution of sexual strategies of cetaceans for you to delve into! Sex in Cetaceans, edited by Bernd Würsig and Dara N. Orbach, is #openaccess !
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Had a great time helping to deliver the marine mammals week at the Mobi Master of bioacoustics this week. Thanks so much to Dr Charlotte Cure, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, and the student for having me!

🚨For anyone interested!

Myself & my colleague Dominik will be giving a #DOSITS #webinar on marine mammals, #shipping noise & potential solutions on the 27th September as part of the SATURN Project series!

Register for free here! 🔗: eventbrite.com/e/marine-mamma…

Excited to share that my new paper with Andy Gardner, “Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy” ( #OpenAccess ) is now out in ProcB Royal Society Publishing! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… #KinSelection #Dormancy #Altruism Short summary 👇(1/4)

Right back where I started out: tagging Indian ocean humpback whales 🤙Huge thanks to Maeva Terrapon and Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies for having me!

Public webinars▶️Today, you can tune in to hear Doug Nowacek talk about 'Research and Regulations for Marine Mammal Interactions with Offshore Wind' (👇). Tomorrow, we'll discuss how #ProjectWOW incl CREEM_cake fits in the #RWSC draft science plan: rwsc.org/event/project-…

Call for Expression of Interest for PhD project:
Body-condition and health of humpback whales on their Alaskan foraging grounds: mmrphawaii.org/post/call-for-…
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I am very excited that my first post-doc paper is on BioRxiv! I annotated a whole bunch of spider homeobox genes and clusters, and found interesting patterns of evolution among duplicates. Read here: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Few days r&r in the alps in prep for what looks like an intense few months of paper/thesis writing and surprise fieldwork, watch this space!

Poster session about to start! #SEB2023 Come find out more about the impact of post-mortem interval on blubber RNA quality, and what that means for the use of samples from standings in molecular studies
The Leverhulme Trust University of Aberdeen @DavinaDerous Jo Kershaw

'Here, we present a simple bioenergetic model that explicitly incorporates hypothetical body condition-dependent response strategies for a cetacean...'

Read more in a ConservationPhysiology article by Alec Burslem: bit.ly/3NVo0DD