PhD student in the Whitehead lab studying Eastern Caribbean sperm whales and how culture can affect behaviour, social structure and distribution.
Joined April 2019
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First PhD chapter published in RS Open Science! with
@taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero and H.Whitehead!
"Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations"
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Video abstract by the very talented @SackettMeredith (@art4ascientist ) 😊: youtube.com/watch?v=fyE5kcwJ…
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One year ago today (yes, NYE!) @_fvachon and I plus 3 crew set off to deliver a certain Valiant 40 from Hampton VA to Antigua. Buckles were swashed. We made a short video every day and are reliving the passage - follow us south! #ThrowbackThursday #Sailing Day 1: Departure
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Our latest paper! 🥳
We find the ability to track relationships between distant items in an acoustic sequence, an ability critical to syntax + language, is widespread in primates. It therefore likely predates language itself by 30-40+ million years!
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We are happy to share our preprint investigating the mechanisms underlying how populations adapt to novel environments. For this, we study parallel adaptation of bottlenose dolphins from pelagic to coastal habitat across their range using 57 whole genomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Bending the curve of biodiversity, just published in @nature. What are the 6⃣ actions needed to make it happen? ⬇️
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Congrats to Pernille Tønnesen et al
on their cool paper where we for the first time have recorded prey echoes from tags on sperm whales, showing that they employ long range #echolocation
@AarhusUni @AzWhaleLab
@_SMRU_ #dtag
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I pledge to continue opposing racism and hate, including systemic racism in science. And to do this work everyday, beyond social posts like this. (Thanks @sgero ) Whitehead lab join me ! @anaeguiguren2 @jr4science @deepdivewhales @taylorahersh
Thank you @UWI_StAugustine and @MarkFHulme for inviting me and @_lrendell to share our research! For those interested in sperm whale distribution and culture the recorded seminar is now available🙂 *Please do not cite without permission, results are preliminary and unpublished
The recording of this great @UWI_StAugustine @univofstandrews @DalhousieU seminar by @_lrendell and @_fvachon on #Caribbean #SpermWhales is now available to watch! Some results are not yet published so please don't cite without the presenters' permission ca-lti.bbcollab.com/recordin…
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#Biodiversity2020 An excellent day to remember how many cool species of bats help us every night out there, and how much we need to conserve them! This is just an example from the #Amazon
@InsideNatGeo @mcngranollers
UPDATED version of the poster of our new "Field Guide to the Bats of the Amazon"! @pelagicpublish #bats #morcegos #murcielagos #ratpenats
Very excited about this ! Thank you @MarkFHulme for the opportunity !
I'm delighted that the covid19-delayed @UWI_StAugustine seminar by @_lrendell and @_fvachon on The Distribution and Population Structure of Sperm #Whales in the #Caribbean will now go ahead online on Thursday 21st May. Can't wait! sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/e…
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Some hope for the oceans in future if we #Protecttheocean now. Please share my op ed in @TIME @GPScienceUnit @gp_sunrise @UniofExeter @ExeterMarine time.com/5837350/humpback-wh…
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Excited to be a part of @InsideNatGeo #ExplorerClassroom Tuesday May 12th at 2pm ET for their special programming for learners in PreK-Grade 2.
Kids who like #whales, #ocean, and storytelling - TUNE IN!
Register or follow live @NatGeoEducation: nationalgeographic.org/educa…
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Large fat reserves (i.e. body condition) are crucial for baleen whale survival and reproduction. Our latest paper shows that the North Atlantic right whale is in poor body condition, which is likely contributing to its current population decline.
New MEPS #FeatureArticle
A population comparison of right whale body condition, measured using drone photogrammetry, reveals poor state of North Atlantic right whales. A reduction of human-induced stressors is urgently needed to save them from extinction. bit.ly/meps_640_1
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We have a paper out today in Proceedings B - "Acoustic coordination by allied male dolphins in a cooperative context". Why is this interesting? See thread 👇
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@RSocPublishing @BristolBioSci @CEB_UWA @ResearchDolphin
Footage from the 2020 season for those who wonder how studying sperm whale culture starts ! 😊
Here is how the data comes in - sperm whales exchanging codas as captured by pamguard.org
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Canticum Megapterae – Song of the Humpback Whale was voted the best compilation of the year!!!
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THANK YOU to each one of you who believed in my crazy dreams and supported me along the way!❤️
@_SMRU_ @StAndEngaged
#scicomm #sciart
Here is a beautiful sperm whale from our 2020 field season! Thank you to everyone that made this year possible: the wonderful crew,@InsideNatGeo and my amazing co-investigator @_lrendell! Can't wait to figure out what is going on with Eastern Caribbean sperm whale culture.
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So excited to announce this publication from my @ceal_uq PhD! How can humpback whales learn their song SO fast spread it SO far? It's all in the structure! They have "rhymes" and rules that make learning easier! Access it here or shoot me a message!
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