Comparative Ecophysiology of Animals Lab
Baylor University
Joined August 2021
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New Paper Alert! Whaaaat 2 actually sciencey posts in a row?!
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Honorary CEAL team member Aaron Kirkpatrick and his friends investigated how blubber fatty acid (one of my favorite types!) profiles vary across sex and age class in northern elephant seals! (1/2)
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Blubber fatty acid profiles lend insight into changes in diet and can serve as important signals of environmental stressors. Aaron and friends found that blubber fatty acids differed across age class, but not by sex. (2/3)
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To learn more about fatty acids in elephant seal blubber, and/or to see some neat seal doodles check the link in our bio! Neat stuff @kirkpatrick.aaron !!
#aarondidtheartwork #bubiology #baylor #marinescience #phdlife
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frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
New paper alert!!
Sarah was the lead on a recently published project about plasticity in the morphometrics and movements of an Antarctic apex predator, the leopard seal. These apex predators at the end of the earth are highly understudied. (1/3)
Sarah and her friends discovered that leopard seals exhibit X-TREME (her words not mine) female-biased sexual size dimorphism! They also observed the single deepest and longest leopard seal dive ever recorded and used GPS tags to examine the movements of 22 leopard seals (2/3)
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off the coast of the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP lol). What an action-packed thriller this article is! (3/3)
#science #Baylor #marinebiology #phdchat @Baylor #antarcticadventure!
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We are rebranding coyotes, which do you prefer?
53%pygmy wolves
47%wolf hobbits
17 votes • Final resultsWhich do you like better? Maybe I’ll even put a poll in our story if I can figure out how!
#lotr #hobbits #middlearth #theshire #ijustwantalittlehobbithole
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Congrats to undergrad CEAL member Mahita Shankar on receiving her first grant! She was awarded the Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Achievement (URSA) grant to continue her work on canid skull morphology.
#baylor #science #phdchat #ursameansbear #congratulations🎉
Sarah, Ari, and Pat all love birds! Emily.....likes seals
#baylor #phdchat #diadeloso #academic #wildliferesearch #birdsarentreal #governmentsurveillancedrones
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This is the ideal dual monitor set-up. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
#phdchat #science #baylor #technologicallyimpaired
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A lab coat means you’re doing science! Here, Emily is doing science by measuring hormones in seal samples. Sarah is not doing science (notice the lack of a lab coat and gloves). Neat stuff all around! #phdchat #openacademia #baylor #science #labcoat #seriousscience
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Oh no there’s worms in it’s skin! Just kidding, those squiggles are arteries in the ribcage of a harbor porpoise that was perfectly healthy except for the fact that it’s dead. Pretty neat!
#science #baylor #seriousscience #arteries #phdchat
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Best lab meeting ever! Who’s left out now @emilysperou?
#breakfasttacos #theyrememberedmethistime #wouldhavehatedtomissthis #gladimnotsomewhereelserightnow #science #phdchat #ipromiseillpostsciencestuffeventually
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Emily Sperou has a paper out now investigating the impact of handling techniques on stress in captive crocodiles. This research will help inform best practices for handling these awesome animals in captivity. Pretty neat!
doi.org/10.3390/ani12030397
#science #crocodile #baylor
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Behold the cuteness of 1-week-old coyotes!! These little pups are being held by Ashley Wurth, a PhD student working with Cook County Coyote Project of Chicago, IL. Headed up by Dr. Stan Gehrt, this is the longest-running study on urban coyotes in existen… ift.tt/2EI3xjX
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is one of the largest living terrestrial carnivores! This is a cast, the original skull dates back to the Rancholabrean geologic period! Neat! The second picture is what it would look like if I was a brown bear. Also pretty neat.#science #bearperson
All of Waco has shut down due to the tremendous amount of snow we’ve received, but this gives us the opportunity to enjoy the winter wonderland with our families and best friends!
#whatissnow #texasisnotbuiltforthis #baylor #dogsareawesome #cats
It’s Ariel Leahy’s birthday! Here she is contemplating her own mortality next to a collection of coyote skulls, which will be added to our digital collection after we 3D scan them. Pretty neat!
#science #baylor #phdchat #deathisinevitable #happybirthday
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