Humpbacks in the Great Barrier Reef. Read the full story here: buff.ly/YhLPmzt Photo by @smilodontology.bsky.social #WhaleTales #humpback

Have you heard the whalely good news? The High Seas Treaty, a legally binding global agreement to protect marine life in the high seas, is officially entering into force! Is it perfect? No-but it’s an incredible milestone for the ocean I’ll dive deeper into this in my next Ocean Brief newsletter

🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE 🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography! Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬 Link and thread below! 🧵 1/🦴

☠️🧬 2-yr Postdoc in in Genomic Simulations and Extinction Risk Modelling! Let's figure out the Genomic signs of Extinction @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPD Reposts appreciated 😁

🐋 Big commercial whaling paper (and my last PhD chapter) just submitted to PNAS! 🐋

It's well known that Bowheads live to be 200+ years old but here's a bonkers thing that we didn't realize until we had Nick on the pod - that means a whale alive today could potentially have been alive before whaling started AND they lived through the decades of whaling & the century of recovery🤯

Raise your hand if you want to go to Ancient Marine Mammal Park with us! 🙋‍♀️🐋🦴 buff.ly/GHt2fcY Photo courtesy of my collaborator Arthur S. Dyke #WhaleTales #WhaleTalesPodcast @smilodontology.bsky.social

Super nerdy episode this month! We sit down paleoecologist and biogeographer with Nick Freymueller to talk Bowhead Whales, Arctic fossils, his research on how species respond to climate change and many other nerdy things. 🦴🐳🦖 Cue up the theme to Jurassic Park & let's dive right in! buff.ly/Cuk4X0L

I use BHL every single day in my research and teaching. I could not write my books or articles without it, I don't know what my students would do without it, and I would have to radically rethink my career without it. This is more critical with funding cuts. Please, please someone support BHL.

Finally submitted this puppy, yesterday after nearly four years. Defense coming in September. #PhDone

Stoked to finally see this one out in the wide world: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Tube-nosed #seabirds in #Aotearoa #NewZealand have been largely driven extinct on the mainland, since the arrival of humans. Our paper shows just how dramatic this collapse likely was...(1/4)

🚨🚨 POSTDOC ALERT!!! 🚨🚨 The Global Change, #Ecology, and #Conservation Lab at the Uni of Adelaide is hiring a 2-year #postdoc on #mammal declines in #Australia using #eDNA, #museums, & ecological models 🧬🦘🐨🇦🇺! Come work in our interdisciplinary lab! Details 👇 careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Whales, Greenland, and some really old mud. My first PhD chapter now published in @natcomms.nature.com reveals 12,000 years of marine mammal history around Northern Greenland through DNA hidden in marine mud. Check it out: rdcu.be/emdYS #sedaDNA #Greenland #Arctic #whales #seals

🐋 ANOTHER ONE 🐋 !!! We have a hot new #bowhead #whale preprint out now on @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social, co-led with @mick2474.bsky.social ! We show what is possible when you integrate genomic and ecological data to tell an insightful story about this charismatic #Arctic endemic! 🧬 Thread: 1/🐋

#printPromptMonday theme was #magic. As a scientist, believe magic lies in the astounding interconnections of wildness. Here’s a bowhead whale and her calf, whose songs fill the Arctic Ocean.

🐋 WHALE PAPER ALERT! 🐋 My 2nd #PhD Chapter is now out #OpenAccess in @ecol-evol.bsky.social where we built a 11,700 year-long ecological baseline of #bowhead whales in the #Arctic Thread 1/🐋

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🦒🧬 New preprint🦒🧬 We investigated the degree of admixture, genetic diversity and inbreeding in ex situ giraffes using WGS data from the famous Marius, 12 zoo giraffes, and a data set from 71 wild giraffes. #ConsGen #PopGen #Genomics #Giraffes #Marius www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sedimentary ancient DNA from caves: Challenges and opportunities doi.org/10.1002/jqs.... , first publication from the PhD research of @siobhane13.bsky.social - congratulations!

Looks like it is going to happen. If you need the Paleoceanography data from NCEI, I wrote a script to download it all. github.com/evangowan/EJ...

Pardo-Judd, J., & DeSantis, L. (2025). Dietary ecology of Smilodon across time and space: Additional perspectives from Smilodon gracilis and Smilodon fatalis in Florida. The Anatomical Record, 1–12. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...

Yesterday was #WorldBearDay. And it's only fitting that I just submitted a MASSIVE #fossil database paper on #PolarBear 🐻‍❄️ and 11 other Arctic marine mammal species (🐋 + 🦭 & more)! After nearly four years of work, there are BIG things to come in the Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal space! 🦴 ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬 #PhD

Here is a legal defense and support fund for Mahmoud Khalil. Their baby is coming soon. Please let's help. chuffed.org/project/just...

Thrilled to share this research finally! Our team used sedimentary ancient DNA to reconstruct fauna from Antarctica’s Ross Sea over the last 6,000 years, focusing on Adélie penguin populations and diet, but with a surprise discovery of the elephant seal kind! Read more here: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Happy nondenominational bird pun sporting festival weekend to those who celebrate. #superbowl

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Energetic constraints drive the decline of a sentinel polar bear population | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐋 My 2nd PhD chapter is now a pre-print! 🐋 We used 11,700 years of #bowhead whale data to chronicle their responses to past climate change! We found stable #Holocene habitat suitability, but future suitable area will harshly decline due to melting #Arctic sea ice! www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.... 🐋

We are currently advertising two fully-funded PhD scholarships to work on a new project preventing extinctions of Australia’s threatened mammals with ancient DNA. #sediments #aDNA #eDNA For further details, please see: scholarships.adelaide.edu.au/Scholarships...

Here's a starter pack for ecological niche modeling, species distribution modeling, and general ecological biogeography. Please reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/AjbQxpK

Easy way to follow all the Palaeo accounts!

Hello BlueSky! My research reveals the causes, processes, and consequences of extinction 💀 I often combine historical- & paleo-archives with ecological modeling approaches, increasingly from a Bayesian perspective 🦴⚛️🧬 Currently in the final 6 months of a PhD between 🇩🇰/🇦🇺 on Arctic marine megafauna! 🐋