📢#PhD Opportunity funded by MASTS Scotland - Investigating blubber thermogenesis of harbour porpoises🌊 Deadline: Thursday, July 31, 2025 Supervisors: Andrew Brownlow - @davinaderous.bsky.social - Joanna Kershaw - Fiona Manson 🔗INFO: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Care about climate change, physiology, marine mammals and want to do something about it? Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson, @strandings.bsky.social, @naturescot.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9

For those at #ECS2025, don't miss @wild-devs.bsky.social talk on reproductive hormones in fin whales and Alexandra's talk on proteomics in pilot whales this morning.

Delighted to say that both Alexandra Tranganida and @wild-devs.bsky.social will be presenting at the European Cetacean Society conference next week! Alexandra will talk about blubber proteomics in pilot whales and Devonne about reproductive hormones in fin whales (Day 2 - session 6). #ECS2025

Extremely proud of @wild-devs.bsky.social first first-author publication. Devonne showed sexual segregation and stable pregnancy rates in minke whales sampled in the Gulf of St. Lawrence between 2007-2015 @jlkershaw.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Great paper focusing on heat loss estimation using model predictions in cetaceans and how morphometrics such as blubber thickness and body size may play a role. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Incredible new Science paper by @chrismcknight.bsky.social, @jlkershaw.bsky.social and team that shows seals do cognitively perceive circulating oxygen and alter their diving behaviour accordingly www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Always great to catch up with @strandings.bsky.social and all set for a great day!!

What an incredible inspirational talk by @mdelibeg.bsky.social, the new Regius Chair in Physiology. Great night socialising with people of the medical campus.

Large dataset analysis across several species to more accurately predict age in cetaceans using various tissues and epigenetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting paper focusing on heat loss in several cetacean species and the role of body morphometrics, blubber thickness and thermal conductivity. journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

NEWS&VIEWS | Herbert Tilg and Christoph Grander (Med Uni, AT) The authors highlight a study describing the role of #TM6SF2 as a mediator of the #gut - #liver axis to modulate #MASH pathophysiology 🐭 🦠 Read it here: https://bit.ly/4hu7oiz

Retrograde mitochondrial signaling governs the identity and maturity of metabolic tissues | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Groundbreaking week of research in #mitochondrialdisease! biomed.news/bims-mitdis/... @biomednews.bsky.social @gavinmcstay.bsky.social @mitoscientist.bsky.social @mitowomen.bsky.social @mitoworld.bsky.social Rhodoquinone carries electrons in the mammalian electron transport chain

"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."

New job opening for a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome within the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Closing date 4th March 2025. More information here: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/professo...

Please check out this news article about our #HungryHumpbacks project 👀👇 #MarineLife #Whale #conservation @bas.ac.uk @polarbiome.bsky.social @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social 🐳🦑🧪🌊🐟 www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/s...

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

GLP-1 RAs and co-agonists are efficacious for weight loss, with reported safety concerns predominantly gastrointestinal in nature, when used among adults with overweight or obesity and without diabetes. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Where do the dopamine hits does from? A new reward center in the brain is discovered (yes, single cell, spatial omics at work again) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Some really great cetacean papers coming out lately! See the recent one by Fernandez Ajó et al. on testosterone levels measured in faecal samples of male gray whales.

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Our latest paper, led by our former student Giorgia Giovannini, is out now! It looks in detail at killer whale sound production during feeding on spawning herring in Iceland. 🐳🐟 Find out more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

A great new paper by Remili et al. using metabolomics to assess the impacts of pollutant exposure in polar bears and ringed seals. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great summary of @jlkershaw.bsky.social previously published paper using proteomics to identify biomarkers in blubber biopsies of baleen whales

Discover how Kershaw et al are revolutionizing cetacean conservation with omics techniques in the first article of the new Conservation Physiology in Action series. 🌊🐋 Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/conp... Referenced research: doi.org/10.1093/conp... Happy reading

Largest study on brain aging points to possible connections between diet, inflammation, and brain health. #Nature "Brain-wide cell-type-specific transcriptomic signatures of healthy ageing in mice" Open Access doi.org/10.1038/s415...

First paper of 2025 🥳 on bacterial infections in porpoise, caused by bites from Grey seals. Vividly remember the PM on the 2nd case, significant necrosis effectively disintegrating the tissues in the pectoral fin😵 Wanna know more 👇? shorturl.at/drKQd @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @strandings.bsky.social

Interested in seal diet, population size and haul out behaviour in Ireland? Funded PhD position at University College Cork. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... Application deadline 31st Jan.

Measuring mitochondrial respiration in frozen tissue samples provides the first comprehensive atlas of how ageing affects mitochondrial function in mice. 🔗 https://elifesciences.org/articles/105191?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals #consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

Three weeks to go if you are interested in applying for a www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... fully funded PhD looking to answer vital questions about the prevalence and epidemiology of viral pathogens in Scotland’s marine mammal populations: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate.... Get in touch if interested!

Really interesting paper by @lbejder1971.bsky.social and co-authors. Using tissue-specific energy content to estimate the cost of gestation and late pregnant females are particularly vulnerable to disruptions in energy balance. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Got my tickets sorted and can't wait for a great day with @strandings.bsky.social !

How could we use mitochondrial physiology in a conservation context? 🦠🐝🐠🪲🦜 Happy to see this synthesis of SEB2023 conference published in @conphysjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to the team: Elisa, Neal and Enrique. doi.org/10.1093/conp...