Freshly published work led by Tom Brough: Tere Tohorā, Karanga Tāngata: Weaving Māori Knowledge With Conventional Science to Characterise a Biodiversity Hotspot for Marine Megafauna in an Area Facing Multiple Anthropogenic Impacts (link to open source paper below)

So chuffed for the newly minted Dr @eadinomahony.bsky.social who crushed their viva this week at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and gave an awesome seminar to boot! Many thanks to @tangeolsen.bsky.social for years of support! 🐳🦑🧪

A very happy camper after successfully defending my PhD at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social! MASSIVE thanks to my PhD dream team @lrendell.bsky.social, Oscar Gaggiotti, @tangeolsen.bsky.social, @marinemolecol.bsky.social & @bcwhales.bsky.social! 🐋🐋 #PhDone

I can't believe you caught this on a camera trap, and front stage centre! 🤯 Absolutely incredible, well done @thomasluypaert.bsky.social and co-authors! The video is embedded in the #openaccess paper for those that are curious 🐆

Interested in measuring genetic load? We have a new paper out providing a modified version of GERP which is more user friendly in wildlife species and with scripts to automate making input files and pulling out derived alleles in your species #consgen #popgen star-protocols.cell.com/protocols/4202

#MarMam #conservationgenomics #PopulationGenomics

Also excited to join this #COST Action — the recent kickoff meeting left me buzzing 🐝 much looking forward to seeing the impact on both European policy and genetic monitoring from this conservation genetics #consgen initiative! 🎊 #conservation #popgen #GENOA

** New Indigenous Representation Subcommittee of the SMM DEI Committee seeking members! See thread below for more info! ** Reposting this to highlight it in the #MarMam feed now that I'm a contributor -- thanks @daryllmarie.bsky.social! 🦭 🐋 #MarineMammals #SMM #marinemammalscience

‼️ Dear MARMAM community, We, at the DEI Committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, are beginning the process of establishing an Indigenous Representation Subcommittee, the idea of which came out of an ad hoc meeting held at the SMM conference in Boorloo (Perth) in the Whajuk region of WA (1/n)

I would really like to see @marinemammalogy.bsky.social add its name to this list, particularly given how critical federal bodies like the NSF and NOAA are to marine mammal research and conservation.

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I've never seen such a violent windy report hitting Ireland before... Batten down the hatches & stay safe folks ☘️ #StormÉowyn

New paper on "Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales." 🐋🧬 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @emma-carroll.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 1/8

Love marine mammals, genomics and molecular evolution? Last few days to apply for this great PhD project with an awesome team of collaborators. Closing date now 8th January. 🧪🌍🧬🦭🐳🦑

I suppose actually posting something, now that I've taken the leap & joined, is a good shout! 😉 So, here's our latest preprint, exploring the likely social learning of bubble net feeding throughout a network of Pacific humpback whales 🐋 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @lrendell.bsky.social