journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Second paper from my new grad lab @marmamsci-ncf.bsky.social - first author is grad student Sophie Flem. First ever diffusion imaging of a baleen brain. We examined auditory pathways and found the biggest differences in cerebellar integration.

abcnews.go.com/US/video/sea... Lab member Carson Hood (and Ronan) interview for ABC News

youtu.be/2bkbPNKueB0?... We thought we were getting jointly interviewed, but last minute pivot meant I got to be the podcaster! First year master's student Carson Hood @marmamsci-ncf.bsky.social did a great job. You TOO can science!

youtu.be/1zZc18B8ZW0 This video really shows how much tighter Ronan is w/ high amplitude beat keeping than standard humans. Wait for the Brady Bunch style polyptych at the end.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh... Another recent project with legendary manatee researchers Gordon Bauer and Roger Reep. We looked at manatee brains and laid out some promising future avenues for understanding these smoothest of cortices.

First study from my new grad lab in marine mammal brain and behavior @marmamsci-ncf.bsky.social : www.nature.com/articles/s41.... They said our beat keeping sea lion (UC Santa Cruz Pinniped Lab's Ronan) wasn't as good as humans. Oh realllly? Master's student Carson Hood did the hard work on this one