"Migratory fidelity across four decades shapes genetic structure of humpback whales on feeding grounds of the eastern North Pacific" 🐳🧬
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Poster #235
Oceanwinds poster session
Wednesday 17:40-19:00
I'm looking forward to presenting my findings on the spatio-temporal genetic structure of humpback whales feeding in the North Pacific over the past 4 decades from my postdoc at the Marine Mammal Institute @oregonstate.edu at the European Cetacean Society (ECS) conference in Scotland next week. 🐳🧬
We have an open MSc Project Position at the Urban Vervet Project, and are currently looking for a
motivated teammate to discover species interactions in a human altered environment 👇🏼 For more INFO👇🏼
Victims’ Background Shapes Perceptions of Police Violence. 🔗 www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...
New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.
I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! Computational lab. Message me if interested, and can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547
📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...
Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
Nesting kittiwakes on coastal cliffs in Scotland
New SUPER DTP PhD research now OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. Kittiwakes and past colony connectivity #ornithology #seabirds. Many thanks to collaborators & supervisors, funders, reviewers. Follow the link 👇🏻
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Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
So much to take away from Taylor Hersh’s keynote — taking us deep into the cultural realms of sperm whale vocal clans across the oceans. 🐋 Heartfelt thanks, @taylorhersh.bsky.social!
Logo of the NGO Opération Cétacés. It shows a humpback whale surrounded by the name of the NGO written in a circle.
This work would not have been possible w/o the long-term monitoring of humpback whales in New Caledonia by the Opération Cétacés. Behind that is a huge amount of effort from numerous researchers, students, and volunteers, and especially from @clairenea.bsky.social & @solenederville.bsky.social 🐳✨6/7
A humpback whale lunging its head out of the water
Most of what we know about whales comes from the post-whaling era. Populations of whales have changed a lot because of whaling; our study shows they continue to change as they recover from whaling. This is why continued long-term monitoring of previously exploited populations is so important. 5/7
Mating behaviour & who successfully reproduced changed with this shift in the age structure. As the population recovered, there were more older males singing and successfully reproducing compared to younger animals than expected based on the underlying population age structure. 4/7
Graphical abstract of the paper
Over 19 years, the population age structure switched from a left-skewed, rapidly increasing low-density population toward a more evenly distributed age structure (incl. young & older males) when abundance was higher in later years. 3/7
Using long-term behavioural, paternity, and ageing data of male humpback whales breeding in New Caledonia, we assessed changes in the population age structure, behaviour, and patterns of reproduction over almost two decades. 2/7
Humpback whale breaching in front of the New Caledonian coastline.
New paper on age-related reproductive tactics & success in humpback whales, published in Current Biology.🐳🧬
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#marmam @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social 1/7
🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates.
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
🐋 Loved having a chat about bubble netting humpbacks on @npr.org's Science Desk with Nate Rott! As a *major* NPR Tiny Desk fan... can someone tell me is this the scientists' equivalent?! 🤪
www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
Exciting new research on drone validation for body mass in small cetaceans. #MarMam 🐬
Really excited to see this out and have contributed to a fascinating story in marine mammal science! Fab collab between SMRU and the Sable Island team, bringing together seal scientists from both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks to @oceanfrontier.bsky.social for my visiting fellowship!
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
Uppsala in late autumn
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
✨ Exciting new work on the cooperative bubble netting of humpback whales in the North Pacific by the wonderful @eadinomahony.bsky.social 🐳 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
Holy cow! 🐄 and what a wonderful video abstract!
The ENDOW project is seeking a Research Officer in Research Data Management to be based at the London School of Economics. - Oversee and extend our database covering geospatial, demographic, economic & social network data from 50+ communities in 30+ countries! - Contribute to research on the dynamics of social and economic inequality! - Join a stellar interdisciplinary team! - funded by the ESRC and the NSF [world map showing location of ENDOW communities; photos of some of the team members and some of the ENDOW communities showing their diversity
Research Officer in Research Data Management Salary from £43,277 to £48,220 pa inclusive of London allowance Fixed-term appointment for 18 months This research officer position is to work with Eleanor Power as part of the ongoing "ENDOW" project (Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality), funded by the UKRI and US National Science Foundation. The research officer will be based in the Department of Methodology, a leading centre for research and education in social science research methods. While we expect this to be a full-time appointment, we are open to considering the possibility of a part-time appointment. The post entails overseeing and extending the database of the "ENDOW" project, which includes data from over fifty communities around the world, comprising economic, demographic, and social network data characterising each community, its resident households, and the individuals within them. The research officer will be responsible for the expansion of this database to include longitudinal data from each community site, implementing a robust data infrastructure to manage and curate this information. The research officer will work closely with Dr Power and data contributors to ensure data quality, standardisation, and appropriate governance. They will contribute to core analyses of the ENDOW project and develop tools and resources that will be of wide utility for the collection, curation, and analysis of cross-cultural data. This role is central to building the data infrastructure that will enable meaningful, productive comparisons across these diverse field sites and will ultimately serve as a resource for the broader scientific community. The successful candidate will: Have a completed PhD, be close to completing a PhD, or have other research experience that demonstrates the capability to produce independent original research Have experience with database design, data management and data governance Have experience with programming in R or Python
🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social.
Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality.
Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out!
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
