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A lot of cuddling whales, dolphins, and seals 🦭🐳🤗 Very excited to share our review on how touch mediates social relationships in marine mammals with the amazing Sam Walmsley, LJ Feyrer @deepdivewhales.bsky.social, Elizabeth Zwamborn, and Hal Whitehead www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The role of touch in marine mammal society: a review and future directions
While social living has many advantages, it also has significant challenges associated with differences in individual needs and abilities. Individuals…
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November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🐳 New Marine Mammal Paper🐬 *Three decades of observer records reveal ongoing risks of marine mammal depredation and entanglement in Canada’s Atlantic fisheries* academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
Three decades of observer records reveal ongoing risks of marine mammal depredation and entanglement in Canada’s Atlantic fisheries
Abstract. Marine mammals adapt foraging strategies in response to human activities and environmental change, often resulting in conflicts with fisheries. W
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August 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Super happy to share our new preprint on inferring Galapagos sperm whale sex and age-class using drone photogrammetry 🐳 📏 along with the wonderful @cmk-clarke.bsky.social, David Gaspard, and Hal Whitehead www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Inferring sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sex and developmental stage using aerial photogrammetry
Demographic data (i.e. sex and age) are fundamental for analyzing behaviour patterns and evaluating the reproductive potential of a population. However, determining these traits in the wild can be cha...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??

🦑 🌊 🌿
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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*check OUT, not our. Blergh.

But while you're at the booth, you *could* also ask about OUR new book too ("our" in this case being me and @bgmerkle.bsky.social) I bet Jeremy won't mind if you preorder his and ours at the same time! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences
Blending deep experience, evidence-based advice, and good humor, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.   Every scientist eventually teaches scient...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Comparto con mucha emoción nuestro artículo de libre acceso sobre los retos y oportunidades para incorporar la dimensión cultural a la conservación de los cachalotes del Océano Pacífico Este Tropical 🐳🌎! @lrendell.bsky.social @migratoryspecies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Integrating cultural dimensions in sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) conservation: threats, challenges and solutions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Culture—socially transmitted behaviours shared within a community—can influence animal populations' structure, vulnerability and resilience. Clans of sperm whales in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP)...
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May 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM