I'm a PhD student interested in marine mammals, molecular biology and fat regulation. Quite a particular mix!

Joined January 2019
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📢📢PAPER ALERT‼️ My first first-authored paper!🍾🍾 Do you want to know more about partial pressure of oxygen in adipose tissue? 🤔 Check out our new paper, and outstanding collaboration between @AbertayUni and @_SMRU_ , published by @PhysRep ⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.14814/phy2.14972
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Excited to be at @EuroCetSoc in Dundee after so many years since I last attended! 📢 Come to see me on Thursday at Poster #092, in which I present part of my PhD work on grey seal 🦭 blubber histological and molecular changes during the reproduction fast.
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L'incidencia al Prat d'ahir va fer parar al tren al aeroport en el que viatjava. Quan al final ens van informar del motiu de la parada, vaig compartir un taxi al aeroport amb un noi per no perdre el vol. Es pot reclamar el cost del taxi @rodalies ?
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Hem detectat a través del voluntariat de @RitmeNatura que MÉS DE 200 espècies de #plantes han florit fora d'època el darrer any a #Catalunya 😱🤯 Us expliquem quin és el motiu:
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We’re hiring a 3-year #postdoc in statistical ecology in #Seattle. Apply your statistical skills to conservation & natural resource management: killer whales, dolphins, salmon, climate change, fisheries. Is this you? oceansinitiative.org/careers…
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New paper out! 🚨 We show that vampire bats use amino acids from a recent blood meal to fuel RUNNING - a rare mode of locomotion in bats ideal for stalking prey. I’d worry less about your neck and more about your ankles! 🧛🏻‍♂️ @WelchLab_UTSC @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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🚨New paper alert!🚨 Groundbreaking study led by SMRU @JChrisMcKnight2 and colleagues from @SMRU_Instrument tests the drag effects of GPS tags on seal behaviour and redesigns them to improve hydrodynamics doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2
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Si la #DANA i altres fenòmens climàtics extrems van en augment, com podem fer-hi front? 🌪️ Doncs la solució a llarg termini no passa per afegir més estructures i ciment, sinó per recuperar la natura. Ens ho explica la nostra investigadora Broekman 👀👇🏼 creaf.cat/ca/articles/com-fe…
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El 31 d'octubre em trobareu a la biblioteca de la sagrada família parlant de cetacis 🥰
Replying to @jordicanalsoler
🔊CETACIS A LA COSTA CATALANA 📅Dijous 31/10 ⏰18:30h 📍#bbcnSagradaFamilia 🗣️@ClaudiaAuladell, biòloga ambiental, especialista en cetacis Quins cetacis 🐳🐬 podem veure a la costa catalana? Quines característiques té cada espècie? Què hem de fer si ens en trobem al mar?
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Calling All Seal Enthusiasts! Following my presentation at WILDLABS Variety Hour last week, I'm now excited to announce that our paper has been published. Interested in the deep-sea behaviors of northern elephant seals? 🦭 Dive in: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… @WILDLABSNET
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¿Sabías que la carne y las aletas de los tiburones contienen altos niveles de neurotoxinas asociadas con el Alzheimer? 🦈😥⚠️ ¡Veámoslo con este #hilo! 👇🏼🧵 #Comparte #Tiburones #Rayas #Educación #Océano #Conservación #Educación #Sharks #Rays #Scicomm
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Come join our team in wonderful Tromsø!! ❄️New 2.5 year postdoc position at @NorskPolar to identify & map prey distribution of @SeatrackScience seabird species 😊🪶🐠 : jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…

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Job Alert 📢 3yr @LeverhulmeTrust funded postdoc on the Evolution of Animal Play 🐬🐒🐘 inc. fieldwork with the Shark Bay dolphins. Field experience with wild animals quantitative skills essential. Come join our collaborative team! Pls share widely 🙏 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP957/resear…
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Elephant seals can hold their breath for up to 2h without suffering hypoxic injuries. Soon-to-be Dr. Kaitlin Allen characterized the molecular response to low oxygen tension in vascular endothelial cells derived from these champion divers! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/ar…
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¿Quieres iniciarte en la investigación con cetáceos? No lo dudes, inscríbete para optar a una beca @JAEIntro_CSIC con MegaMAR en el @IEO_Malaga @IEOoceanografia @CSIC 📌sede.csic.gob.es/intro2024 #JAEINTRO2024
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📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Scrutinizing claims on functional UCP1 in elephant seals: Why the big fellas have lost it and the little guys didn’t… Terrestrial birth and body size tune UCP1 functionality in seals academic.oup.com/mbe/article…
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The real reason that a minute isn't an official SI unit is that it's actually a highly variable length of time. I've been working for 3 days on a job that I was assured would just take a minute
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El salari d’un investigador predoc FPU (contracte del @UniversidadGob @subirats9) a Barcelona: 1050 els dos primers anys i 1150 el tercer @FPUinvestiga @FJIprecarios @CienciaGob @DianaMorantR
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1.516 euros: el salari mensual mínim per viure dignament a Barcelona, segons l'AMB ccma.cat/324/1516-euros-el-s…
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Coming up soon: @EuroCetSoc Council Chair vote! Consider @TilenGenov. Prior council member, involved in planning Halifax @marinemammalogy conference, @IUCN cetacean specialist group, founder of @Morigenos_org and overlooked male model! iucn-csg.org/tilen-genov/ #ecsconference2024
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