Morgan McCarthy

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

Ever wondered what a jaguar’s love life looks like? Neither had we — until we captured the first-ever video of jaguar mating in the wild, featuring a rare black jaguar. 🐆😍🐈‍⬛ 🧪🌏🌐🍁. Check out the full video here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Ecology #Conservation #Biodiversity #Wildlife

Photo credit to Morten Tange Olsen 🙏🏻

These results can help guide grey seal management and also clarify taxonomic relationships. Notably, we found the NW Atlantic to be more differentiated from the NE Atlantic and Baltic Sea, than the latter two are to each other, despite the NW Atlantic and NE Atlantic being considered one subspecies.

We showed marked differentiation between the NW Atlantic, NE Atlantic and Baltic Sea grey seals. These results also showed subpopulations within the NE Atlantic, including Froan and Kola, and Iceland standing out as differentiated.

Photo credit: Morten Tange Olsen

Interested in range-wide grey seal population structure and demographic history? See our new open access study! It was a fantastic international collaboration and special thanks to @tangeolsen.bsky.social and Kristina Cammen 🧬🦭.
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#MarineMammals #PopGen #consgen

‼️ 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)

Thank you!

Here are some 2024 highlights of PCI and Peer Community Journal.📊 Grateful to everyone who contributed to this success🦸. We're excited and prepared for an amazing 2025🤩!

Hi Vanessa, I study marine mammal genomics. Could you please add me?

Hi Emma, thanks for initiating this. Can you please add me as well?