Do you want to join our great interdisciplinary team? Please have a look at these 2 PhD positions! Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development University of Groningen Canada in the Arctic Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen
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📢🚨Job vacancy in our #radiocarbon #lab - Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Compound Specific Radiocarbon Dating - Apply by 7 May 2024 to work with us Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit! Full details here: arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Had a great time at BioArCh performing proteomic analysis on some cetacean taxa for which ZooMS reference markers have not been created yet. Funded by IPERION HS 🐳

Excited to see this work published! We propose elevating the species status of Bigg’s and resident killer whales to full species considering genetics, morphology and more!

Paper link:
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Phillip Morin (he/him) Kim Parsons John Durban and collaborators not on X.

Registration for the Oceans Past Initiative conference is now OPEN! See oceanspast.org for registration costs, accommodation & travel guides, conference activities etc. This is shaping up to be an exciting event in Cornwall, join us if you can! ExeterMarine University of Exeter CEC ICES

Registrations for the upcoming OPIX conference are now open! 👇🏽

Here it is - an index of North Sea productivity back to 800CE. Amazing work led by Cordula Implications for all sorts of ocean history @4oceanserc Oceans Past Initiative journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Hear ye! Hear ye!
I have an open PhD position in my lab 🐳🧬🔎.
Topic is Arctic marine mammal ancient DNA and palaeoecology.
Includes wet lab data generation, and computational analysis.
Help me spread the word - link below.
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We received a whopping 110 (excellent) abstracts for the Oceans Past Initiative conference and had to make some tough decisions. Thank you to all submitters! Registration opening soon, we are excited to see you at University of Exeter CEC in Cornwall in June! ExeterMarine ICES University of Exeter, Cornwall

Fifth grey whale sighting in the Atlantic! The species has been extirpated from the western North Atlantic for at least 200 years and we (James H. Barrett Dr Danny Buss and others!) are currently working on a radiocarbon paper to clarify the timing in Europe!
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Bow-heading north? New paper on the possible role of large whales in facilitating human occupation at the incipient Skagerrak-Kattegat seaboard in Southern Scandinavia during the final stretches of the last Ice Age 🐋🐳🐻 #BlueHumanities #multispecies #Whales MESH Research Hub

Excited to share our latest results from Radiocarbon journal! We've successfully traced the onset of crop cultivation and animal husbandry in the Dutch wetlands, narrowing it down from 300 years to just 30 (91% range) using Bayesian modeling! #Swifterbant 🌾🐄 doi.org/10.1017/RDC.20…

Five attractive positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Doctoral Network (2024–2027) - project on Archaeological Coastal Heritage: Past, present and future of a hidden prehistoric legacy (ArCHe) are still open for applications. arche.uio.no/?fbclid=IwAR0k…

LAST CHANCE to submit an abstract and requests ECR funds for our interdisciplinary Oceans Past Initiative conference in #Cornwall , June 2024! Submit abstracts to [email protected] by 2 Feb. More information on our website: oceanspast.org/opx.php ExeterMarine University of Exeter CEC ICES

Very nice animation/gif by Dr Danny Buss on the archaeological whale data I collected during my PhD!

Abstract submission and ICES ECR funding for the Oceans Past Initiative conference is extended to 2 Feb! Come join us for what promises to be an exciting meeting in beautiful Cornwall (with optional sea swims, garden lunches, boat and museum trips planned!) University of Exeter CEC ExeterMarine

Next time you look at the wonderful North Sea, think about that it until very recently harbored lots of grey #whales & North Atlantic right whales (plus other big whales), as this recent study shows royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…🐳🐋
#whaling #extinction #emptyocean #northsea #vesterhav

This coming Thursday (14 Dec) at 11:00 EST/17:00 CET I will be giving a talk in the #ArtBioMatters Fall Speaker Series about marine #shagreen objects (see the gorgeous 18th c. nécessaire from The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the #historicalecology of #elasmobranchs 🦈

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A post-doc is available in my team Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples to explore the ecological consequences of range-expanding species into the Mediterranean using the Last Interglacial as an analog of climate scenarios. Interdisciplinary project bridging the life and earth sciences! (1/n)

Another vertebral column done! Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)