Felicia Vachon

PhD student in the Whitehead lab studying Eastern Caribbean sperm whales and how culture can affect behaviour, social structure and distribution.

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

Video abstract by the very talented @SackettMeredith (@art4ascientist ) 😊: https://t.co/LxRiLWurb0

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

First PhD chapter published in RS Open Science! with
@taylorahersh @_lrendell @sgero and H.Whitehead!

"Ocean nomads or island specialists? Culturally driven habitat partitioning contrasts in scale between geographically isolated sperm whale populations"

https://t.co/kZ61Rclq64

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

And what a great adventure it was ! Thanks to Lukes 10/10 skippering skills!!

[Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social @_lrendell]

1600 miles, 13 days 7hrs, and home ❤️ Balaena

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

@_lrendell Memories!!! ❤️🔥

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

@_lrendell Such good memories!! I love the vlogs 😁👍

[Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social @_lrendell]

One year ago today (yes, NYE!) @_fvachon and I plus 3 crew set off to deliver a certain Valiant 40 from Hampton VA to Antigua. Buckles were swashed. We made a short video every day and are reliving the passage - follow us south! #ThrowbackThursday #Sailing Day 1: Departure

[Stuart K Watson @ChimpsAhoi]

Our latest paper! 🥳

We find the ability to track relationships between distant items in an acoustic sequence, an ability critical to syntax + language, is widespread in primates. It therefore likely predates language itself by 30-40+ million years!

https://t.co/tow816UVPV

[Marie Louis @marie__louis]

We are happy to share our preprint investigating the mechanisms underlying how populations adapt to novel environments. For this, we study parallel adaptation of bottlenose dolphins from pelagic to coastal habitat across their range using 57 whole genomes. https://t.co/aEo1SrUK8K

[Claude Garcia @ClaudeAGarcia]

Bending the curve of biodiversity, just published in @nature. What are the 6⃣ actions needed to make it happen? ⬇️

[Bioacoustics AU @BioacousticsAU]

Congrats to Pernille Tønnesen et al
 on their cool paper where we for the first time have recorded prey echoes from tags on sperm whales, showing that they employ long range #echolocation

@AarhusUni @AzWhaleLab
@_SMRU_ #dtag

https://t.co/aeaxzVCcFK

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

I pledge to continue opposing racism and hate, including systemic racism in science. And to do this work everyday, beyond social posts like this. (Thanks @sgero ) Whitehead lab join me ! @anaeguiguren2 @jr4science @deepdivewhales @taylorahersh

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

@_lrendell @MarkFHulme You also did great @_lrendell ! 🙂

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

Thank you @UWI_StAugustine and @MarkFHulme for inviting me and @_lrendell to share our research! For those interested in sperm whale distribution and culture the recorded seminar is now available🙂 *Please do not cite without permission, results are preliminary and unpublished

[Mark Hulme @MarkFHulme]

The recording of this great @UWI_StAugustine @univofstandrews @DalhousieU seminar by @_lrendell and @_fvachon on #Caribbean #SpermWhales is now available to watch! Some results are not yet published so please don't cite without the presenters' permission https://t.co/2REgCJDpmE

[Adrià López-Baucells - Connecting Bats & People @adria_baucells]

#Biodiversity2020 An excellent day to remember how many cool species of bats help us every night out there, and how much we need to conserve them! This is just an example from the #Amazon
@InsideNatGeo @mcngranollers

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

Very excited about this ! Thank you @MarkFHulme for the opportunity !

[Mark Hulme @MarkFHulme]

I'm delighted that the covid19-delayed @UWI_StAugustine seminar by @_lrendell and @_fvachon on The Distribution and Population Structure of Sperm #Whales in the #Caribbean will now go ahead online on Thursday 21st May. Can't wait! https://t.co/gkGEfZr3MB

[Kirsten Young @seaspray500]

Some hope for the oceans in future if we #Protecttheocean now. Please share my op ed in ⁦@TIME⁩ ⁦@GPScienceUnit⁩ ⁦@gp_sunrise⁩ ⁦@UniofExeter⁩ ⁦@ExeterMarine⁩ https://t.co/X7lsu86NDq

[Shane Gero @[email protected] @sgero]

Excited to be a part of @InsideNatGeo #ExplorerClassroom Tuesday May 12th at 2pm ET for their special programming for learners in PreK-Grade 2.

Kids who like #whales, #ocean, and storytelling - TUNE IN!

Register or follow live @NatGeoEducation: https://t.co/z9QDoHIy3w

[Fredrik Christiansen @FChristiansen83]

Large fat reserves (i.e. body condition) are crucial for baleen whale survival and reproduction. Our latest paper shows that the North Atlantic right whale is in poor body condition, which is likely contributing to its current population decline.

[Stephanie L King @stephanielking.bsky.social @_StephanieLKing]

We have a paper out today in Proceedings B - "Acoustic coordination by allied male dolphins in a cooperative context". Why is this interesting? See thread 👇
https://t.co/FUOatHARY6
@RSocPublishing @BristolBioSci @CEB_UWA @ResearchDolphin

[Felicia Vachon @_fvachon]

Footage from the 2020 season for those who wonder how studying sperm whale culture starts ! 😊

[Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social @_lrendell]

Here is how the data comes in - sperm whales exchanging codas as captured by https://t.co/O6o8pOBarE