Ellen R. Jacobs

PhD Candidate at @GUBiology studying behavioral ecology of bottlenose dolphins with @sb_dolphins and @pcdolphinproj 🐬🐬🐬

[vforoughirad @VForoughirad]

I'm excited to announce the Foroughirad Lab will be opening at @AggiesByTheSea in January 2024! I'm actively recruiting grad students to work on cetacean behavior and ecology - see my website for more details!
https://t.co/iVjvt64Elj

[Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb_dolphins]

So excited to welcome Dr. Karan to our lab!

[Grace Fogarty / gracefogarty.bsky.social @GraceFogarty17]

Awesome first few days in Shark Bay with @sb_dolphins 🐬 Excited to be working under @M_MacQueeney with the other wonderful RAs this season !

Photos taken under DBCA license F025000102-4

[Morgan Pirozzi @morganpirozzi]

First week in Australia in the books, so grateful to be a part of the @sb_dolphins team! Looking forward to a great 2023 season here in Shark Bay :)

Photos taken under DBCA License F025000102-4

[Molly McEntee @MHFMcEntee]

A little late, but excited to announce that our paper on lifespan in Shark Bay bottlenose dolphins was published a few weeks ago! We used 35 years of data on ~1000 dolphins to look at male and female mortality risk across their 50+ year lifespan. https://t.co/MpSKpjTDbf

[Frants Jensen, PhD @frantsjensen]

🚨 Excited 🚨 to see our new paper on #DolphinCommunication published in @PNASnews, revealing fascinating evidence of "motherese" in bottlenose dolphins! 🐬👶 Want the short summary? Read on! #AnimalCommunication @WHOI @WHOImedia @marinemammalAU @_SMRU_ @dolphinsarasota

[Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb_dolphins]

How long do Shark Bay dolphins live? Do females outlive males? The answers and more are in our new paper - out today in @RSocPublishing
#ProcB led by @MHFMcEntee ! https://t.co/ykxTYvR0VA

[Kate Sprogis @KateSprogis]

Because the industry actively seeks out whales and dolphins, using quieter boats should be a priority. Yet current whale-watching guidelines, do not include noise levels. See our article @ConversationEDU by myself, @FChristiansen83 and @PatArranz: https://t.co/f6wZZxLycf

[Ellen R. Jacobs @ellenrjacobs]

I finally made it to @CurtinUni this week to start a six week stint collaborating with @CMST_oceans to do some sound propagation modeling with sponging dolphins! Ask me again in a couple of weeks and we’ll have some cool new results 🧽🐬🌊😎

[Rachel Milito @rfoxmilito]

This was an insulting offer from @Georgetown, a university that talks about caring for the whole person. How can I care for myself with only an extra $169 with 8% inflation?

[Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb_dolphins]

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. @MHFMcEntee for defending a brilliant dissertation this week! Keep an eye out for exciting new work on female reproduction coming soon! 🎉🍾🥳🐬✨

[Molly McEntee @MHFMcEntee]

Grad workers are just asking to be paid enough to meet our basic needs. Do better @Georgetown @RobertMGroves

[Rachel Milito @rfoxmilito]

With such high inflation (and average DC rent increases of 9% between 2021 and 2022) in the past few years, it is a shame that @Georgetown is offering such a small wage increase to its graduate workers who teach and perform essential research for the university.

[Jewel Tomasula, PhD @JewelTomasula]

I learned so much from my friend Trent (@WashUGradWkrs & @HigherEdLabor) about the history of STEM organizing. In here too is a description of @WeAreGAGE Biology organizing, written by me :)

[Ellen R. Jacobs @ellenrjacobs]

Come work with me this summer!

[Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb_dolphins]

Are you an undergrad interested in joining our dolphin research team this summer? We have an NSF #REU opportunity open through Georgetown! Applications due Feb 15th! See our website for more details and contact information https://t.co/h6PQidclPL

Apply: https://t.co/L0NZz7l3W0

[Ellen R. Jacobs @ellenrjacobs]

Did you know baby dolphins have whiskers? This baby was on its second day of life when we saw it yesterday! The whiskers (on top of the rostrum) will fall out in a couple days, but until then they help sense things in the environment while they’re still learning to be a dolphin.

[Ellen R. Jacobs @ellenrjacobs]

You know you’re bad at science twitter when you try to tweet about the end of your second (!!) 2022 Shark Bay field season with @sb_dolphins and you realize this will be your first tweet from Australia. It’s been a ride and I already miss the dolphins!

[Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project @sb_dolphins]

On November 1st, we celebrated a special day for the Shark Bay— Bytfluke the dolphin turned 50 years old! She is a sponge forager, so we baked her a sponge cake in the shape of her fin and her favorite foraging implement, a sea sponge!

[Taylor Hersh @taylorahersh]

1/10) Very happy to announce that our new paper is out in @PNASNews! We show evidence that sperm whale clans in the Pacific Ocean use identity codas as symbolic markers of vocal clan identity. Read the paper at: https://t.co/bwjas8P679

[Ellen R. Jacobs @ellenrjacobs]

@Dan_E_Solo Field research too, @MHFMcEntee can verify 🐬