Nick Freymueller
@smilodontology.bsky.social
Paleoecology postdoc based in 🇩🇰/🇦🇺. I study past/present extinctions so we can stop future ones. Currently working on Arctic megafauna 🐋. Alaskan. FRY-myoo-ler
FAMM will be particularly useful for researchers seeking to use inter-disciplinary techniques to understand how #Arctic #marine #mammals will respond to the current #ClimateCrisis
Open-Access Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Open-Access Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Introducing FAMM: An Open‐Access Database of Fossil Arctic Marine Mammals
Motivation The Arctic is currently experiencing the strongest effects of climate change on Earth. These effects, including sea ice loss, are already modifying the ecologies of the 11 species of mari...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
FAMM will be particularly useful for researchers seeking to use inter-disciplinary techniques to understand how #Arctic #marine #mammals will respond to the current #ClimateCrisis
Open-Access Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Open-Access Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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FAMM is by far the largest #fossil database (~3400 specimens), including 3 #Whale 🐋 species, #PolarBear 🐻❄️, #Walrus, 6 #Seal species 🦭, and the Steller's Sea Cow.
FAMM is also the FIRST fossil database to harmonize #Radiocarbon ☢️, #StableIsotopes ⚛️, and #AncientDNA 🧬 at the specimen level!
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FAMM is also the FIRST fossil database to harmonize #Radiocarbon ☢️, #StableIsotopes ⚛️, and #AncientDNA 🧬 at the specimen level!
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September 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
FAMM is by far the largest #fossil database (~3400 specimens), including 3 #Whale 🐋 species, #PolarBear 🐻❄️, #Walrus, 6 #Seal species 🦭, and the Steller's Sea Cow.
FAMM is also the FIRST fossil database to harmonize #Radiocarbon ☢️, #StableIsotopes ⚛️, and #AncientDNA 🧬 at the specimen level!
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FAMM is also the FIRST fossil database to harmonize #Radiocarbon ☢️, #StableIsotopes ⚛️, and #AncientDNA 🧬 at the specimen level!
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Pre-print link with all the cool findings available here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full article to be submitted for publication next week!
Nice way for my final #PhD chapter to be polished off a week before the thesis gets submitted!
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full article to be submitted for publication next week!
Nice way for my final #PhD chapter to be polished off a week before the thesis gets submitted!
🐋/🐋
May 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Pre-print link with all the cool findings available here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full article to be submitted for publication next week!
Nice way for my final #PhD chapter to be polished off a week before the thesis gets submitted!
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Full article to be submitted for publication next week!
Nice way for my final #PhD chapter to be polished off a week before the thesis gets submitted!
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We then combined this with high-resolution ecological niche models and bowhead whale movement patterns (from telemetry) to evaluate if #Holocene habitat connectivity patterns explain the current genetic structure! 🔄
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May 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We then combined this with high-resolution ecological niche models and bowhead whale movement patterns (from telemetry) to evaluate if #Holocene habitat connectivity patterns explain the current genetic structure! 🔄
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We sequenced contemporary bowhead whale #genomes from across their ENTIRE circumpolar range to compare genetic relatedness between the four recognised management stocks! 🧬
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May 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We sequenced contemporary bowhead whale #genomes from across their ENTIRE circumpolar range to compare genetic relatedness between the four recognised management stocks! 🧬
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