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Morgan McCarthy
@marinemolecol.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Swedish Museum of Natural History. Studying 🐋🦭🐬 using their 🧬.
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What can plants from hot and cold deserts teach us about how plants evolve abiotic stress polyresistance (i.e. resistance to multiple abiotic stressors)? 🌿☀️❄️🧂

Check out our new review, just out now in Biological Reviews:
doi.org/10.1002/brv....

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Hot and cold deserts as eco‐evolutionary arenas for understanding plant resistance to multiple abiotic stressors
During their long evolutionary history, land plants have evolved a range of adaptations to different abiotic stressors. These help explain present-day diversity and distribution patterns, as well as ...
doi.org
September 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Baird's beaked whales varying in color and body size were suggested to be unique forms as early as the 1950s. After several decades and investigations into these deep diving, elusive whales, Sato's beaked whale was formally recognized as a separate species in 2019.
June 18, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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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
December 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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 🧬🦭.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#MarineMammals #PopGen #consgen
June 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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‼️ 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)
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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🤩!
January 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM