Big news from the Indian Ocean! First sighting of the incredibly rare Omura’s whale, confirming previous acoustic recordings in the Chagos Archipelago. Project to determine cetacean 🐋 diversity by @iomarinescience.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Photos by me 🧪 🌍 🧵1/5

As one of the organising committee for the UK & Ireland student chapter of @marinemammalogy.bsky.social, I'm especially pleased to share that the next event will take place at my own stomping ground @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social. Keen to welcome everyone here, spread the word!

We had a great time at the #ECSconference2025 hosting a workshop, giving talks or presenting posters, eating some excellent pastel de nata, and topping the week of with a whale watching trip seeing orca, sperm and sei whales!! 🐋

Thanks to the ECS team for having me!! and to everyone here for sharing such exciting work - what a cool group of people, and in a very cool place!! 😎🐬

We wrote a wee blog post detailing the findings of our most recent study @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and why the results are important! Give it a read below ⬇️

Surprised and delighted to have received the Bernie McConnell prize for Innovation, for a short talk on my (very in-the-works) PhD outline. Huge thanks to all my supervisory team for giving me the chance to get stuck in, excited to see where we end up!! 😎

🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! I'm Katie, a PhD student at the UoPlymouth, working on bottlenose dolphin monitoring using drones, acoustics & photo-ID. 🐬 I'm also a Doctoral Teaching Assistant, and help deliver undergraduates courses. Interested in all things marine mammals, get in touch if you are too! 😊