What a strange & disappointing headline from NRK about the PFAS restriction. Not a celebration that we will protect humans & environment from toxic forever chemicals... but a lament that rain jackets "won't be as waterproof" www.nrk.no/nordland/reg... & why were no toxicologists interviewed?!

Thanks #nets2025 for a fantastic conference! Impressive how much science was packed into 2 days (+ early career workshop). Our @biovitenskap.bsky.social group shared results from the tropics to the Arctic, & zooplankton to whales & polar bears! 🐳🐻‍❄️ w/ @julia-gieb.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social

An honour to be invited by @miljodirektoratet.no to present our research on pollution (& other stressors) in Norwegian whales! 🐳 Fun to connect with old colleagues & discuss how results can be converted into actual change (e.g. chemical regulations). Research is nothing if nobody hears about it!

hahahah this is so so true 😂

It was great to meet future @biovitenskap.bsky.social students at the @uio.no open day last week! I gathered some beautiful photos and videos from fieldwork with #norwegianorcasurvey to give an impression of how it is to do killer whale fieldwork in Norway!🤩🐳

The V International Symposium on Orcas was the largest EVER gathering of orca researchers! 🌍🐳 I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience to all the kickass #womeninSTEM 🙌💪❤️ One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪 Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊

Thanks for a fantastic conference NSFT! A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉

My newest research: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUBE3Ao6B...

A fascinating new study from a great team of scientists, including @bellareeves.bsky.social and @meyer-sci.bsky.social! They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

New research reveals the extraordinary energy demands of humpback whale mothers, who travel over 3,000 miles without food to birth and nourish their 2,600-pound calves, a feat now further imperiled by climate change and marine heatwaves disrupting their critical food supply.

Extended deadline of March 3 2025! 👍

Call for papers! 📣 If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳 I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩‍🔬 ❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025. t.ly/wWDrK

BIOPSY SAMPLING - WHAT & WHY? 🤔🐳 A thread 🧵 Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7) 📷 Krisztina Balotay @uio.no @biovitenskap.bsky.social #norwegianorcasurvey

Still just a postponement for now, but we can hope and pray it never happens!❤️ Tusen takk og fantastisk bra jobba @sv.no

Wow, what an amazing PhD opportunity!! Check it out! ⬇️

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How cool is this!!!

Hi 🦋, I'm a PhD candidate soon to finish on the evolutionary ecology of Australasian killer whales in Aus 🇦🇺. I dabble mostly in pop/evolutionary genomics, trophic and nutritional ecology of marine predators 🧬🧪👩🏻‍🔬

New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇

Still feeling high after an incredible week of science at #smmPerth2024 🤩 I presented results from MULTIWHALE & how stress hormones in Norwegian orcas are affected by whale watching boats. Stay tuned for the publication 🙌 #norwegianorcasurvey @biovitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo.bsky.social #forskning

Our latest paper! 🚨🥳 We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭 See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶 & keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Openaccess @biovitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo.bsky.social

Starting up social media from scratch can be exhausting. This makes it easy to find all our old marine mammal friends! Thank you Emma :)