PhD submitted!🎉 Pic 1: June 1st 2021: day 1 of dream PhD to study multiple stressors in Norwegian orcas 🫍 & 6m pregnant baby #1 🥹 Pic 2: May 7th 2026. 2 days before PhD submission! 7.5m pregnant with baby #3 ❤️ 5 years, 3 babies, 1 PhD 😅 More PhD updates soon, inc publications & defense date!📅

Great days at the 1st Andenes whale summit, showcasing #whale #research in #Norway. Even treated to 20 sperm whales after talks 🤩🐳 I shared #PhD results about effects of unregulated whale watching. But a great reminder of the benefits of ww when done sustainably and as a research platform 👏🐳🐋🫍

Some great days at #ECS2026 in Dundee presenting our orca research 🫍 #multiwhale @biovitenskap.bsky.social #norwegianorcasurvey But PHEW… presenting is hard at 7 months pregnant with squashed lungs & organs 😮‍💨😅 appreciate all the great feedback and interested people who found me after 🥹🫶

🚨New publication alert! 🚨 We have published a new method for studying steroid hormones in tiny whale samples 🐳🐋🫍 Great news for conservation - now precious samples can be used for multiple analyses 🧬 OPEN ACCESS in @conphysjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/conp...

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Congrats to @clareandvik.bsky.social on her first Whale Scientists infographic! Full story: whalescientists.com/a-new-method... Samples from Norwegian Orca Survey, project MULTIWHALE 🐳

🧪 Whale hormones… from less than a grain of rice A new method can measure 8 hormones (like stress & pregnancy) from tiny blubber samples, meaning more insight from every biopsy. 🐋 Stranded whales showed higher stress 🇳🇴 ONE sample can now reveal pollution, diet & health Big step for conservation

Happy International Day of Women and Girl’s in Science! This is one of my favourite pictures, taken almost a year ago (?!!!) at the Orca Symposium in Tarifa. A collection of some of the most kickass, inspiring, wonderful and supportive young female scientists I know 🙌🐳❤️

It didn't make the news in the English language but if you want to machine translate it here is the link to the story in Norwegian:

Final day of Arctic Frontiers #EmergingLeaders #AF2026 #EL2026 Presented at kickoff meeting of #Polhavet (Arctic Ocean) 2050. Intense week. New people, new information, new impressions and new ways of thinking. Hopefully friends for life. Hopefully success in making the Arctic a better place.

Thoughts on the Arctic Frontiers conference, inc. some of the geopolitics 👇 (a 🧵 because I can’t compress it all!) Arctic Frontiers is the largest Arctic-focused conference in the world: attracting scientists, politicians, policy makers and diplomats. Given geopolitical tensions it was also timely

Day 4 of @arcticfrontiers #EmergingLeaders #AF2026 #EL2026 Worked with a professional videographer to film a 2 minute video to be shown at the conference (in front of important guests inc. prime minister of Norway! I also presented to the group, and took part in the scientific poster session 🐳

Day 3 of Arctic Frontiers #EmergingLeaders #AF2026 #EL2026 (Bit behind on updates as been so busy!) Woke up in Kabelvåg and trip to Viking museum. Fascinating private tour and talk by the director on the importance of museums. Group work then hurtigruten - little detour to see Trollfjord by night.

Day 2 of @arcticfrontiers #EmergingLeaders #AF2026 #EL2026 We made it to Kabelvåg on Lofoten with mountains and northern lights. The next day was a morning of snow shoeing in the snowy sunrise, and an afternoon of presentations and group work. Rounded off by sauna and polar plunge 🧖‍♀️

First 24 hours of #EmergingLeaders #AF2026 #El2026 29 early career researchers/professionals + several mentors gathered in Bodø, above the Arctic circle in Norway. Icebreakers, lectures, workshops & museum visits. Together imagining the future of the Arctic. Beautiful scenery day and night. 🌅❄️🌖

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Zoë Morange! 🐳🧪 It was a wonderful defense of a wonderful thesis! You can check out her thesis on the Seasonal and Individual patterns in habitat use of male sperm whales in their arctic foraging grounds here: nva.sikt.no/registration...

Excited to have been named one of the 2026 #EmergingLeaders in the Arctic! #EL2026. Looking forward to discussing the current visions, trends and challenges in the Arctic with other early career professionals. Culminating in Arctic Frontiers #Af2026 in Tromsø arcticfrontiers.com/emerginglead...

Happy New Year! 2025 was a whirlwind. Back to work after maternity leave with daughter #2, and despite childcare challenges great PhD progress was made! Happy to get out on fieldwork with Norwegian Orca Survey too. Stay tuned for (hopefully many) exciting papers coming in 2026! (📷 Vegard Aasen)

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 :)