🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! 🐳🎉 Our new review paper, now published in Mammal Review, maps the the literature focusing on threats to 19 marine mammal species, to summarise volume of research, and highlight knowledge gaps (for species, locations, threats). Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/mam....

🚨NEW PUBLICATION!🛥 64% of vessels operating within Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are not broadcasting AIS, meaning the majority of vessel activity within MPAs is invisible to the most frequently used monitoring and management systems.

🐋 FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS AND CHECKS!🐋 Help us develop a global atlas collating worldwide examples of the variety of ways citizen and community scientists have contributed to marine mammal research! Check out the current map here: bit.ly/CitSciMap And read below for submission info 🌊

FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Want to share your marine mammal research at one of Scotland's biggest scientific conferences? Submit an abstract to present at the MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social Annual Science Meeting! More info here: masts.ac.uk/annual-scien... Look forward to seeing you there! 🐳🌊

🦭🐳CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! We are working to collate all examples of ways citizen and community scientist initiatives contribute to marine mammal science, and are collating this into an interactive map and a peer review publication! And we need YOU! 🫵📜🗺️ 🧵1/4

🌊🚤Excited to share our latest paper, showing the types of vessels overlapping and interacting with marine mammals around Scotland, highlighting how to reduce your disturbance (check out the @naturescot.bsky.social Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code)🐳🚢 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Marine mammals in the anthropocene - systematic review of publications on threats to marine mammals by @emily-hague.bsky.social identifies key knowledge gaps - also @seamammalresearch.bsky.social #2 in the contributions league table after NOAA! #ECSconference2025 🦑🐋🧪

🐋💙 Today I'm giving a talk on some of my work at the European Cetacean Society, in the Azores 🗺🌊 Over 700 people are here to discuss all things marine mammals, it's so brilliant to be amongst so many incredible people, and hear talks from lifelong heroes of mine 😁💙🐋 @uhishetland.bsky.social

⚓ NEW PUBLICATION! Thrilled that the first paper of the Scottish Vessel Project is now published in Marine Policy showing how AIS data only represents ~40% of coastal vessel traffic around Scotland. 🚤 Why is this important? Read below: 👇⛴ 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Can you spare a few minutes to share your thoughts on marine mammal protection in Scotland?🐳 Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both) Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35 More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com

2/3 🌊 Dive into the MASTS Deep Seas Climate Change WG's Story Map! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/11db... Created by @emily-hague.bsky.social, it provides an interactive look Scottish deep seas and climate driven impacts. #MASTS #DeepSea #StoryMap

Can you spare a few minutes to share your thoughts on marine mammal protection in Scotland?🐳 Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both) Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35 More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com

🌊 Really looking forward to giving a Winter Webinar this week on why communities count when it comes to cetacean conservation! 🐳 Hear more about the Scottish Vessel Project, BLUE CONNECT, IMMAs and more.. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cetacean-c... @heriotwattuni.bsky.social @uhishetland.bsky.social

The best start to the #MarineForum2025 - a behind the scenes tour of the National Museums Scotland collection, then a meeting with many of the BLUE CONNECT project team to plot ideas of what could be ahead for the next few years 🥰🐳🐬🦭 Work rarely feels like work with colleagues as awesome as this! 🙏🏼🥰

Feeling energised after a week of in-person meetings with lovely humans (@strandings.bsky.social, WDC 🐳) to formulate plans for the BLUE CONNECT project, and then attending the UHI Research Conference at @uhiinverness.bsky.social to get to know my new UHI colleagues 🥰🩵🏔🌊!

Delighted to be starting 2025 by going full time with this awesome team 😊🤗🐳 Look forward to what we manage to achieve this year! 💫✨️🌟

Two weeks ago I said "hey we should use this crazy new map projection" and today there is python code! Showing here global vessel presence density (from AIS) using the spilhaus projection in a single view where you can see the whole ocean.

The first day of 2025 🤍💚

Ending 2024 by closing one huge chapter of my life, ready to begin a new one! Today I finally completed a full draft of my PhD thesis! 😱😍🐳🐋 🥳 ready to begin a new postdoctoral position next week at the University of Highlands and Islands, on a project researching marine mammals around Shetland ☺️🐳🦭🐬

🤯 "perhaps most great whales have an unrecognized potential for great longevity that has been masked by the demographic disruptions of industrial whaling. This unrecognized longevity has profound implication for basic biology and conservation of whales." Astonishing stuff.

This is always a highlight of my year, where Scotland's marine mammal nerds get together to catch up and share all the latest goings on 🥰🐳🐬🦭 I'll be hosting an interactive stall there in the afternoon, watch this space for more info 👀🗺🐳🗣💙

Pleased to share a blog on one of my favourite papers I've worked on so far 🐳⚓️❄️ We asked, how do the various models we use compare, when we predict vessel collision risk for recovering whale populations? 🐳🗺 appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/11/21/c...

Such a cool picture of a humpback whale placenta!🐋 Which reminds me of our publication from 2022, when we became placenta nerds after seeing a group of pilot whales behaving a little strangely off Shetland. Check out the video and paper for more info! 🐳💙 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A weekend well spent, land-based whale watching by day and Christmas tree decorating by night 🎄🫶🏽🐳 If you want to here more about Shetland's whales and dolphins, and some of the research occuring here, I'll be speaking at this event on Friday evening 🐳 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/underwater...

Hi Bluesky 👋💙 My research focuses on understanding and reducing threats to marine mammals 🐳🦭🐬, with a particular specialism (and passion) for community science, vessel impacts and Scottish seas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚢 Alongside my work, I'm also RNLI Lifeboat crew and I now call Shetland home ❤️