Great news from South Georgia, where an Antarctic blue #whale photographed in 2019 has been re-sighted in 2026! Whale “Magrathea” comes from a small but growing photo-ID catalogue (42 individuals) of this Critically Endangered whale at #SouthGeorgia, collected by visitors & researchers

📣New paper out today! We’ve found concentrations of mercury in UK-harbour porpoises is increasing. 📈🐬 We also found concentrations of mercury were associated with an increased risk of dying from infectious disease.☠️ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This week @whalesfromspace.bsky.social gave an inspiring talk on her @bas.ac.uk work studying whales & walrus by satellite; she received the Laws Prize for her groundbreaking work in this area, and efforts to make the tools & data accessible. Congratulations Hannah, so well deserved! 👋👋👋

We still can’t believe how much fun we had at Whale of a Weekend! What was your favourite part? You can still catch up with the livestreams here: sght.org/woaw/ #WhaleofaWeekend #WoaW #Whales #Dundee #Whaling #SouthGeorgia #SouthGeorgiaIsland #SGHT #FOSGI

What a Whale of a Weekend it was! We are grateful to everyone at @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social & #FOSGI for the opportunity to share updates about #whale research in #SouthGeorgia. 🐳🧪 @polarbiome.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

🐳Come join us for a Whale of a Weekend in Dundee from 26-29 June! Some of our team will be part of a panel on June 28, sharing tales about studying whales in South Georgia 🐳 🧪@southgeorgiahertiagetrust @FOSGI Go to for more information: sght.org/woaw/

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Deadline 21st March!! Antarctic Science International Bursary 👇👇 £6000 to ECRs for a new or extended Antarctic research project ❄️❄️

It's #internationalwomensday and we are celebrating the amazing, smart and strong women on the #hungryhumpback project. 🐳🐙🧪 #Marine "Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you" -Misty Copeland

Check out this great video about the new whale exhibit room at the Grytviken Museum managed by @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DGus_vI... Fantastic to see photos, information and whale sounds from our project 🐳🐙🧪. #MarineMammls #science #MarineConservation @polarbiome.bsky.social

Happy #worldwhaleday. 🐳 We are celebrating the recovery of whales species in the waters around the island of South Georgia. Photos collected under GSGSSI permit 2024_39. #MarineConservation 🐙🧪 #marinemammals #nature @bas.ac.uk @polarbiome.bsky.social

Interested in applying for an Antarctic Science bursary? ❄️ At 3pm & 8pm UK time today APECS is running webinars to learn about the bursary & application process. Register here! ❄️👇👇❄️ apecs.is/news/apecs-n...

Ahh summer in South Georgia-#snowday! Being a 🐳 scientist here means having lots of patience! Hopefully we can work tomorrow 🤞. #MarineLife #whale #conservation @bas.ac.uk @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social @polarbiome.bsky.social 🐙🧪🌊

Please check out this news article about our #HungryHumpbacks project 👀👇 #MarineLife #Whale #conservation @bas.ac.uk @polarbiome.bsky.social @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social 🐳🦑🧪🌊🐟 www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/s...

The Hungry Humpbacks project is getting some boat familiarization while waiting for good weather conditions..And loving the distraction of blonde fur seal pups🌊🧪🦭👇🐳 @polarbiome.bsky.social

BURSARY NEWS: On 14th Feb, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists are running two webinars for potential applicants to learn more about the Antarctic bursary & application process. Register here! 👇👇 apecs.is/news/apecs-n... ❄️❄️

Before starting the journey to South Georgia, project manager Stephanie Martin met the Commissioner of South Georgia, Alison Blake, at the Possession Day. Check out this video to learn more about the 250th anniversary of Possession Day: youtu.be/UUoaf9m4rJo?...

These are fantastic small grants for Early Career Researchers working on Antarctic Science projects. Supervisors - please point your students towards them. A huge range of projects and people have been funded over the years.

Highly recommend this as one of the few ways you can apply for your own funding as an ECR. I had a great time at University of Chicago working on some modelling problems that I wouldn't have had the chance to think about otherwise.

Calling all #Antarctic ECRs! This bursary awards £6000 for science projects, anywhere in the world. Must be a new project rather than more funds for a current one. Apply here 👇

This week the 2025 @wildwaterwhales.bsky.social team goes into the field! The team are journeying to South Georgia by ✈️ and 🚢, to study humpback whale foraging behaviour & feeding rates. Here's project manager @sailorsteph.bsky.social packing & meeting UAV pilot Nico on the trek south 🐳 1

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

Seabirds help corals grow twice as fast, recovering coral populations following an extreme marine heatwave. Check out our new paper in Science Advances here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I will never, ever get over this.

The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3 www.int-res.com/articles/esr...

Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled. This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems? I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested! www.ices.dk/community/gr...

JOB VACANCIES! We're seeking 3 Conservation Scientists to join our friendly team of #seabirders at the RSPB. We're an inclusive team where everyone is welcome. DEADLINE: Friday 3rd January. #conservationjobs #ornithology #seabirds #science Details: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

🚨Do you live in #Tasmania? We need your help🚨 More than a dozen #Shearwaters have washed up near Swansea. Forecast is ~70km onshore winds = more #birds will likely wash up along the east coast tomorrow. We need data & photos! (please watch for metal bands attached to the birds’ legs)

This is an interesting rant by @hankgreen.bsky.social for those not sure of which platform is more useful for you. Creators create the value but the platform takes the power from the creator through algorithmic manipulation and downranking of links.

Learn how to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale at the Science Museum of Virginia. Sad thing is that enough kids draw these each day to represent the entire population (c. 375) 😔 🦑

A daily highlight is feeding this little guy each evening but I'm worried s/he is too small to manage through winter.. hoping they'll eat enough before it gets really cold. Any advice out there? #hedgehog

I'm reflecting on outreach as I prepare another schools talk for later this week. As I lecture on glaciers, ice sheets and climate change I find that people are often shocked; the harsh reality of climate change so strikingly illustrated. It's so important, especially with younger audiences, to 1/3

'Global emergence of regional heatwave hotspots outpaces climate model simulations' our new paper in @pnas.org with S. Bartusek, R. Seager. J. Schellnhuber and M. Ting investigating the tail behaviour of extreme heatwave trends. @iiasa.ac.at @columbiaclimate.bsky.social @lamontearth.bsky.social

Excited to take possession of our new multi-channel Soundtrap for underwater detection of #whales in South Georgia for the Sustained Monitoring project! 🐳 @wildwaterwhales.bsky.social

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

A small but mighty list of voices in fisheries conservation, from all sides of the conversation. Add your name please if I missed you and you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/Hmu7tpm

Check out our new logo for the Creating a sustainable framework for monitoring whales at South Georgia, also known as the Sustained Monitoring project! www.instagram.com/p/DCq7sqMtnS...

This will be a really useful resource, combining a lot of expert knowledge to summarise the status of #whale populations worldwide. More to be added as it grows, watch this space! #marmam

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says

Important new paper by Dr Anna Nisi @uofwa.bsky.social & team shows global hotspots of ship-strike risk for #whales 🚢 🐳 >95% of hotspots in national waters & could be protected with reduced ship speeds. Protecting just 2.6% of the ocean reduces risk in all hotspots 🐋🐋 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Global risk of ship strikes on whales, new paper in Science by Anna Nisi et al. [incl. me] www.washington.edu/news/2024/11... Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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. 👇👇

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS

Antarctic blue whales display high movement rates around the Southern Ocean. Estimated 8-32% movement rates from one ocean basin to another each year, and therefore circumpolar-wide complete mixing in under 10 years. doi.org/10.3354/esr0...

Just out! Our new paper using historical Discovery marks finds high rates of #Antarctic blue #whale movement around their Southern Ocean feeding grounds. Led by Zoe Rand with @trevorabranch.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/es...