A beautiful painting that so well captures the environment of fieldwork in Scotland! I miss being windswept on that old boat ⛵ 🐋

📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️

Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted. Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions. This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected... 🧵 1/8

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

We’re not alone. We & the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are united in calling for Part 3 to be scrapped. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social The choice is yours. And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.

Despite the most objections in Scottish history, and against the dev plan, the @snp.org Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org here : greens.scot/LochLomond

The Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research. The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the next generation of marine mammalogists. #SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Great work by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and team on the potential for seals to sense oxygen, instead of carbon dioxide as the stimulus to return from a dive to breathe.

We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.

"the data we used started in the 1980s and cut out in 2020. This is all from before wind development really got going off the US east coast ... those who choose to blame the decline of North Atlantic right whales on the wind industry are either poorly informed, or else they’re just duplicitous" 🐳🌍🦑

Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines 🦭 The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪 🔗

Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social

Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Check out Jess' first first-author paper!!! 🦭🌊 (accepted *without revisions*!!!!!!)

Nice to see this work continue to flourish and be refined since our attempt! 🐬