🚨 Whale PhD Opportunity!! 🚨

Every day should begin with seals. Maybe the world would be sweeter? #seals #oregoncoast #morningwalks #beach #hike #photography #travel #love

❗️💵Student bursaries available to help attend marine research events, apply by 31st October:

❗️💵Student bursaries available to help attend marine research events, apply by 31st October:

Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋 🔗 in thread #Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators! Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested! Applications will be reviewed until filled.

A short video of White-beaked Dolphins off the coast of the south Mainland of Shetland this week. Amazing to watch! #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali... @predateursmarins.bsky.social @ecophycebc.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

Important new analysis of bycatch patterns in UK fisheries by @fayehelenmoyes.bsky.social continuing the legacy of the late Professor Simon Northridge. An unexpected result: 'pinger' use, although decreasing cetacean bycatch, may actually increase seal bycatch academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

🚀 Upcoming Talk! 🚀 Dr Lars Boehme from SMRU (@seamammalresearch.bsky.social) will share how SMRU Instrumentation tags and seals can help advance marine science. 🦭 📍 Discovery Point, Dundee. 📆 Sat 13 & Sun 14 September 🕧 12:30 pm both days More info: www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/event/how-se...

Because you all needed a Turtles meeting... 🤣🤣 #bluesky

New @seamammalresearch.bsky.social & @smruinstrument.bsky.social research out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, using #NIRS integrated into SMRU phone tags to measure the diving behaviour and physiology of the most incredible human divers - the all-female Haenyeo www.cell.com/current-biol...

❗️graduate job opportunity with the Dolphin Research Institute www.dolphinresearch.org.au/williamson-r... #marinemammals #marinemammaljobs

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Marine Mammal Assistant (SAIC, San Diego, California) sevenseasmedia.org/job/marine-m... #marinemammals #jobs #california #husbandry #jobopportunity #careers #careerdevelopment #coralreefs #marinescience #marinebiology

A few years in the making, but I can finally share my first PhD paper and my first ever first-authored whale paper. In it, we name a new species of toothed baleen whale: Janjucetus dullardi. You can find our conversation article here: tinyurl.com/dullardi

Why did whales get so big? New insights here! ⬇️

‼️ (amazing) Post doc alert!

Are you an early career marine mammal scientist? We've created a list for you! Ask to be added ⬇️ and follow to keep up to date with marine mammal research, boost your science and connect with other PhD students/ECRs 🐬🐋🧪🌍 (If not - please still share widely!) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Go along to this talk by PhD student Grant Ellis to learn about bottlenose dolphins along the northeast coast of the UK, and more! #marinemammals

ICYMI: After years of hearing complaints that it's hard to get good career advice in marine biology, I assembled an expert panel to answer your questions about graduate school, where to find jobs, what skills are needed, and much, much more. 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐟

Dates are set for 2025 #vaquita porpoise visual survey acc @ernesto-mendez.bsky.social - month of September with results to be announced October 21, using two Sea Shepherd identical vessels for the first time, which should enhance standardization of transects & observation distance

📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 20th UKIRSC Conference will take place 13 - 16th Jan 2026 at the University of Plymouth. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details coming soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

❗️ This looks like a fantastic job opportunity for early career marine mammal researchers!

❗️ Applications now open for a grant for marine mammal ECRs! 🐬 🧪

Check out these incredible visualisations of whale telemetry data 👇 bluecorridors.org

UKIRSC wouldn’t be able to exist without our generous sponsors who provide prizes or funding for the conference, so we thought we would shout some out! 🧵 🐬

Webinar 🐬 Thomas Le Coz @seashepherdfrance.bsky.social on cetacean bycatch in Galicia (NW Spain). 29/05, 19h (GMT+2). us05web.zoom.us/j/8642420881... ID de reunión: 864 2420 8812 Código de acceso: SeaShep1

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

Great work from #ECR Nick, check out the thread 🐳

Great talk by PhD student @katie-rapson.bsky.social at the #ECSconference2025 on 3D acoustic tracking of harbour porpoises in tidal environments with some very well explained novel methods 🔉🐬

A privilege to see such a legend as Hal Whitehead talk yesterday - very inspiring for all the students and ECRs

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 🦑🐋🧪

Maybe I am biased because I'm her co-supervisor but I thought this was a smashing talk by Angela Amlin about using automated remote camera systems to monitor the effects of boat traffic on monk seal haulout cave usage @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @joan-gonzalvo.bsky.social #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🦭🧪

Great plenary talk today at the #ECSconference2025 by Joe Roman highlighting some conservation success stories, and the important role of whale poo!

Some of the committee are at #ECSconference2025 - if you spot us out and about come and say hi!

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 We have not one but two exciting pieces of seal research recently published by George Sato and Angela Amlin, both St Andrews PhD Students that recently presented at UKIRSC conferences! Check out more below 👇

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 And last, but by no means least, is Becky!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Our final returning committee member is Josh! @oshuwilson.bsky.social

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Introducing new committee member Katie!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Next up is new committee member Mia!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 The third of our returning committee members is Eva 🐳

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Our next member for this year's conference is Isha 🐬

🌊 Introducing the #UKIRSC2026 Committee 🐋 Next up is another returning committee member - Claire!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 The second of our new commitee members joining us this year is Beth!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Next is the first of our returning committee members - Rosie!

🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋 Up first is new committe member Ellen!

Congrats to this year's #UKIRSC25 prize winners! It's great to see such inspiring work presented at the conference. 👏

Our final #UKIRSC2025 workshop of the week was a cybertracker workshop from St Andrews PhD student Grant Ellis. Grant showed us how to use the app for surveys and even demonstrated with some cetacean impressionists 🐋

🌊🐾 Wrapping up the day at #UKIRSC2025 with our General Marine Mammal Science session! 🌟

To start day 3 of #UKIRSC2025 we have our keynote speaker Dr Sarah Marley, lecturer at Scotland's Rural College, talking about her "Confessions of a Mid Career Scientist" 🌊