We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Closing next week!!

New @jappliedecology.bsky.social paper: SMRU researchers @mattidcarter.bsky.social & @djfrussell.bsky.social led a large collaborative team to map the distribution of grey and harbour seals at sea across the Northwest European Shelf 🦭 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟 Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Published! Gough et al: Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales. Drones+tags+diet reveal pilot whales need ~142 squid/day @marinemammalogy.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social @acs-ps.bsky.social @uhmanoa.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

New study, collab with @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social: reduced adult survival for harbour seals in areas of pop. decline in Scotland. tinyurl.com/ys4hc3jw Mark-recapture models applied to photo-ID data from 3 sites with contrasting pop. trajectories to generate concurrent survival and fecundity rates.

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below #UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

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...

📣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... 🦭🗺️

Another wonderful Marine Forum this weekend hosted by @strandings.bsky.social and @whalesorg.bsky.social 🐳 A delightful day with thought-provoking talks and insightful discussions. A pleasure to represent @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and meet so many passionate participants! 🦭 #marineforum2025

@jcqsutherland.bsky.social doing a fantastic job, despite unruly technology, talking about her PhD research on killer whale predation in Shetland at #marineforum2025 @strandings.bsky.social

It's been a pleasure to virtually attend the International Orca Symposium this week 🐳 Many an interesting talk on killer whale biology, ecology, and conservation from researchers around the world 🌍 My presentation on my PhD research with #ECOPredS can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjJ...

🦭 Have you spotted a grey seal killing or eating harbour seals or grey seal pups in the UK? Please send your footage and reports to [email protected] ! 🦭

New paper from my PhD provides genomic evidence that white shark livers are on the menu for Aussie killer whales! See more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Reminder‼️ I’ll be presenting my PhD research tonight at 7pm ⬇️ Join online to see what our amazing orcas get up to in Shetland!

🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan. Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...

🔔 NEW PAPER 🔔 Our latest paper is out, led by our student Giulia Bellon, using passive acoustic monitoring to investigate the occurrence of killer whales in Icelandic waters. You can read all about it (open access) here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhDone! 🎓 Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to #ECOPredS and helped this research come to fruition, it's been a whale of a journey 🐋 Stay tuned for subsequent publications! In the meantime, thesis available here: research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...

Hello Bluesky!👋 I'm Julia, a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews investigating predator-prey interactions of killer whales and seals in Scotland #ECOPredS. Follow for all things behavioural, big, and blubbery 🐳🤍🖤