New paper on wind- and shipping-driven underwater noise in the St. Lawrence Estuary 🌊🔊 We look at how different noise sources impact key marine mammal habitat across frequencies. 📄 doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Still buzzing from this! Thanks for the cheerleading 🎊 I loved presenting my work on humpback whale song in New Caledonian lagoon at #ECS2026 🐋 Such a great conference, with inspiring discussions all around.

Great time at the 37th ECS conference presenting my first PhD chapter on climate-driven changes in the New Caledonia soundscape and humpback whale acoustics 🐋 Loved the discussions, feedback, and new connections. Special mention to the ceilidh to wrap up this wonderful week. On to the next!

🦭 We have a new paper out! We developed an accessible framework for assessing the risk of collision between seals and operating tidal turbines. ⏭️ We found that most seal tracks moved near the turbine without collision. Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

New paper on age-related reproductive tactics & success in humpback whales, published in Current Biology.🐳🧬 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #marmam @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social 1/7

New research from @francae.bsky.social at SMRU has shown that the role of age in male humpback whale reproduction has changed as populations recover from centuries of exploitation.   Read more...👇 https://ow.ly/5eot50YnUs9 #EverToExcel

Paper alert 🚨🚨🚨 We’ve developed a remotely operated device for collecting blood samples and administering sedatives in freely moving seals 🦭 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041... A thread 🧵👇 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Amazing footage from @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social shows two young males and a smaller female calf - is their boisterousness part of the explanation why males leave/are isolated from the social units they were born in, because they bring threat od injury to vulnerable calves? 🐳🦑🧪

📢 SURVEY: Do you use - or have you ever used - drones in marine mammal research? 🐳🐋If so, please complete our short survey and help us map the growing range of ways UAVs are being used around the world for marine mammal monitoring and research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/uhi/drones...

Big Science 🙂 Many of our friends and colleagues made this happen. Shout-out to Mike Donoghue and to my husband, Scott Baker who, 20 years ago, organized a consortium of South Pacific whale researchers to track whale biology and movements using old-school techniques, like photo ID.