North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨 We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals! The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them. Pre-order here! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

Huffle season is upon us! The checkered puffer posses are rolling through town on the regular! 🏁🐡🐡🐡🐡🏁 #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #huffleseason #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Our industry partners Hatfield Consultants and Alta ML made this amazing ESRI storymap to highlight what we did and the issues in right whale conservation that make this work important storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...

Happy to announce our new article in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social on finding #rightwhales in satellite imagery using machine learning. Great collaboration with academia, industry, and conservation @cwf-fcf.bsky.social. #whalesfromspace #NARW Link: share.google/CNepFK2pf0iU...

Interesting development in the whales-and-wind saga. Someone's playing this one very smart. Repeating - anyone who tries to shut down offshore wind for right whale conservation and does nothing about entanglements is either a fool or has a motive other than whale conservation. 🐳🌍🦑 1/2

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Fascinating paper, led by Loraine Shuttleworth. Gestation in female Southern #rightwhales is far longer than thought. Follows previous work showing similar for North Atlantic right whales and bowheads. We don't understand these #whales as well as we think. We have their basic biology wrong. 🐳🌍🦑

How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social

🗺️ I've spent a lot of time the past week looking at data in the Strait of Hormuz so here is a quick animation showcasing the sheer volume of activity in the Persian Gulf last Friday. The data highlights "Tanker" only vessels (AIS code 80-89) so everything from Crude Oil Tankers to LNG Tankers.

Updated abundance estimate of the eastern Beaufort Sea #beluga population! I participated in the aerial survey in 2019 as part of my masters project. The last estimate was from 1992. open-science.canada.ca/items/6fadae...

Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant www.int-res.com/articles/esr... "...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure" 🐳🌍🦑

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Who's responsible for the climate crisis? Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much. The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair. An explanatory thread 🧵

The hottest new TV comedy - that just hit Netflix - comes straight out of Nunavut

Big Win for BC Whales! The Canadian Wildlife Federation has been awarded funding grant to work with prawn & crab fishers in reducing whale entanglements in fishing gear! 🔗 CanFishGear.ca 📰 Official announcement: lnkd.in/gkGDMxpC

@cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring full time positions, working in Ottawa or remote in Canada! 🍁 #job #conservation 🦞 Fishing Gear Technician 🌳 Chief Conservation Officer 🐦 iNaturalist Coordinator 🍎 Non Formal Education Manager 🙋‍♀️ Director of People and Culture workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

ICYMI, @cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring a Chief Conservation Officer. Closes April 20. #ConservationJobs

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

North Atlantic #rightwhale calving season summary, courtesy of Florida Fish & Wildlife and the #NARW Consortium 🔟 total calves spotted this winter 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋 This is *below* the 10-year average of 12 calves/year #conservation #radicalhope #whale

Hate Amazon? Support independent voices! Delighted to launch the 2025 World SF Bundle from @storybundle.bsky.social today! 10 books, $25, with charity partner @locusmag.bsky.social! storybundle.com/scifi Re-posts appreciated!

Get your Canadian news directly from the sources 🇨🇦

📣 Looking for marine science and research accounts to follow on BlueSky? 🌊 Check out this list of marine starter packs below ⬇️ Feel free to suggest any I might have missed out!

‼️The #whales need our help‼️ Later today, a US committee is meeting to review the #MarineMammal Protection Act - a leading reason #marinemammals can survive in a human-exploited ocean. Contact your local representatives to support the #MMPA! 🆘🐋🐬🦭❤️ us.whales.org/policy/save-...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada just released Canada’s Oceans Now: Arctic Ecosystems ❄️ a plain language summary on the state of the Arctic marine ecosystem, translated in 4 languages and with beautiful infographics. Based on the technical report published last year. www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/publi...

Ok, I made a new starter pack: Science Job Accounts! I want to try & collect together account that are likely to post jobs/internships/employment opportunities in science. It is heavily US/Ecology based (and would probably be better as a feed). Please suggest other accounts!! go.bsky.app/QPGnfWu

JOB: Conservation Data Analyst, @bcparksfdn.bsky.social * Full-time, salary $58k-64k/yr * Based in Vancouver, hybrid * "... use geospatial technology and other analytical tools..." * No deadline given and no date posted. I suppose apply ASAP? lnkd.in/grVGCtCy #ConservationJobs #GISJobs

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Four PhD scholarships to work on the Transforming Climate Action Project in collaboration with Dal, Laval, & UQAR Based at the Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland 🇨🇦 Apply by March 31, 2025: thelifeaquatic.xyz/opportunities #PhD #climatechange

Some indie Canadian bookshops to check out before the GST/HST holiday ends on Feb 15:❤️📚 @anotherstoryto.bsky.social @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social @mcnallyrobinson.com @thebeguiling.bsky.social @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @pfbvan.bsky.social @tridenthalifax.bsky.social

Happy international day of women and girls in science! Here are two starter packs of women in ocean science for you to follow 🦑🧪 go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

There are other things going on, but - No flights since 25 Jan have checked on whether this aggregation of #rightwhales is still there (see whalemap.org). And there's been no reporting on whether the begging by Maine officials led to any changes / reductions in fishing effort Did it? 🐳🌍🦑

Day 1 has featured updates on: -Mortalities -Entanglements -Calving rates -Media coverage -New #science (including biologging tags & #satellite monitoring) #Fisheries management @finstacodes.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social

Grateful to be invited to share about the potential of using high resolution satellite imagery to monitor whales!

There’s no #scientificevidence supporting the claim that noise from #OSW turbine construction and operation is harming #whales. #WHOI scientists share their expertise with @wcai-npr.bsky.social 📲 Listen: go.whoi.edu/wcai-osw-whales 📸 under NFMS permit 2137

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

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.

We have completed the 150 members of this pack. It's nice to see so many engaged marine ecologists #MarineEcology go.bsky.app/4PTX62K

So inspired by this heartwarming initiative by friends and colleagues! In these times the answer is to cooperate not compete! nbmediacoop.org/2025/01/08/i...

It’s simple. Many of us share #science. Please join up. go.bsky.app/H3qcvgP Please add your name below and expertise and you’ll be added! #scientistswhocommunicatescience #scicomm #womeninsciencw

In the past we have offered up some of our personal tips on how to make your holiday season a bit "greener." What are you doing to keep December festive but sustainable? Tell us about it in the comments!⠀ Image from Less Plastic UK #TalesOfSavingWhales #GreenChristmas

Introducing my #PhD research to @bsky.app peers. I'm studying #satellite tech to detect #rightwhales from space. The top sat image is of a right whale is from ~600km above! The bottom drone photo is from colleague @eubalaenagina.bsky.social from only ~15m away. Can you see any similarities?

A list of #marinebiology starter packs! 🌊 go.bsky.app/4PTX62K Marine Ecology go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv Marine Biologists I go.bsky.app/8DoyTMs Marine Biologists II go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H Coral reef science go.bsky.app/E8vrnd6 LGBTQIA+ Grads go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo Ocean Women go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4 Ocean Women II

Are you a scientist that analyses/creates models using data from cameras, acoustics, drones or satellites to understand biodiversity? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack. Point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome! 🧪🌏 #AI #conservation go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

Annual visit to the Halifax warehouse isn’t complete without viewing the stacks of on-demand systems - these are innovative tech that remove traditional vertical buoylines from the water and greatly reduces the risk of fisheries entangling marine life like the endangered North Atlantic right whale.

We just announced posit::conf(2025) is open for registration, and it'll never be more affordable than today, with Super Early Bird and Academic discounts. Join us Sept 16-18 in Atlanta, GA, & reg before Feb 28 to lock in the lowest possible price. Learn more & register at posit.co/blog/positco...

Looking forward to delivering two workshops on time series and forecasting with {mvgam} for #ESAus2024 #rstats. It'll be a busy summer of workshop for me 😄 ecogambler.netlify.app/talk/