The call is out for all emerging conservation filmmakers to apply for our Ocean Storytelling Film Grant. Here is everything you need to know about this opportunity. Link to apply: grants.saveourseas.com

Lots of fun discussing fish lake ecology and developing research ideas with @lcstrople.bsky.social, @tormodharaldstad.bsky.social, @kwvollset.bsky.social, @robertlennox.bsky.social, and others (not on bluesky) up on the mountains at Finse!

We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️ Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities? Apply by Dec 7th! @bioprotectproject.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ytfmfhfc

Went out trying to catch and tag Chimaera monstrosa, ghostsharks, for the #SOSF_GhostTrack / #NFR_PUFFINS projects. Didn’t manage to catch any unfortunately, but we did catch a beautiful blackmouth catshark 🦈 We’ll try again next week! @saveourseas.bsky.social @bergentelemetry.bsky.social

Tagged some sea trout (Salmo trutta) Friday evening for our #RFF_BOATS project. Will hopefully get some cool positioning data from the bay once they leave the river! 🐟 @bergentelemetry.bsky.social

Apparently if you misspecify k in mgcv::te, it falls to the default number of knots without warning or error. #rstats

During this year’s field season in the high Arctic, this polar bear checked the fish net for us🐟❄️ Read more about our field season for the #NFR_NICE project - tracking salmonids in Svalbard! www.bergentelemetry.com/post/2025-fi...

It's been some busy months in Bergen City! Read about our field season in the BOATS/PUFFINS projects where we're tracking Atlantic cod, pollock and European lobster to follow their movement as the sea bed is restored www.bergentelemetry.com/post/summari... #NFR_PUFFINS #RFF_BOATS

It's international #ghostshark day! So exciting to study the behaviour of Chimaera monstrosa in Norwegian fjords -contributing to filling important knowledge gaps about their ecology. Thanks to @saveourseas.bsky.social for funding the #SOSF_GhostTrack project. @bergentelemetry.bsky.social

🦈Lotte works in the animal movement and behavioural ecology team of VLIZ. She investigates seasonal presence and hotspots of fish in the North Sea, using acoustic telemetry. She is also involved in the European Tracking Network, which connects fish tracking researchers all over Europe. #EEA2025

🌊 New acoustic array deployed in the Fundian Channel! This fall, our telemetry team worked offshore south of Yarmouth, NS, installing 18 acoustic receivers to monitor aquatic species in this ecologically rich region.

Are you an early career conservationist looking to increase your #impact? Sign up to our webinar on 5th November, where Dr Steven Cooke will share his insights on impact and co-production! buff.ly/5uJWQOX #ConPhys #ECR #EarlyCareerResearcher #PhD #Coproduction #Conservation @SEBiology.bsy.social

🐟 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN for #NoWPaS2026! 📍 Hólar University, Iceland 🇮🇸 📅 March 2–7, 2026 🧑‍🔬 For early career researchers on anadromous salmonids 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 10, 2025 👉 forms.gle/unryb2EZEcp1... ℹ️ nowpas.wordpress.com Join us in Iceland for science, salmonids, and connections!

Very excited about these two new acoustic telemetry projects that our BTN team have received! Gonna be some fun years ahead ☀️🐻‍❄️🐟

In the icy fjords of Norway, Lotte S Dahlmo and team have tagged their first elusive deep-sea fish rarely seen near the surface: chimaeras! Cold hands, dark nights, and frozen boats are paying off as the mystery of the ghost shark begins to unfold. More here: saveourseas.com/update/break...

We've been out popping up acoustic release receivers for fine-scale positioning of thornback rays in our beautiful fjords. Several million detections to work with over the past year! Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/a-year-... #trackingnotslacking #NFR_LOST #NFR_NorTrack #NFR_DTOTrack

Interested in tracking data and fine-scale #positioning? Check out our new paper using multilateralization to track brown trout in a hydropower regulated lake in western Norway! 🚨 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/eff.... 🐟 or check out our website summary: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/new-pap...

PhD candidate Jessica Robichaud at Cooke lab at @carleton.ca is visiting us for a month to help with field work. Today, she presented her work for our lab. She is using acoustic telemetry to track permit in the Florida keys! So interesting to see some of her findings! 🐟 @sjcfishy.bsky.social

After the workshop, Saron and Erlend also joined fieldwork with the Lennox lab at Dalhousie University, including tracking work with turtles, mackerel, and smolts. Read more about their stay here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/visitin...

Before summer, PhD students Saron Berhe & Erlend M Hanssen joined the 20th anniversary NoWPaS workshop in Halifax. Five days of talks, networking & exploring Halifax with early-career salmonid researchers from around the world. They also both presented their PhD projects🐟🦦 @nowpas.bsky.social

New paper 🚨 Do pathogens predict salmon survival? In our recently published study on the Endangered Atlantic salmon, we combined acoustic telemetry with pathogen and gene expression profiles. Read the paper here doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... #Salmosalar #Telemetry

Last week @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social visited @lottepohl.bsky.social and David Casals at @vliz.be through their #EMFish acoustic tracking project. Read more about her visit: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/fieldwo... @em-oyster.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social @oceantracking.bsky.social

What a week it’s been! I’ve visited @lottepohl.bsky.social & David Casals at @vliz.be in Belgium for our #EMFish project. My first time seeing and tagging a Mustelus asterias - so cool! Thanks for a very fun day on the North Sea! @bergentelemetry.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social

We've installed a PIT antenna in Nidelva to track returning Atlantic salmon smolts tagged last year through our #NFR_HITLice project. Smolts were infested with sea lice before release. Low discharge makes drilling the antenna to the riverbed easier, still a river with 3–4°C makes it quite tough!

Super eager about leading my first tracking project!! Huge thanks to @saveourseas.bsky.social for funding our #SASF_GhostTrack project!! Can’t wait to see what the data will look like 🦈

Interested in predation? Our #NFR_RePress project investigates the reemerging conflicts between European Otter and Atlantic salmon in Norway. Go check out our webpage for an update of the development of the project: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/progres... Photo credit: Vegard Lødøen

Beautiful day in field earlier this week deploying receivers in the fjords around Bergen city☀️ These will track some fascinating species that we’re going to tag through some new projects starting this year 🌊🦈🐠 #TrackingNotSlacking @oceantracking.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day! Today, we honor the women who've made incredible contributions to STEM in the past, overcoming challenges and hostile environments 🌸 We're inspired by & appreciate all the amazing & hard working women in our field around the globe! #womeninstem

Interested in predator-prey dynamics & habitat restoration? Check out our new review paper🚨 We discuss the importance of habitat complexity as a refuge, for phenotype variation, energetic costs, & apparent competition - and their implications for restoration. doi.org/10.1111/rec....

De siste tre dagene har det nyoppnevnte Vitenskapsrådet vært samlet på Meråker. 11 medlemmer ble oppnevnt på nytt, og tre nye forskere tar fatt på arbeidet sammen med dem. #villaks vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/nytt...

Last week’s study hall somehow resulted in us swimming around with acoustic tags in our socks in the fjord today! @bergentelemetry.bsky.social @mathildeoddekalv.bsky.social

New paper out from our #NFR_PACE project! We combined acoustic telemetry with gill biopsies to investigate the activity of anadromous brown trout during their spawning migration in three rivers in Norway. You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/jfd.... #Telemetry #Pathogens #SalmoTrutta

We spent the last field days in December retrieving receivers for our eel project in Storelva in southern Norway. All found, none lost! Looking forward to starting 2025 digging into the data✨ @tormodharaldstad.bsky.social @kurtjoh.bsky.social

Manuscripts drafted and written, revisions done, application sent in, and we even had a GAM crash course - safe to say we can call the third year of writing retreat a success! ❄️

On the third evening of our writing retreat, we all joined in on starting a new manuscript for the #NFR_LOST project 🦈 Within a few hours we’d sketched out a good first draft. Very motivating to work on the same manuscript simultaneously!

Second day of the BTN writing retreat is a success! We’re taking a break from writing this evening with a crash course on why use GAMs for ecological data like animal tracking 💻📈 @bergentelemetry.bsky.social

Highly recommended if possible for your lab!

One of the species we’re tracking is the European lobster! This one is tagged with an acoustic transmitter with acceleration sensor🦞🌊 #BOATS

We’re tagging Atlantic salmon in the #Arctic! PI @tormodharaldstad.bsky.social of the #NFR_NICE project with a tagged salmon being released in #Svalbard 🗻 Read more here: www.bergentelemetry.com/post/update-... #Trackingnotslacking #SalmoSalar

One of the few salmon we have tracking data on during their marine feeding…

If you're a fish or marine telemetry person, this is a great time to follow a few of the network accounts, like @glatos-fish.bsky.social , @factnetwork.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social , and of course my personal favourite @oceantracking.bsky.social . Let them know you're glad they're here!

We have a sneak peak into the data and the thornback rays are moving around 😎

The LOST project is one of our coolest project in the Bergen Telemetry array.

We’re tracking more than 80 spiny dogfish with acoustic tags that all have acceleration, depth and temperature sensors in the fjords outside of Bergen🦈 #NFR_LOST #TrackingNotSlacking @lottesdahlmo.bsky.social

I am stoked about our new PUFFINS project (not involving puffins😢)! If you're interested in #restoration and #tracking, or #eels and #chimaeras - follow @bergentelemetry.bsky.social for updates on the project! 🦈 #NFR_PUFFINS

BTN is a tracking network managed by NORCE LFI in Bergen, Norway. We track aquatic animals primarily using acoustic telemetry to answer various questions related to management, industry & climate change. Check out our website for more info about us & our projects: www.bergentelemetry.com

The European eel has strongly declined, and numbers of glass eel remain very low. In 2024, the recruitment of glass eel was near a historical low in the North Sea area (1% of the level in the 1960-70s, elsewhere 7%). Report from ICES eel group doi.org/10.17895/ice...

Check out this summary of our findings in the #NFR_PACE project that entailed acoustic telemetry and pathogen profiling of anadromous brown trout across a latitudinal gradient in Norway!

Nodes of the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN, FACT, ACT) are starting to get matches of their #acoustictelemetry 🐟🦑 detections in! Summarize all of those detections in seconds with otndo, an #rstats package to understand your OTN data: otndo.obrien.page #trackingnotslacking #fishsci #fishsky