Have wild wolves learned to use tools? Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a1MXZv

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...

Another great paper on baleen whales & calving 🐳🌍🦑🧪

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 🌐🌏🧪🌱

New Paper: Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology - "Who conducts biological research, where they do it and how results are disseminated vary among geographies and identities." doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪🌍 #bias #research #science #academia

"The myth of meritocracy...collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage... the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound. These burdens disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender. An important read #STEM #Academia 🧪

Anyone interested in blue whales and want to apply for a Simons Fellowship (due 31 July)? Do let me know, I have some projects in mind. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

The Penguin Book of Penguins! Coming later this year: a beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved bird, written by British Antarctic Survey’s Peter Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social What better day to reveal the cover the #WorldPenguinDay? ⬇️

"The bill pretends that everything is tradeable. You can destroy an ancient woodland, as long as you deliver an 'overall improvement' in woodland cover, namely saplings in plastic tubes." Reminder that the only way to replace a 200 year old tree is to plant a tree and wait 200 years

Grab a coffee and find out how 18,000 years ago you might have spotted megabergs off the coast of the UK!

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

New paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

Effect of oceanic conditions on humpback whale behaviour modelled. During migration whales engage in feeding & rely on environmental cues & memory of conditions to start migration to arrive at krill bloom. Unclear if whales will succeed tracking prey in changing climate doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🦑🐋🧪🌍

The Center and allies have moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a 2008 federal rule protecting North Atlantic right whales from speeding ships and other vessels. Learn more: biodiv.us/4jzUEb9

Movie Day in class today aka Timbits & Tissues. We aired Last Of The Right Whales as part of the conservation conversation. Sharing work done across the North Atlantic, by our lab & our many brilliant colleagues trying to save the North Atlantic right whale. #Whales #Conservation #NARW #Teaching 🐋 🌎

⭐ A newly discovered sea star has been named after a group of children representing the latest generation of the Scripps family, who have supported Scripps Oceanography for over a century! 🌊 Meet the Scripps Cousins Wood-Dwelling Seastar, also known as the Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa.

Year-end scramble getting you down? ⏳ Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station. These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Minke mania today! Minke #whales came to check us out! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

born too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze

There's a #LunarEclipse tonight! If you're in the dark region here, and if you have a view of the Moon at the right time, you'll see the eclipse. Check www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna... for more info and timings for the eclipse in your location. (Here on the East Coast, totality peaks around 3am.)

We ( @drcatmac.bsky.social and I) are writing a marine conservation science and policy textbook! We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please be clear and detailed! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

"Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during mating to avoid being eaten by their partners" 🐙 Octopuses never cease to amaze me. Also perfect headline for the week of Gaga's new album www.nature.com/articles/d41... Refers to Chung et al here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We recap the whole study here: whalescientists.com/the-great-wh...

The great whale conveyor belt of pee, skin, dead bodies & poop!! Whales transport ~4,000 tons of nitrogen yearly to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics. Species recovery might help to restore nutrient movement by whales in global oceans! doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🦑 🐋 🧪 🌍

So proud of @eubalaenagina.bsky.social and her next exciting steps at The Marine Mammal Center in California! I am really glad we got to overlap at UNB and I will be following along as you do more brilliant science! May we all continue to fight as hard as Gina does for the world and people around us

Wow! A23a the world’s largest and oldest iceberg has come to a stop near South Georgia! It brings with is a wealth of nutrients that could lead to "an explosion of life in the ocean" around it. Read more below. 🦑, 🧪, 🌍 bbc.com/news/article...

Magical! This chinstrap penguin came to say hello to #RRSSirDavidAttenborough, which is currently near the South Orkney Islands. Look at him go! 🐧

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Today marks World Wildlife Day, a vital reminder of the importance of protecting our planet’s wildlife. 🌏 For over 60 years, Wildlife Photographer of the Year has helped us see our natural world through a different lens, showcasing its beauty and the necessity to preserve it.

For first post on @bsky.app seems fitting to share our blue sky and #marine flyways 🌊 paper out yesterday. A global collaboration of researchers led by @birdlifemarine.bsky.social sharing #tracking data to describe common #seabird #migration routes over the #ocean.

A whale-watching crew in California captured video of a "superpod" of about 2,000 dolphins swimming off the coast. So many the water looked "like it was boiling," a boat captain with the crew said. nyti.ms/4ki1Fy7

~94% of species of threatened receive no support! 82.9% of funding assigned to vertebrates though amphibians receiving less than 2.8% of that. Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critical but less 'trendy' species deprived 🧪 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looking forward to reading this!

How do you extract semen from sharks? Carefully!

Meanwhile, in the world of #whales - Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded ~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species 🐳🌍🦑

This is so important! Check out the link @eubalaenagina.bsky.social shared and contact your local representative! The #MarineMammal Protection Act made a huge difference to the conservation of marine mammals in the US. 🐋🦑🌍 us.whales.org/policy/save-...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌎

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Bloodybelly comb jellies don’t glow—they put on a shifting rainbow light show with reflective glass plates as they drift through the abyss. But that deep red color? It’s the ultimate invisibility cloak, making sure nothing sees what they’ve had for lunch. 🌊🪼 #DeepSea #Marinelife

These are stunning and make me want to try out some #marinemammal art!!

So many early career scientist (like myself) are going to be impacted! It is disheartening and terrifying - so much talent and important research will be lost.

Weird, I was assured that Donald Trump loves whales. 🙄

Very cool research @trevorabranch.bsky.social on #BlueWhale calves! Suggesting missing calves can be explained by mothers calving when leaving summer feeding grounds & wean on return. Fieldwork in potential calving areas may enlighten us further fish.uw.edu/2025/02/unra... 🗞️ doi.org/10.3354/esr01383

"You never hear people talk about the ozone layer anymore." Yup that's because we banded together, listened to scientists, passed regulations, and fixed it. Why does no one know this?

Cleaner rivers mean dolphins also want to visit The City That Never Sleeps and not just leave the adventures to the Humpbacks - who visited last November! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This octopus is a sucker for jellies 🐙✨️⁠ ⁠ The seven-armed octopus, Haliphron atlanticus, has only been observed by MBARI’s ROVs three times in more than three decades. This one was holding the bell of an egg-yolk jellyfish in its arms—perhaps using its meal for defense or to help catch more prey.

Very cool research out of @exetermarine.bsky.social! "Individual plasticity in response to rising sea temperatures contributes to an advancement in green turtle nesting phenology" i.e. the turtles are nesting earlier due in part to rising SST 🧪🐢🌍 #AcademicSky #MarineBiology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Don't look now! They are only following you as they want your snacks and your snazzy outfit 👀! #Research #STEM #MarineBiology #Fish www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s today’s #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism - a species of conservation concern has been successfully bred in captivity for the first time, which can contribute to their continued survival and eventual repopulation. 🧪🌎🐠🦑 www.bbc.com/news/article...