Exciting opportunity to join a fab team (if we do say so ourselves!) investigating seal diet around Scotland. Fieldwork and lab work. Fixed term until 31st March 2028 - take a look for more info. Closing date is 18th May 2026 lnkd.in/eUZ7pGri

Had a great time at ECS last week seeing old friends and meeting new people - as well as giving an overview of our work on evaluating collision risk of seals with tidal turbines!

Excited to be attending my first #ECS2026 in Dundee this week! If you're interested in hearing more on seal movement and avoidance behaviour around tidal turbines, I'll be giving a talk on our work for on Wednesday around 12 🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

New SUPER DTP PhD research now OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. Kittiwakes and past colony connectivity #ornithology #seabirds. Many thanks to collaborators & supervisors, funders, reviewers. Follow the link 👇🏻 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

📢 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...

Studying overlap with fisheries can help highlight important areas for protection 🐧 Check out my little article! After spending so long learning to write for scientific audiences, it was an interesting experience learning how to write for the public but I highly recommend!

The NERC Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) 2025 report is now live on the SMRU website: www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0.... Updated population trends analysis and advice to gov relating to management of UK seal populations 🦭📈📉

New publication led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social on competition between grey & harbour seals in Scotland using 20+ yrs of diet data. Many thanks to all who collected samples, and collaborators from the Lighthouse Field Station and Institute of Marine Research #OA Paper: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

🦭 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

Our recent paper on grey and harbour seal transboundary distribution made the cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! 😀🦭Thanks to Dr Kelly Robinson of @seamammalresearch.bsky.social for the photo! Check the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Fishing, foraging, and the fight to save African penguins - read our latest Research Spotlight, featuring Jacqui Glencross. 🐧 https://ow.ly/arOT50XwQVG #EverToExcel

🦭 Last week, I presented our recent work on evaluating the risk of seals colliding with tidal turbines at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social, at the @mastscot.bsky.social conference. If you’re interested in hearing more, read the preprint here: shorturl.at/76VSb !

New study led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social in collaboration with @strandings.bsky.social: evidence for grey seal predation of grey seals, harbour seals and harbour porpoises across Scotland, at levels that could prevent recovery of depleted populations. tinyurl.com/4r3wka6a

🐬 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

1/ 🐋I recently joined a trip onboard Silurian, the vessel HWDT (www.hwdt.org) use to conduct research on marine mammal species visiting or resident to the Hebrides ⛵

PhD student Emilie Stepien uses satellite tags, CATS Cams and drones to observe seal reactions to shipping in the Wadden sea 🇩🇰 Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭 @emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐 #Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology

Care about climate change, physiology, marine mammals and want to do something about it? Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson, @strandings.bsky.social, @naturescot.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9

Why Spring Is Critical for Harp Seal Pups ❄️ Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web. 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c

Congratulations on your talk Katie!!🐬

Last call ⏳🚨 If you have any elasmobranch and killer whale interaction records we want to hear about it! Please reach our team with the email below, would love to include them in our global review!

New #OA paper in Movement Ecology using a combination of statistical models (HMMs & GAMMs) to understand environmental drivers of behaviour in Saimaa ringed seals. Very pleased to be invited to collaborate on this research! 🤓🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x

If you find mosquitoes in Scotland please report them for our Mosquito Scotland project @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social! @ukceh.bsky.social

Please share: (competitive) PhD funding in Strasbourg (France) to work on 🐧🔥: Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation) amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...

🚀 Grateful to be featured for the second year in a row at the #WOSiSta Women in Ocean Science in St Andrews! 🌊 A great range of talks and advice nuggets from women at different career stages, recognise what has changed (and not changed) in the past couple of decades‼️

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Can you spare a few minutes to share your thoughts on marine mammal protection in Scotland?🐳 Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both) Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35 More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com

Incredible work done by @chrismcknight.bsky.social @eva-mariab.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social & co 🦭🎉

On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming: 🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers 🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019 🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise #glacier 🧪⚒️🌏

🚨 With federal funding dwindling, we’ve created a starter pack of funding bodies offering #grants for #research🔬 📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷 #ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti

Take a moment to enjoy this beautiful southern right whale. Happy #worldwildlifeday All research permitted by Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands permit 2024_039. 🧪🐙🐳🌊 #whale #MarineConservation #wildlife #conservation #photooftheday #science #marinemammal #nature

We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.

📣We are recruiting two(!) Ecological Statisticians to join our Offshore Renewables Group at @bioss.bsky.social. If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏

⚠️ A reminder to please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. In England, Wales & Scotland, contact Defra, in Northern Ireland contact @daera-ni.gov.uk & in Republic of Ireland gov.ie. Please ALSO report them to @birdtrack.bsky.social. Thank you. #UKBirding

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

🦑Join us for a webinar discussing how to reduce marine mammal bycatch with good science and robust relationships between scientists, managers, and stakeholders on the ground: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A great study depicting the evolution of humpback whale song themes and complexity in the North Pacific! 🐋🎶

Happy International Women in Science Day 👩🏻‍🔬🧪🔬🌊🦭🦀 to my fellow scientists (and many more not featured here) who I’ve been lucky enough to work with and learn from. And a note to self to get more fieldwork pictures! @katie-rapson.bsky.social @emmalongden.bsky.social @molliestefanek.bsky.social

We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

See our blogpost on tracking seals around a tidal turbine using the new multibeam sonar processing modules in PAMGuard: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/02/06/s...

Repost - Please share to help us reach a wide audience. This survey is contributing to Masters and PhD projects in my group. The more responses we get the better we can help improve guidance on #parasite #conservation. Links to the survey are in the thread below 🪱🧪🌍🦤 #WildlifeDisease #WildlifeHealth

We wrote a wee blog post detailing the findings of our most recent study @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and why the results are important! Give it a read below ⬇️

Don't miss out! 🌟 The deadline for our next round of Student Bursary Applications is 21st February. Our bursaries support individuals pursuing higher education or research opportunities in #MarineBiology, helping to aid attendance at conferences, workshops & networking events. ➡️ buff.ly/3CDDAAY

The BES Movement Special Interest Group @besmovesig.bsky.social has made it to Bluesky! Make sure to follow if you're interested in animal movement 🧪🌍

🦭 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] ! 🦭

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

My new fave pic of an elephant seal!!

Cool New 🐢 paper: Using three decades of satellite tracking date, Briscoe et al show how loggerheads in the North Pacific have shifted North 🌍🧪🦤 www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Good news for the "last-minute people": Deadline extended for the next ECS. For more details and submission guidelines, visit: 🌐 www.europeancetaceansociety.eu Photo: Rafael Martins #ECS #ECSconference2025 #azores #azoreswhatelse #ECS2025 #cetaceans #weareECS #PontadelgadaECS2025 #36ECSconference

A lovely surprise to win Best Poster (woo!) for our work tracking seal movements and behaviour around a tidal turbine at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social! Thanks for having me #UKIRSC2025, it was a great conference 🌟