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 🌟

Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...

Thankful to @ukirsc.bsky.social for the chance to give a talk on my master's research today! 🤓

Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social

📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan. Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...

🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! I'm Katie, a PhD student at the UoPlymouth, working on bottlenose dolphin monitoring using drones, acoustics & photo-ID. 🐬 I'm also a Doctoral Teaching Assistant, and help deliver undergraduates courses. Interested in all things marine mammals, get in touch if you are too! 😊

Hi Bluesky! I’m Jess, a researcher based at the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews 🐳 I’m currently working on fine scale movements and behaviour of seals around tidal turbines 🦭🌊 Some exciting research to be shared shortly… follow for updates!