🚨 JUST IN: Ocean Minister Emma Hardy has officially announced the UK Govt’s proposal to extend bottom trawling bans in English protected areas. If total bans go ahead this is a HUGE WIN! 🎉
 
Our Campaigns Director @alyxcampaigns.bsky.social delves into what we need to do to make sure this happens✊🌊

#ECSconference2025

@lrendell.bsky.social gave a really interesting talk about cultures of sperm whales, really enjoyed it!

Greetings from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean! 3rd time attending European Cetacean Society conference in Ponta Delgada in the Azores! Not presenting this year, but happy to meet new people and re-connect with people I already know as a MSc student #ECS2025 #ECSAzores

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬
The Evolution of Cetacean Societies

Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social and myself

Preorder available now
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#whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

A couple of designs. The left design is a blue background with purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About an Anglerfish". The border of the design is a pale white nautical rope and features a purple anglerfish smiling brightly. The right design is similar, with a green background and purple text that reads "0 Days Since I Cried About a Crab". To the side of the border on this one, is a small purple crab with big bright eyes.

We're all collectively crying over the Anglerfish and Howie right now, right? 😭 RIGHT?

They weren’t JUST any fish and any crab—they were resilience, light, and a reminder that even the smallest lives can touch millions.

[ #art #design #anglerfish #crab ]

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known bird at 74, has a new chick Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, made headlines recently for laying an egg with a new partner, her first egg in four years. The egg has now hatched, and Wisdom, a Laysan albatross (Phoebast...

Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎

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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms A photograph of a short-eared owl mid-flight was the last Instagram post biology professor Carl Bergstrom shared before announcing his departure from the platform Jan. 10.

This article about scientists switching from Twitter to Bluesky quotes me (and @trevorabranch.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com ) 🧪 #SciComm

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4 rejections out of 7 submitted...keeping fingers crossed🤞🏻

@coastalfutures.bsky.social

Attending the #CoastalFutures25 conference at Royal Geographic Society in London. Looking forward to all of the great talks about the management of marine environment🌊 in the UK and efforts to reach #NetZero2030

New paper from my PhD provides genomic evidence that white shark livers are on the menu for Aussie killer whales!

See more here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

If you take a marine biologist to the aquarium...

Surely is! We ended up with a wooping number of 67 individuals in our dataset

Nice piece in @rtbcheerful.bsky.social on how Susannah Buchan and other researchers are protecting blue and fin whales from ship collisions, with hydrophones + tagging + passive acoustic monitoring

Interesting that some fin whales can be very quiet

#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Happy New Year from Antarctic🇦🇶, everyone!

Our last sighting of the year was a pod of ~50 Ecotype B orcas, as we approached South Shetland islands, leaving the Drake passage (lake😌). Can't wait to see what amazing species we will sea next!

Video taken by me

2/2 For the next 16 days I will be sharing some exciting experiences on board of MS Roald Amudsen by Hurtigruten Cruises🚢. This fieldwork would also contribute into the data collection for my MSc dissertation🐋

#Firstpost 1/2

Hello everyone from warm and sunny Buenos Aires🇦🇷!

As part of the Polar Predator Ecology course at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social I am going to the 16-day field trip to Antarctic peninsula and the Falkland Islands to collect the data on marine mammals, seabirds and penguins🐋🦭🐧

Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm

Our latest paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 📄! We investigated the behavioral context of social calls in humpback whale calves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Pygmy blue whales: Citizen scientists in Timor-Leste help research A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world's largest and most elusive species.

How citizen scientists are uncovering the secret lives of blue #whales bbc.com/news/article... via @bbcworldservice.bsky.social

Out of the blue: Is blue carbon the next frontier for climate change mitigation in Scotland? This blog explains the current understanding of carbon captured and stored in Scotland’s coastal and marine environment, known as ‘blue carbon’. It also outlines known threats to …

Scotland's marine muds sink more carbon than our forestry, peat, + terrestrial soils combined. If damaged (e.g. by bottom dragged fishing gear or #salmon farming) the sinks lose their function + can become Carbon sources. @thesnp.bsky.social must protect them.

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Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures Collisions between whales and ships can prove fatal for the marine mammals, but researchers say expanding mitigation measures to just 2.6% of the…

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says

I would say more Midnight with light and dark blue colour palette🌃

Yes, please🙏

While we know that Pilot Whales are technically dolphins we cannot resist a good whale pun! What's your favourite whale (or dolphin or porpoise) joke Storytellers?!

#WhaleTales #WhaleWednesday