Leigh Hickmott in front of a title slide

Leigh Hickmott present a fine scale analysis of dive behaviour of beaked whales responding to milttary sonar #ECS2026 🐋🥳🐋🦑🧪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Some happy #ECS2026 organisers on Day 1 of the conference - which is also #EarthDay

Emer Rogan opens up the #ECS2026 scientific program talking about basic research, primarily from stranded animals.

The #ECS2026 conference gets off with a bag! Or two. #Scotland

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Not everyone can march and protest the craziness in the USA, Ukraine, Alberta, or elsewhere. However, most of us can buy a song for digital download. Let's send "The Land of Confusion" to No. 1 to highlight being fed up with impotent and dangerous leaders.
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Hey Europe -- Donald Trump opened 84% of one marine protected area to longlines and purse seines -- but you allow bottom trawling in almost all of your protected areas

Now the #ECSconference2025 is over and all those marine mammal folks with binoculars have gone home, I'll reveal that I could see the venue from my shower...

#ECSconference2025 plugs the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise. Join us!

An excellent plenary by Joe Roman on the myriad values of whales to human society and global ocean and climate health! #ECSconference2025

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Nicole Todd presenting on yet another decline in harbour #porpoise. Every poster and talk on them at #ECSconference2025 has been detailing declines in abundance and distribution, or dropping body condition. Houston, we have a problem. #RedAlert

Joe Roman discussing the inherent value of marine stewardship at the #ECSconference2025

Enough said by Joe Roman #ECSconference2025 #WorstJobInScience

Ana Cañadas in front of a slide detailing the strengths of her multiple data source modelling approach

Super complex but important work by @anacanadas.bsky.social who modelled Mediterranean cetacean abundance using multiple data sources - estimates of total sperm whale abundance had no upper ci above 5.5k supporting recent 'Endangered' IUCN listing doi.org/10.2305/IUCN... #ECSconference2025 🧪🐋🦑

Last day of #ECSconference2025 begins with Keynote Joe Roman discussing Lifting Baselines: Marine Mammal Recovery, Ecological Function, and the Consequences of Conservation Success

. @wild-devs.bsky.social - excellent talk at the #ECSconferrnce2025! Important work linking reproductive potential to declining ecosystem quality.

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At the #ECSconference2025 they lured us out of the poster session with a live portuguese "murinheira", like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Brilliant!

Bruno Diaz-Lopez in front of a title slide highlighting the talk title 'From quantity to quality'

Bruno Diaz-Lopez presents evidence that male bottlenose dolphins show social aging, becoming less central in their social networks as they age... #ECSconference2025 🦑🐋

Anna Selbmann brilliantly presents her work on behavioural responses of killer whales to pilot whale sounds in the style of an Asterix comic! Who says science can't be fun? #ECS2025 (p.s. oh yeah, you might want to know that killer whales avoid pilot whale sounds!)

Some young upstart called Hal Whitehead is discussing society (the concept of 'we-ness') in sperm whales at the #ECS2025

Hui presentem el pòster:
“Site fidelity of Risso’s dolphins along an underwater canyon system”, amb resultats molt prometedors.

Seguim treballant per conèixer i protegir els cetacis del nostre mar.

#KeepOnGramping #ECS2025 #CapDOllaGris #Cetacis #AssociacióCetàcea #RecercaMarina #Conservació

For those at #ECS2025, don't miss @wild-devs.bsky.social talk on reproductive hormones in fin whales and Alexandra's talk on proteomics in pilot whales this morning.

Cristina Brito discusses conservation and social aspects whaling and other human use and associations with marine mammals through the context of Blue Humanities at the #ECS2025.

A lot of prey does the vertical migration thing, so they go deeper at the full moon. And various ocean cycles are driven by solar behaviour. So the connection is indirect, but it's there!

It's a whale conference. Although lunar cycles have featured as a contributing factor to variability in whale distribution and behaviour. Solar cycles have also been hinted at as contributing to inter-decadal variability as well. You'd feel right at home!

The indomitable Mark Simmonds holds court for the Human Interaction and Climate Change session at the #ECS2025

Thanks for the great talk at #ECS2025 @lrendell.bsky.social!