With IWC Commissioner Vasiliades from Cyprus at #UNOC3, discussing various aspects of the IWC work programme and planning for #IWC70 in the context of the EU Presidency

Pleased to participate in #UNOC3 General Debate: setting out IWC's contributions inc. data & assessments, capacity building (bycatch & entanglement, strandings, whale watching), species-specific conservation & more. With 26% of cetacean species under threat we need urgent action for a healthy ocean

Whale watching on the agenda for a meeting at #UNOC3 with colleagues from the Dominican Republic including Commissioner Reyes. The Dominican Republic is an active participant in the IWC Whale Watching Handbook, working to achieve sustainable whale watching wwhandbook.iwc.int/en/

Pleased to join @cms.int @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @CITES
& other key partners at #UNOC3 to discuss marine animal species for healthy ecosystems & long-term sustainability, inc. evolving threats to cetaceans & effective, science-based conservation & management responses

Great to be here at #UNOC3 highlighting the importance of Cetaceans 🐋 in the Marine Environment and the work of IWC.

Welcome to BlueSky!

Addressing links between fisheries & biodiversity is critical for conservation of vulnerable marine species & ecosystems & for sustainable fisheries. The SOI Dialogue with regional fishery bodies (RFB) provided an opportunity to share useful experiences.

Great to meet with IWC Commissioner Lesz of Poland during #UNOC3. A wide-ranging discussion included Poland's EU Presidency, the global issue of cetacean entanglement & IWC's training programmes for both entanglement & strandings response, plus preparations for #IWC70 in 2026

Small Brown Cocker spaniel underneath a polling station sign

Lana joining in with the #dogsatpollingstations trend.
A lovely evening to indulge in the democratic process.

A picture of the Leicester city football team mascot called Filbert Fox. His arms a aloft as he stands by the corner flag

Football kit?

Pens 1, 2 and 3. Happy memories. Never graduated to pen 1, which was for the real hard-core fans.

**Black UK PhD students**

This is the programme you want! It is all the bells and whistles, full fees and stipend, any subject, industrial experience offered, 50 other Black scholars already on board and administrated in an environment of care.

**Tell everyone**

The IWC new Status of Whales pages are a fantastic resource for quickly seeing how well our cetacean friends are surviving and thriving, and really how WE are doing at learning to share and live long and well with our fellow singers of great songs on this connected ocean of a planet we all inhabit.

A picture of a webpage detailing the current status of whale stocks. The image shows a dashboard with dials that indicate the relative abundance of the whale population and its trend over the last 20 years.

The IWC has just published its Status of Whales webpages. This represents a huge amount of work by the amazing group of people in our SC. Simple graphics to show whether populations are moving towards extinction or recovery, how this status has changed over a 20-year period. iwc.int/resources/me...

Also potentially has impacts marine life such as whales 🐋 that rely on sound for communication

Cheers

An underrated album.

Welcome Emily, just listened to the Steve Hilton interview. Do you feel your friendship affected how you dealt with his extraordinary statements?

I once sat two rows away from Rob Brydon in Geneva airport for a couple of hours waiting for a delayed flight back to the UK. No information on the fishing trip was forthcoming.

So many amazing people are joining the DKMS UK stem cell register🙏

PLEASE KEEP SHARING & JOINING! Rachel from #Fife has blood cancer & needs a stem cell donor. She is determined to live for her one-year-old daughter, Daisy💔

Let’s find a match for Rachel. Join here👇
www.dkms.org.uk/get-involved...

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

Naomi Rose standing in an exhibition booth at the SMM conference in Perth. The booth has a table with leaflets and is decorated with posters detailing threats to cetaceans and the work of the IWC.

Visit Naomi, Exhibitor Booth 4 at #SMM2024 to talk whale watching & all things IWC. Demo the online Whale Watching Handbook & learn about the Commission's many #cetaceanscience & #cetaceanconservation initiatives. Huge thanks to the AWI awionline.org for their generous sponsorship.

A Southern Right whale cow and calf

Only 2 days left to support the Southern Right Whale Consortium: fundraising to develop an AI photo-ID system to process decades of imagery & improve conservation outcomes for southern right whales
t.co/CslHpy8WRi

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COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion

Just over an hour until the virtual Panel discussion at 14:00 GMT on "The future of shipping at the biodiversity and climate nexus in the Arctic" register here to listen online. cop29oceanpavilion.vfairs.com/en/agenda-page

COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion COP29 Virtual Ocean Pavilion

Looking forward to participating in the Panel discussing "The future of shipping at the biodiversity and climate nexus in the Arctic" as part of the cop29oceanpavilion.vfairs.com
tomorrow Tuesday 12 Nov

I have a great story about Theseus and the Labyrinth, but I keep losing my thread.

I have a joke about Icarus, but the ending always goes down badly

I have a joke about Medusa but it will leave you stony faced