Huge shoutout to @anacanadas.bsky.social and the MGEL team for this ambitious effort!
A massive collaborative dataset, rigorous modeling & timely insight into Mediterranean cetaceans—especially sperm whales.
Incredible work presented at #ECSconference2025 🐋🧪
#MarineConservation #MGEL #OceanScience
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...
Reflections from the #ECSconference2025. Great to be presenting positive action rather than shortcomings and challenges for a change! #Bycatch www.linkedin.com/posts/nikki-...
What an amazing week! #ECSconference2025 together with the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social team, just 👌🏻Can‘t wait for #Dundee and #ECSconference2026
Team eWHALE
L. Rodriguez presenting her #PhD work
How amazing was this #ECSconference2025? 🐋🐬Extremely inspiring to meet 600+ fellow #cetacean enthusiasts and watch our #PhD students present their work. Fail of the week: we did not get a picture of the entire eWHALE „delegation“. #Azores #PontaDelgada #eDNA #citizenscience
Just back from the #ECSconference2025 in the beautiful Azores — my first scientific conference! I presented a poster on striped dolphins distribution in the Aeolian Archipelago. So inspiring to meet researchers passionate about marine mammals, like me!🐬
#ECS2025 #MarineBiology #Cetaceans #Azores
#NextGenerationEU #Planderecuperacion #ProyectosPRTR #fundacionbiodiversidad #revargal #ecsconference2025
👩🏫Estos resultados los presentó @paulagumu.bsky.social en la 36 Conferencia de la Sociedad Europea de Cetáceos #ECSconference2025
📑Y previamente en una publicación de la que nos hicimos eco aquí 👉 tinyurl.com/ecwkujfr
#ESMARES @ieo.es @csicgalicia.bsky.social @cienciagob.bsky.social
Some students enjoying lunch in the sunshine
Plymouth contingent in front of a whale tail sculpture
Two excited whale watchers
We had a great time at the #ECSconference2025 hosting a workshop, giving talks or presenting posters, eating some excellent pastel de nata, and topping the week of with a whale watching trip seeing orca, sperm and sei whales!! 🐋
The #ECSconference2025 is over and now I'm taking Lotte the Cachalote on a few adventures around São Miguel
It has been an intense week. A lot of great science, a lot of cool science. I met all sorts of people, heard about all sorts of science and shared my knowledge too. I felt incredibly lucky to experience this #ECSconference2025.
But now it's time to discover these islands, a paradise on earth
#azores
Dr Alec Burslem in front of his talk title slide about estimating body composition and condition in sperm whales
Alec Burslem @alecburslem.bsky.social presented his new non invasive method for measuring body composition in sperm whales - low impact and generalisable 👏👏👏 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
Katie giving her talk
Great talk by PhD student @katie-rapson.bsky.social at the #ECSconference2025 on 3D acoustic tracking of harbour porpoises in tidal environments with some very well explained novel methods 🔉🐬
Dr Marie Louis in front of a slide depicting genetic population structure in Greenland narwhal
Narwhal narhwals because they are so awesome! Marie Louis @mariels.bsky.social shows recent but strong divergence in narwhal populations on different sides of Greenland maybe by learned migratory routes #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
#LaurenRodriguez summarizing 2 years of #eDNA sampling optimization and #marine #vertebrate #metabarcoding data from the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social #Azores samples #ECSconference2025
#CWAzores
Joe Roman on stage delivering the plenary
Great plenary talk today at the #ECSconference2025 by Joe Roman highlighting some conservation success stories, and the important role of whale poo!
Hot spots and Hot moments for whales around the global plus the consequences of the success of conservation efforts for 'ecocultural' systems. Another great keynote #ECSconference2025
Daniel Norena in front of the title slide of his talk on body condition in Mediterranean sperm whales
Dani Noreña @dnorename.bsky.social, #MSc_MMS_St_A graduate working ierh @asociaciontursiops.bsky.social showed that body condition in sperm whales north of Menorca support the establishment of an MPA in that area 👏 #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑
Katie Rapson in front of a slide depicting how acoustically tracked harbour porpoises orient with respect to tidal flow
Katie Rapson @katie-rapson.bsky.social did a great job presenting 3D tracking of harbour porpoise around experimental tidal energy installations - another #MSc_MMS_St_A graduate presenting at #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑
An excellent plenary by Joe Roman on the myriad values of whales to human society and global ocean and climate health! #ECSconference2025
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 in front of a title slide about to give an inspiring plenary
Inspiring plenary from Joe Roman about 'lifting baselines' and quantifying the effects whale real red ecological pathways have on nutrient cycling and transfer in the oceans - check out his latest contribution here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
Last day of #ECSconference2025 begins with Keynote Joe Roman discussing Lifting Baselines: Marine Mammal Recovery, Ecological Function, and the Consequences of Conservation Success
UKIRSC contingent at the ECS conference
Some of the committee are at #ECSconference2025 - if you spot us out and about come and say hi!
At the #ECSconference2025 this week covering a week of workshops and fascinating talks at the University of the Azores, ranging from telemetry studies in the Arctic to pinnipeds in the the sub-Antarctic
Angela Amlin in front of a title slide of her talk about using neural networks to help remote monitoring of endangered monk seals
Maybe I am biased because I'm her co-supervisor but I thought this was a smashing talk by Angela Amlin about using automated remote camera systems to monitor the effects of boat traffic on monk seal haulout cave usage @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @joan-gonzalvo.bsky.social #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🦭🧪
Emily Hague in front of her title slide of her systematic review of threats to marine mammals
Marine mammals in the anthropocene - systematic review of publications on threats to marine mammals by @emily-hague.bsky.social identifies key knowledge gaps - also @seamammalresearch.bsky.social #2 in the contributions league table after NOAA! #ECSconference2025 🦑🐋🧪
