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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 6d

Python course complete ✅
def gratitude(): return "@passdan.bsky.social" 🙌

Physalia-courses@Online @physaliacourses.bsky.social · 6d

Another fantastic cohort just got introduced to #Python and its applications in #Bioinformatics by the brilliant @passdan.bsky.social!

We’ll be opening registrations for the next edition very soon – stay tuned so you don’t miss out!

Thanks everyone! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 27d

Reporting from #IBAC2025: where marine mammal fan art meets bioacoustics — all on one very Pinterest-board-worthy poster 🐬 🎙️ 🐋

Morning cold plunges keeping me afloat through this marathon week 🌊

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · May 22

We have vastly underestimated the sophistication and capacity of plants.

How little we understand of the #biodiversity that we are fast trashing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plants produce more nectar when they ‘hear’ bees buzzing, scientists find

Researchers suggest buzzing noises could be used as environmentally friendly way to enhance crop pollination

www.theguardian.com

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · May 23

Shoutout to the visuals for making the science pop! The design really pulled everything together nicely ✨

Emily T Griffiths @emilytgriffiths.com · May 10

Heading to #ECSconference2025 this weekend in the Azores! Exciting to take part in noise and SAMBAH workshops, and to present this observational report of #orcas harassing #spermwhales in northern latitudes. Paper forthcoming, but for now, stop by and see my poster, I'll tell you all about it!

Poster describing an observational report of orcas harassing sperm whales in northern Norway. Poster breaks down the both the physical and acoustic behavior of the animals.

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · May 16

Huge congrats to Laela and the Sarasota Dolphin Research team for their win! Fascinating work, and I’m honoured to be using their dolphin whistle data for my PhD🐬🧪

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · May 15

Congrats to Laela Sayigh and team, first winners of the Coller Dolittle Prize for decoding animal communication. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Dolphin whistle decoders win $100,000 interspecies communication prize

Coller-Dolittle award won by US team for discovering call that triggers avoidance and could be used as alarm signal

www.theguardian.com

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · May 15

Arctic samples, global impact ❄️🌍
And colleagues as cool as the area they study 🧊

Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · May 10

Our PostDoc Marina Gil has just returned from Greenland 🇬🇱 Together with local hunters, she collected samples for the AMAP CORE program - monitoring pollution in Greenland biota since 1994. It holds some of the longest time series data for Arctic wildlife 🐻‍❄️🐋

More in the photo captions 🧪
www.amap.no

Marina started with us in January to work primarily on the WhaleAdapt project with Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne and Jens Søndergaard. WhaleAdapt is a 4 year program led by McGill University, Canada and is an international collaboration with Denmark, the US, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The project investigates effects of climate change on cetaceans and whaling communities in the North Atlantic. 'The goal is to help communities across the affected countries to make sustainable, healthy and socio economically viable adaptations to shifting marine resources.' - Melissa McKinney, project lead.

Marina is originally from Spain and lived much of her Scientific career in the Canary Islands working closely with cetaceans. She has also been to Antarctica during her recent postdoc at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany.

- Picture taken from Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland

A successful trip for Marina where she collected an array of tissue samples and measurements from 17 subsistence hunted ringed seals in Qeqertarsuaq, she also fished for sculpins as in this picture.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · May 13

Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪

The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway.

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · May 13

Shoutout to all PhD students out there — “Finish on Time” by Åsa Burman is the doctoral version of a survival guide!
(spoiler alert: by shifting the focus to how we work)

Anyone down to start a book club to chat about each chapter — a bit of collective academic therapy?

Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · Apr 28

🎙️ 🐋 🎧 Eavesdropping on whale showdowns -- Sperm whales are stressed, orcas are mean, and the section @marinemammalsau.bsky.social is all ears for the juicy underwater drama ✨💅🏼
Great #ECSconference2025 preview talk and fantastic visualisation by @emilytgriffiths.com presenting Mel Cosentino’s work!

ECS conference poster presenting observations on “Complex social and acoustic response of adult male sperm whales when harassed by orcas at high latitudes” by Mel Cosentino and Emily Griffith, Aarhus University

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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · Apr 9

This week, our researchers are preparing for fieldwork in Sarasota Bay, Florida, to collect acoustic data on bottlenose dolphins 🐬. While prepping the equipment, students from our Acoustic Ecology Lab took part in DTAGs tracking training. They were happy to see how their data is collected! 🔊🌊

Part of the members of the Acoustic Ecology Lab team from the Institute of Ecoscience - Aarhus University.

Master students took part in a search for a hidden DTAg at the Risø campus using VHF antennas.

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · Mar 26

My first PhD birthday in DK yesterday: a Danish tradition here @marinemammalsau.bsky.social with a flag at my office door, making my workload all festive 🇩🇰 🎊

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Marine Mammal Research Group @au.dk is finally making waves online! 🌊 Thrilled to be part of this fantastic team 🐋🐬🦭

Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · Mar 20

Welcome to the Marine Mammal Section at Aarhus University! 🐋 (@au.dk) Here, we will share weekly updates on our research, discoveries and fieldwork, along with insights from our team of wildlife researchers🐬🐻‍❄️🦭. If you are interested in what we do, stay tuned. We have a lot to share.. ✨

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Emma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · Mar 6

Excited to have contributed to this study where we tracked 29 sperm whales in the North Atlantic! 🐳

Some traveled nearly 8000km and dove deeper then 1000m! 🛰️🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is one of my favorite photos taken during this fieldwork of a 🐳 diving under the midnight sun 🌞

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Emma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · Nov 18

I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · Jan 3

Please add me, thanks! :)

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