As part of my MSc with @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and @uniofstandrews.bsky.social we had the opportunity join HWDT on the Silurian for a couple of days in the Inner Hebrides. Even though the weather didn’t agree with us it was a fun experience. Thank you HWDT!

🐳 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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Congrats @seamammalresearch.bsky.social & SOI staff & #MSc_MMS_St_A students who helped this seal pup rest last week, by engaging with beach users to minimise disturbance - it returned to sea that evening #Fife 🦑🦭 Photos by @larissa-michel.bsky.social

Arrived at the last meeting of this year's #MSc_MMS_St_A bioacoustics class to find one of the students had drawn a cartoon of me - not only did they make me look quite cool, the speech bubble suggests at least *some* of the teaching I've done this year has sunk in! #AcademicSky

SMRU researchers are appealing for the public to help us understand why UK Harbour seals are in steep decline news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...

Thankful to be able to present my upcoming master’s thesis at @ukirsc.bsky.social. It’s been a very eventful and educational couple of days!

Anais Bliault presents the ventilatory adjustments of seals to physiological disturbance

Next, we have Kyra Jacobson discussing the resiliency of toxoplasma gondii in decomposed Hawaiian spinner dolphin tissues

Introducing Zoe Hodgson who will be discussing the topic of if seals change their behaviour to mitigate the impacts of pile driving.

Introducing Viola Novelli, presenting habitat partitioning and interactions between porpoises and dolphins in the Black Sea.

Had a great time talking about how weird, wonderful, and understudied bowhead whale song is 🐋🎵

Noise pollution from Norway's oil and gas exploration is threatening whales -->

www.theguardian.com/environment/...