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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 1d

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Conference 2026 – UK & Ireland Regional Student Chapter

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 1d

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below

#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

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Xavier Mouy @xaviermouy.bsky.social · 2d

🧪🐟🔉WHOI's Postdoctoral Scholars Program is now accepting applications.

Application deadline: December 1, 2025.

If you’re interested in bioacoustics, signal processing, AI/ML, or low-cost instrumentation, and are considering applying, feel free to get in touch with me.

www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e...

Postdoctoral Scholar Program - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Eighteen-month Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and bi...

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 PhD alert! ‘Understanding marine mammal distributions and habitat use through environmental DNA’ at the University of Leeds, UK

Deadline: 7th Jan

goodmanlab.org/opportunitie...

#phdsky #academicsky #marinemammals

PhD & post-doctoral fellowhship opportunities in marine mammal eDNA

Understanding marine mammal distributions and habitat use through environmental DNA Environmental DNA (eDNA) is developing rapidly as an important tool for biodiversity monitoring and for exploring…

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Emma Luck @emmaluck22.bsky.social · 12d

I am pleased to share our new review paper detailing killer whale interactions with commercial fisheries in Frontiers in Marine Science!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

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marinefreshwater.bsky.social @marinefreshwater.bsky.social · 5d

Calling all marine & freshwater sciences students 📣

@marinefreshwater.bsky.social has a new #StudentPrize!

The first winner will be announced in 2027 to allow time for submissions and nominations.

More details:
www.publish.csiro.au/mf/forauthor...

#MarineFreshwaterRes

CSIRO PUBLISHING

Awards and Prizes

www.publish.csiro.au

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 6d

#academicsky #PhDsky

UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 6d

With the PhD application process looming (at least in the UK), here’s an interesting article on why you may want to consider research outside of marine mammals (we know! shock horror!) and why this doesn’t have to be the end of a career in marine mammal science 🐬
whalescientists.com/i-cant-find-...

I can’t find a PhD on marine mammals. What now?

Finding a PhD on marine mammals is no easy task, and not everyone succeeds. But your dreams of doing marine mammal research did not end...

whalescientists.com

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Applied Animal Ecology @apanec-lab.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 Congratulations to Rebecca Niklas on completing her master’s thesis!

Rebecca used eDNA samples to assess marine biodiversity and whale diet in the Azores, as part of the @ewhale-dna.bsky.social project🐋🌊

Fantastic work bridging cutting-edge molecular tools with marine ecology!

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Whale PhD Opportunity!! 🚨

NANO @nano4ocean.bsky.social · 12d

#OceanOpportunities PhD position: Site-fidelity and feeding behaviour of fin whales at Antarctic feeding grounds - Deadline 02 October 2025
nf-pogo-alumni.org/26092025-6/

PhD position: Site-fidelity and feeding behaviour of fin whales at Antarctic feeding grounds - Deadline 02 October 2025 - NANO | NF-POGO Alumni Network for the Ocean

Background You will be part of the Marine Mammal Ecology Working Group in the AWI section Polar Biological Oceanography, Bremerhaven, in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fisher...

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Lola Jovan @lolajovan.com · 13d

Every day should begin with seals. Maybe the world would be sweeter?

#seals #oregoncoast #morningwalks #beach #hike #photography #travel #love

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 20d

❗️💵Student bursaries available to help attend marine research events, apply by 31st October:

The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 23d

Turn your ambition into action! ⭐🌎

MBA student bursaries provide direct support for students and postgraduates in marine biology, helping you take your next step toward shaping the future of our oceans.

Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/3TuxcPm
Become a Student Member for £25 per year ➡️ buff.ly/4cuvdDT

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 20d

❗️💵Student bursaries available to help attend marine research events, apply by 31st October:

The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 23d

Turn your ambition into action! ⭐🌎

MBA student bursaries provide direct support for students and postgraduates in marine biology, helping you take your next step toward shaping the future of our oceans.

Apply here ➡️ buff.ly/3TuxcPm
Become a Student Member for £25 per year ➡️ buff.ly/4cuvdDT

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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries
highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋

🔗 in thread

#Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱

📸 Southern right whale: Fredrik Christiansen, Aarhus University
📸 North Atlantic right whale: Center for Coastal Studies, taken under NOAA permit #24359
👉 Link to paper: https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v768/meps14914

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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 24d

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators!

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested!

Applications will be reviewed until filled.

Fluffy Weddell seal pup looks straight into the camera

We are seeking a motivated PhD student to investigate how multiple mesopredators share space and resources in the Southern Ross Sea. The project will address questions about niche partitioning (both spatial and temporal) and foraging ecology in the Southern Ocean using three years of animal tracking data deployed on penguins (n = 60) and seals (n = 30). Specifically, we wish to uncover aspects of three-dimensional space use in Adélie penguins, emperor penguins, and Weddell seals at Cape Crozier, in the southern Ross Sea. There exists one of the largest colonies of Adélie penguins, a small colony of emperor penguins, and a small group of Weddell seals. We ask: How are these animals using the same space at the same time? How can that part of the ocean support hundreds of thousands of central-place foragers in a relatively small foraging halo, during the short summer window of time? Answers to these questions will provide fine-scale insights as part of the larger project which seeks to understand the metacommunity structure of marine mesopredators in the Southern Ocean and will inform conservation in the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (one of the largest in the world). With the first 10-year evaluation of the MPA coming up, this project will have immediate real-world impact.
We cannot guarantee Antarctic field work as part of the PhD project.
Funding: Rutherford Discovery Fellowship ($27,000 NZD/year for three years + fees), plus potential school-supported (School of Earth and Environment) conference travel opportunities.
Requirements: Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Ecology, Marine Biology, Geography, Zoology or Statistics required; good communication skills (written and verbal), with previous publication experience a bonus; strong work ethic, strong initiative, and team attitude; previous experience handling biologging data (in any system), large datasets, and data wrangling a plus.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · Aug 24

A short video of White-beaked Dolphins off the coast of the south Mainland of Shetland this week. Amazing to watch!

#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

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Coraline Bichet @coralinebcht.bsky.social · 29d

With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali...
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@ecophycebc.bsky.social
@cebc-chizelab.bsky.social
@univ-larochelle.fr

6-monts internship proposal | Coraline Bichet

With my colleague Christophe GUINET we offer a 6-months internship position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals 🦭. Check the attached file (in French) for more detai...

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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · Aug 28

Important new analysis of bycatch patterns in UK fisheries by @fayehelenmoyes.bsky.social continuing the legacy of the late Professor Simon Northridge. An unexpected result: 'pinger' use, although decreasing cetacean bycatch, may actually increase seal bycatch
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

an image showing four panels, each panel is a map of the UK and the ICES divisions around the UK, showing a) how fishing effort, b) dolphin bycatch, c) porpoise bycatch and d) seal bycatch varies across the divisions

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SMRU Instrumentation @smruinstrument.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚀 Upcoming Talk! 🚀

Dr Lars Boehme from SMRU (@seamammalresearch.bsky.social) will share how SMRU Instrumentation tags and seals can help advance marine science. 🦭

📍 Discovery Point, Dundee.
📆 Sat 13 & Sun 14 September
🕧 12:30 pm both days

More info: www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/event/how-se...

Getting the Seal of Approval: Marine Animals as Ocean Scientists - Dundee Heritage Trust

From weather forecasting to understanding climate change, Dr Lars Boehme from the Sea Mammal Research Unit will discuss how seals can help us.

www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 20

Because you all needed a
Turtles meeting... 🤣🤣

#bluesky

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SMRU Ecophysiology Lab @smruecophys.bsky.social · Aug 18

New @seamammalresearch.bsky.social & @smruinstrument.bsky.social research out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, using #NIRS integrated into SMRU phone tags to measure the diving behaviour and physiology of the most incredible human divers - the all-female Haenyeo

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · Aug 19

❗️graduate job opportunity with the Dolphin Research Institute www.dolphinresearch.org.au/williamson-r...
#marinemammals
#marinemammaljobs

Williamson Research Fellowship Position 2025 | Dolphin Research

Research Fellowship - Exciting Opportunity with Dolphin Research Institute.

www.dolphinresearch.org.au

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The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · Aug 15

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Marine Mammal Assistant (SAIC, San Diego, California)

sevenseasmedia.org/job/marine-m...

#marinemammals #jobs #california #husbandry #jobopportunity #careers #careerdevelopment #coralreefs #marinescience #marinebiology

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Ruairidh Duncan @inxcetus.bsky.social · Aug 13

A few years in the making, but I can finally share my first PhD paper and my first ever first-authored whale paper. In it, we name a new species of toothed baleen whale: Janjucetus dullardi. You can find our conversation article here: tinyurl.com/dullardi

A cornucopia of tiny, bizarre whales used to live in Australian waters – here’s one of them

If alive today, these tiny whales would be as iconically Australian as kangaroos.

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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · Aug 11

Why did whales get so big? New insights here! ⬇️

Paolo Segre @paolosegre.bsky.social · Aug 11

New paper on scaling of field metabolic rate in baleen whales! By the big whale lab at @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social and friends. 🐋

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Life in the slowest lane: Feeding allometry lowers metabolic rate scaling in the largest whales

Rorqual whales use “lunge-and-filter” gait to maintain low metabolic rates during foraging despite high-cost feeding strategy.

www.science.org

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