Immersion patterns alone can predict vessel following by albatrosses 📊🧪
Albatrosses show distinct landing and takeoff patterns when following fishing vessels. Even when vessel data are lacking, these patterns can predict vessel following 🦅🌎
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
22.07.2025 10:39 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 Just launched: SealMAP
A web application for exploring the latest seal distribution maps for Scotland that I’ve been working on for @seamammalresearch.bsky.social is now live!
🛠️ Built with shiny.posit.co
🌐 Try it here: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s...
#WebDev #Launch #SMRU #Shiny
24.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️
20.06.2025 09:05 — 👍 30 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 3
Linking ringed seal foraging behaviour to environmental variability - Movement Ecology
Background Foraging rates directly influence animals’ energetic intake and expenditure and are thus linked to body condition and the ability to survive and reproduce. Further, understanding the underl...
New #OA paper in Movement Ecology using a combination of statistical models (HMMs & GAMMs) to understand environmental drivers of behaviour in Saimaa ringed seals. Very pleased to be invited to collaborate on this research! 🤓🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x
25.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Grey seal in the water
Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
21.03.2025 12:13 — 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 4
Check out this podcast from @science.org covering new research from @chrismcknight.bsky.social and the @smruecophys.bsky.social team on why seals don't drown:
www.science.org/content/podc...
21.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scientist discovers why seals do not drown while diving
Dr Chris McKnight has been researching how seals can hold their breath as part of his work at the University of St Andrews.
More coverage from @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social of SMRU research into seal diving physiology. @chrismcknight.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social @smruecophys.bsky.social
Article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
21.03.2025 12:21 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Massive congratulations!!!
19.03.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Introducing Dr Glencross! Viva done ✅ 3 hours of penguin chat with my wonderful examiners 🐧🐧
19.03.2025 08:31 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0
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 🌞
06.03.2025 15:21 — 👍 58 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
More exciting findings on humpback whale song this week! 🐋🎵 This time on the complexity and evolution of humpback whale song off Okinawa, Japan - a now published thesis by #MSc_MMS_St_A graduate @emarwood.bsky.social under the supervision of @ellengarland.bsky.social , @lrendell.bsky.social &myself.
13.02.2025 00:26 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Site and species dependent effects of offshore wind farms on fish populations
The expansion of offshore wind energy capacity is changing the seascape with the large-scale introduction of turbines and associated infrastructure. S…
Our new paper on fine-scale effects of offshore wind turbine foundations on demersal fish is OA in Marine Environmental Research. Part of the #OWEC #PrePARED project
@drmjwitt.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @exetermarine.bsky.social @thecrownestate.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
30.01.2025 07:18 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social
10.01.2025 13:51 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
🌬🌊Join ICES Workshop to compile evidence on the impacts of offshore renewable energy on fisheries & marine ecosystems #WKCOMPORE
📅3-7 February 2025
❗Experts in social sciences, economics, fisheries, spatial planning & cumulative impacts needed - register by 24 January
www.ices.dk/community/gr...
10.01.2025 13:15 — 👍 13 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan.
Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
08.01.2025 12:20 — 👍 38 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
Accessible summary of @francae.bsky.social latest paper @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 🦑🐋🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
09.01.2025 08:39 — 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Poster of PhD advert about role gulls play in spreading disease and antimicrobial resistance. More info: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/what-role-do-gulls-play-in-spreading-disease-and-anti-microbial-resistance-nerc-gw4-dtp-phd-studentship-for-september-2025-entry-ref-5431/?p178297
Exciting PhD opportunity with @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social , @padpadpadpad.bsky.social (Exeter) and myself (Bristol) on gulls, their microbiomes, and role in transmitting disease.
Details below - deadline 13 January!
06.01.2025 17:43 — 👍 45 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 0
📖Published📖
In our new Application article, Papadopoulou et al. present the swaRmverse package, an R package for the comparative analysis of collective motion 🌎 🧪 Find out more here👇
https://buff.ly/3CSAEQW
08.12.2024 10:00 — 👍 35 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 New research! 🚨 Seal-fishery interactions in the #Falklands Islands have surged since 2017 🦭 Using 5 years of observer data 👀, we found fur #seals interact with 1/3 of trawls, mostly in high-yield & productive areas 🦑
📊 Graphical abstract & @icesmarine.bsky.social link: tinyurl.com/5fcrkju7
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05.12.2024 20:01 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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02.12.2024 11:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winter strandings of juvenile hardshell #turtles in UK have started! This one still alive! on a beach near Blackpool. Less than 30cm long. Keep an eye out. Contact numbers can be found here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a...
🐢🌍🧪🦑 #seaturtles #marineturtles
27.11.2024 20:57 — 👍 66 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0
🌎 Exploring Earth’s blue surface | 🧪 Biogeochemist | 📍 Edinburgh |
🌊 Work 🏔️ Play | 🏳️🌈 she/her | philipparickard.com
Research Fellow at the Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), University of St Andrews | Marine Science & Data Analysis Expert 🦭
British Ecological Society-Rewilding Special Interest Group
The dedicated scheme providing a coordinated approach to surveillance and investigation of marine strandings in Scotland. Part of @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
Quantitative Ecologist, PhD Student @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
Applied Ecology |Bayesian statistics |Conservation |Metapopulations |Population dynamics |Spatial Ecology |Seabirds |Grouse
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/hollyniven/
Mathematical and statistical modeller in ecology & epidemiology.
Wildlife biologist studying Phocid seals in Alaska and the PNW. Avid user of #rstats and proponent of Open Science. Seattle resident, Puget Sound recreational fisherman, Bernese mountain dog Dad
PhD student at Karlstad University 🇸🇪. Everything telemetry, fish migration, passage solutions, river restoration
The UK’s independent adviser on tackling climate change.
https://www.theccc.org.uk/
PhD researcher at University of Iceland and Icelandic Orca Project | Bioacoustics 🎶 | Whales 🐳 | Behavioural ecology | Interspecific interactions | Looking for PostDoc opportunities 🤓
Senior researcher at Aarhus University broadly interested in movement ecology and population biology of wild animals on land and in water.
Itä-Suomen yliopiston viestinnän hallinnoima tili.
PhD Marine Ecology 📉/ Detection dog handler & trainer🐕 / Conservation & welfare 🏞/ Scotland & beyond 🌏/ Art & Science 🎨/ Mountains 🏃🏻♀️🗻
We are Wageningen University & Research
Provides education and generates knowledge with a focus on healthy food and living environment. To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life.
https://www.wur.nl/en.htm
Founder Oceanswell, Sci Advisor UN Secy Gen; Nat Geo Explorer; BBC 100 women 2018; Pew Marine Fellow; Tällberg Foundation Global Leader
