Denise Risch

PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025

We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️

Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ytfmfhfc

The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
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🐋 Registration Deadline Extended 🦭

We've extended the deadline for registration until the 21st November, so there's still time to sign up if you thought you'd missed it! Head to our website or scan the QR code in the poster to get to the form. Hope to see you all in January!

🐬 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

Stride for Gaza 2025 I am striding for Gaza in aid of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). I will be completing 98km in 23 days and virtually following the displacement journey of one of MAP's Palestinian colleagues in Gaz

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‼️ (amazing) Post doc alert!

From the figure legend: Figure 4. Conditional inference tree (Ctree) showing the partitioning effect of the presence of certain species (number of days per month) across 10 sites in the North Atlantic. Each Ctree node was restricted to a minimum sum of 60 weights and exceedance of a 0.95 test statistic. The size of the Ctree (depth) was not restricted, but the minimum sum of weights for each terminal node (numbered 1−9) was limited to 15. Each colour-coded site is labelled in the legend and ordered from north to south in order to latitude with a spectrum of colours from cool (blue) to warm (red). Beaked whale species represented all inner nodes except for one fourth tier node, which was sperm whales.

New paper
Exploring the biodiversity of cetacean communities along the western North Atlantic Ocean shelf-break
led by Samara Haver.

One finding:
"beaked whale species [were] the most significant driver of differences among cetacean communities"
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royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Green Oceans and Three Tribes Petition NOAA to Revoke Offshore Wind Companies’ Authorizations That Harm 61% of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales While Building their Projects Three Native American tribes, the Shinnecock Nation, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, the Narragansett Tribe, ACK for Whales, and Green Oceans have ...

Interesting development in the whales-and-wind saga. Someone's playing this one very smart.

Repeating - anyone who tries to shut down offshore wind for right whale conservation and does nothing about entanglements is either a fool or has a motive other than whale conservation.
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We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

WoaW - South Georgia Heritage Trust

🐳Come join us for a Whale of a Weekend in Dundee from 26-29 June! Some of our team will be part of a panel on June 28, sharing tales about studying whales in South Georgia 🐳
🧪@southgeorgiahertiagetrust @FOSGI
Go to for more information: sght.org/woaw/

Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.

Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) has just unveiled field recordings (and compositions that incorporate them) for 270 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and one of mine is included (responding to Horses at Machu Picchu). There's a lot to listen to! citiesandmemory.com/heritage/

Ben and I have some sound recordings from Loch Ness! Happy to collaborate 😊.

that’s appalling

Tropical Bioacoustics School

Exciting news! 🌴🔊 The Tropical Bioacoustics School TBS2025 is right around the corner!
#TropicalBioacoustics #SoundScience #Conservation #bioacoustics
www.tropbioacschool.com

MASTS Open Forum Session "Deep Computer Vision & Benthic Ecosystems" - MASTS MASTS invites everyone to this free Open Forum Session hosted by the Marine Artificial Intelligence Research Forum.

Please join us for the upcoming Open Forum Session by the Marine #AI Forum!

The session titled Understanding the Current State of #SouthernOcean #Benthic Ecosystems Using #DeepLearning Computer Vision with Dr Cameron Trotter (@bas.ac.uk) will be taking place online on Thurs 3 Apr at 10 am UTC.

A poster featuring the statue of liberty and the text "Stand up for science 2025", "7 mars 2026 18h Place de la Comédie Montpellier", "La Science est un Bien Commun" "standupforscience.fr"

Science benefits everyone. Demonising & defunding it hurts everyone. That's why I'll be joining #standupforscience2025 in Montpellier, France

La science profite à tous. La diaboliser & la financer nuit à tout le monde. C'est pourquoi je rejoindrai #standupforscience2025 à Montpellier, en France

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

2025. #DEI - ‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown. Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Endangered Rice's Whale At Risk As Protection Efforts Are Rescinded After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.

Meanwhile, in the world of #whales -
Steps taken to reduce the likelihood of shipping killing individual Gulf of Mexico whales (Balaenoptera ricei) have been rescinded

~50 or so is the best estimate of the abundance of this species
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Small things we can do to help US gov scientists

Journal editors - how about we don't ask US gov folks to referee manuscripts now. They have more than enough to deal with.

Other scientists - pick up that refereeing to help out.
When asked, please agree to review.

One idea
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fantastic work Ellen! congratulations!

Amazing work 🐋🧪 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

Why humpback whales are flocking to the UK Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising – and causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause

Nice to see @denrisch.bsky.social talking about humpbacks...
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Donald Trump has declared the U.S. is in a “national-energy emergency.” “The actual emergency, obviously, is with the climate,” @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour

Deadline: 24th Jan 2025

bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Bioacoustics Winter School | ENES lab Home

Tomorrow 6 January: kick-off for the 9th edition of the Bioacoustics Winter School! => 2 weeks of intensive courses given by around 30 international researchers. See the timetable 👇.
www.eneslab.com/bioacoustic-...
#bioacoustics #prattle

International Master of Bioacoustics Home page of the International Master of Bioacoustics

Admissions to the International Master of Bioacoustics MoBi for the 25-26 academic year are now open ! Information about the program (eligibility, schedule and application process): 👇
Do not hesitate to disseminate this info!
www.masterofbioacoustics.com
#bioacoustics #prattle

Summer Student Fellowship - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Summer Student Fellow program brings bright, talented students to Woods Hole to learn more about ocean science, attend lectures by Woods Hole scientists, and conduct independent research working a...

Are you an undergrad student interested in gaining experience in marine bioacoustics? Apply for the Summer Student Fellowship at @whoi.bsky.social and come work with me. Application deadline: February 5, 2025. Reach out to me if you are interested.
#Bioacoustics

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Introducing "Sonic Connexions", a series of online meetups designed for casual conversations about animal bioacoustics. It is open to anyone, so join us and become part of this vibrant community!

First meetup on January 29th, 2025!

Sign up here: forms.office.com/r/qhPcMUKz6w

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Extreme longevity may be the rule not the exception in Balaenid whales Whale life spans have likely been greatly underestimated.

New paper alert
Extreme longevity may be the rule not the exception in Balaenid whales
by @alaskaraven.bsky.social , Els Vermeulen, and me.

2 messages:
♀Southern rights could live much longer than we thought (10% >130);
♀North Atlantic rights' lives are truncated (10%>47)
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