Henry Slesser

Humpbacks and home runs: Life as a PhD student at Catz A St Catharine’s postgraduate student has been alternating biology and baseball during his four years at Cambridge. Henry Slesser (a Molecular Ecology PhD student) was interested in both marine biology and baseball when he joined St Catharine’s as a PhD student in 2022. He has since been involved in important research with humpback whales and an impressive series of wins with the Cambridge University Baseball Squad.

A Catz student is having a whale of a time! @hslesser.bsky.social (Molecular Ecology PhD student):
🐋 Studied humpback #whales in the wild with @bas.ac.uk
⚾ Came 4th nationally with @cam.ac.uk #baseball team
💐 Got married!
Read our interview: caths.cam.ac.uk/hump... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

26.10.2025 09:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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 genomics technologies are opening up the possib...

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 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...

23.11.2024 11:28 — 👍 78    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 2

The first North Atlantic #rightwhale calves of the season have been spotted off Georgia by Clearwater Marine Aquarium! Cheers to whale moms Nauset + Minus One!

📲 Keep track of these #criticallyendangered newborns w/ @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/neaq-calves...

📸 NOAA permit 26919

12.12.2024 18:08 — 👍 88    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

Could this be the longest recorded Humpback #Whale migration ever recorded? A male whale has been resighted off #Tanzania in 2019 after first being seen off #Colombia in 2013. Read the study here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#Cetaceans #ClimateChange #Ocean

11.12.2024 09:29 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Getting into the Christmas spirit with a visit to @oldvictheatre.bsky.social to see a Christmas Carol in the round. A brilliant performance by John Simm as Scrooge, and Dickens’ message of charity and consideration for others ringing as true today as when it was written.

10.12.2024 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

09.12.2024 10:21 — 👍 18    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs
Contact me for more details (s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk). Please Share
@britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

29.11.2024 07:53 — 👍 90    🔁 78    💬 5    📌 6

‘It’s nonstop’: how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway’s whales Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater

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

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

05.12.2024 13:46 — 👍 177    🔁 57    💬 10    📌 2

Happy isotope day! I shall be celebrating through the joyous activity of weighing samples out. (Prepping for a sulphur run on some whale collagen samples and prey 🐋 🦐)

04.12.2024 13:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Map of the Falkland Islands, southwest Atlantic, showing key coastal sites in the north, and a red box in the northeast showing where the satellite tags were deployed on southern right whales in July 2022.

Southern right whale swimming in coastal Falkland Islands waters. Image: Falklands Conservation

The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam

Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...

03.12.2024 11:47 — 👍 39    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

29.11.2024 14:08 — 👍 75    🔁 60    💬 0    📌 3

Awesome paper, and a great example of how to pivot when things don’t entirely go how you expect! 🐟

28.11.2024 00:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A picture of a webpage detailing the current status of whale stocks. The image shows a dashboard with dials that indicate the relative abundance of the whale population and its trend over the last 20 years.

The IWC has just published its Status of Whales webpages. This represents a huge amount of work by the amazing group of people in our SC. Simple graphics to show whether populations are moving towards extinction or recovery, how this status has changed over a 20-year period. iwc.int/resources/me...

20.11.2024 10:58 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Hi Emma, thanks for putting this together, could I be added please?

26.11.2024 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0