Clare Andvik

Regnjakkene blir mindre vanntette på grunn av et forbud mot miljøgiften PFAS Etter forbudet mot PFAS har regnjakkene blitt mye mindre regntette.

What a strange & disappointing headline from NRK about the PFAS restriction. Not a celebration that we will protect humans & environment from toxic forever chemicals... but a lament that rain jackets "won't be as waterproof"

www.nrk.no/nordland/reg...

& why were no toxicologists interviewed?!

Thanks #nets2025 for a fantastic conference! Impressive how much science was packed into 2 days (+ early career workshop). Our @biovitenskap.bsky.social group shared results from the tropics to the Arctic, & zooplankton to whales & polar bears! 🐳🐻‍❄️ w/ @julia-gieb.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social

An honour to be invited by @miljodirektoratet.no to present our research on pollution (& other stressors) in Norwegian whales! 🐳 Fun to connect with old colleagues & discuss how results can be converted into actual change (e.g. chemical regulations). Research is nothing if nobody hears about it!

hahahah this is so so true 😂

It was great to meet future @biovitenskap.bsky.social students at the @uio.no open day last week! I gathered some beautiful photos and videos from fieldwork with #norwegianorcasurvey to give an impression of how it is to do killer whale fieldwork in Norway!🤩🐳

The V International Symposium on Orcas was the largest EVER gathering of orca researchers! 🌍🐳
I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏

Ahh I loved this podcast too and have been recommending to all whale and non-whale friends!

Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience to all the kickass #womeninSTEM 🙌💪❤️

One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪

Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊

Thanks for a fantastic conference NSFT!
A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉

My newest research: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUBE3Ao6B...

An infographic displaying the procedure of how scientists sampled the white shark and discovered killer whale DNA was present on the sounds.

A fascinating new study from a great team of scientists, including @bellareeves.bsky.social and @meyer-sci.bsky.social!

They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver:

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

New research reveals the extraordinary energy demands of humpback whale mothers, who travel over 3,000 miles without food to birth and nourish their 2,600-pound calves, a feat now further imperiled by climate change and marine heatwaves disrupting their critical food supply.

Extended deadline of March 3 2025! 👍

Call for papers! 📣
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩‍🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK

The MULTIWHALE team are looking forward to sharing our results soon! 📈📊👩‍🔬👩‍💻

Our project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and we are a collaboration between @uio.no @biovitenskap.bsky.social , #norwegianorcasurvey plus many more! 🤗🙌

(7/7)

Note that we never sample calves 🖤🤍 And always assess the body condition and behaviour of the group before sampling. Animal welfare first 🙏❤️ (6/7)

📷 #norwegianorcasurvey

Normally the whales barely notice the sampling and quickly resume their pre-sampling behaviour. A 3cm long and 1g sample is, after all, not much for a 10m long 10 tonne animal 😆🐳 (5/7)

📷 Krisztina Balotay

The tiny sample is used for EIGHT different analyses! 🔎🧬🔬It gives valuable knowledge into diet, health, pollutant levels, genetics and more to help us understand and mitigate the multiple stressors facing the population 🇳🇴🐳 (4/7)

📷 #norwegianorcasurvey

Every sampled whale is photo-identified 📸 So tissue analysis results can be linked to what we know about the whales from previous sightings. This also ensures we don’t sample the same whale twice in a season, and allows us to to observe the wound healing quickly! ☺️✅ (3/7)

📷 #norwegianorcasurvey

A small dart with a mounted tip is fired at the area behind the dorsal fin of a whale. When the dart hits the whale, it bounces off and floats. We can then retrieve the dart using a net, extract the tissue from the tip, and freeze it immediately on board ❄️🧪 (2/7)

📷 #norwegianorcasurvey

BIOPSY SAMPLING - WHAT & WHY? 🤔🐳

A thread 🧵

Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7)

📷 Krisztina Balotay

@uio.no
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
#norwegianorcasurvey

Still just a postponement for now, but we can hope and pray it never happens!❤️ Tusen takk og fantastisk bra jobba @sv.no

Wow, what an amazing PhD opportunity!! Check it out! ⬇️

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How cool is this!!!

Hi 🦋, I'm a PhD candidate soon to finish on the evolutionary ecology of Australasian killer whales in Aus 🇦🇺. I dabble mostly in pop/evolutionary genomics, trophic and nutritional ecology of marine predators 🧬🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Mapping Arctic Marine Mammals: understanding the distribution of species in a rapidly changing north

New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels

Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇

and thanks to the Society of Marine Mammalogy conference team for the making the conference so #familyfriendly and accessible for parents! Play stations were dotted around, and the kids room had a live stream to the plenary sessions. Absolute inspiration for how conference should be ❤️ #smmPerth2024

Also shout out to these incredible women in science who made the week so fun! ❤️🤗 Lucky to have friends we are also kickass scientists 🐳
@emmaluck22.bsky.social @bellareeves.bsky.social

Still feeling high after an incredible week of science at #smmPerth2024 🤩 I presented results from MULTIWHALE & how stress hormones in Norwegian orcas are affected by whale watching boats. Stay tuned for the publication 🙌 #norwegianorcasurvey @biovitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo.bsky.social #forskning