π¬π³ Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. π
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
20.08.2025 09:24 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
π New PhD opportunity: Fully-funded MASTS PhD with SMASS investigating cetacean energetics & thermogenesis - a critical knowledge gap in marine mammal physiology.
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
05.06.2025 14:50 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Bring BeachTrack π± with you on your coastal walks and contribute valuable data to marine ecosystem monitoring projects!
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@strandings.bsky.social
www.beachtrack.org
04.03.2025 23:31 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Marine Forum π
We're so grateful to our speakers & attendees for making it such an inspiring day of conversations on the marine environment.
What a community! πβ¨
#MarineForum2025
@uofgmvls.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @whalesorg.bsky.social
04.03.2025 14:50 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
π¨ Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! π¨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! ππ¬
Only a few tickets left so donβt miss out! π:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
30.01.2025 15:47 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
π¨ Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! π¨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! ππ¬
Only a few tickets left so donβt miss out! π:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
30.01.2025 15:47 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
A pilot whale mass stranding event, Sanday, 2024
Three weeks to go if you are interested in applying for a www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... fully funded PhD looking to answer vital questions about the prevalence and epidemiology of viral pathogens in Scotlandβs marine mammal populations: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate.... Get in touch if interested!
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πΎTurn your beach walk into a conservation tool with Beachtrack!
Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! π¦π
π² Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
13.12.2024 14:07 β π 22 π 17 π¬ 0 π 2
WDC & SMASS Marine Forum 2025
A day of talks & workshops focusing on citizen science data collected from across Scotland to aid the protection of the marine environment.
πThe Marine Forum is back!π
Weβre excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this yearβs theme, "Sea Changeβ will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
06.12.2024 14:54 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 2
Many thanks to all who helped with the Balmedie minke whale necropsy yesterday: moderate body condition, trauma related to the stranding but no indication of boat strike, entanglement, or severe infection, no feeding prior to death, fatty changes in the liver and a possible underlying meningitis.
27.11.2024 14:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
Marine mammal ecology & underwater sound tourist. Associate Director (Research) Scottish Association for Marine Science. (Marine Ecology Prof) University of the Highlands & Islands. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπͺπΊ
Empowering young people to speak up for our seas πβπ½ linktr.ee/youth4seas
Inspiring global action to create a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.
rare moments of humour.... love cetaceans - and elephants
i often point cameras at things.....
https://flic.kr/ps/of5vm
π¬ PhD researcher in marine mammal bycatch @exetercec.bsky.social
Policy-focused research, with interests in ecology, conservation and veterinary pathology.
Representing the University of Exeter's Marine research and education community #ExeterMarine
Check out our starter packs to follow our academics!
linktr.ee/exetermarine
Lecturer in Marine Vertebrate Ecology and Conservation
@UniofExeter #ExeterMarine investigating #plastic pollution in the #marine environment. She/her
PhD || Isotopes π¨π¦ π³π¬π¦£π (she/her)
Writer and Wildlife Film-maker
Fish/aquatic/stable isotope ecology. Proud dad of two Anglo-Chileans. Sweary. Wide interests. Prof of Ecology, Director of Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment, U Glasgow's Field Station on Loch Lomond, UK @sceneuog.bsky.social
Prof of Medical #Entomology & Disease Ecology @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & Visiting Scientist Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania. #Malaria #Mosquito #NTDs #GlobalHealth #Equity
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/staff/heatherferguson
Infectious disease epidemiologist @lshtm.bsky.social
Mathematical modeller, stats for epidemiology, AMR & vaccine development.
Also occasional rants about football and whoever Liverpool FC are playing.
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https://keegan.science/
Postdoc at McMaster University, formerly University of Glasgow π¦ rabies genomics & modelling π she/her
NERC Research Fellow at Uni. Glasgow |
Evolutionary Genomics & Gene Regulation | Sometimes fisheries & pathogen genetics | Mostly fish & lampreys π
Infectious disease ecology, zoonoses, pathogen evolution, molecular epidemiology | University of Glasgow
the great outdoors, aikido, and searching for the perfect beatβ¦
Expat Kiwi, Professor of Taxonomy at Glasgow University, inclined to say that something sucks at every available opportunity. Biodiversity informatics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs. I also run the @evoldir.bsky.social bot.
Mathematical Modeler at Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania | PhD student at @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social | @MRCNIHRTMRP studentship
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/victoriajamesgithu/
I try and do comparative and population genomics of neglected tropical disease (and some other) parasites, as part of @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk
at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social
A team in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Glasgow that investigates the development, mechanisms & evolution of seasonal rhythms in animals.
Team leader: Tyler Stevenson
landscape disease ecologist @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
