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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱

@beth-harvey.bsky.social
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PhD student and DTA | wildlife guide 🌈 she/her Studying cetacean ecology, bioacoustics & conservation @PlymUni @CefasNoise 🐬 love scuba, bad at freediving, worse at bodyboarding 🤙

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Ben Tumolo @bbtumolo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Are you interested in an MS position and stream ecosystems? My lab (www.benjamintumolo.com) @bionmu.bsky.social is recruiting an MS student to join a collaborative NSF-funded project to study positive species interactions in streams. Apply by Nov 2, 2026 See here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
pretty forest stream
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‼️ Registration for UKIRSC 2027 is OPEN! 🐬 Open to all students & recent graduates studying marine mammals! ✨ The conference is free & offers some travel grants within the UK Link in comments ⬇️
Poster for the conference - poster sessions, keynote speakers, workshops, travel bursaries available, QR code for registering
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 21st UKIRSC Conference will take place 12 - 15th Jan 2027 at the University of St Andrews. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
Conference announcement poster stating save the date and stay tuned, 12-15th January 2027, University of St Andrews.Background picture is iconic ruined cathedral in St Andrews
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Had a blast organising this year’s marine mammal conference in our very own Plymouth! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Inspiring keynote from Dr Clare Embling on her career journey so far 🐬🐳 From porpoises to sperm whales, PhD & postdoc tips, insights into predator–prey interactions and impacts of noise. A brilliant, honest look at building a career in marine mammal science. #UKIRSC26 @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
A gorgeous morning to kick off #UKIRSC26 and what a view from the Plymouth University Marine Station! 🐬
Sunrise and pink skies over the marina next to the Marine Station, with a swan in the foreground
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Wonderful infographic on my paper showing that "flight" species of baleen whales generally call too deeply and quietly to be heard by hunting killer whales, unlike the "fight" club. By A Haddock & C.A. Gallagher, SMM Education Committee Paper here: doi.org/10.1111/mms....
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome. Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Reminder that registration closes this week! Follow the link in the thread to sign up 🧵
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Some EXCELLENT leaping by spinner dolphins in an atoll lagoon 🐬 (Super scientific video commentary includes ‘there’s loads of them!’ and ‘woo-hoo!’) #indianocean #science
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
super cool! 🤓
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Find out more about the project here: www.zsl.org/what-we-do/p... (I am just the lowly wildlife observer lucky enough to spot it!) 5/5
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Indian Ocean Marine Science | ZSL
We're collaborating to protect the Indian Ocean, with 121 peer-reviewed papers that have been generated between 2017-2021 from the research in the region.
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
However, until now there has been no confirmed sighting in the region. How lucky to have spotted this from the survey vessel and in great weather conditions! 4/5
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Since then there has been an increase in sightings in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific, including in Sri Lanka, and some acoustic recordings in Chagos appear to show Omura’s whale calls. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 3/5
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Multiple pygmy blue whale acoustic populations in the Indian Ocean: whale song identifies a possible new population - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Multiple pygmy blue whale acoustic populations in the Indian Ocean: whale song identifies a possible new population
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
First described in 2003, it wasn’t until very recently, in 2013, that they were recorded live in Madagascar. See: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 2/5
omuraswhale
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Big news from the Indian Ocean! First sighting of the incredibly rare Omura’s whale, confirming previous acoustic recordings in the Chagos Archipelago. Project to determine cetacean 🐋 diversity by @iomarinescience.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Photos by me 🧪 🌍 🧵1/5
Omura’s whale - brownish grey on top, paler underside - surfaces in calm blue water Omura’s whale continues to roll with more of its back visible and pale chevron marking on the sideWhale turned on its side so pale underside seen underwater, and half of its flukes emerge looking almost like the dorsal fin of an orca
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Another landmark moment in the ongoing fight to end this senseless slaughter.
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🐬 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
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Counting turtle tracks 🐢 👣 #fieldwork #addocean
A set of human footprints next to tracks left by a turtle, in the white sand down to the sea with stormclouds in the distance
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
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Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Noddies! Can someone help me out though - brown or lesser?? & any tips for differentiating 🙏 #birds #indianocean
Noddy (small brown bird with pale crown) sat on a palm leafAnother noddy sat on a palm leaf
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Also love the browns! Haven’t managed to get a good photo of one yet though. Having just googled abbots, can confirm you are correct
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thanks! 😄
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣 Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
A breeding pair of Gannets on the Bass Rock with their chick. One of the adults clearly has a black eye, an indicator of past exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza, while the other is normal/healthy.
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Here’s a really interesting study on their foraging ecology - bsky.app/profile/ruth...
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#addBirder
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Obsessed with red-footed boobies, which have the most colourful bills and sometimes perch on the front of the boat to keep us company at sea. They are unafraid of humans so giving them their name (original meaning = stupid, poor things)
A pair of red footed boobies perching in a bushThe head of a booby sticking out of a bush, holding a twig as nesting materialA juvenile booby perched on the front rail of the boat with the sea in the background
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thank you!
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Hi, my research isn’t directly linked to climate change so it wouldn’t be a personal story, but I’d be happy to hear more about it! (Feel free to dm)
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Welcome!
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Thanks Josh! 🤞
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Good morning from the (slightly stormy) Indian Ocean where I’m spending the next two months as marine mammal observer. Will be sharing pics of birds, cetaceans & other sea life as I go! 🐬 🪸 🧪 🌍
Storm clouds and rain over the sea, in front of the ship
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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
yo #cetacean biologists, #whale scientists, wildlife/remote sensing nerds -- what's the track record of attempts to use satellite imagery to spot whales? eg www.spacewhales.de. Null results don't get shared; I'm trying to understand how much of a fool's errand this is vs no it's possible now! 🌊🦑
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AI Detected Whales - Spacewhales
SPACEWHALE is a novel method for detecting whales in very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery which can monitor regions in the high seas where traditional boat or aerial-based surveys are difficul...
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Bryce Stewart @bd-stew.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
It’s been a joy to see bluefin tuna in the UK for the first time in recent years. Now of course we have to ruin it (with no basic understanding of stock recovery or fishing impacts) 🎣
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Interesting analysis showing just how much of a problem bycatch is for common dolphins in the southwest, which will only increase as their numbers rise with climate change and changing prey distributions 🐬🥅
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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
RISSO'S DOLPHIN CALVES!! We had a beautiful encounter with a nursery pod of Risso's Dolphins off Levenwick and Clumlie here in Shetland last week. Check out some of those tiny calves - some are only a few days old at most! #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife
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Vinicius Bastazini @vinibastazini.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
As global #shipping expands, our #oceans' #biodiversity faces growing threats. Our new study maps the critical hotspots where #marine #life needs protection from vessels and identifies priority areas for urgent #conservation action. #Ecology #Wildlife #Sea 🧪🌐🌎🌊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates
The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you an early career marine mammal scientist? We've created a list for you! Ask to be added ⬇️ and follow to keep up to date with marine mammal research, boost your science and connect with other PhD students/ECRs 🐬🐋🧪🌍 (If not - please still share widely!) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Gina Lonati, PhD @eubalaenagina.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Honored to have been a part of the collaborative #smartWhales initiative aiming to detect rare and critically endangered #rightwhales using #satellite imagery. Check out our new paper showcasing our work with Hatfield Consultants, AltaML, University of New Brunswick & Canadian Wildlife Federation!
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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
📢 Our new paper is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! A step toward more comparable approaches in bioacoustics! We tested how different acoustic feature extraction and classification methods affect caller ID classification accuracy. Read about it here: 🔗 shorturl.at/F31Pb
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
We’ve had some gorgeous weather on recent surveys, and some lovely bow riding common dolphins too! ⛵️ 🐬
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Free student conference we’re hosting in Plymouth next year, it’s friendly and a lot of fun!
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Conor Ryan @whalenerd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Wonderful example of non-invasive research from land, showing that harbour porpoises have a strong preference for coastal waters (<500m from the shore) in parts of Northern Ireland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Spatial Dynamics of Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena Relative to Local Hydrodynamics and Environmental Conditions
This study uses a multidisciplinary approach to model the habitat use and site occurrence of harbour porpoises, identifying areas where they were seen spending most time in the Skerries and Causeway ...
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Screenshot of a Guardian news article with the headline: “Wildlife charities urge Labour to scrap ‘licence to kill nature’ in planning bill.” The subheading reads: “Conservationists say part of bill allowing developers to avoid environmental laws by paying into nature fund should be ditched.” Below, a protest photo shows handmade signs in woodland. One reads “BAT FACTS – 14 species of bat in Buckinghamshire. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.” Another says “FAT CATS KILL BATS” in bold letters. The image underscores public anger and the scale of opposition to the proposed Planning Bill.
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Ellen Garland @ellengarland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Beth Harvey 🐬🌱 @beth-harvey.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We had a great time at the #ECSconference2025 hosting a workshop, giving talks or presenting posters, eating some excellent pastel de nata, and topping the week of with a whale watching trip seeing orca, sperm and sei whales!! 🐋
Some students enjoying lunch in the sunshine Plymouth contingent in front of a whale tail sculpture Two excited whale watchers
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Great talk by PhD student @katie-rapson.bsky.social at the #ECSconference2025 on 3D acoustic tracking of harbour porpoises in tidal environments with some very well explained novel methods 🔉🐬
Katie giving her talk
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