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Chris Berglund

@chrisberglund.bsky.social
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PhD student at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and @seamammalresearch.bsky.social looking at individual specialization among grey seals in the UK.

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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is also how it feels writing a thesis post-pandemic
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Crabeater seals don’t even eat crabs
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It depends A lot. I’m fortunate in that I have funding through the school that covers the tuition, but it can be really hard to find that as a non-UK resident
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Best part of doing a PhD in the uk is not having qualifying exams
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Dr James Rule @palaeo-jrule.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Seals have a superpower: they are the only mammals with amphibious hearing! They hear well both in-air and underwater. My collagues and I have a new study in Proceedings B on the origins and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds 🦭🔊🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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The origin and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds
Abstract. Pinnipeds (true seals, eared seals and walruses) are the only mammals that can hear effectively in both air and water. How and when they achieved
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 09/07/2026
The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded and conducted in the U.S. We encourage our AGU community to speak up submit your comment by 13 July: spklr.io/63328EPEn2
Graphic showing AGU logo: Advancing Earth and Space Sciences
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Best hate for AI slop under $1: 2025 ultimate guide
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Izzy Langley @izzylangley.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Exciting opportunity to join a fab team (if we do say so ourselves!) investigating seal diet around Scotland. Fieldwork and lab work. Fixed term until 31st March 2028 - take a look for more info. Closing date is 18th May 2026 lnkd.in/eUZ7pGri
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
📢Job Vacancy📢 SMRU are hiring a seal diet technician. Please share with potential candidates. Apply by 18/05/2026 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Jokes on you, I have no talent and I still took a PhD program outside the country
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I feel like she’s mostly been complaining about Steller sea lions in the past but then posts a picture of a California sea lion
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hey, at least it’s good news that news media is finally correctly calling it AMOC instead of the Gulf Stream. That’s something…
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
When I was in middle school, we just had painted pieces of wood, but those don’t build a good panopticon
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
People here in Scotland were asking todayif my friends and family back in Santa Cruz were okay
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University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New research from @francae.bsky.social at SMRU has shown that the role of age in male humpback whale reproduction has changed as populations recover from centuries of exploitation.   Read more...👇 ow.ly/5eot50YnUs9 #EverToExcel
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Quite the image from this sfgate story on the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza influenza in a northern elephant seal rookery in California. tinyurl.com/3ef9drek
A scientist in a white tyvek suit taking a nasal swab from a northern elephant seal
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I definitely had that same experience when I first moved to Scotland, and someone suggested I get pillows from John Lewis
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I’ll start using their AI stuff if they can find a way to fit the entire model on 13 floppies
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Jessica Montabaranom @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🦭 We have a new paper out! We developed an accessible framework for assessing the risk of collision between seals and operating tidal turbines. ⏭️ We found that most seal tracks moved near the turbine without collision. Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New publication led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social on competition between grey & harbour seals in Scotland using 20+ yrs of diet data. Many thanks to all who collected samples, and collaborators from the Lighthouse Field Station and Institute of Marine Research #OA Paper: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
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Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines
Competition theory suggests that interspecific prey competition can result in changes to the dietary niche, but obtaining timeseries of data from sympatric species experiencing temporal variation in ...
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My goal in life is to see every species of sea lion, and NZ sea lions are probably the next one on my list. Such cool animals
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Matt Carter @mattidcarter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Our recent paper on grey and harbour seal transboundary distribution made the cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! 😀🦭Thanks to Dr Kelly Robinson of @seamammalresearch.bsky.social for the photo! Check the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If they think bird science is the most toxic field in all of science, they’re in for a rude awakening
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Harp seals spend a decent chunk of their time swimming on their back. It feels like it’s spiteful
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
And yet sometimes they seem to excel at making sure the antenna of their tag doesn’t get above water
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
California (along with a couple other states) has no legal sports betting, either online or at casinos, so it definitely is doable
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Kicking off part 2 of our general and physiology session, Ellen L. Hayward dives into the cooperative "tail-slap" feeding dynamics and role specialization of herring-eating killer whales in Icelandic waters. 🐋🐟 #UKIRSC2026 @ellenlhayward.bsky.social
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UKIRSC Marine Mammals @ukirsc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Eva-Maria S. Bønnelycke @eva-mariab.bsky.social explores how CO2 accumulation limits energy gain in freely diving grey seals, impacting their foraging efficiency. 🦭💨 #UKIRSC2026
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Back when I worked in pinniped stranding, cookie cutter shark bites wouldn’t even really justify a response
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Is a Montane egg-eating snake posting this?
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
New #OA paper in Landscape Ecology led by SMRU researchers @mattidcarter.bsky.social and @djfrussell.bsky.social reveals scale-dependent foraging behaviour and habitat associations of grey and harbour seals across the North Sea 🦭🧭 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scale-dependent foraging behaviour and habitat associations of two sympatric marine top predators - Landscape Ecology
Context Theoretical research has considered how animals should optimise foraging strategies to maximise fitness, adapting search scale to exploit different habitats and minimise competition. Empirical...
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):
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Matt Carter @mattidcarter.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Great talk by @izzylangley.bsky.social of @seamammalresearch.bsky.social at #BES2025 on intraguild predation and UK seal population trends. Check the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Props to the folks at Vancouver Aquarium who disentangled him. Getting entangled sea lions was always such a struggle
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Taylor McKinnon @publiccarbon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ICYMI: Newly issued waivers allow hundreds of miles of new border infrastructure — including double walls, patrol roads, and industrial lighting — in the last open corridors for jaguars, ocelots and dozens of other animals moving between the U.S. and Mexico. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Jessica Montabaranom @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🦭 Last week, I presented our recent work on evaluating the risk of seals colliding with tidal turbines at @seamammalresearch.bsky.social, at the @mastscot.bsky.social conference. If you’re interested in hearing more, read the preprint here: shorturl.at/76VSb !
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The true cost of me doing my PhD on gray seals is that unsolicited gray seals facts are now about 20% of my personality
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The reason aerial surveys works so well for gray seal pups is because the pups are completely white (it’s thought that they used to be ice seals), so they stand out super clearly against the rocks
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Annual plug for the fabulous phylopic.org website with tens of thousands of easily searchable silhouette images for almost every life form imaginable. They make nice additions to your biology plots!
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
You think people might think finding another good candidate in a state of 1.4 million people would be easier and more palatable than trying to convince people that actually a nazi tattoo isn’t really that big of a deal
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
OSM being in Glasgow in February was certainly a choice though. Guessing the venue was cheap
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
An otters’ favorite pastime. From the photo, it looks like the otter isn’t tagged. Otter 841 and some earlier miscreants had received some amount of human care, so it would be interesting if this is a completely wild water weasel thats getting in on the thieving. www.ksbw.com/article/sea-...
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Sea otter steals surfer’s board in Santa Cruz; woman uninjured
Santa Cruz firefighters tell KSBW 8 that a sea otter took a woman’s surfboard around 5:07 p.m. and may have nipped at her, but did not break the skin. Firefighters pulled her to shore.
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Honestly it does seem kind of fun if you have the resources and take away the doomsday part. I wouldn’t mind having an everyday bunker
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
There's an additional level of weirdness because online sports betting is still illegal in like 17 states
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
You sure you weren’t accidentally watching a cricket match? Those can last days
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
With seven years since the last large leptospirosis outbreak compared the the more typical 3-5, I do wonder how much of it is driven by a greater proportion of the population that is immunologically naive. Will be curious to see what comes of it
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’m now contractually obligated to think gray seals are the coolest species of seal, but I definitely have a soft spot for Weddell seals even though I never got to see them in person
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Maybe it’s one of them erasable engravings
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Chris Berglund @chrisberglund.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Nutria
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