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Emma Longden @emmalongden.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My first entry into the BAS Bake your PhD competition - top predator movements & Southern Ocean ~currants~ 🐧🌊 had a wonderful first few weeks and I'm so excited for the next few years!!

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Emma Longden @emmalongden.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A beautiful painting that so well captures the environment of fieldwork in Scotland! I miss being windswept on that old boat ⛵ 🐋

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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 10/06/2025

Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted. Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions. This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected... 🧵 1/8

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We’re not alone. We & the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are united in calling for Part 3 to be scrapped. Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social The choice is yours. And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.

A European Starling perches on a sheet of rusted, corrugated metal, beak wide open in full cry. Its glossy, speckled plumage catches the light against a blurred, burnt-orange backdrop. The bird appears mid-shout - a wild, urgent alarm from nature.

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The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Despite the most objections in Scottish history, and against the dev plan, the @snp.org Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org here : greens.scot/LochLomond

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Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW

Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -

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Society for Marine Mammalogy @marinemammalogy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce the opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research. The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the next generation of marine mammalogists. #SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Dr. Michael Tift @uncwtiftlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Great work by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and team on the potential for seals to sense oxygen, instead of carbon dioxide as the stimulus to return from a dive to breathe.

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New study reveals why seals don't drown

Seals can directly sense the oxygen in their own bloodstream, new research in the journal Science finds.

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pamguard @pamguard.org · 01/03/2025

We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

"the data we used started in the 1980s and cut out in 2020. This is all from before wind development really got going off the US east coast ... those who choose to blame the decline of North Atlantic right whales on the wind industry are either poorly informed, or else they’re just duplicitous" 🐳🌍🦑

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Whales could live longer than we first thought - Whale & Dolphin Conservation USA

New report suggests that industrial whaling of great whales has hindered our ability to measure just how long they could live.

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines 🦭 The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪 🔗

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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social

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pamguard @pamguard.org · 08/01/2025

Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social

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Emma Longden @emmalongden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Check out Jess' first first-author paper!!! 🦭🌊 (accepted *without revisions*!!!!!!)

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Emma Longden @emmalongden.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Nice to see this work continue to flourish and be refined since our attempt! 🐬

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