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Gill Braulik

@oceangill.bsky.social
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passionate about river dolphins, surveyor of threatened coastal species, interested in protecting threatened cetaceans

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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Check out SMRU researcher @oceangill.bsky.social appearing on Mark Evans' podcast as he undertakes an expedition along the coast of Oman to collect eDNA samples and geo-tag marine plastic: open.spotify.com/episode/5c6I...
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Delighted to share this new paper that outlines the current abundance of the Indus River dolphin in Pakistan, estimated at approx 2000 individuals in 5 populations fragmented by irrigation dams. Amazingly there is an increase in abundance and signs of recovery in this species doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New study, collab with @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social: reduced adult survival for harbour seals in areas of pop. decline in Scotland. tinyurl.com/ys4hc3jw Mark-recapture models applied to photo-ID data from 3 sites with contrasting pop. trajectories to generate concurrent survival and fecundity rates.
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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Great albeit exhausting fun representing @seamammalresearch.bsky.social on the Developing Young Workforce/Hope the Whale roadshow this with colleagues from WDC. 3 days, 3 schools, ~900 students ... aaaaand breath...🤣🐳
me talking about SMRU research to a class of high school pupils me standing in front of a life sized inflatable humpback whale called Hope
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This year’s IUCN World Conservation Congress convened over 10,000 global environmental stewards. The CSG's booth highlighted cetacean conservation planning and action and our members contributed to presentations and discussions. Read our latest news post for some event highlights: shorturl.at/HPtMW
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
As we continue to speak about the Western Indian Ocean, we’re highlighting how IndoCet partners are joining forces to understand and protect cetaceans. Regional collaboration is thriving: 💠 Around 50 acoustic recorders are listening across the [...] #IndoCet #HumpbackWhales #Collaboration
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) and the CSG go hand-in-hand, using robust science to identify areas where research, monitoring, management and threat mitigation are key. As of 2025, 323 IMMAs have been identified to protect cetacean populations. Learn more at our news item: shorturl.at/1UO5w
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Come visit us at booth 134 during the IUCN World Conservation Congress, October 9th-15th, 2025! The booth, themed 'Conservation Planning and Action for Cetaceans,' will feature the work of the CSG and partners to spread awareness and increase support for our collective efforts. shorturl.at/CaV8B
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Tired but happy after a fantastic few days discussing all things UK seal populations with the NERC Special Committee on Seals (SCOS). Delighted to host such a brilliant group of scientists and government advisors and policy makers at SMRU @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ukri.org
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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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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Recapping Day 2 at the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium, the highlight of the day was a mini-session focused on Management of threats to marine megafauna in the WIO. There are multiple threats such as fishing, [...] #wiomsa2025 #day2 #oneoceanonefuture #hudonet #oceanscience #marineconservation
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Other presentations in the session included a photo-id study of the enigmatic Omura’s whale (a beautiful creature) and study of the overlap of marine traffic and cetaceans in the SWIO, which highlighted hotspots where speed restrictions or rerouting could reduce impacts. #wiomsa #day2 #omuraswhale
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oceanlars.bsky.social @oceanlars.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Had an amazing weekend at the '100 Years of RRS Discovery' celebrations in #Dundee Thanks for the support from @seamammalresearch.bsky.social and @smruinstrument.bsky.social #RRS100 #Discovery100
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Quick Fact #3: Indian Ocean  humpback dolphins are quickly disappearing throughout their natural range. They continue to face various threats that cause mortality, such as gillnets, chemical contaminants, ports and their associated activities and infrastructure. #HuDoNET #LetsGetQuizzical
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Quick Fact #4: Humpback dolphins can be found along the rim of the western Indian Ocean, the Arabian/Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and some islands. For a more detailed breakdown, head over to hudonet.org/map #HuDoNET #LetsGetQuizzical #HumpbackDolphinFacts Post prepared by Articulating Science
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Fantastic to see this lovely piece on my long-time marine mammal science colleague in Iran Nazanin. Well worth a listen!
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
HuDoNet Member Spotlight: The Real World As we continue to highlight the amazing feats of our members, this week, we have an eye-opening piece about the career of Nazanin Mohsenian in Iran and her work on humpback dolphins. #HuDoNET #WomenInStem #conservation #research
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
[...] of medicine or engineering, she pursued a unique passion, one that led her to the heart of the sea and the Persian Gulf. She spent long hours standing on boats, capturing rare and beautiful moments from the lives of dolphins alongside her friends. #WomenInStem #conservation #research
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The incredible thing about rivers is their ability to regenerate and heal. Too late for Yangtze paddlefish & Yangtze River dolphin, but the Yangtze environment is now improving and the Yangtze finless porpoise numbers are starting to recover thanks to Prof Wang Ding and colleagues in China
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Saving China's finless porpoise from the brink of extinction
Scientists are racing to protect what some view as "the most important animal" in the Yangtze.
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IMMAs — Important Marine Mammal Areas @imma-network.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We are the IMMA-Network, identifying & safeguarding Important Marine Mammal Areas for whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, dugong, manatees, sea otters & the polar bear. Our group is the IUCN Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force. Please join us to make a place in the sea for the marine mammals.
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SMRU Instrumentation @smruinstrument.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚀 Upcoming Talk! 🚀 Dr Lars Boehme from SMRU (@seamammalresearch.bsky.social) will share how SMRU Instrumentation tags and seals can help advance marine science. 🦭 📍 Discovery Point, Dundee. 📆 Sat 13 & Sun 14 September 🕧 12:30 pm both days More info: www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/event/how-se...
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Getting the Seal of Approval: Marine Animals as Ocean Scientists - Dundee Heritage Trust
From weather forecasting to understanding climate change, Dr Lars Boehme from the Sea Mammal Research Unit will discuss how seals can help us.
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
incredible new opportunity to interact and download data on seals accross the UK. amazing work by @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Quick Fact #1: Indian Ocean humpback dolphins are listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. #HuDoNET #QuickFacts #IUCN #EndangeredSpecies #HumpbackDolphin #MarineMammalConservation
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HuDoNet @hudonet.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🐬 HuDoNET has just docked along the shoreline of the digital world . We’re here to talk humpback dolphins, conservation, and community — and we want you on board. Let’s save these coastal beauties together. Find us on Facebook, Insta & LinkedIn. 🌊💙 #DolphinConservation #HuDoNet #MarineScience #SDG14
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Almost all #cetaceans were reassessed for the IUCN Red List between 2018-2021. This information was published in 2023 to provide a global #RedList status overview. A key finding was that 26% of assessed species were threatened with extinction. Learn more on iucn-csg.org/red-list-sta....
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
In January 2025, the Gephyreus Project reached a significant milestone with the launch of its dedicated website, www.gephyreus.org/en, designed to advance the #conservation of Lahille's bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus). Learn more at our latest news item: shorturl.at/h9bJa
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In November 2024, the CSG worked with the IUCN SSC and WCPA chairs to draft and send a letter of concern that has helped to halt a potentially harmful LNG development in an Important Marine Mammal Area in the Gulf of California. Read more at: shorturl.at/VwvwF #conservation #IUCN #cetaceans
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Mexican whale researchers sound the alarm on an energy megaproject
A planned gas terminal would routinely send huge tankers through a marine mammal oasis, scientists fear
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Grey seal in the water
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SMRU @seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
SMRU researchers are appealing for the public to help us understand why UK Harbour seals are in steep decline news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/st-a...
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Erich Hoyt @erichhoyt.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The current status & #extinction risk for #whales, #dolphins & #porpoises. 1 in 4 are in immediate trouble. I wonder how that will look 4 years from now? @disciara.bsky.social @oceangill.bsky.social @defenders.org @whalesorg.bsky.social @imma-network.bsky.social
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The proportion of cetaceans assessed as threatened has increased over time: 15% in 1991, 19% in 2008 and 26% in 2021. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Red‐list status and extinction risk of the world's whales, dolphins, and porpoises
To understand the scope and scale of the loss of biodiversity, tools are required that can be applied in a standardized manner to all species globally, spanning realms from land to the open ocean. We...
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IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group @iucn-cetaceansg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Red List Status & Extinction Risk of the World’s Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises published in Conservation Biology showed that 1 in 4 cetacean species (26% of 92) were assessed as threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable) conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Emma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Excited to have contributed to this study where we tracked 29 sperm whales in the North Atlantic! 🐳 Some traveled nearly 8000km and dove deeper then 1000m! 🛰️🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is one of my favorite photos taken during this fieldwork of a 🐳 diving under the midnight sun 🌞
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It’s 3 am and I’m at the airport waiting for my first flight from Punta Arenas to Santiago as I head home after a great field season tagging 13 elephant seals #AnillosSEALS - and they are off! 🦭✈️ (and so am I)
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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Don't be missing it!
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Dr Julia Sutherland @jcqsutherland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan. Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
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Paul Woods @paulwoods.io · 07/01/2025
Two weeks ago I said "hey we should use this crazy new map projection" and today there is python code! Showing here global vessel presence density (from AIS) using the spilhaus projection in a single view where you can see the whole ocean.
Global vessel presence map using Spilhaus projection
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Emily Hague 🐳 @emily-hague.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Ending 2024 by closing one huge chapter of my life, ready to begin a new one! Today I finally completed a full draft of my PhD thesis! 😱😍🐳🐋 🥳 ready to begin a new postdoctoral position next week at the University of Highlands and Islands, on a project researching marine mammals around Shetland ☺️🐳🦭🐬
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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
And really proud to see our work being featured in Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby...
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Hear How Baby Humpback Whales Burp and Bark to Beg for Food
The burps, barks and snorts humpback whales make when asking their mother for milk are the first recorded instances of begginglike behavior in a baleen whale
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Brendan Godley @brendangodley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
European winter walkers keep 👀 out. A dead Kemp's Ridley turtle was reported on 13th December at Talacre, North Wales, UK. There will be more. Reporting guidelines here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a... 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #seaturte #marineturtle @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social
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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our latest paper is out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 📄! We investigated the behavioral context of social calls in humpback whale calves. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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pamguard @pamguard.org · 14/12/2024
Welcome to the PAMGuard BlueSky account. PAMGuard is free software for the Detection, Classification, and Localisation of animal sounds. PAMGuard is managed and developed by a team of research scientists at the @seamammalresearch.bsky.social in the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, Scotland.
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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Great to see coverage of the important work by Finnish colleagues on Saimaa seal conservation. Direct hands on effort by small dedicated teams can have real conservation impact. 🧪🌍🦭🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Like a giant bird box’: the volunteers building huge snowdrifts for Finland’s pregnant seals
As warmer winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals raise their young in, humans are giving them a helping hand
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Dr Julia Sutherland @jcqsutherland.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
PhDone! 🎓 Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to #ECOPredS and helped this research come to fruition, it's been a whale of a journey 🐋 Stay tuned for subsequent publications! In the meantime, thesis available here: research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...
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The Mariani Lab @marianilab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Update: I briefly went to check our #twitter account, and i had received an unsolicited message with a video of a woman copulating with a #dog. The dog did not appear too pleased. I don’t know why I bothered, but i reported that user. “X” reply below… The state of that cesspit…
Another proof that “X” needs to be flushed down the toilet
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Jeremy Kiszka @jjkiszka.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Pretty awesome sighting of Longman’s beaked whales (Indopacetus pacificus) in the Mozambique Channel, near Mayotte. So much to learn about these animals. One of the least known whale species in the world! Pictures: N. Bertrand
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Pleat follow @seamammalresearch.bsky.social on their new platform for news on whales dolphins seals porpoises and more
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Gill Braulik @oceangill.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A new conservation network launched to bring attention to Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, an endangered coastal dolphin species found around the western indian ocean rim, subject to many threats iucn-csg.org/scientists-g...
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Scientists galvanise to conserve Endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphins – IUCN – SSC Cetacean Specialist Group
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Dr Charlotte Findlay @chazzfindlay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Awesome #PhD opportunity for anyone looking! #MarineMammals #MarMam 🐋🦭
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