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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks

@saskiacathrin.bsky.social
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PhD student @marinemammalsau.bsky.social science with intention: grounded, useful & with care listening to data, dolphins, and direction mountain enthusiast 🧗🏻⛷️ she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such a nice bonus to the current Sensory Ecology PhD course at Lund University — getting to join a guest lecture in between the regular sessions last week. Right on theme for both the course and my own research interests 🐬 Thanks for a brilliant talk by Dr Adam Smith!
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🐬Bottlenose dolphins have individually distinctive signature whistles, but extracting them from recordings is still a challenge. In my first PhD paper, we put four automated methods to the test, from how well they trace contours to how they hold up in noise🎶 Turns out: the gaps matter!〽️Paper below🧪🤖
Figure 5 from Tyarks et al. (2026), Mind the Gap. Spectrograms show manually placed ground truth contours (white dots) and detected contours by different automated extractors, where different colors indicate separate segments.
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
PhD highlight ✨ Two intense weeks at the SDU Summer School in Acoustic Communication, or: from "hearing" sound to wondering about reference pressure and window size 🔊🎙️ Hands-on from porpoise tagging and bat recording to endless calibrations and signal analyses — plus a solar eclipse between lectures
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🌍 Climate Stripes – Copenhagen (1850–2025), knitted climate data made tangible – and impossible to ignore.   Proud to have contributed to this creative and collaborative effort with colleagues at Aarhus University (Roskilde), combining science, creativity, and teamwork 🧶 #ShowYourStripes
🔵 cooler years &  🔴 warmer years
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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Happy Pride Month from the Marine Mammal Section. We want to celebrate diversity and belonging that helps people thrive, both in and beyond our field. Poster by our PhD student @saskiacathrin.bsky.social
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Jenny Arthur @antarcticjenny.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy Polar Pride! This year I'd like to draw attention to @500qs.bsky.social - an awesome campaign for making LGBTQ+ people in STEM more visible! Coincidentally, happy to have played a part making Arctic Pride happen here in Tromsø last week 🏳️‍🌈 #polarpride #LGBTQinSTEM #DiversityInPolarScience
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Emma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Happy #PolarPride! Visibility and diversity are so important 🏳️‍🌈✨ I’m proud to be in a field that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community 🌈🧪🐋 #LGBTQinSTEM #DiversityInPolarScience
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Nature @nature.com · 22/10/2025
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research go.nature.com/4hriohE
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Python course complete ✅ def gratitude(): return "@passdan.bsky.social" 🙌
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Reporting from #IBAC2025: where marine mammal fan art meets bioacoustics — all on one very Pinterest-board-worthy poster 🐬 🎙️ 🐋 Morning cold plunges keeping me afloat through this marathon week 🌊
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
We have vastly underestimated the sophistication and capacity of plants. How little we understand of the #biodiversity that we are fast trashing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Plants produce more nectar when they ‘hear’ bees buzzing, scientists find
Researchers suggest buzzing noises could be used as environmentally friendly way to enhance crop pollination
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Shoutout to the visuals for making the science pop! The design really pulled everything together nicely ✨
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Huge congrats to Laela and the Sarasota Dolphin Research team for their win! Fascinating work, and I’m honoured to be using their dolphin whistle data for my PhD🐬🧪
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Arctic samples, global impact ❄️🌍 And colleagues as cool as the area they study 🧊
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13/05/2025
Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪
The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway.
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Shoutout to all PhD students out there — “Finish on Time” by Åsa Burman is the doctoral version of a survival guide! (spoiler alert: by shifting the focus to how we work) Anyone down to start a book club to chat about each chapter — a bit of collective academic therapy?
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🎙️ 🐋 🎧 Eavesdropping on whale showdowns -- Sperm whales are stressed, orcas are mean, and the section @marinemammalsau.bsky.social is all ears for the juicy underwater drama ✨💅🏼 Great #ECSconference2025 preview talk and fantastic visualisation by @emilytgriffiths.com presenting Mel Cosentino’s work!
ECS conference poster presenting observations on “Complex social and acoustic response of adult male sperm whales when harassed by orcas at high latitudes” by Mel Cosentino and Emily Griffith, Aarhus University
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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This week, our researchers are preparing for fieldwork in Sarasota Bay, Florida, to collect acoustic data on bottlenose dolphins 🐬. While prepping the equipment, students from our Acoustic Ecology Lab took part in DTAGs tracking training. They were happy to see how their data is collected! 🔊🌊
Part of the members of the Acoustic Ecology Lab team from the Institute of Ecoscience - Aarhus University.Master students took part in a search for a hidden DTAg at the Risø campus using VHF antennas. Field work equipment.DTAg ready to go!!
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My first PhD birthday in DK yesterday: a Danish tradition here @marinemammalsau.bsky.social with a flag at my office door, making my workload all festive 🇩🇰 🎊
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Saskia Cathrin Tyarks @saskiacathrin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The Marine Mammal Research Group @au.dk is finally making waves online! 🌊 Thrilled to be part of this fantastic team 🐋🐬🦭
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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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Emma Vogel @efvogel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS
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