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Amazing job opportunity to work with a fab team! Fixed term, starting as soon as possible, SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) are looking for two technicians to help estimate #seal diet from scats using prey hard parts and #eDNA 🐟🧬🔬 (closing date 11th August)

Just under two minutes of the 27's Pod, as they patrolled the coast of #Shetland Promote Shetland NorthLink Ferries Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Blue Planet Society ORCA The Marine Mammal Center On the Killer Whale Trail BBC Scotland BBC North East Scot Former NatureScot account Julia Sutherland

When Orcas do headstands... Incredible to witness the 65s Orca pod 'reverse fluking' as they hunted in South Nesting Bay, Shetland. We often see 'fluking', but this was on another level! Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Blue Planet Society Marine Conservation Society Karen Munro @SaversSea Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 David Steel Karen Hall

The second youngest member of the 65s Northern Isles Community Orca pod born in the winter of 21/22 to pod matriarch '65' aka 'Razor'. Incredible to watch as mother and calf hunted just metres off the rocks at Kirkabister, Shetland. An unforgettable experience.

📆SAVE THE DATE! #UKIRSC24 will be held on the 9th-12th January 2024 at the University of Liverpool 🐳🐬🦭 More info to follow shortly, keep an eye out! ukrsc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/conference-202…

Always useful to see pics of our tracked seals! The tag was put on this grey seal pup on the Isle of May in Nov 2023. Tags are glued to fur so fall off when the seal moults. They provide info on survival+movements, to inform environmentally sustainable management of our seas

Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

We've been having many conversations about the carbon footprint of travelling to conferences here at SMRU so a group of us decided to cycle to the EIMR2024 conference in Orkney to raise awareness of climate change and raise money for a good cause justgiving.com/crowdfunding/S…

it's an incredibly sad day today for all of us here and across the marine mammal community worldwide as we say farewell to our beloved Simon Northridge who died suddenly on the 17th April. Simon leaves an amazing legacy of a career dedicated to the conservation of marine mammals

🚨1st PhD paper out today!🐳 The importance of identifying spatial and temporal scales for species distribution and how to go about it: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… Ecology and Evolution Big thanks to the best aerial survey team, my supervisors and all the funders 🤓 Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC MaREI

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New SMRU (now posting at Bluesky) paper 🚨🚨🚨!!! Quantifying and reducing the cost of tagging: combining computational fluid dynamics and diving experiments to reduce impact from animal-borne tags. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…. 🧵 #biologging Photo credits: Sea Mammal Research Unit & Frederic Landes

It was a pleasure to attend the MASTS #MASTSasm2024 in Glasgow last week! 🌊Thoroughly enjoyed presenting my PhD research on killer whale predation in the context of the harbour seal decline, catching up with many a familiar face & making new connections🐋

A short video featuring all nine members (including the two calves) of the Northern Isles Community '27s' #Orca pod together off the east Mainland of Shetland last week. 🖤🤍🧡 Blue Planet Society Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) Marine Conservation Society Sea Watch Foundation NorthLink Ferries Mammal Society NatureScot Karen Hall