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🚨New paper in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈!🚨 One for all the #seabirders and movement ecologists. We report negative impacts on the breeding performance of Great Black-backed Gulls from harness-mounted GPS devices. #ornithology Link: tinyurl.com/uewjfa84

For the third consecutive year, the UK Government has decided to not allow UK sandeel fishing for 2023 for the benefit of the wider marine ecosystem: bit.ly/3NAw3p8

Absolutely AMAZING news!! 🥳🥳

In the early hours of July 16th, a pod of 55 long-finned pilot whales came ashore at Tolsta Beach on the Isle of Lewis. This short film shows a glimpse into some of the work undertaken by SMASS and colleagues following this mass stranding event.

DOUBLE LUNGE FEEDING FIN WHALES 🐋 Totally stunned, we watched 2 fin whales lunge feeding at the surface for around 30 mins. Dolphins, bluefin tuna and seabirds rounded up the shoals of fish into baitballs, allowing this incredible feeding event to take place in the Celtic Sea.

A WHALEY great day chatting all things marine mammal science at #Explorathon23! It was so fun to engage with the kids and tell them how awesome marine mammals are 🐋🐬🦭

Extracting progesterone from blubber biopsy samples, Devonne investigates pregnancy rates of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in the Gulf of St Lawrence from 2007-2015, revealing unusually high pregnancy rates despite fluctuations in prey availability. #UKIRSC24

Had a wonderful time last week at the #UKIRSC24 conference, met so many interesting & passionate people! Delighted to have won runner up in the best long talk too. Thank you to the UKIRSC MarineMammals committee for creating such a positive environment for early career researchers! 🐋🦭

Now Devonne with her poster on 'Temporal trends and environmental drivers of pregnancy in the Gulf of St Lawrence’s minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)' #SBSPGR24

Had a great day learning about the interesting research happening in the school, and presenting my minke results at the annual SBS PGR conference. 🐋 Delighted to have won the best poster prize! ☺️ The Leverhulme Trust

Well done to Devonne, our incredible PhD student funded by The Leverhulme Trust, on winning the poster prize at the School of Biological Sciences Conference & Symposium. #SBSPGR24

Fin whales are making a strong comeback in the Southern Ocean. "It is simply sensational. The results show over 50,000 fin whales in the Scotia Sea alone. That is more than 3x higher than previously estimated for the entire Southern Ocean." Martin Biuw. hi.no/en/hi/news/202…

Well done Devonne (Devonne) for securing a MASTS travel bursary!

The Marine Mammal EcoPhysiology group was selected for not 1 but 2 oral talks!! Keep an eye out for our PhD student Devonne and group leader @Joanna_Kershaw. See you soon at #PerthSMM2024 School of Biological Sciences Marine Mammalogy

NEW paper alert!! In collaboration with others, we show the feasibility of using remote blubber biopsies from baleen whales and identify the proteome to investigate biomarkers of oxidative stress and immune responses ConservationPhysiology academic.oup.com/conphys/articl…

My first talk at an international conference of this size! A daunting but really rewarding experience. The first two days of #PerthSMM2024 have been so inspiring, roll on the rest of the week! 🤩🐋🦭 #SMM2024 School of Biological Sciences The Leverhulme Trust