And a few Spitsbergen landscape shots… 😍🧊❄️

Appreciate I did a pretty rubbish job of updating on @lmcwhin.bsky.social and I’s Svalbard WAVE project adventure to survey marine mammals in the Arctic with HX! But I’ll make up for it with some snaps 📷 🐻‍❄️ 🐋 🦭 #MarMamm #Whale #Walrus #Arctic #Polarbear #Svalbard @heriotwattuni.bsky.social

The WAVE team (@lmcwhin.bsky.social and I) have been deployed on Longyearbyen, Svalbard! 🐻‍❄️🐋

Starting my journey north towards the Arctic as part of the WAVE project (www.wave-arcticwhales.com) in a slightly crazy @edinburghairport.bsky.social (is half of Scotland here today?! 😂) attempting to teach myself to like matcha… 🍵 🍓 ✈️ Stay tuned for Arctic content! 🐻‍❄️ 🐋 🦭 #Marmam #MarineMammal

Excited to announce I am starting as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Life and Earth Sciences at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social! If you’re interested in collaborating on projects focusing on underwater noise impacts to marine mammals get in touch! 🔉🐳🐋🦭🦑🧪

There are some benefits to the current unemployment situation 🌞📖🧘‍♀️

📢Exciting news 1: We just launched our new Center for Active Sensing with Sound 🎧🥳 📢Exciting news 2: We are looking for 2 new PhD students 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 in “Echolocation in bats🦇 and toothed whales 🐬” – read more here:

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SMRU@seamammalresearch.bsky.social · 2y ago

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/...

The Common Dolphins have returned! 🐬 😍 #MarMam #MarineMammals #Dolphins #MarineLife 🐳🦭🦑

The irony of being currently unemployed and yet being busier than I’ve been in ages is not lost on me… #Stressed #ECRchat #Science #MarineScience #MarMam 🧪🦑🐋🦭

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So concludes 3.5 years of #postdoc life in Denmark with the Marine Bioacoustics Lab at @au.dk! 🇩🇰🔊🐬 What a wild acoustics ride that was with some wonderful & smart people! Onwards to the next adventure… 🚢🔊🐋

How close were the humpback whales today? This close! #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

Doing his best pose for #caturday 😻🐈

Managed to draft a really good sentence for my paper discussion and Microsoft word decided to crash before I got the chance to save it… 🥲 Of course I can’t remember what I wrote now 😂🚫🧠

Love that I got ready for an 8 am meeting on a Monday morning only to be forgotten and not let into the meeting… 🤦‍♀️😅😴☕️

PhD funding available at the ENES Bioacoustics Research Lab. Topic: Noise pollution and biological invasions: Understanding the interactions between two major threats to freshwater biodiversity. More information & application process👇 www.eneslab.com/job-offers #bioacoustics #sound

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A visual representation of my brain function today while trying to code something I assumed would be fairly simple... ...I was of course wrong. 🐳🦭🧪🦑

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Sunday vibes… 🥱😴

Was so obsessed with the Neil the seal videos 😂🦭

Dr Vanessa Pirotta@drvanessapirotta.bsky.social · 2y ago

Me after #Christmas Day….the very famous Neil the Seal in Tasmania, Australia. Recently, I had the pleasure of viewing THE one and only, @tiktok superstar - Neil the seal, with my fabulous @darwin200_ leader @cheriaara. @sophiavolzke.bsky.social he is so cute!

Have you ever wondered what kind of research impacts real-world policy and practice? 💭 @jappliedecology.bsky.social 's new Virtual Issue showcases a range of articles that have led to management changes or have been highly cited in online policy documents! 📚 Read more: https://buff.ly/3OE10IY

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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all my colleagues and collaborators! 🎄🎁🥂 🐳🐋🦭🦑🧪 Next year is going to be a bit turbulent with the end of my postdoc contract in March but I’m excited to discover what the next step in my career is going to be! I hope everyone has a lovely break! ☺️

Friends, you asked for it and we made it happen! I now have (at least) 2 shark research expedition fundraiser charter dates available where you can join us as an individual without you having to arrange a whole group! Be a marine biologist for a day, and support a great cause! Read on for info!

If my immune system could kick in now please I’d appreciate getting rid of the cold and the return of my voice… 🤧😷

Incredible trap feeding method by Eden's whales, amazing footage: just open your mouth and wait for the fish to jump in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i2u...

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Hi friends, I've made a starter pack for ocean #technology for research & innovation. Very humble start (!) but please share widely and give folks a follow to connect with #marine tech enthusiasts & to see more #ocean tech in your feed! 🙏🧪🌊 #sensors #platforms go.bsky.app/VgpFR6B

Well this is unfortunate Someone in Iceland just issued new whaling permits, while the negotiations to form a new coalition government - that is likely to be anti-whaling - continue. More fin whales to be hunted - through to 2029 🐳🌍🦑

Iceland issues permits allowing whale hunting until 2029

The permits allow for annual catches of 209 fin whales and 217 mike whales.

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Did he get his yoghurt? Of course he did… #cats #mammals 🐈🐱🐈‍⬛😻

Small reductions in the speed of commercial cargo vessels will immediately reduce noise impacts to marine mammals! 🚢⬇️🔊🐳🦭 20% slowdown = ⬇️ source level by 6 dB = ⬇️ area exposed to vessel noise by 75%! 🔗OPEN ACCESS: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Illustration by Amy Dozier (www.amydozier.com)

It’s funny to think that past Charlotte (who was doing her undergrad thesis at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in 2014) would probably never have expected a very similar topic was going to become her literal job many years later… 😂🚢🔊🐬 #MarineMammals #MarMam #MarineLife 🐋🦭🦑🧪

Today’s activity: attempt to become a meteorologist and extract/decipher precipitation radar data… Can’t say my #MarineBiology / #MarineMammal job isn’t varied 😂🤔 🌧️ 🐬 🐋 🦭 🧪 🦑