Emily T Griffiths
@emilytgriffiths.com
🇺🇸➡️🇩🇰 Marine Acoustic Biologist. Special Consultant at @marinemammalsau.bsky.social. Room temperature takes all my own.
A PhD student wandered into my office, and complemented an ocean depths poster I have on the wall. 'Oh thanks! It's @xkcd.com.' When she didn't know what was, I started to explain and described it as 'popular during the golden age of webcomics.' I made my elder millennial ass feel ancient.
This gem of an #AI marine logo(?) graced my screen. I can't pick a favorite: - Dolphin tunas - The seal with: - a three point tail - connecting dorsal and pectoral fins - ant eater face merging with sky - Sky whale - Smaller sky polar bear - boat? - MARINNE CONIEERATIO⼏|
Postdoc position(s) available! Work on: - Muskox movement ecology - Ecosystem & carbon dynamics These can be done back-to-back for someone keen on both topics or split into two separate roles. 📄 Full details in the attached flyer! #AcademicJobs #PostdocPositions #Ecophysiology #EcologyJobs
It's live! Please see my new paper in Ecological Informatics on the #detection and #categorization of frequency notched echolocation from wild recordings. 🐬🔊👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Live from the Danish Marine Mammal Symposium! Here I'll be posting talks given by @marinemammalsau.bsky.social scientists! Stay tuned 🐋🐬🦭🌊🚢🔊
'Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism.'
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 12mo ago"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"
New paper! Here we report four opportunistic observations of orcas harassing adult male sperm whales near Andenes, Norway. In one instance of recorded audio one sperm whale, using a series of clangs and codas, appears to call to other sperm whales nearby when approached by a group of orcas. See 🖼️⤵️.
PhD student Emilie Stepien uses satellite tags, CATS Cams and drones to observe seal reactions to shipping in the Wadden sea 🇩🇰 Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭 @emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐 #Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology
Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen recently completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. See Thread. 🌐🌏🐋🧪 @FChristiansen.bsky.social #marinemammology #ecology #cetaceanresearch #Arctic #MarineEcology #Research #Science
This week I'm out in the Danish #BalitcSea on the #SAMBAHII Project, working to monitor the remaining 500 Baltic #harborporpoise. Here, we are deploying a 4-channel array to calculate the #dectectionFunction, or the likelihood of detecting porpoise #echolocation in the study area.
Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪
Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026
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Bonfires are pretty, but I consider myself lucky to round out midsommer off the coast of Møns Klint.
Last week, @mialybkaer.bsky.social, Ellen Jacobs, and I traveled to @vliz.be as part of the @dtobioflow.bsky.social project! We got into the nitty gritty to bring #porpoise pod 🔊 data to the #DataLake via @aquatictracking.bsky.social. Very excited to make this #bigdata 🔢📈 project a reality.
Often in first drafts I confuse my homophones and realize in the read-through I've used the wrong word. For example, here, I was trying to type pull the line taut, not taught. However, what is with this grammar suggestion? What does 'train to the train' mean? How does it come from 'line taught?'
The prevalence of ultra short baseline acoustic position systems, also known as USBLs 🔊, is understudied in #EuropeanWaters and its effect on marine mammals 🐋, such as the #harbourPorpoise, is mostly unknown. These systems are used in #geophysicalSurveys and during #trawling fishing activities. 🧵1/6
Inspiring plenary from Joe Roman about 'lifting baselines' and quantifying the effects whale real red ecological pathways have on nutrient cycling and transfer in the oceans - check out his latest contribution here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑🧪
At #ECSconference2025 @crisbri.bsky.social made a compelling #BlueAnthropocene argument: that animals are living in a world heavily and historically influenced by us. #CulturalEcosystems require historical context.
At the ECS conference, they tried something new: #AIgenerated real-time closed capturing. I completely understand the intention to not only make the conference more accessible, but that many non-native English speakers like to watch TV with English subtitles. It helps them understand.
Heading to #ECSconference2025 this weekend in the Azores! Exciting to take part in noise and SAMBAH workshops, and to present this observational report of #orcas harassing #spermwhales in northern latitudes. Paper forthcoming, but for now, stop by and see my poster, I'll tell you all about it!
Who's going to #ECSconference2025, y'all?
Saskia Cathrin Tyarks@saskiacathrin.bsky.social · last yr.🎙️ 🐋 🎧 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!
This, but also 'ages 15 and older' is terrifying.
Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social · last yr.Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
📢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:
Echolocation in bats and toothed whales
phd.nat.au.dk
Some days you're at sea counting whales 🐋 🐬. Some days you're in deep with your code, solving puzzles👩💻🧩🔢. And some days, you're stuck in an elevator with 700 kg of stones.
Wonderful experience to have contributed to one of the chapters of this book with findings from my PhD 📖🐬 and such a beautiful cover of J-pod by @drwhale.bsky.social 🙌
Darren Croft@darrencroft.bsky.social · last yr.🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Really enjoyed working on this project with a fantastic editorial team @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social Preorder available now shorturl.at/Y58at out Jan2026 #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour
Look at all our smiling faces. Thrilled to be part of this stellar team!
Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience@marinemammalsau.bsky.social · last yr.Welcome to the Marine Mammal Section at Aarhus University! 🐋 (@au.dk) Here, we will share weekly updates on our research, discoveries and fieldwork, along with insights from our team of wildlife researchers🐬🐻❄️🦭. If you are interested in what we do, stay tuned. We have a lot to share.. ✨
Being a native English speaker in an international lab means you regularly check the definition of words you absolutely know just to make sure you're using them correctly. Because, if not, my god the embarrassment.
I was spoiled with calm seas and close views of the giant wind turbines in the North Sea this weekend 😎
AU Bioacoustics@bioacousticsau.bsky.social · last yr.POV: Mia & Jakob successfully recovered an 🔊 acoustic array at a #WindFarm in the #NorthSea 🌊 - part of our #AcousticMonitoring work for #Energinet. With the gear safely back, we can now look (& listen🎧🖥️) for #porpoise 🐬 vocalisations to learn more about how they move around the wind turbines.
