@hslesser
PhD molecular ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey and Cambridge University, looking at population structure and foraging of Humpback Whales around South Georgia. Lover of all things nature, photography, drones, travel and baseball. All views my own.
A Catz student is having a whale of a time! @hslesser.bsky.social (Molecular Ecology PhD student):
🐋 Studied humpback #whales in the wild with @bas.ac.uk
⚾ Came 4th nationally with @cam.ac.uk #baseball team
💐 Got married!
Read our interview: caths.cam.ac.uk/hump... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The first North Atlantic #rightwhale calves of the season have been spotted off Georgia by Clearwater Marine Aquarium! Cheers to whale moms Nauset + Minus One!
📲 Keep track of these #criticallyendangered newborns w/ @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/neaq-calves...
📸 NOAA permit 26919
Could this be the longest recorded Humpback #Whale migration ever recorded? A male whale has been resighted off #Tanzania in 2019 after first being seen off #Colombia in 2013. Read the study here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#Cetaceans #ClimateChange #Ocean
Getting into the Christmas spirit with a visit to @oldvictheatre.bsky.social to see a Christmas Carol in the round. A brilliant performance by John Simm as Scrooge, and Dickens’ message of charity and consideration for others ringing as true today as when it was written.
Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs
Contact me for more details (s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk). Please Share
@britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Noise pollution from Norway's oil and gas exploration is threatening whales -->
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Happy isotope day! I shall be celebrating through the joyous activity of weighing samples out. (Prepping for a sulphur run on some whale collagen samples and prey 🐋 🦐)
Map of the Falkland Islands, southwest Atlantic, showing key coastal sites in the north, and a red box in the northeast showing where the satellite tags were deployed on southern right whales in July 2022.
Southern right whale swimming in coastal Falkland Islands waters. Image: Falklands Conservation
The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam
Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3
www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
Awesome paper, and a great example of how to pivot when things don’t entirely go how you expect! 🐟
A picture of a webpage detailing the current status of whale stocks. The image shows a dashboard with dials that indicate the relative abundance of the whale population and its trend over the last 20 years.
The IWC has just published its Status of Whales webpages. This represents a huge amount of work by the amazing group of people in our SC. Simple graphics to show whether populations are moving towards extinction or recovery, how this status has changed over a 20-year period. iwc.int/resources/me...
Hi Emma, thanks for putting this together, could I be added please?