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Andrew Wright
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Marine mammal scientist (aka psycho with a permit). #MarMamSci; conservation social scientist & communicator #ConsMark | #ConSocSci | #ConPsych | #SciComm | #Behaviorchange. Sci-fi nerd.

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Learning in Depth: a double post-mortem part 2

Online vs in-class learning A few months back I finished teaching two separate cohorts of Learning in Depth in two very different contexts. Part 1 of this series discusses an after-school cohort I taught at a Hong Kong primary school. Today I’ll discuss the larger and more intensive cohort I taught online and where LiD is going next.

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Learning in Depth: a double post-mortem part 1

Reflections on this year's in-person LiD cohort I’ve just finished two separate cohorts of Learning in Depth in two very different contexts. Now it’s time to dig into how things went and how it could have gone better.

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · Jul 15
Not everyone can march and protest the craziness in the USA, Ukraine, Alberta, or elsewhere. However, most of us can buy a song for digital download. Let's send "The Land of Confusion" to No. 1 to highlight being fed up with impotent and dangerous leaders.
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Education Red Alert: Astral Codex Ten Alpha School & School Reviews

A few thoughts - and questions for my visit. These two reviews have dropped like a bomb onto the educational blogosphere. They are the first two reviews posted in Astral Codex Ten’s annual book review, except that this year participants can review anything except books. Everybody has thoughts, myself included. I also have a lot of questions. I will assume you’ve read the reviews, which can be foun…

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · Jun 18
This.
miketaddow.bsky.social mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · Jun 18
i’ve never resonated with a video as much as this one

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · Jun 18
i’ve never resonated with a video as much as this one

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · Jun 5
Hey Europe -- Donald Trump opened 84% of one marine protected area to longlines and purse seines -- but you allow bottom trawling in almost all of your protected areas

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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 15
Super complex but important work by @anacanadas.bsky.social who modelled Mediterranean cetacean abundance using multiple data sources - estimates of total sperm whale abundance had no upper ci above 5.5k supporting recent 'Endangered' IUCN listing doi.org/10.2305/IUCN... #ECSconference2025 🧪🐋🦑
Ana Cañadas in front of a slide detailing the strengths of her multiple data source modelling approach

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 27
Now the #ECSconference2025 is over and all those marine mammal folks with binoculars have gone home, I'll reveal that I could see the venue from my shower...

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
#ECSconference2025 plugs the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise. Join us!

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
An excellent plenary by Joe Roman on the myriad values of whales to human society and global ocean and climate health! #ECSconference2025
lrendell.bsky.social Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 16
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 🐋🦑🧪
Joe Roman in front of a title slide about to give an inspiring plenary

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
Nicole Todd presenting on yet another decline in harbour #porpoise. Every poster and talk on them at #ECSconference2025 has been detailing declines in abundance and distribution, or dropping body condition. Houston, we have a problem. #RedAlert
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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
Joe Roman discussing the inherent value of marine stewardship at the #ECSconference2025

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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 16
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 🐋🦑🧪
Joe Roman in front of a title slide about to give an inspiring plenary

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
Enough said by Joe Roman #ECSconference2025 #WorstJobInScience

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 16
Last day of #ECSconference2025 begins with Keynote Joe Roman discussing Lifting Baselines: Marine Mammal Recovery, Ecological Function, and the Consequences of Conservation Success

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
. @wild-devs.bsky.social - excellent talk at the #ECSconferrnce2025! Important work linking reproductive potential to declining ecosystem quality.

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
#ECSconference2025
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Cristina Brito discusses conservation and social aspects whaling and other human use and associations with marine mammals through the context of Blue Humanities at the #ECS2025.

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
#ECSconference2025
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Some young upstart called Hal Whitehead is discussing society (the concept of 'we-ness') in sperm whales at the #ECS2025

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
#ECSconference2025
marinebrit.bsky.social Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
Anna Selbmann brilliantly presents her work on behavioural responses of killer whales to pilot whale sounds in the style of an Asterix comic! Who says science can't be fun? #ECS2025 (p.s. oh yeah, you might want to know that killer whales avoid pilot whale sounds!)

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
Anna Selbmann brilliantly presents her work on behavioural responses of killer whales to pilot whale sounds in the style of an Asterix comic! Who says science can't be fun? #ECS2025 (p.s. oh yeah, you might want to know that killer whales avoid pilot whale sounds!)

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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · May 15
Bruno Diaz-Lopez presents evidence that male bottlenose dolphins show social aging, becoming less central in their social networks as they age... #ECSconference2025 🦑🐋
Bruno Diaz-Lopez in front of a title slide highlighting the talk title 'From quantity to quality'

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
Some young upstart called Hal Whitehead is discussing society (the concept of 'we-ness') in sperm whales at the #ECS2025

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 15
Cristina Brito discusses conservation and social aspects whaling and other human use and associations with marine mammals through the context of Blue Humanities at the #ECS2025.

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Dr. Davina Derous @davinaderous.bsky.social · May 15
For those at #ECS2025, don't miss @wild-devs.bsky.social talk on reproductive hormones in fin whales and Alexandra's talk on proteomics in pilot whales this morning.

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Shakira🧛‍♀️🦇 @shakiguani.bsky.social · May 15
At the #ECSconference2025 they lured us out of the poster session with a live portuguese "murinheira", like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Brilliant!

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 14
A lot of prey does the vertical migration thing, so they go deeper at the full moon. And various ocean cycles are driven by solar behaviour. So the connection is indirect, but it's there!

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Associació Cetàcea @acetacea.bsky.social · May 14
Hui presentem el pòster:
“Site fidelity of Risso’s dolphins along an underwater canyon system”, amb resultats molt prometedors.

Seguim treballant per conèixer i protegir els cetacis del nostre mar.

#KeepOnGramping #ECS2025 #CapDOllaGris #Cetacis #AssociacióCetàcea #RecercaMarina #Conservació

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 14
It's a whale conference. Although lunar cycles have featured as a contributing factor to variability in whale distribution and behaviour. Solar cycles have also been hinted at as contributing to inter-decadal variability as well. You'd feel right at home!

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Andrew Wright @marinebrit.bsky.social · May 14
The indomitable Mark Simmonds holds court for the Human Interaction and Climate Change session at the #ECS2025