Our allies sending the message loud and clear at today’s rally. 📢 No more oil. No more destruction. No more excuses. Our ocean’s future is at stake. 🙌 💪 ✊

Today @oceanauk.bsky.social @hugotagholm.bsky.social are outside the Royal Courts of Justice, challenging 31 🆕 oil & gas licenses issued by the UK gov…

🐋 21 of which are in MPAs 🐋

Join me in sending a message to the government pushing for the END of new licenses act.oceana.org/page/168228/...

us.whales.org/policy/save-...

Antarctic minke #whale lips👄

📷: Sam Cole captured these incredible pictures of a humpback at Mawgan Porth yesterday!! There are now 2 humpbacks in the area that can be seen around Watergate/MP/Bedruthen in the late afternoon pretty consistently at the moment. Get outside!! 🥾

Whilst we have had a great field season and have deployed 11 tags in two days on elephant seals 🦭, we can’t ignore the unthinkable amount of plastic in this, one of the most isolated areas of the world.

Finally attended my first marine mammal post-mortem yesterday evening with the team at Cornwall Marine Pathology!🥼

It was fascinating to assist in examining these two adult common 🐬s. Incredible how much valuable data can be collected from these for so much further research🧑‍🔬🔬

I had a superb week attending @ukirsc.bsky.social at St Andrews. I loved hearing all about ongoing research projects at the forefront of MMS & can’t wait to see the outputs of these. A BIG thanks to all speakers, & to the committee for organising a phenomenal conference! Can’t wait for the next 🦭

🦭 MARINE STRANDINGS NETWORK FORUM 2025 🦭

Join us to learn about the brilliant work being done by the MSN & Cornwall Marine Pathology Team 🫀 packed with incredible talks & the launch of the new MSN APP, you don’t want to miss it!! Hope to see you there: shorturl.at/iy09v

📅 Feb 15th //📍Penryn Campus

Endangered shark in Cornwall likely killed by sport fishing and 'significant trauma' - Cornwall Live

It's officially HUMPBACK season in Cornwall 🐋 which means countless hours scanning the horizon, battling the 🥶 & straining my eyes!! The whales are thought to stop here to ‘refuel’ on their way ⬇️ to ❄️ breeding grounds. So get out, keep your 👀 peeled, & you might just get lucky!!

Photo: Jason Prince

Three new tagged pups were released early last week. Happy to report that they are doing fine after the storm ⛈️💨🌊

A hefty spidercrab from earlier in the year, because #crustmas 🦀

Falmouth, Cornwall 🇬🇧🤿 🦑

Our new paper outlines methods to ID albatross and petrel species using DNA from feathers. This provides tools to determine which #seabirds species are threatened by fisheries bycatch
#ConservationGenetics 🧬🧪🌏🦑
Here's a news story on our research:
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2024/us...

Happy #AntarcticaDay - easy to forget that I am so lucky to study this amazing ecosystem (and even luckier to have gotten to go!)

Common dolphin washed up nr Trefusis Head. Beak has a fresh wound that looks suspiciously like net entanglement (has MSN tags so been there for a day or two at least) @exetermarine.bsky.social

Hi #BlueSky!

I am a final year undergrad
@exetermarine.bsky.social researching the spatio-temporal distribution of #bycatch injuries to further understand dolphin-fishery interactions in Cornwall.

I’m excited to connect with fellow marine mammal enthusiasts on this awesome platform! 🐋