Jessica Montabaranom
@jessmontabaranom.bsky.social
Researcher working on fine scale movements and behaviour of marine mammals in tidally energetic environments and population monitoring of bottlenose dolphins in the UK 🦭🐬🌊 | Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews 🐳
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Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines
The result showing that seals exhibit avoidance of the turbine during operation is important for industry developers and regulators, as lower numbers of seals close to the turbine reduces the potenti...
doi.org
🦭🔍 New paper alert in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! I'm excited to share my 1st first author paper, showing how seals avoid tidal turbines when they're operating! doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧵
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
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New study led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social in collaboration with @strandings.bsky.social: evidence for grey seal predation of grey seals, harbour seals and harbour porpoises across Scotland, at levels that could prevent recovery of depleted populations. tinyurl.com/4r3wka6a
Intraguild predation in sympatric seals and the effect on a declining population
This study examined the prevalence, spatial extent, and temporal trends of grey seal intraguild predation (IGP). We demonstrated the utility of integrating disparate datasets to address conservation ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New study led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social in collaboration with @strandings.bsky.social: evidence for grey seal predation of grey seals, harbour seals and harbour porpoises across Scotland, at levels that could prevent recovery of depleted populations. tinyurl.com/4r3wka6a
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🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
1/ 🐋I recently joined a trip onboard Silurian, the vessel HWDT (www.hwdt.org) use to conduct research on marine mammal species visiting or resident to the Hebrides ⛵
July 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1/ 🐋I recently joined a trip onboard Silurian, the vessel HWDT (www.hwdt.org) use to conduct research on marine mammal species visiting or resident to the Hebrides ⛵
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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
Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭
@emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐
#Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology
July 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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
Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭
@emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐
#Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology
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Care about climate change, physiology, marine mammals and want to do something about it?
Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson,
@strandings.bsky.social,
@naturescot.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9
Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson,
@strandings.bsky.social,
@naturescot.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9
June 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Care about climate change, physiology, marine mammals and want to do something about it?
Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson,
@strandings.bsky.social,
@naturescot.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9
Exciting PhD opportunity funded by @mastscot.bsky.social to work with Andrew Brownlow, myself, @jlkershaw.bsky.social , Fiona Manson,
@strandings.bsky.social,
@naturescot.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3aj4kft9
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Why Spring Is Critical for Harp Seal Pups ❄️
Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web.
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c
Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web.
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c
May 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Why Spring Is Critical for Harp Seal Pups ❄️
Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web.
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c
Harp seal pups are weaned just 10-12 days after birth. By spring, they must adapt fast as sea ice melts. As the Arctic warms, ice breaks up earlier, threatening pup survival and disrupting the marine food web.
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yfw63d7c
Congratulations on your talk Katie!!🐬
Thanks to the ECS team for having me!! and to everyone here for sharing such exciting work - what a cool group of people, and in a very cool place!! 😎🐬
Katie Rapson @katie-rapson.bsky.social did a great job presenting 3D tracking of harbour porpoise around experimental tidal energy installations - another #MSc_MMS_St_A graduate presenting at #ECSconference2025 🐋🦑
May 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congratulations on your talk Katie!!🐬
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Last call ⏳🚨
If you have any elasmobranch and killer whale interaction records we want to hear about it!
Please reach our team with the email below, would love to include them in our global review!
If you have any elasmobranch and killer whale interaction records we want to hear about it!
Please reach our team with the email below, would love to include them in our global review!
May 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Last call ⏳🚨
If you have any elasmobranch and killer whale interaction records we want to hear about it!
Please reach our team with the email below, would love to include them in our global review!
If you have any elasmobranch and killer whale interaction records we want to hear about it!
Please reach our team with the email below, would love to include them in our global review!
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New #OA paper in Movement Ecology using a combination of statistical models (HMMs & GAMMs) to understand environmental drivers of behaviour in Saimaa ringed seals. Very pleased to be invited to collaborate on this research! 🤓🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x
tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x
Linking ringed seal foraging behaviour to environmental variability - Movement Ecology
Background Foraging rates directly influence animals’ energetic intake and expenditure and are thus linked to body condition and the ability to survive and reproduce. Further, understanding the underl...
movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
New #OA paper in Movement Ecology using a combination of statistical models (HMMs & GAMMs) to understand environmental drivers of behaviour in Saimaa ringed seals. Very pleased to be invited to collaborate on this research! 🤓🦭 @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @uniuef.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x
tinyurl.com/2uhxez5x
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If you find mosquitoes in Scotland please report them for our Mosquito Scotland project @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social! @ukceh.bsky.social
Delighted to have BBC feature our citizen science mosquito reporting project. Huge thx to members of the public who have got in touch since last year with sightings from all across Scotland. Great if we can keep it going this summer: report at www.mosquito-scotland.com
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mosquitoes in Scotland as far north as Shetland
The extent of Scotland's mosquito population is being understood thanks to a successful citizen science project.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
If you find mosquitoes in Scotland please report them for our Mosquito Scotland project @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social! @ukceh.bsky.social
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Please share: (competitive) PhD funding in Strasbourg (France) to work on 🐧🔥:
Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species
Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation)
amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...
Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species
Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation)
amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...
April 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Please share: (competitive) PhD funding in Strasbourg (France) to work on 🐧🔥:
Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species
Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation)
amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...
Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species
Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation)
amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...
🚀 Grateful to be featured for the second year in a row at the #WOSiSta Women in Ocean Science in St Andrews! 🌊 A great range of talks and advice nuggets from women at different career stages, recognise what has changed (and not changed) in the past couple of decades‼️
Honoured to be amongst some fab women at the #WOWiSta Women in Ocean Science in St Andrews event at the Scottish Oceans Institute today 💪 @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @philippawright.bsky.social @molliestefanek.bsky.social @monicaarso.bsky.social @carolsparling.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🚀 Grateful to be featured for the second year in a row at the #WOSiSta Women in Ocean Science in St Andrews! 🌊 A great range of talks and advice nuggets from women at different career stages, recognise what has changed (and not changed) in the past couple of decades‼️
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The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
April 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
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Can you spare a few minutes to share your thoughts on marine mammal protection in Scotland?🐳
Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both)
Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35
More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com
Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both)
Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35
More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can you spare a few minutes to share your thoughts on marine mammal protection in Scotland?🐳
Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both)
Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35
More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com
Please fill in the survey most relevant to you (you are welcome to do both)
Scotland-wide: forms.office.com/e/xbkmFe4TxV Shetland: forms.office.com/e/ee9yBzJC35
More info: www.shetlandmarinemammals.com
Incredible work done by @chrismcknight.bsky.social @eva-mariab.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social & co 🦭🎉
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/...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Incredible work done by @chrismcknight.bsky.social @eva-mariab.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social & co 🦭🎉
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On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming:
🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
March 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming:
🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers
🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019
🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise
#glacier 🧪⚒️🌏
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🚨 With federal funding dwindling, we’ve created a starter pack of funding bodies offering #grants for #research🔬
📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷
#ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti
📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷
#ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti
March 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚨 With federal funding dwindling, we’ve created a starter pack of funding bodies offering #grants for #research🔬
📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷
#ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti
📣 Repost & 💙 to connect #researchers with #funding 💵 💶 💷
#ResearchFunding #NIH #ERC #AcademicSky #MedSky #AcademicChatter #ECRChat #NewPI #academia #science #StandWithScience #eloquenti
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Take a moment to enjoy this beautiful southern right whale. Happy #worldwildlifeday
All research permitted by Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands permit 2024_039.
🧪🐙🐳🌊
#whale #MarineConservation #wildlife #conservation #photooftheday #science #marinemammal #nature
All research permitted by Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands permit 2024_039.
🧪🐙🐳🌊
#whale #MarineConservation #wildlife #conservation #photooftheday #science #marinemammal #nature
March 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Take a moment to enjoy this beautiful southern right whale. Happy #worldwildlifeday
All research permitted by Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands permit 2024_039.
🧪🐙🐳🌊
#whale #MarineConservation #wildlife #conservation #photooftheday #science #marinemammal #nature
All research permitted by Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands permit 2024_039.
🧪🐙🐳🌊
#whale #MarineConservation #wildlife #conservation #photooftheday #science #marinemammal #nature
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We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.
March 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
We've had a great week teaching the latest PAMGuard features to folks in the US, but the week was marred by one of our attendees being fired half way through. Our hearts go out to her and other US Gov’t scientists losing their jobs this week, and we wish them success in finding new paths in life.
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📣We are recruiting two(!) Ecological Statisticians to join our Offshore Renewables Group at @bioss.bsky.social.
If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏
If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏
🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨
Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team.
Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec...
📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025
#StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals
Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team.
Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec...
📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025
#StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals
February 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣We are recruiting two(!) Ecological Statisticians to join our Offshore Renewables Group at @bioss.bsky.social.
If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏
If you have an interest in developing and applying statistical methods to ecological data, do check out the advert below. Please share with anyone who may be interested! 🙏
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⚠️ A reminder to please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. In England, Wales & Scotland, contact Defra, in Northern Ireland contact @daera-ni.gov.uk & in Republic of Ireland gov.ie. Please ALSO report them to @birdtrack.bsky.social. Thank you. #UKBirding
February 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
⚠️ A reminder to please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. In England, Wales & Scotland, contact Defra, in Northern Ireland contact @daera-ni.gov.uk & in Republic of Ireland gov.ie. Please ALSO report them to @birdtrack.bsky.social. Thank you. #UKBirding
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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🦑Join us for a webinar discussing how to reduce marine mammal bycatch with good science and robust relationships between scientists, managers, and stakeholders on the ground: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🦑Join us for a webinar discussing how to reduce marine mammal bycatch with good science and robust relationships between scientists, managers, and stakeholders on the ground: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A great study depicting the evolution of humpback whale song themes and complexity in the North Pacific! 🐋🎶
Super excited that my thesis on humpback whale song complexity and evolution was published today! Supervised by the wonderful @ellengarland.bsky.social, @francae.bsky.social and @lrendell.bsky.social, in collaboration with Nozomi Kobayashi et al from OCF! 🐋
Link below:
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Link below:
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A great study depicting the evolution of humpback whale song themes and complexity in the North Pacific! 🐋🎶