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Jen Jackson
@polarbiome.bsky.social
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Marine biologist at British Antarctic Survey ❄️❄️❄️ (https://bsky.app/profile/antarcticsurvey.bsky.social)
PI: South Georgia Wild Water Whales 🐋🐋🐋 (https://bsky.app/profile/wildwaterwhales.bsky.social)
Big fan of the planet
https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/jeck/
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southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
We still can’t believe how much fun we had at Whale of a Weekend! What was your favourite part?

You can still catch up with the livestreams here:
sght.org/woaw/

#WhaleofaWeekend #WoaW #Whales #Dundee #Whaling #SouthGeorgia #SouthGeorgiaIsland #SGHT #FOSGI
July 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
What a Whale of a Weekend it was! We are grateful to everyone at @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social & #FOSGI for the opportunity to share updates about #whale research in #SouthGeorgia. 🐳🧪 @polarbiome.bsky.social @jlkershaw.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
🐳Come join us for a Whale of a Weekend in Dundee from 26-29 June! Some of our team will be part of a panel on June 28, sharing tales about studying whales in South Georgia 🐳
🧪@southgeorgiahertiagetrust @FOSGI
Go to for more information: sght.org/woaw/
WoaW - South Georgia Heritage Trust
sght.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Jen Jackson
chrischirp.bsky.social
this is the joy i needed today
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Apr 1
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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antarcticscience.bsky.social
Deadline 21st March!! Antarctic Science International Bursary 👇👇 £6000 to ECRs for a new or extended Antarctic research project ❄️❄️
antarcticscience.bsky.social Antarctic Science Ltd @antarcticscience.bsky.social · Jan 20
❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications!
£6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...
March 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
It's #internationalwomensday and we are celebrating the amazing, smart and strong women on the #hungryhumpback project. 🐳🐙🧪
#Marine
"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you" -Misty Copeland
March 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
Check out this great video about the new whale exhibit room at the Grytviken Museum managed by @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DGus_vI...
Fantastic to see photos, information and whale sounds from our project 🐳🐙🧪. #MarineMammls #science #MarineConservation
@polarbiome.bsky.social
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March 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
Happy #worldwhaleday. 🐳
We are celebrating the recovery of whales species in the waters around the island of South Georgia.
Photos collected under GSGSSI permit 2024_39.

#MarineConservation 🐙🧪
#marinemammals #nature
@bas.ac.uk @polarbiome.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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antarcticscience.bsky.social
Interested in applying for an Antarctic Science bursary? ❄️ At 3pm & 8pm UK time today APECS is running webinars to learn about the bursary & application process. Register here! ❄️👇👇❄️ apecs.is/news/apecs-n...
February 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
Ahh summer in South Georgia-#snowday! Being a 🐳 scientist here means having lots of patience! Hopefully we can work tomorrow 🤞.
#MarineLife #whale #conservation @bas.ac.uk @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social @polarbiome.bsky.social
🐙🧪🌊
February 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
Please check out this news article about our #HungryHumpbacks project 👀👇

#MarineLife #Whale #conservation
@bas.ac.uk @polarbiome.bsky.social @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
🐳🦑🧪🌊🐟

www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/s...
Scientists study whales and fish to protect South Georgia’s marine ecosystem - British Antarctic Survey
Scientists on the remote sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia are working to better understand the rich marine life that inhabits the region. This month teams are focusing on two major …
www.bas.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
The Hungry Humpbacks project is getting some boat familiarization while waiting for good weather conditions..And loving the distraction of blonde fur seal pups🌊🧪🦭👇🐳
@polarbiome.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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antarcticscience.bsky.social
BURSARY NEWS: On 14th Feb, the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists are running two webinars for potential applicants to learn more about the Antarctic bursary & application process. Register here! 👇👇 apecs.is/news/apecs-n... ❄️❄️
January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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wildwaterwhales.bsky.social
Before starting the journey to South Georgia, project manager Stephanie Martin met the Commissioner of South Georgia, Alison Blake, at the Possession Day.
Check out this video to learn more about the 250th anniversary of Possession Day: youtu.be/UUoaf9m4rJo?...
January 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Jen Jackson
mikebentley.bsky.social
These are fantastic small grants for Early Career Researchers working on Antarctic Science projects. Supervisors - please point your students towards them. A huge range of projects and people have been funded over the years.
antarcticscience.bsky.social Antarctic Science Ltd @antarcticscience.bsky.social · Jan 20
❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications!
£6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Jen Jackson
treacherousbuzz.bsky.social
Highly recommend this as one of the few ways you can apply for your own funding as an ECR. I had a great time at University of Chicago working on some modelling problems that I wouldn't have had the chance to think about otherwise.
antarcticscience.bsky.social Antarctic Science Ltd @antarcticscience.bsky.social · Jan 20
❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications!
£6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...
January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
polarbiome.bsky.social
Calling all #Antarctic ECRs! This bursary awards £6000 for science projects, anywhere in the world. Must be a new project rather than more funds for a current one. Apply here 👇
antarcticscience.bsky.social Antarctic Science Ltd @antarcticscience.bsky.social · Jan 20
❄️It's that time of year again!❄️ The Antarctic Science International Bursary is open for applications!
£6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work. Deadline 21 March antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an...
January 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
polarbiome.bsky.social
This week the 2025 @wildwaterwhales.bsky.social team goes into the field! The team are journeying to South Georgia by ✈️ and 🚢, to study humpback whale foraging behaviour & feeding rates.

Here's project manager @sailorsteph.bsky.social packing & meeting UAV pilot Nico on the trek south 🐳 1
Hungry Humpbacks project manager Steph Martin, packed and ready to go. She is standing in an office holding a black peli-case and an orange kit bag. Project manager Steph Martin and UAV pilot Nico Lewin
January 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines

Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups

And we are but human & we want tiny cup
A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines
July 20, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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lec-reefs.bsky.social
Seabirds help corals grow twice as fast, recovering coral populations following an extreme marine heatwave.

Check out our new paper in Science Advances here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 7, 2023 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by Jen Jackson
billsutherland.bsky.social
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...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Jen Jackson
josephfasano.bsky.social
I will never, ever get over this.
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 PM
polarbiome.bsky.social
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...
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
December 3, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.

This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
All The President's Men
Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos & why press ownership matters.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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jangeerthiddink.bsky.social
Are you interested in the #restoration of marine ecosystems?

I'm co-chairing a @icesmarine.bsky.social Workshop on Nature Restoration (WKREST) in March, join if you're interested!

www.ices.dk/community/gr...
WKREST
www.ices.dk
December 2, 2024 at 9:18 AM