Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme
@strandings.bsky.social
The dedicated scheme providing a coordinated approach to surveillance and investigation of marine strandings in Scotland. Part of @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
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Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
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Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
🐬🐳 Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
August 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🐬🐳 Check out our new paper lead by our @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk PhD student @rachlenn.bsky.social which looks at trends in cetacean strandings over the past 30 years. 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
All thanks to decades of reports from volunteers and the public!
🐋 New PhD opportunity: Fully-funded MASTS PhD with SMASS investigating cetacean energetics & thermogenesis - a critical knowledge gap in marine mammal physiology.
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
June 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🐋 New PhD opportunity: Fully-funded MASTS PhD with SMASS investigating cetacean energetics & thermogenesis - a critical knowledge gap in marine mammal physiology.
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
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Bring BeachTrack 📱 with you on your coastal walks and contribute valuable data to marine ecosystem monitoring projects!
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March 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Bring BeachTrack 📱 with you on your coastal walks and contribute valuable data to marine ecosystem monitoring projects!
🐋🐦🪼🦀🦭
@strandings.bsky.social
www.beachtrack.org
🐋🐦🪼🦀🦭
@strandings.bsky.social
www.beachtrack.org
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Marine Forum 💙
We're so grateful to our speakers & attendees for making it such an inspiring day of conversations on the marine environment.
What a community! 🌊✨
#MarineForum2025
@uofgmvls.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @whalesorg.bsky.social
We're so grateful to our speakers & attendees for making it such an inspiring day of conversations on the marine environment.
What a community! 🌊✨
#MarineForum2025
@uofgmvls.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @whalesorg.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Marine Forum 💙
We're so grateful to our speakers & attendees for making it such an inspiring day of conversations on the marine environment.
What a community! 🌊✨
#MarineForum2025
@uofgmvls.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @whalesorg.bsky.social
We're so grateful to our speakers & attendees for making it such an inspiring day of conversations on the marine environment.
What a community! 🌊✨
#MarineForum2025
@uofgmvls.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @whalesorg.bsky.social
Reposted by Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme
🚨 Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! 🚨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨 Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! 🚨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
🚨 Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! 🚨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨 Marine Forum Programme is LIVE! 🚨
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
A jam-packed schedule of expert talks, panels & networking awaits! 🌊🐬
Only a few tickets left so don’t miss out! 🎟:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
#MarineForum2025 #OceanConservation #LastTickets
@whalesorg.bsky.social @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
✨ First paper of the year out ✨ Describing fatal systemic bacterial infections in harbour porpoises following bite wounds from grey seals 🦭
Check it out! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Check it out! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Fatal systemic bacterial infections in two harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) secondary to bite wounds from grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
Mycoplasma phocicerebrale, the causative agent of seal (‘speck’) finger, a zoonotic disease, is a common commensal in the oral cavity of various seal …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✨ First paper of the year out ✨ Describing fatal systemic bacterial infections in harbour porpoises following bite wounds from grey seals 🦭
Check it out! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Check it out! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Three weeks to go if you are interested in applying for a www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... fully funded PhD looking to answer vital questions about the prevalence and epidemiology of viral pathogens in Scotland’s marine mammal populations: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate.... Get in touch if interested!
December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Three weeks to go if you are interested in applying for a www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... fully funded PhD looking to answer vital questions about the prevalence and epidemiology of viral pathogens in Scotland’s marine mammal populations: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate.... Get in touch if interested!
🐾Turn your beach walk into a conservation tool with Beachtrack!
Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:07 PM
🐾Turn your beach walk into a conservation tool with Beachtrack!
Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
Record your walk, report stranded animals & log marine litter to help identify patterns and quantity effort! 🦭🌊
📲 Download now, and lets protect our seas together!
www.beachtrack.org
🌊The Marine Forum is back!🌊
We’re excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this year’s theme, "Sea Change” will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
We’re excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this year’s theme, "Sea Change” will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
WDC & SMASS Marine Forum 2025
A day of talks & workshops focusing on citizen science data collected from across Scotland to aid the protection of the marine environment.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 2:54 PM
🌊The Marine Forum is back!🌊
We’re excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this year’s theme, "Sea Change” will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
We’re excited to announce that this year we will be at NMS, Edinburgh, on 1st March 2025! Organized by WDC and SMASS, this year’s theme, "Sea Change” will focus on the evidence and action we need to drive meaningful progress.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wdc-smass-...
Many thanks to all who helped with the Balmedie minke whale necropsy yesterday: moderate body condition, trauma related to the stranding but no indication of boat strike, entanglement, or severe infection, no feeding prior to death, fatty changes in the liver and a possible underlying meningitis.
November 27, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Many thanks to all who helped with the Balmedie minke whale necropsy yesterday: moderate body condition, trauma related to the stranding but no indication of boat strike, entanglement, or severe infection, no feeding prior to death, fatty changes in the liver and a possible underlying meningitis.