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Alexandra Mayette
@alexemayette.bsky.social
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Research Scientist for the Canadian Wildlife Federation, working on vessel strike risk of North Atlantic right whales 🐳 (she/her)

📍New Brunswick, Canada
🏫 University of Manitoba (MSc on belugas in the Beaufort Sea) & Université du Québec à Rimouski
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leilafouda.bsky.social
North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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nrennie.bsky.social
I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday
Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...
nrennie.rbind.io
September 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
🚨 Cool educational item alert 🚨

We teamed up with Philly Nature Illustrator, Meg Lemieur @megstampede.bsky.social to create a 12 month wall calendar all about animals!

The calendar includes lessons we can learn from animals & how we can help them.

Pre-order here!
www.etsy.com/listing/4366...
the front cover for a calendar with a salamander standing on a mushroom. in big bubble letters it says 2026 love notes from nature calendar created by Meg Lemieur and Sarah McAnulty phd
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
Huffle season is upon us! The checkered puffer posses are rolling through town on the regular! 🏁🐡🐡🐡🐡🏁 #checkeredpuffer #pufferfish #pufferfishofcoralcity #huffle #huffleofpuffers #school #huffleseason #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
September 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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finstacodes.bsky.social
Our industry partners Hatfield Consultants and Alta ML made this amazing ESRI storymap to highlight what we did and the issues in right whale conservation that make this work important storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/849a...
smartWhales SBDS
The Space-based Detection System (SBDS) developed under the smartWhales Initiative with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency.
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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finstacodes.bsky.social
Happy to announce our new article in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social on finding #rightwhales in satellite imagery using machine learning. Great collaboration with academia, industry, and conservation @cwf-fcf.bsky.social. #whalesfromspace #NARW

Link:
share.google/CNepFK2pf0iU...
Figure of study area in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with an area imaged by a satelite highlighted and then zoomed in on to show a chip of the whole satellite image of the ocean Examples of whales at the surface of the ocean in satellite images
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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petercorkeron.bsky.social
Interesting development in the whales-and-wind saga. Someone's playing this one very smart.

Repeating - anyone who tries to shut down offshore wind for right whale conservation and does nothing about entanglements is either a fool or has a motive other than whale conservation.
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Green Oceans and Three Tribes Petition NOAA to Revoke Offshore Wind Companies’ Authorizations That Harm 61% of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales While Building their Projects
Three Native American tribes, the Shinnecock Nation, the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, the Narragansett Tribe, ACK for Whales, and Green Oceans have ...
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July 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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stephanielking.bsky.social
We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬
Deadline is 29th June - please share widely!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
June 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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petercorkeron.bsky.social
Fascinating paper, led by Loraine Shuttleworth.
Gestation in female Southern #rightwhales is far longer than thought. Follows previous work showing similar for North Atlantic right whales and bowheads.

We don't understand these #whales as well as we think. We have their basic biology wrong.
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Multiyear Baleen Endocrine Profiles Suggest a Longer Estimated Gestation in Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis)
Multiyear profiles of progesterone and estrogen in the baleen of adult female southern right whales indicate progesterone elevations lasting on average between 20 and 25 months, indicative of pregnan....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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phoca-sapiens.bsky.social
How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
@mariabeger.bsky.social
Spatial conservation priorities for marine megafaunal predators: Multi‐taxon versus taxon‐specific approaches
Conservation for marine megafaunal predators needs to improve as they are key for ecosystem functioning. We show that different marine predator taxonomic groups have heterogeneous distributions resul...
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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craigtaylorviz.bsky.social
🗺️ I've spent a lot of time the past week looking at data in the Strait of Hormuz so here is a quick animation showcasing the sheer volume of activity in the Persian Gulf last Friday. The data highlights "Tanker" only vessels (AIS code 80-89) so everything from Crude Oil Tankers to LNG Tankers.
June 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
alexemayette.bsky.social
Updated abundance estimate of the eastern Beaufort Sea #beluga population! I participated in the aerial survey in 2019 as part of my masters project. The last estimate was from 1992.
open-science.canada.ca/items/6fadae...
Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) abundance estimate from aerial surveys of the Eastern Beaufort Sea population in 2019 - Federal Open Science Repository of Canada
Beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) of the Eastern Beaufort Sea (EBS) population represent the second largest beluga population in Canada. The last abundance assessment for this population was con...
open-science.canada.ca
June 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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finstacodes.bsky.social
Excited to share this ms in @ecol-evol.bsky.social looking at ringed seal populations using aerial surveys conducted from low-Arctic Hudson Bay (59N) to the Last Ice Area in the high-Arctic Lincoln Sea (83N)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Figure of the eastern Canadian Arctic with colored boxes outlining the regions surveyed for the study and the panels outlined with the corresponding colour highlighting a more detailed map of the specific region with the survey lines flown for that survey (Blue/B: High Arctic, Yellow/C: Intermediate Arctic, Red/D: Low Arctic) Birds eye view photograph of ringed seals hauled out on top of sea ice taken by cameras in the survey plane documenting the area along the transect lines of the survey
June 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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petercorkeron.bsky.social
New paper on #rightwhale conversation by Cole & Brillant

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
"...annual entanglement risk to right whales from the GSL snow crab fishery is estimated to have been reduced by approximately 62 ± 3% (mean ± SE) relative to pre-closure"
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Figure from the paper. Caption text for the figure reads: Fig. 6. Estimated entanglement risk reduction (±SE) of the annual closure scenarios (2018–2021) among months (May– August) and among the annual detections of North Atlantic right whales (2018–2021). ANOVA indicated a significant effect among whale detections, closure protocols and months (F27,1920 = 13.69, p < 0.001). Post hoc differences (Student-Newman- Keuls test) within each month of the annual detections are indicated by different letters above each bar. Average annual monthly risk reduction (percent) is indicated below each ba
June 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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tomhollenstein.bsky.social
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Who's responsible for the climate crisis?

Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much.

The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair.

An explanatory thread 🧵
Who Did It? GIF
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May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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theglobeandmail.com
The hottest new TV comedy - that just hit Netflix - comes straight out of Nunavut
How North of North’s creative team made this winter’s hottest new TV comedy in Nunavut
The show’s co-creators and producers set out to capture the unique humour found in Inuit communities while laying the groundwork to transform Iqaluit into film and television hub
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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cwf-fcf.bsky.social
Big Win for BC Whales! The Canadian Wildlife Federation has been awarded funding grant to work with prawn & crab fishers in reducing whale entanglements in fishing gear!

🔗 CanFishGear.ca
📰 Official announcement: lnkd.in/gkGDMxpC
CanFish Gear Lending Program
The first lending program for adaptive fishing gear in Canada.
CanFishGear.ca
March 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
alexemayette.bsky.social
@cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring full time positions, working in Ottawa or remote in Canada! 🍁 #job #conservation

🦞 Fishing Gear Technician
🌳 Chief Conservation Officer
🐦 iNaturalist Coordinator
🍎 Non Formal Education Manager
🙋‍♀️ Director of People and Culture

workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Recruitment
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April 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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aerinj.bsky.social
ICYMI, @cwf-fcf.bsky.social is hiring a Chief Conservation Officer. Closes April 20.

#ConservationJobs
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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self.agency
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to work with others to “conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.” The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of “de-extinction” technology and how it may serve broader purposes beyond the recovery of lost species, including strengthening biodiversity protection efforts and helping endangered or at-risk species. The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave. In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation. It’s time to fundamentally change how we think about species conservation. Going forward, we must celebrate removals from the endangered list - not additions. The only thing we’d like to see go extinct is the need for an endangered species list to exist. We need to continue improving recovery efforts to make that a reality, and the marvel of “de-extinction” technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk. Since the dawn of our nation, it has been innovation – not regulation – that has spawned American greatness. The revival of the Dire Wolf heralds the advent of a thrilling new era of scientific wonder, showcasing how the concept of “de-extinction” can serve as a bedrock for modern species conservation. The Dire Wolf revival carries profound cultural significance as it embodies strength and courage that is deeply encoded within the DNA of American identity and tribal heritage. Breakthroughs of this nature will inspire leading minds and future generations of innovators to chase the impossible, capture it, and unleash its potential! The Department of the Interior looks forward to a vibrant future full of innovation that advances core missions such as wildlife conservation.
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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eubalaenagina.bsky.social
North Atlantic #rightwhale calving season summary, courtesy of Florida Fish & Wildlife and the #NARW Consortium

🔟 total calves spotted this winter
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This is *below* the 10-year average of 12 calves/year

#conservation #radicalhope #whale
April 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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lavietidhar.bsky.social
Hate Amazon? Support independent voices! Delighted to launch the 2025 World SF Bundle from @storybundle.bsky.social today! 10 books, $25, with charity partner @locusmag.bsky.social!

storybundle.com/scifi

Re-posts appreciated!
Image of 10 book covers, available for just $25 of science fiction, fantasy and horror from around the world. It's a steal!
March 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Get your Canadian news directly from the sources 🇨🇦
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM