Clare Andvik
@clareandvik.bsky.social
PhD candidate @unioslo👩💻 | Multiple stressors in Norwegian orcas (whale watching x pollution) 🐳🇳🇴 | MULTIWHALE | Ecotoxicologist 👩🔬| Marine mammal mum to two girls 🧒👶 | … and a dog 🐶
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Clare Andvik
@clareandvik.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Our latest paper! 🚨🥳
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
What a strange & disappointing headline from NRK about the PFAS restriction. Not a celebration that we will protect humans & environment from toxic forever chemicals... but a lament that rain jackets "won't be as waterproof"
www.nrk.no/nordland/reg...
& why were no toxicologists interviewed?!
www.nrk.no/nordland/reg...
& why were no toxicologists interviewed?!
Regnjakkene blir mindre vanntette på grunn av et forbud mot miljøgiften PFAS
Etter forbudet mot PFAS har regnjakkene blitt mye mindre regntette.
www.nrk.no
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What a strange & disappointing headline from NRK about the PFAS restriction. Not a celebration that we will protect humans & environment from toxic forever chemicals... but a lament that rain jackets "won't be as waterproof"
www.nrk.no/nordland/reg...
& why were no toxicologists interviewed?!
www.nrk.no/nordland/reg...
& why were no toxicologists interviewed?!
Thanks #nets2025 for a fantastic conference! Impressive how much science was packed into 2 days (+ early career workshop). Our @biovitenskap.bsky.social group shared results from the tropics to the Arctic, & zooplankton to whales & polar bears! 🐳🐻❄️ w/ @julia-gieb.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thanks #nets2025 for a fantastic conference! Impressive how much science was packed into 2 days (+ early career workshop). Our @biovitenskap.bsky.social group shared results from the tropics to the Arctic, & zooplankton to whales & polar bears! 🐳🐻❄️ w/ @julia-gieb.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
An honour to be invited by @miljodirektoratet.no to present our research on pollution (& other stressors) in Norwegian whales! 🐳 Fun to connect with old colleagues & discuss how results can be converted into actual change (e.g. chemical regulations). Research is nothing if nobody hears about it!
August 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
An honour to be invited by @miljodirektoratet.no to present our research on pollution (& other stressors) in Norwegian whales! 🐳 Fun to connect with old colleagues & discuss how results can be converted into actual change (e.g. chemical regulations). Research is nothing if nobody hears about it!
hahahah this is so so true 😂
People always ask me : “Cristi, how do you manage parenting a baby while going up for tenure?”
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
It’s easy. The secret is *flow-based-scheduling*. Here are its three core strategies for new academic parents:
Sleep when the baby sleeps
Cry when the baby cries
Publish when the baby publishes
July 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
hahahah this is so so true 😂
It was great to meet future @biovitenskap.bsky.social students at the @uio.no open day last week! I gathered some beautiful photos and videos from fieldwork with #norwegianorcasurvey to give an impression of how it is to do killer whale fieldwork in Norway!🤩🐳
March 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It was great to meet future @biovitenskap.bsky.social students at the @uio.no open day last week! I gathered some beautiful photos and videos from fieldwork with #norwegianorcasurvey to give an impression of how it is to do killer whale fieldwork in Norway!🤩🐳
The V International Symposium on Orcas was the largest EVER gathering of orca researchers! 🌍🐳
I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏
I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏
February 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The V International Symposium on Orcas was the largest EVER gathering of orca researchers! 🌍🐳
I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏
I met so many talented & inspiring scientists, and presented research from our Forskingsrådet project MULTIWHALE @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no
Thank you NAMMCO for funding my travel 🙏
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience to all the kickass #womeninSTEM 🙌💪❤️
One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪
Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊
One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪
Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊
February 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience to all the kickass #womeninSTEM 🙌💪❤️
One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪
Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊
One stereotype I love to smash is when people ask who (i.e. which man) is driving our research boat… 😉 I had fun making this reel last year, 5 months pregnant 😎💪
Let’s continue to break barriers together 🫶👊
Thanks for a fantastic conference NSFT!
A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉
A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉
January 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Thanks for a fantastic conference NSFT!
A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉
A great opportunity to share our work on killer whales 🐳 at @biovitenskap.bsky.social @uio.no & #norwegianorcasurvey in a fun, inclusive and relaxed environment ❤️ Take note, other conferences!😉
Reposted by Clare Andvik
My newest research: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUBE3Ao6B...
January 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My newest research: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kUBE3Ao6B...
Reposted by Clare Andvik
A fascinating new study from a great team of scientists, including @bellareeves.bsky.social and @meyer-sci.bsky.social!
They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver:
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver:
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A fascinating new study from a great team of scientists, including @bellareeves.bsky.social and @meyer-sci.bsky.social!
They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver:
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
They isolated killer whale DNA from the wounds of dead white shark that washed up in Australia without its liver:
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Reposted by Clare Andvik
New research reveals the extraordinary energy demands of humpback whale mothers, who travel over 3,000 miles without food to birth and nourish their 2,600-pound calves, a feat now further imperiled by climate change and marine heatwaves disrupting their critical food supply.
January 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New research reveals the extraordinary energy demands of humpback whale mothers, who travel over 3,000 miles without food to birth and nourish their 2,600-pound calves, a feat now further imperiled by climate change and marine heatwaves disrupting their critical food supply.
Extended deadline of March 3 2025! 👍
Call for papers! 📣
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
January 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Extended deadline of March 3 2025! 👍
Call for papers! 📣
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
January 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Call for papers! 📣
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
If you research human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic, submit to NAMMCO! 🐳
I'm serving as one of the Volume Editors for manuscripts related to the impact of contaminants 🧪👩🔬
❗📅 The deadline for this special issue is January 31st, 2025.
t.ly/wWDrK
BIOPSY SAMPLING - WHAT & WHY? 🤔🐳
A thread 🧵
Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7)
📷 Krisztina Balotay
@uio.no
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
#norwegianorcasurvey
A thread 🧵
Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7)
📷 Krisztina Balotay
@uio.no
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
#norwegianorcasurvey
December 10, 2024 at 2:42 PM
BIOPSY SAMPLING - WHAT & WHY? 🤔🐳
A thread 🧵
Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7)
📷 Krisztina Balotay
@uio.no
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
#norwegianorcasurvey
A thread 🧵
Ever wondered how whale researchers get samples? For our NRC project #MULTIWHALE, we collect skin & blubber from wild killer whales in Arctic Norway 🐳 This is how! 👇 (1/7)
📷 Krisztina Balotay
@uio.no
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
#norwegianorcasurvey
Still just a postponement for now, but we can hope and pray it never happens!❤️ Tusen takk og fantastisk bra jobba @sv.no
Did someone say good news Mondays? www.reuters.com/world/europe... Deep sea Arctic sea beds and hydrothermal vents are rare homes to many unique, often endemic species. Great to see this relatively understudied marine habitat protected (at least for now).
Norway to stop deep-sea mining, says party supporting minority government
Norway will not proceed with plans to conduct deep-sea mining, the SV party which supports the minority centre-left government said on Sunday, after it concluded negotiations over next year's budget with the coalition.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Still just a postponement for now, but we can hope and pray it never happens!❤️ Tusen takk og fantastisk bra jobba @sv.no
Wow, what an amazing PhD opportunity!! Check it out! ⬇️
Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale
November 29, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Wow, what an amazing PhD opportunity!! Check it out! ⬇️
Reposted by Clare Andvik
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How cool is this!!!
What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊
New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever!
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever!
@exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
How cool is this!!!
Reposted by Clare Andvik
Hi 🦋, I'm a PhD candidate soon to finish on the evolutionary ecology of Australasian killer whales in Aus 🇦🇺. I dabble mostly in pop/evolutionary genomics, trophic and nutritional ecology of marine predators 🧬🧪👩🏻🔬
November 28, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Hi 🦋, I'm a PhD candidate soon to finish on the evolutionary ecology of Australasian killer whales in Aus 🇦🇺. I dabble mostly in pop/evolutionary genomics, trophic and nutritional ecology of marine predators 🧬🧪👩🏻🔬
Reposted by Clare Andvik
New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels
Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇
Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇
Mapping Arctic Marine Mammals: understanding the distribution of species in a rapidly changing north
iapetus2.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:07 AM
New #IAPETUS UK #PhD opportunity! Mapping Arctic marine mammal distributions ❄️🐳 🐋🦭❄️ with ship & satellite surveys, investigating their interactions with vessels
Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇
Led by @heriotwattuni.bsky.social w @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @bas.ac.uk and Hurtigruten Expeditions 🚢 ❄️ tinyurl.com/mt6vuakx. 👇👇
Still feeling high after an incredible week of science at #smmPerth2024 🤩 I presented results from MULTIWHALE & how stress hormones in Norwegian orcas are affected by whale watching boats. Stay tuned for the publication 🙌 #norwegianorcasurvey @biovitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo.bsky.social #forskning
November 24, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Still feeling high after an incredible week of science at #smmPerth2024 🤩 I presented results from MULTIWHALE & how stress hormones in Norwegian orcas are affected by whale watching boats. Stay tuned for the publication 🙌 #norwegianorcasurvey @biovitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo.bsky.social #forskning
Our latest paper! 🚨🥳
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Our latest paper! 🚨🥳
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
We measured pollution levels in 10 species of marine mammals from Norway 🐳🐬🦭
See “Part 1” of our “general public” study summary below 🫶
& keep reading 👇 for Part 2, and more details 🤓
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#Openaccess
@biovitenskap.bsky.social
@unioslo.bsky.social
Starting up social media from scratch can be exhausting. This makes it easy to find all our old marine mammal friends! Thank you Emma :)
I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Starting up social media from scratch can be exhausting. This makes it easy to find all our old marine mammal friends! Thank you Emma :)