Emma Longden
@emmalongden.bsky.social
Marine ecologist interested in animal movement and energetics in dynamic environments 🦭🌊
PhD student at @bas.ac.uk
PhD student at @bas.ac.uk
My first entry into the BAS Bake your PhD competition - top predator movements & Southern Ocean ~currants~ 🐧🌊 had a wonderful first few weeks and I'm so excited for the next few years!!
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
My first entry into the BAS Bake your PhD competition - top predator movements & Southern Ocean ~currants~ 🐧🌊 had a wonderful first few weeks and I'm so excited for the next few years!!
A beautiful painting that so well captures the environment of fieldwork in Scotland! I miss being windswept on that old boat ⛵ 🐋
Dropping in to share a painting I've recently finished. I've been pretty unwell for a few months now but felt inspired by both being out with HWDT last year and completing my honours project on common dolphins. Hopefully I'll get back out on the sea soon!
September 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A beautiful painting that so well captures the environment of fieldwork in Scotland! I miss being windswept on that old boat ⛵ 🐋
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📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️
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Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted.
Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.
This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...
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Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.
This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted.
Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.
This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...
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Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.
This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...
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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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We’re not alone. We & the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are united in calling for Part 3 to be scrapped.
Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
The choice is yours.
And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.
Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
The choice is yours.
And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.
May 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We’re not alone. We & the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social are united in calling for Part 3 to be scrapped.
Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
The choice is yours.
And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.
Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Steve Reed, Angela Rayner, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
The choice is yours.
And it will be remembered by the millions of us who care about the natural world.
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Despite the most objections in Scottish history, and against the dev plan, the @snp.org
Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org
here :
greens.scot/LochLomond
Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org
here :
greens.scot/LochLomond
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
greens.scot
May 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Despite the most objections in Scottish history, and against the dev plan, the @snp.org
Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org
here :
greens.scot/LochLomond
Scottish gov have approved for #Flamingoland to build a mega resort on #LochLomond but you can still stop this by signing @scottishgreens.org
here :
greens.scot/LochLomond
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The Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce the
opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research.
The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the
next generation of marine mammalogists.
#SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience
opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research.
The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the
next generation of marine mammalogists.
#SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Society for Marine Mammalogy is pleased to announce the
opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research.
The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the
next generation of marine mammalogists.
#SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience
opening of applications for the Eric A. Ramos Small Grants-in-Aid for Research.
The award honors the Dr. Ramos legacy in fostering the
next generation of marine mammalogists.
#SMM #marinemammal #research #marinemammalscience
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I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
🌎🦑🧪
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Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!
Are you a practitioner or academic working in rewilding in North East England?
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Applications now open for a two-day event on the 'Science of Rewilding' organised by the Rewilding Group of the @britishecologicalsociety.org Society with @northwildlife.bsky.social . Please share widely!
Exploring The Science of Rewilding - British Ecological Society
A 2-day event on the science of rewilding, bringing together practitioners and academics working in rewilding to foster knowledge exchange in the North East of England.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Update!! We have extended the deadline to 4th May and we're now inviting applications from anyone working on rewilding in North England or South Scotland. If that sounds like you, please apply to join us in July!
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Great work by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and team on the potential for seals to sense oxygen, instead of carbon dioxide as the stimulus to return from a dive to breathe.
New study reveals why seals don't drown
Seals can directly sense the oxygen in their own bloodstream, new research in the journal Science finds.
www.npr.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Great work by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and team on the potential for seals to sense oxygen, instead of carbon dioxide as the stimulus to return from a dive to breathe.
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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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"the data we used started in the 1980s and cut out in 2020. This is all from before wind development really got going off the US east coast ... those who choose to blame the decline of North Atlantic right whales on the wind industry are either poorly informed, or else they’re just duplicitous"
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Whales could live longer than we first thought - Whale & Dolphin Conservation USA
New report suggests that industrial whaling of great whales has hindered our ability to measure just how long they could live.
us.whales.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"the data we used started in the 1980s and cut out in 2020. This is all from before wind development really got going off the US east coast ... those who choose to blame the decline of North Atlantic right whales on the wind industry are either poorly informed, or else they’re just duplicitous"
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Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines 🦭
The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪
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The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪
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buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines 🦭
The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪
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The modelled reductions in presence can be used as avoidance rates in collision risk models to predict the impacts of future turbine arrays 📊 🌏 🧪
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Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Check out @smruecophys.bsky.social for the latest #ecophysiology research happening at SMRU 🤩, led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social and @jlkershaw.bsky.social
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Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Another paper using PAMGuard. For this one we developed a bespoke PAMGuard module to process multibeam sonar data in order to track seals around an operating tidal turbine. All code and built modules at www.pamguard.org. @jessmontabaranom.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social
Check out Jess' first first-author paper!!! 🦭🌊 (accepted *without revisions*!!!!!!)
🦭🔍 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
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
January 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Check out Jess' first first-author paper!!! 🦭🌊 (accepted *without revisions*!!!!!!)
Nice to see this work continue to flourish and be refined since our attempt! 🐬
Need a festive season read in front of the fire?
We hope this paper published today In Marine Mammal Science will be of interest. We demonstrate the application of PAM and signature whistles to estimate abundance of bottlenose dolphins with comparable results to Photo-ID.
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
We hope this paper published today In Marine Mammal Science will be of interest. We demonstrate the application of PAM and signature whistles to estimate abundance of bottlenose dolphins with comparable results to Photo-ID.
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
December 20, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Nice to see this work continue to flourish and be refined since our attempt! 🐬