What a wonderful week of #ECS2025 on beautiful São Miguel island in the Azores 🇵🇹🐋🐬🌺!! Another year of inspiring talks, workshops, posters and networking sessions. Great to connect with so many people, colleagues and friends. Already looking forward to #ECS2026 in Scotland!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🐋🐬🦭

First couple of days at #ECS2025 in Azores have been great 🐋 Workshop on using spatial data in R for species distribution modeling & excellent opening keynote from @lrendell.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social on cetacean culture. All enjoyed alongside the @exetermarine.bsky.social crew 🩵

Found this bottle on a paddle out of Falmouth this morning. Looked up the company as I didn’t recognize it. Turns out they ceased manufacturing in 1982 🤯😩 meaning this bottle is *AT LEAST* 43 years old 🥲

There is no away.

This week I returned to my PhD after an 8month fellowship within Defra’s Marine and Fisheries science and evidence team.

Incredibly grateful for the experience and insight. Returning to my own research with renewed perspective on the science-policy interface.

#evidence #policy #bycatch #defra

Always a joy to join colleagues for the annual CWT Marine Strandings Network forum 🐬🦭 Reviewing the data from the year and catching up with new research 🔬 📈 Only fitting to round off the day recording a harbour porpoise stranding at Kennack sands