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Henry Slesser
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PhD molecular ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey and Cambridge University, looking at population structure and foraging of Humpback Whales around South Georgia.

Lover of all things nature, photography, drones, travel and baseball. All views my own.
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stcatharines.bsky.social
A Catz student is having a whale of a time! @hslesser.bsky.social (Molecular Ecology PhD student):
🐋 Studied humpback #whales in the wild with @bas.ac.uk
⚾ Came 4th nationally with @cam.ac.uk #baseball team
💐 Got married!
Read our interview: caths.cam.ac.uk/hump... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social
Humpbacks and home runs: Life as a PhD student at Catz
A St Catharine’s postgraduate student has been alternating biology and baseball during his four years at Cambridge. Henry Slesser (a Molecular Ecology PhD student) was interested in both marine biology and baseball when he joined St Catharine’s as a PhD student in 2022. He has since been involved in important research with humpback whales and an impressive series of wins with the Cambridge University Baseball Squad.
caths.cam.ac.uk
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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phoca-sapiens.bsky.social
New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomics technologies are opening up the possib...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 23, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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whoi.edu

The first North Atlantic #rightwhale calves of the season have been spotted off Georgia by Clearwater Marine Aquarium! Cheers to whale moms Nauset + Minus One!

📲 Keep track of these #criticallyendangered newborns w/ @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/neaq-calves...

📸 NOAA permit 26919
December 12, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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danielmmoore.bsky.social
Could this be the longest recorded Humpback #Whale migration ever recorded? A male whale has been resighted off #Tanzania in 2019 after first being seen off #Colombia in 2013. Read the study here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#Cetaceans #ClimateChange #Ocean
December 11, 2024 at 9:29 AM
hslesser.bsky.social
Getting into the Christmas spirit with a visit to @oldvictheatre.bsky.social to see a Christmas Carol in the round. A brilliant performance by John Simm as Scrooge, and Dickens’ message of charity and consideration for others ringing as true today as when it was written.
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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billsutherland.bsky.social
Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 AM
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stubearhop.bsky.social
PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs
Contact me for more details (s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk). Please Share
@britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Noise pollution from Norway's oil and gas exploration is threatening whales -->

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s nonstop’: how noise pollution threatens the return of Norway’s whales
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are adding to the din underwater
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:46 PM
hslesser.bsky.social
Happy isotope day! I shall be celebrating through the joyous activity of weighing samples out. (Prepping for a sulphur run on some whale collagen samples and prey 🐋 🦐)
thefosterlab.bsky.social Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · Dec 4
Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊
black and white picture of Federick Soddy looking at the camera. A plaque on a wall in Glasgow celebrating Federick Soddy the text says: At a dinner party held in this house in 1913 Federick Soddy (1877-1956) introduced the concept of "isotopes". He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1921 for his work on radioactivity. Photo from X account of @is_glasgow
December 4, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam

Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
Map of the Falkland Islands, southwest Atlantic, showing key coastal sites in the north, and a red box in the northeast showing where the satellite tags were deployed on southern right whales in July 2022. Southern right whale swimming in coastal Falkland Islands waters. Image: Falklands Conservation
December 3, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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darrencroft.bsky.social
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
Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research
November 29, 2024 at 2:08 PM
hslesser.bsky.social
Awesome paper, and a great example of how to pivot when things don’t entirely go how you expect! 🐟
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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iainstaniland.bsky.social
The IWC has just published its Status of Whales webpages. This represents a huge amount of work by the amazing group of people in our SC. Simple graphics to show whether populations are moving towards extinction or recovery, how this status has changed over a 20-year period. iwc.int/resources/me...
A picture of a webpage detailing the current status of whale stocks. The image shows a dashboard with dials that indicate the relative abundance of the whale population and its trend over the last 20 years.
November 20, 2024 at 10:58 AM