Now the #ECSconference2025 is over and all those marine mammal folks with binoculars have gone home, I'll reveal that I could see the venue from my shower...

#ECSconference2025 plugs the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise. Join us!

Joe Roman discussing the inherent value of marine stewardship at the #ECSconference2025

Enough said by Joe Roman #ECSconference2025 #WorstJobInScience

Last day of #ECSconference2025 begins with Keynote Joe Roman discussing Lifting Baselines: Marine Mammal Recovery, Ecological Function, and the Consequences of Conservation Success

Anna Selbmann brilliantly presents her work on behavioural responses of killer whales to pilot whale sounds in the style of an Asterix comic! Who says science can't be fun? #ECS2025 (p.s. oh yeah, you might want to know that killer whales avoid pilot whale sounds!)

Some young upstart called Hal Whitehead is discussing society (the concept of 'we-ness') in sperm whales at the #ECS2025

Cristina Brito discusses conservation and social aspects whaling and other human use and associations with marine mammals through the context of Blue Humanities at the #ECS2025.

The indomitable Mark Simmonds holds court for the Human Interaction and Climate Change session at the #ECS2025

Smaller odontogenic contribute to carbon fixing too - sometimes more than the larger whales in certain areas. #ECS2025

Pelagis whales fix approx. 20kt carbon per year. Clearly a sizable contribution to fending off #ClimateChange. #ECS2025

Arianna Azzellino presenting BLUESCAPE, a project to estimate cetacean-driven carbon dynamics in the Pelagos Sanctuary, among other things. #ECS2025

Luke Rendell discusses sperm whale and human cultures in his Keynote at the #ECS2025.

The #ECS2025 conference is up and running in the gorgeous Ponta Delgada, Azores! Looking forward to some good science and good discussions!