Saana Isojunno
@saana-i.bsky.social
Researcher at CREEM, University of St Andrews. Animal behaviour | conservation | marine ecology | risk assessment | predator-prey #ECOPredS http://www.ecopreds.com
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Saana Isojunno
@saana-i.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Hello world! Here on Bluesky looking to learn and share interesting wildlife science and conservation stories, and make connections. I will more than likely have a marine bias to my feed, and may occasionally slip and repost about my other interests like surfing and horses. Science bio 🧵👇 #FirstPost
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New paper out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3....
The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3....
The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New paper out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3....
The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3....
The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.
Recording now available for anyone who missed it :) Check out also the webinar outline for the various papers and resources that we sign-posted during the presentation dosits.org/decision-mak...
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Recording now available for anyone who missed it :) Check out also the webinar outline for the various papers and resources that we sign-posted during the presentation dosits.org/decision-mak...
Looking forward to discussing risk assessment frameworks with Brandon Southall today (4pm UK time, 12 noon eastern) as part of the DOSITS (Discovery of Sound in the Sea) webinar series. More info & registration: dosits.org/decision-mak...
October 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Looking forward to discussing risk assessment frameworks with Brandon Southall today (4pm UK time, 12 noon eastern) as part of the DOSITS (Discovery of Sound in the Sea) webinar series. More info & registration: dosits.org/decision-mak...
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This could be useful. ECODATA an #OpenSource tool to visualize and analyze #AnimalTracking data with custom geospatial layers to create powerful animations 🌍
#Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ECODATA: A toolbox to efficiently explore and communicate animal movements alongside environmental and anthropogenic context using geospatial big data
Integrating complex geospatial data into research and applications for wildlife ecology remains a challenge. For example, animations of wildlife tracking data can be useful for developing hypothes...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This could be useful. ECODATA an #OpenSource tool to visualize and analyze #AnimalTracking data with custom geospatial layers to create powerful animations 🌍
#Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Wildlife #Ecology #GeospatialData #Conservation
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🐋 New PhD opportunity: Fully-funded MASTS PhD with SMASS investigating cetacean energetics & thermogenesis - a critical knowledge gap in marine mammal physiology.
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
June 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🐋 New PhD opportunity: Fully-funded MASTS PhD with SMASS investigating cetacean energetics & thermogenesis - a critical knowledge gap in marine mammal physiology.
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
Excellent opportunity to advance our mechanistic understanding of thermoregulatory strategies in marine megafauna tinyurl.com/2s3udwd3
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🚨Our cross-journal special feature with @animalecology.bsky.social, "Energy trade-offs under changing environments," is open to proposals until the 15th of June!
💡This feature aims to understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change
👉Find out more: buff.ly/4KbG6ZC
🧪🌍
💡This feature aims to understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change
👉Find out more: buff.ly/4KbG6ZC
🧪🌍
May 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨Our cross-journal special feature with @animalecology.bsky.social, "Energy trade-offs under changing environments," is open to proposals until the 15th of June!
💡This feature aims to understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change
👉Find out more: buff.ly/4KbG6ZC
🧪🌍
💡This feature aims to understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change
👉Find out more: buff.ly/4KbG6ZC
🧪🌍
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🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
March 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🔊 Paper alert! 🐬🎧
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Noise of high-speed vessels 🚤 impairs the #biosonar ability of #harbourporpoises 🐬 - making it more difficult for them to
🤯 sense surroundings,
🧭 navigate and
🐟 hunt prey
within several hundred meters.
🥳Huge contribution to understanding masking effects!
🌐 doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
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Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
March 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ever wondered why seals don't drown? New groundbreaking research from @smruecophys.bsky.social led by @chrismcknight.bsky.social published in @science.org reveals that, unlike other mammals, seals can sense blood oxygen levels.
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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BirdTrack data shows that the big arrival of Chiffchaff in the last week is around two weeks earlier than the long term average. Many summer migrants to the UK are now arriving earlier as a response to climate change
www.bto.org/our-science/...
www.bto.org/our-science/...
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
BirdTrack data shows that the big arrival of Chiffchaff in the last week is around two weeks earlier than the long term average. Many summer migrants to the UK are now arriving earlier as a response to climate change
www.bto.org/our-science/...
www.bto.org/our-science/...
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📢 Calling all marine & offshore energy experts!
The 7th ScotMER Symposium covers:
🐋 Marine Mammals
🦅 Seabirds
🎣 Fisheries
🦀 Benthic Ecology
🌊ECOWind & more!
Join us Feb 25-28 (online & in Stirling on Feb 26). 🔗 Register for free now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme...
#ScotMER
The 7th ScotMER Symposium covers:
🐋 Marine Mammals
🦅 Seabirds
🎣 Fisheries
🦀 Benthic Ecology
🌊ECOWind & more!
Join us Feb 25-28 (online & in Stirling on Feb 26). 🔗 Register for free now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme...
#ScotMER
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📢 Calling all marine & offshore energy experts!
The 7th ScotMER Symposium covers:
🐋 Marine Mammals
🦅 Seabirds
🎣 Fisheries
🦀 Benthic Ecology
🌊ECOWind & more!
Join us Feb 25-28 (online & in Stirling on Feb 26). 🔗 Register for free now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme...
#ScotMER
The 7th ScotMER Symposium covers:
🐋 Marine Mammals
🦅 Seabirds
🎣 Fisheries
🦀 Benthic Ecology
🌊ECOWind & more!
Join us Feb 25-28 (online & in Stirling on Feb 26). 🔗 Register for free now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/7th-scotme...
#ScotMER
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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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📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan.
Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
January 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📢 Webinar alert! I'll be presenting my PhD research as part of the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust Winter Webinar series on Weds 22th Jan.
Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
Sign up here on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/killer-wha...
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Great to see coverage of the important work by Finnish colleagues on Saimaa seal conservation. Direct hands on effort by small dedicated teams can have real conservation impact. 🧪🌍🦭🦑
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Like a giant bird box’: the volunteers building huge snowdrifts for Finland’s pregnant seals
As warmer winters melt the snow drifts that endangered Saimaa ringed seals raise their young in, humans are giving them a helping hand
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Great to see coverage of the important work by Finnish colleagues on Saimaa seal conservation. Direct hands on effort by small dedicated teams can have real conservation impact. 🧪🌍🦭🦑
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🌊 Exciting #PhD opportunity using autonomous platforms, sensors & sensing. Our studentship explores #ocean physics & key ecosystem drivers in light of floating offshore #wind in the #CelticSea using #AUVs & #satellite remote sensing. Join me, Peter Miller & @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social 🧬🛰️🤖
November 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
🌊 Exciting #PhD opportunity using autonomous platforms, sensors & sensing. Our studentship explores #ocean physics & key ecosystem drivers in light of floating offshore #wind in the #CelticSea using #AUVs & #satellite remote sensing. Join me, Peter Miller & @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social 🧬🛰️🤖
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PhDone! 🎓 Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to #ECOPredS and helped this research come to fruition, it's been a whale of a journey 🐋 Stay tuned for subsequent publications! In the meantime, thesis available here: research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 AM
PhDone! 🎓 Huge thank you to everyone who contributed to #ECOPredS and helped this research come to fruition, it's been a whale of a journey 🐋 Stay tuned for subsequent publications! In the meantime, thesis available here: research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023...
Looking forward to this workshop in #Shetland next week - open to all interested! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/underwater...
November 29, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Looking forward to this workshop in #Shetland next week - open to all interested! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/underwater...
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When eight became nine...NEW #ORCA CALF!
Over the moon to watch and film the new addition to the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod off Lunna, #Shetland today alongside first-time mum '152'. 🖤🤍
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK
Over the moon to watch and film the new addition to the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod off Lunna, #Shetland today alongside first-time mum '152'. 🖤🤍
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK
November 28, 2024 at 7:12 PM
When eight became nine...NEW #ORCA CALF!
Over the moon to watch and film the new addition to the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod off Lunna, #Shetland today alongside first-time mum '152'. 🖤🤍
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK
Over the moon to watch and film the new addition to the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod off Lunna, #Shetland today alongside first-time mum '152'. 🖤🤍
#MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK
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Hi everyone! Good to see lots of familiar faces here.
For everyone else:
Research profile: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
PhD abstract: doi.org/10.17630/sta...
If that seems like your kind of thing, consider giving me a follow
For everyone else:
Research profile: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
PhD abstract: doi.org/10.17630/sta...
If that seems like your kind of thing, consider giving me a follow
The role of lipid-store body condition in the behaviour and conservation of sperm whales
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Hi everyone! Good to see lots of familiar faces here.
For everyone else:
Research profile: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
PhD abstract: doi.org/10.17630/sta...
If that seems like your kind of thing, consider giving me a follow
For everyone else:
Research profile: research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/a...
PhD abstract: doi.org/10.17630/sta...
If that seems like your kind of thing, consider giving me a follow
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Hello Bluesky!👋 I'm Julia, a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews investigating predator-prey interactions of killer whales and seals in Scotland #ECOPredS. Follow for all things behavioural, big, and blubbery 🐳🤍🖤
November 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Hello Bluesky!👋 I'm Julia, a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews investigating predator-prey interactions of killer whales and seals in Scotland #ECOPredS. Follow for all things behavioural, big, and blubbery 🐳🤍🖤
Hello world! Here on Bluesky looking to learn and share interesting wildlife science and conservation stories, and make connections. I will more than likely have a marine bias to my feed, and may occasionally slip and repost about my other interests like surfing and horses. Science bio 🧵👇 #FirstPost
November 27, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Hello world! Here on Bluesky looking to learn and share interesting wildlife science and conservation stories, and make connections. I will more than likely have a marine bias to my feed, and may occasionally slip and repost about my other interests like surfing and horses. Science bio 🧵👇 #FirstPost
Reposted by Saana Isojunno
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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First post here.
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals
Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes and...
www.science.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:43 AM
First post here.
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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What can turtles tell us about noise in the ocean? In our new paper in Biological Conservation, leatherback 🐢 collect underwater sound data to map natural and human noise in the soundscape facing critical nesting beaches 🚢🔊
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW...
@exetermarine.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW...
@exetermarine.bsky.social
November 6, 2024 at 10:40 AM
What can turtles tell us about noise in the ocean? In our new paper in Biological Conservation, leatherback 🐢 collect underwater sound data to map natural and human noise in the soundscape facing critical nesting beaches 🚢🔊
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW...
@exetermarine.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k2~j1R~eW...
@exetermarine.bsky.social