Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research

go.nature.com/4hriohE

Python course complete ✅
def gratitude(): return "@passdan.bsky.social" 🙌

Reporting from #IBAC2025: where marine mammal fan art meets bioacoustics — all on one very Pinterest-board-worthy poster 🐬 🎙️ 🐋

Morning cold plunges keeping me afloat through this marathon week 🌊

We have vastly underestimated the sophistication and capacity of plants.

How little we understand of the #biodiversity that we are fast trashing
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shoutout to the visuals for making the science pop! The design really pulled everything together nicely ✨

Huge congrats to Laela and the Sarasota Dolphin Research team for their win! Fascinating work, and I’m honoured to be using their dolphin whistle data for my PhD🐬🧪

Arctic samples, global impact ❄️🌍
And colleagues as cool as the area they study 🧊

Congratulations to the winners of Nature’s 2025 #ScientistAtWork photo competition. The overall winner is a photo of biologist Audun Rikardsen, taken by his PhD student Emma Vogel, scanning the waters for whales near fishing trawlers in the fjords of northern Norway. 🧵 #SciArt #Academicsky 🧪

Shoutout to all PhD students out there — “Finish on Time” by Åsa Burman is the doctoral version of a survival guide!
(spoiler alert: by shifting the focus to how we work)

Anyone down to start a book club to chat about each chapter — a bit of collective academic therapy?

🎙️ 🐋 🎧 Eavesdropping on whale showdowns -- Sperm whales are stressed, orcas are mean, and the section @marinemammalsau.bsky.social is all ears for the juicy underwater drama ✨💅🏼
Great #ECSconference2025 preview talk and fantastic visualisation by @emilytgriffiths.com presenting Mel Cosentino’s work!

This week, our researchers are preparing for fieldwork in Sarasota Bay, Florida, to collect acoustic data on bottlenose dolphins 🐬. While prepping the equipment, students from our Acoustic Ecology Lab took part in DTAGs tracking training. They were happy to see how their data is collected! 🔊🌊

My first PhD birthday in DK yesterday: a Danish tradition here @marinemammalsau.bsky.social with a flag at my office door, making my workload all festive 🇩🇰 🎊

The Marine Mammal Research Group @au.dk is finally making waves online! 🌊 Thrilled to be part of this fantastic team 🐋🐬🦭

Excited to have contributed to this study where we tracked 29 sperm whales in the North Atlantic! 🐳

Some traveled nearly 8000km and dove deeper then 1000m! 🛰️🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is one of my favorite photos taken during this fieldwork of a 🐳 diving under the midnight sun 🌞

I've started a marine mammal reseachers starter pack. It focuses on researchers and labs studying marine mammals. Feel free to ask to be added :) go.bsky.app/MWiR9uS