Can you measure the length of toothed whales in the wild? Yes you can! You can even calculate the body volume to represent the body condition/health of individuals in a population. How? See our new article Arranz, Christiansen et al. 2022 doi.org/10.3390/su1422… MDPI

Where is everyone going after Twitter?

À l'aube de la #COP15, le Guardian fait un portrait non complaisant du ministre canadien de l'Environnement, Steven Guilbeaut. bit.ly/3B72lS6

It is. The whale in the middle is H626 BBR. Also known as Gaspar.

More good news! MyFWC have spotted North Atlantic right whale mom & calf pair #2! Archipelago (NARW no. 3370) was seen Dec. 8, off Little St. Simons Island, Georgia, with her 3rd known calf. 📷 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556-01

We are looking for a #PhD researcher to join the team at CREEM_cake University of St Andrews working on the #Wildlife & #OffshoreWind (WOW) collab project led by Duke Marine Lab. Fully funded, closing 6th February 👇

Fewer than 350 North Atlantic #rightwhales remain and ~70 of them are reproductive females. With their 2023 calving season having begun, researchers are closely monitoring to see if their offspring can yield an improvement in their populations. fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endan…

#jobs Postdoc UW SAFS Importance of peripheral populations for climate adaptation and productivity of Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod. Salary: $65,508/yr plus benefits. apply.interfolio.com/121130

The Campobello Whale Rescue Team was doing some cool things with our colleagues this past week 😎🐳 #whalerescue

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27 avril. Aujourd’hui, ça fait précisément 20 ans que je travaille au Le Devoir, d’abord embauché comme commis à la rédaction encore aux études, puis comme journaliste vigile, puis en Économie pendant 4 ans, puis en Environnement depuis 2012. Je dirais presque que ça passe vite!

ON THE PROBLEM WITH RON DESANTIS

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Simple! Do not publish in their journals anymore! theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

Moving to the summer office...

📢🐋🧬I’m looking for a job. I have a #PhD in #eDNA and #marinemammals, fluent in the related #field/ #laboratory workflow and #metabarcoding pipelines. Based in Denmark so I’m opened to #local, #remote/#hybrid options and will consider relocating if the position fits. RT pls :)

Summary of right whale #NARW research and tagging effort

Only 0.87% of all whale pregnancies involve twin fetuses, but very few (< 1 in 500) remain viable as birth approaches... and there are zero known instances of twins being born and surviving. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

What plan?

Nouveau : Le Devoir a appris qu'Ottawa et Québec veulent créer un nouveau parc marin dans le Saint-Laurent, entre l'île d'Anticosti et la Côte-Nord. ledevoir.com/environnement/… Steven Guilbeault Benoit Charette Nature Québec SNAP Québec GREMM MICScanada MPO GCC Québec Lyne Morissette