Pleased to announce my PhD thesis is now available to download: doi.org/10.17630/sta/1116 🤗 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! Dr. Sutherland.

A short video featuring all nine members (including the two calves) of the Northern Isles Community '27s' #Orca pod together off the east Mainland of Shetland last week. 🖤🤍🧡 @Seasaver @whalesorg @mcsuk @SeaWatchersUK @NLFerries @Mammal_Society @NatureScot @kazcustard @saana_is @kasmunro @jcqsutherland @cathgem2000 @marcrileydj @SunnysidePri

It was a pleasure to attend the @mastscot #MASTSasm2024 in Glasgow last week! 🌊Thoroughly enjoyed presenting my PhD research on killer whale predation in the context of the harbour seal decline, catching up with many a familiar face & making new connections🐋

New @_SMRU_ paper 🚨🚨🚨!!! Quantifying and reducing the cost of tagging: combining computational fluid dynamics and diving experiments to reduce impact from animal-borne tags. doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.14…. 🧵 #biologging Photo credits: Sea Mammal Research Unit & Frederic Landes

The fastest way? 30 minutes waiting on a chat bot for it to be closed automatically. How do I actually speak to someone @SP_EnergyPeople @ScottishPower please?

🚨1st PhD paper out today!🐳 The importance of identifying spatial and temporal scales for species distribution and how to go about it: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70102 @Ecol_Evol Big thanks to the best aerial survey team, my supervisors and all the funders 🤓 @uccBEES @MaREIcentre

it's an incredibly sad day today for all of us here and across the marine mammal community worldwide as we say farewell to our beloved Simon Northridge who died suddenly on the 17th April. Simon leaves an amazing legacy of a career dedicated to the conservation of marine mammals

We've been having many conversations about the carbon footprint of travelling to conferences here at SMRU so a group of us decided to cycle to the @eimr2024 conference in Orkney to raise awareness of climate change and raise money for a good cause justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…

Very pleased to see our paper taking a comparative approach to understand the evolution of menopause in toothed whales published today in @Nature . Couple of slides below talking through the key results but all the details here: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Always useful to see pics of our tracked seals! The tag was put on this grey seal pup on the Isle of May in Nov 2023. Tags are glued to fur so fall off when the seal moults. They provide info on survival+movements, to inform environmentally sustainable management of our seas

📆SAVE THE DATE! #UKIRSC24 will be held on the 9th-12th January 2024 at the University of Liverpool 🐳🐬🦭 More info to follow shortly, keep an eye out! ukrsc.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/co…

The second youngest member of the 65s Northern Isles Community Orca pod born in the winter of 21/22 to pod matriarch '65' aka 'Razor'. Incredible to watch as mother and calf hunted just metres off the rocks at Kirkabister, Shetland. An unforgettable experience.

When Orcas do headstands... Incredible to witness the 65s Orca pod 'reverse fluking' as they hunted in South Nesting Bay, Shetland. We often see 'fluking', but this was on another level! @whalesorg @Seasaver @mcsuk @kasmunro @SaversSea @marcrileydj @SteelySeabirder @kazcustard

Just under two minutes of the 27's Pod, as they patrolled the coast of #Shetland @PromoteShetland @NLFerries @whalesorg @Seasaver @ORCA_web @TMMC @OnTheKWTrail @BBCScotland @BBCNorthEast @nature_scot @jcqsutherland

To say that we had pretty amazing views of Orcas here in Shetland today is an understatement! Two females from the 65s pod brought their calves in the shallows and started hunting beneath our cliff top vantage point! Here is matriarch '65' aka 'Razor' and her calf born 2021/22.