BREAKING: Duke Provost Sally Kornbluth has been named the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s 18th president and will assume the role in January, according to a release from Duke President Vincent Price. Story to come.

breaking news: pro-whaling nations at #IWC68 refuse to join sessions, breaking quorum required for any decision-making. This is all because they fear losing a vote on establishing a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary (where none of them hunt or want to hunt whales)

Happy to share our new stable isotope paper: “Sex and size matter: foraging ecology of offshore harbour porpoises in waters around Greenland” link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The Division of Marine Science and Conservation invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant-Professor level in Coastal/Marine Climate Change. Learn more: duke.is/c3h4b

Undergraduates from the Duke Bass Connections at Duke Learning From Whales team surveyed dolphins this week. Biopsies they obtained will inform projects examining population genetics and impacts of #microplastics .

#jobalert : Faculty Cluster Hire in the Science and Human Dimensions of Coastal and Marine Systems. VIMS invites applicants from a variety of disciplines for full-time, tenure-eligible faculty positions at the assistant professor level. Learn more & apply:
jobs.wm.edu/postings/50713

Survey design might be the most important yet most often ignored component of a distance sampling survey. No analysis can salvage a poorly designed survey. Join this Distance Sampling workshop to learn about it.

WARNING: These photos may be tough to see, but they provide remarkable documentation of a recent Bigg's killer whale predation event on a minke whale that occurred in the Salish Sea on Friday.

📷: Naturalist April Ryan, SJI Whale Watch

#biggskillerwhales #minkewhale #pwwa

We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Marine Animal Physiology at Scripps-UC San Diego!!! Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ask here or DM if you have any questions apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03407

#Mexico : Navy sinks 193 concrete blocks in the Gulf of California to combat gillnet #fishing in a bid to protect the last eight #vaquita #porpoises

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians here in the wilds of eastern NC... Kerry Irish David W Johnston

The Marine Affairs Dept at the University of Rhode Island is hiring an Assistant Professor of Fisheries Management and Policy! We're interested in applicants from a range of disciplines. I hope my ocean-focused followers will kindly RT jobs.uri.edu/postings/10755

An army of gps-integrated DTAGs (developed by Mark Johnson Aarhus Universitet) ready to go on a clan of spotted hyenas to investigate the role of communication in coordination and collective action. Mara Hyena Project Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin Eli Strauss Andrew Gersick and many others

Short video about my project! We’re trying to assess what triggered the extirpation of the grey whale from the North Atlantic. Was it early whaling activities? A natural phenomenon? This information will hopefully aid conservation efforts if/when the grey whale returns!