That’s a wrap for #UKIRSC26! Thank you to everyone who came to Plymouth for our 20th Annual UKIRSC Conference! It was a pleasure meeting everyone and hearing all of the amazing presentations! 🦭🐬🐋
January 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
That’s a wrap for #UKIRSC26! Thank you to everyone who came to Plymouth for our 20th Annual UKIRSC Conference! It was a pleasure meeting everyone and hearing all of the amazing presentations! 🦭🐬🐋
And shoutout to our UKIRSC committee for organising this year’s conference #UKIRSC26 🙌
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January 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
And shoutout to our UKIRSC committee for organising this year’s conference #UKIRSC26 🙌
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🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 21st UKIRSC Conference will take place 12 - 15th Jan 2027 at the University of St Andrews. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience
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September 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 21st UKIRSC Conference will take place 12 - 15th Jan 2027 at the University of St Andrews. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience
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@seamammalresearch.bsky.social
📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 20th UKIRSC Conference will take place 13 - 16th Jan 2026 at the University of Plymouth. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details coming soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📣 SAVE THE DATE! 📣 The 20th UKIRSC Conference will take place 13 - 16th Jan 2026 at the University of Plymouth. A free event for students in marine mammal science to share research, network, and be inspired. More details coming soon! #UKIRSC #MarineMammals #StudentScience @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
Had a great time helping to host the UKIRSC 2026 conference this week 🐋🦭🐬 and really enjoyed presenting a poster of the first chapter of my PhD #UKIRSC26 ✨
January 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Had a great time helping to host the UKIRSC 2026 conference this week 🐋🦭🐬 and really enjoyed presenting a poster of the first chapter of my PhD #UKIRSC26 ✨
‼️ Registration for UKIRSC 2027 is OPEN!
🐬 Open to all students & recent graduates studying marine mammals!
✨ The conference is free & offers some travel grants within the UK
Link in comments ⬇️
🐬 Open to all students & recent graduates studying marine mammals!
✨ The conference is free & offers some travel grants within the UK
Link in comments ⬇️
October 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
‼️ Registration for UKIRSC 2027 is OPEN!
🐬 Open to all students & recent graduates studying marine mammals!
✨ The conference is free & offers some travel grants within the UK
Link in comments ⬇️
🐬 Open to all students & recent graduates studying marine mammals!
✨ The conference is free & offers some travel grants within the UK
Link in comments ⬇️
Some of the committee are at #ECSconference2025 - if you spot us out and about come and say hi!
May 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Some of the committee are at #ECSconference2025 - if you spot us out and about come and say hi!
Well done to Jeni Sidwell from my group, who was awarded runner up prize for best long talk at the UKIRSC marine mammal student conference, presenting her PhD work about the transcriptomics of lactation in grey seals 🌍🧪🦭🧬🖥️
Next, Jeni Sidwell discusses how lactating seals move large amounts of energy in the form of high fat milk.
January 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Well done to Jeni Sidwell from my group, who was awarded runner up prize for best long talk at the UKIRSC marine mammal student conference, presenting her PhD work about the transcriptomics of lactation in grey seals 🌍🧪🦭🧬🖥️
Register here -> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UKIRSC 2027 Abstract Submission & Registration
Abstract submission and registration form for the 21st annual UK & Ireland Regional Student Chapter (UKIRSC) conference taking place in St Andrews between the 12th – 15th January 2027.
There will be ...
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October 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Register here -> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
To kick things off we have plenary speaker Nicola Quick from the University of Plymouth giving a talk on her career and fascinating beaked whale research! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social #ukirsc26 #marinemammals
January 14, 2026 at 9:44 AM
To kick things off we have plenary speaker Nicola Quick from the University of Plymouth giving a talk on her career and fascinating beaked whale research! @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social #ukirsc26 #marinemammals
Had a great time organising and presenting at the 20th Annual UKIRSC Conference hosted at the University of Plymouth #UKIRSC26! Thank you to our organising committee and everyone that attended the conference! 🦭
January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Had a great time organising and presenting at the 20th Annual UKIRSC Conference hosted at the University of Plymouth #UKIRSC26! Thank you to our organising committee and everyone that attended the conference! 🦭
Not one but TWO new papers from ex-UKIRSC committee member Josh! Ok so they’re not technically mammals… but useful insights for top predator foraging 🐧 🐟
Just two weeks after my first chapter was published, the second has come out too! Amazing month for PhD!
Thanks again to my funders and all my amazing supervisors and co-authors, check out the paper on the link below:
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
Thanks again to my funders and all my amazing supervisors and co-authors, check out the paper on the link below:
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
July 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Not one but TWO new papers from ex-UKIRSC committee member Josh! Ok so they’re not technically mammals… but useful insights for top predator foraging 🐧 🐟
UKIRSC wouldn’t be able to exist without our generous sponsors who provide prizes or funding for the conference, so we thought we would shout some out! 🧵 🐬
June 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
UKIRSC wouldn’t be able to exist without our generous sponsors who provide prizes or funding for the conference, so we thought we would shout some out! 🧵 🐬
I’ve now attended two UKIRSC conferences which I really enjoyed, and am looking forward to helping run the conference and connecting with more UK marine mammal students!
April 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’ve now attended two UKIRSC conferences which I really enjoyed, and am looking forward to helping run the conference and connecting with more UK marine mammal students!
Having attended some fantastic UKIRSC student conference in the past year, I am super excited to be joining the committee this year and meeting more of this amazing community of students!
April 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Having attended some fantastic UKIRSC student conference in the past year, I am super excited to be joining the committee this year and meeting more of this amazing community of students!
Great to present again at UKIRSC! This was the first conference I went to in the first year of my PhD, and was a great experience to be on committee for the past two years. Would recommend to any ECR working with marine mammals in the UK!
‘Humpback to the future’! @oshuwilson.bsky.social projects how Southern Ocean humpback whale distributions might shift southward by the end of the century.🐋 #UKIRSC26
January 16, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Great to present again at UKIRSC! This was the first conference I went to in the first year of my PhD, and was a great experience to be on committee for the past two years. Would recommend to any ECR working with marine mammals in the UK!
🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
We have not one but two exciting pieces of seal research recently published by George Sato and Angela Amlin, both St Andrews PhD Students that recently presented at UKIRSC conferences!
Check out more below 👇
We have not one but two exciting pieces of seal research recently published by George Sato and Angela Amlin, both St Andrews PhD Students that recently presented at UKIRSC conferences!
Check out more below 👇
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May 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
We have not one but two exciting pieces of seal research recently published by George Sato and Angela Amlin, both St Andrews PhD Students that recently presented at UKIRSC conferences!
Check out more below 👇
We have not one but two exciting pieces of seal research recently published by George Sato and Angela Amlin, both St Andrews PhD Students that recently presented at UKIRSC conferences!
Check out more below 👇
Looking forward to organising a second UKIRSC conference for all postgrad marine mammal folks - keep an eye on the page for updates coming soon!
🌊 Introducing Our Committee for #UKIRSC2026 🐋
Our final returning committee member is Josh!
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Our final returning committee member is Josh!
@oshuwilson.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Looking forward to organising a second UKIRSC conference for all postgrad marine mammal folks - keep an eye on the page for updates coming soon!
I am excited to be part of the UKIRSC committee and very much looking forward to meeting this year’s community and hearing all about your exciting projects!
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I am excited to be part of the UKIRSC committee and very much looking forward to meeting this year’s community and hearing all about your exciting projects!
Thank you so much to prstats.bsky.social who provided Jeni with her prize for best long talk at UKIRSC 2025, a statistics course that will definitely be put to good use in her PhD! 📈
June 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thank you so much to prstats.bsky.social who provided Jeni with her prize for best long talk at UKIRSC 2025, a statistics course that will definitely be put to good use in her PhD! 📈