Ecologist @seamammalresearch.bsky.social interested in competition/predation between #greyseals & #harbourseals | @OceanFrontier fellow @DalScience | She/her | Grey seal predation --> https://www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/12/smru-seal-pred.pdf
Izzy Langley
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Check out this excellent article written in Science magazine about our note on grey seal cannibalism at Sable Island!
Really looking forward to European Cetacean Society (ECS) in Dundee next week! If you're interested in seal diet and predation, Holly Armstrong and I will be presenting in the Advances in Dietary Studies workshop on Monday, and at both poster sessions later in the week. Come say hi 👋
Really excited to see this out and have contributed to a fascinating story in marine mammal science! Fab collab between SMRU and the Sable Island team, bringing together seal scientists from both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks to @oceanfrontier.bsky.social for my visiting fellowship!
Exciting opportunity to join a fab team (if we do say so ourselves!) investigating seal diet around Scotland. Fieldwork and lab work. Fixed term until 31st March 2028 - take a look for more info. Closing date is 18th May 2026 lnkd.in/eUZ7pGri
Studying overlap with fisheries can help highlight important areas for protection 🐧 Check out my little article! After spending so long learning to write for scientific audiences, it was an interesting experience learning how to write for the public but I highly recommend!
Paper alert 🚨🚨🚨
We’ve developed a remotely operated device for collecting blood samples and administering sedatives in freely moving seals 🦭
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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The NERC Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) 2025 report is now live on the SMRU website: www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2026/0....
Updated population trends analysis and advice to gov relating to management of UK seal populations 🦭📈📉
We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica.
More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk
Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv
Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!
@science.org news article coverage of work led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social: Scientists ID ‘corkscrew killer’ behind gruesome seal deaths www.science.org/content/arti...
Read the paper in @marinemammalogy.bsky.social journal here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New publication led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social on competition between grey & harbour seals in Scotland using 20+ yrs of diet data. Many thanks to all who collected samples, and collaborators from the Lighthouse Field Station and Institute of Marine Research
#OA Paper: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Izzy Langley
Bizarre injuries were not caused by sharks or boat propellers, but a more surprising culprit
📢Job Vacancy📢 SMRU are hiring a seal diet technician. Please share with potential candidates. Apply by 18/05/2026
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
For years, scientists blamed local sharks and boat propellers for bizarre seal deaths in eastern Canada. But new research reveals an even grimmer truth. The freshly weaned animals were brutally killed by their own kind: adult male gray seals.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uI3rNs
Competition theory suggests that interspecific prey competition can result in changes to the dietary niche, but obtaining timeseries of data from sympatric species experiencing temporal variation in ...
Another new paper led by SMRU's @izzylangley.bsky.social: First observations of grey seal cannibalism at Sable Island, inc. a comparison of carcass pathology to cases in Scotland. Collab between SMRU, DFO and @dalhousie.bsky.social with support from @oceanfrontier.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/mms....
