Leila Fouda
Ecologist. Interests: human impacts, species interactions, movement dynamics & animal behaviour. Postdoc @UNBSaintJohn working on North Atlantic right whale Conservation. She/Her/Hers
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- North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaOur recent study in the #MarineEcologyProgressSeries highlights how body size, condition, and human impacts shape the survival of right whales & why they are so vulnerable to prey limitation and disturbance 🐋 🔗 in thread #Conservation #WhaleResearch #RightWhales #OceanHealth #MarineScience 🌐🌏🧪🌱
- New Paper: Perceived and observed biases within scientific communities: a case study in movement ecology - "Who conducts biological research, where they do it and how results are disseminated vary among geographies and identities." doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧪🌍 #bias #research #science #academia
- "The myth of meritocracy...collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage... the hidden costs of ‘doing science’ are profound. These burdens disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender. An important read #STEM #Academia 🧪
- Behind many scientists is a lifetime of invisible, unsustainable costs. From unpaid internships to underpaid postdocs, the economic toll of a STEM career is staggering—and it's pushing talent out. My new perspective explores this crisis. #STEM #AcademicBlueSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaNOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
- Reposted by Leila FoudaNew paper! Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should. This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠 academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
- Effect of oceanic conditions on humpback whale behaviour modelled. During migration whales engage in feeding & rely on environmental cues & memory of conditions to start migration to arrive at krill bloom. Unclear if whales will succeed tracking prey in changing climate doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🦑🐋🧪🌍
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- Movie Day in class today aka Timbits & Tissues. We aired Last Of The Right Whales as part of the conservation conversation. Sharing work done across the North Atlantic, by our lab & our many brilliant colleagues trying to save the North Atlantic right whale. #Whales #Conservation #NARW #Teaching 🐋 🌎
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- Reposted by Leila Foudaborn too late to get a two Western blot Nature paper, born too early to be a science TikTokker, born just in time to start a postdoc during a global pandemic and look for faculty positions during a historic hiring freeze
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaWe ( @drcatmac.bsky.social and I) are writing a marine conservation science and policy textbook! We'd love to include case studies of ocean conservation success stories, and we welcome submissions of ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please be clear and detailed! 🧪🦑🌎🐟
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaWe recap the whole study here: whalescientists.com/the-great-wh...
- The great whale conveyor belt of pee, skin, dead bodies & poop!! Whales transport ~4,000 tons of nitrogen yearly to low-nutrient coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics. Species recovery might help to restore nutrient movement by whales in global oceans! doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🦑 🐋 🧪 🌍
- So proud of @eubalaenagina.bsky.social and her next exciting steps at The Marine Mammal Center in California! I am really glad we got to overlap at UNB and I will be following along as you do more brilliant science! May we all continue to fight as hard as Gina does for the world and people around us
- Wow! A23a the world’s largest and oldest iceberg has come to a stop near South Georgia! It brings with is a wealth of nutrients that could lead to "an explosion of life in the ocean" around it. Read more below. 🦑, 🧪, 🌍 bbc.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaToday, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaFor first post on @bsky.app seems fitting to share our blue sky and #marine flyways 🌊 paper out yesterday. A global collaboration of researchers led by @birdlifemarine.bsky.social sharing #tracking data to describe common #seabird #migration routes over the #ocean.
- 🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5
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- ~94% of species of threatened receive no support! 82.9% of funding assigned to vertebrates though amphibians receiving less than 2.8% of that. Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critical but less 'trendy' species deprived 🧪 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Looking forward to reading this!
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- This is so important! Check out the link @eubalaenagina.bsky.social shared and contact your local representative! The #MarineMammal Protection Act made a huge difference to the conservation of marine mammals in the US. 🐋🦑🌍 us.whales.org/policy/save-...
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- These are stunning and make me want to try out some #marinemammal art!!
- Finished my #SouthGeorgia #whale drawing. Using ink dots to draw the species of whale we saw last week: Blue, Humpback and Southern Right whale! #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- So many early career scientist (like myself) are going to be impacted! It is disheartening and terrifying - so much talent and important research will be lost.
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- Very cool research @trevorabranch.bsky.social on #BlueWhale calves! Suggesting missing calves can be explained by mothers calving when leaving summer feeding grounds & wean on return. Fieldwork in potential calving areas may enlighten us further fish.uw.edu/2025/02/unra... 🗞️ doi.org/10.3354/esr01383
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- Cleaner rivers mean dolphins also want to visit The City That Never Sleeps and not just leave the adventures to the Humpbacks - who visited last November! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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- Very cool research out of @exetermarine.bsky.social! "Individual plasticity in response to rising sea temperatures contributes to an advancement in green turtle nesting phenology" i.e. the turtles are nesting earlier due in part to rising SST 🧪🐢🌍 #AcademicSky #MarineBiology doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
- Don't look now! They are only following you as they want your snacks and your snazzy outfit 👀! #Research #STEM #MarineBiology #Fish www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- This little grey seal guy found not far from where I use to live! Glad to see the he is now safe! Grey and harbor seals are common in Long Island Sound having shown a dramatic recovery along the coast of New England over the last 20 years!
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- Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! I work with some amazing #WomenInStem including @eubalaenagina.bsky.social, @jilliancarter.bsky.social, @samandscience.bsky.social, Andréa Mesquita, Kate Indeck, Halyna Klymentieva, Kerkeslin MacDonald, & Keely Mueller-Classen!
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- What a joy to share my new found knowledge of Sirenian biology & conservation with the students! I have a new found love of manatees (they are SO COOL) & I hope inspired the students to be intrigued too! Thank you @eubalaenagina.bsky.social for being there to help answer the very interesting Q's
- Critical to be aware where we're being misled & what is real “There are no known links between large whale deaths and ongoing offshore wind activities”. Climate crisis & subsequently warming waters impact food sources to force whales to new (unprotected) areas www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2...
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- Huge thank you to @eubalaenagina.bsky.social for giving me the Sirenia 101 crash course this morning! Her extensive knowledge and fun facts had me in awe - I hope I can inspire the students as much next week when I teach them! #Teaching #Learning #MarineMammals #Conservation #Inspiring
- This week I taught my first full lectures to an UG class I am co-teaching. It was thrilling & a little nerve racking to be the ‘Professor’! Ultimately I loved it & I think the students did too! Now if I never have to try to pronouce Otariidae, Odobenidae, or Phocidae again that would be great (jk!).
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- Reposted by Leila FoudaCongrats @samandscience.bsky.social & @liam-brennan.bsky.social from the Davies Lab for delivering fantastic #MSc proposals to the UNB #Biology department today! You did swimmingly! 🐋🦈🦐🌊
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- Put your hand up if you have had your first meeting end with "Happy Holiday folks, see you in the New Year" and feel personally attacked by the rapid pace we are attaining towards the end of 2025 🙋🏻♀️! #December #NotReadyFor2025 #Eeek #Academia
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- Great new paper out on Southern Right #Whale movement and habitat use! Spy the really cool long-range movements captured by satellite tags.
- The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3 www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
- I just upgraded to Zotero 7, and WOW, @zotero.bsky.social, this redesign is phenomenal! It looks so modern and streamlined. The smart reference popup and new annotation types are brilliant! #Citations #CitationSoftware #Zotero #Academia
- Reposted by Leila FoudaBLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
