Andy Lowther

🇦🇺🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 beer drinking quantitative marine predator ecologist. Likes cold places and working with smart people. ONLY smart people.

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

@VeteranIrish @DrChrisParry c’mon…..ALWAYS pack a reserve chute….

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

@VeteranIrish nothing to worry about - its a contraction of budgy smuggler. You just get fat blokes in speedos running around your house (model not to scale)

[Instituto Milenio BASE @MilenioBASE]

Antártica📍🇦🇶 Para hablar de su labor en terreno monitoreando y tomando muestras en colonias de pingüino ❄️el Dr. Andrew Lowther del Instituto Polar Noruego presenta sobre su trabajo junto a la Dra. Fabiola León @MilenioBASE en isla Petermann

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

https://t.co/cEV4Thbcwl

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

There are days when you need #Antarctica to just step up to the plate.

New Years Eve on Petermann Island, it delivered. Nothing like fresh snow, whale blow and fresh coffee to start the last day of the year.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica just released incredible underwater footage — filmed by a penguin.

Using a GPS tracker and a tiny camera safely attached to its back, they captured how these subantarctic penguins dive, hunt krill, release air from under their feathers for hydrodynamic gliding, and flap their wings underwater like birds in flight.

The video is totally real, with no speed-up. It also shows how penguins preen mid-swim — a behavior vital for insulation and speed.

This research, in partnership with Norway’s Polar Institute, helps validate GPS data and supports efforts to protect Antarctic marine ecosystems. 🐧🌊
📹 Ukraine's National Antarctic Scientific Center

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

@NoContextBrits you missed the Independent Kingdom of Cornwall & Devon that might annoy some of «them» none-emmet or grockle types.

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Just say……something to ridiculous scientific journal spamming.

[Marianna Chimienti @MariannaKimient]

🚨 new paper🚨 led by Stefan Schoombie using deep-learning to quantify krill 🦐 consumption in chinstrap penguins 🐧 from video, acceleration and depth data. Invaluable data and insights for ecosystem-based management policies! https://t.co/0oWx3uZJSc

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

@LuisHuckstadt Yes.

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Happy New Year all - another 14 days till sunrise but…..welll…..worse ways to wait for it.

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Merry Xmas to those who celebrate it on the 24th (Scandies, Zud Afrikaans as well i think ?)

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Take #47……… #bordercollie xmas torture 🤣🤣

[Tommy Norin @T_Norin]

📢Job alert! I'm looking for a POSTDOC IN ANIMAL (FISH) ECOPHYSIOLOGY to join my research group at DTU Aqua (@DTUtweet) in Denmark. Focus is on understanding variation in how steeply metabolic rate changes (scales) with body size. PLEASE REPOST! More info: https://t.co/uegmgJHQJ0

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

No moose. No photoshop. Have a good weekend y’all 😎

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Me in bed this morning: «What the hell is that crunching sound just outside my window ??»

Source of crunching sound: «Dont mind us, just doing our thing»

Momma-moose and her mooselet making use of my back yard.

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

morning world…..

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

@ryan_reisinger @UoS_OES mate start easy with The Sun or The Daily Mail. Then the only way is up 🤭

[Andy Lowther @Seal_Botherer]

Morning from Tromsø. Balmy -21C in mid «Autumn», 27 degrees warmer in the water though :) Maverick found it a shock….

[Michele Thums @m_thumsy]

Hot off the press! We have just advertised a permanent full-time position on the AIMS Website: https://t.co/tfKavOBe0C if you have experience and passion in threatened marine megafauna ecology and want to work with a committed, dynamic and fun team then check it out!