Natasha Phillips

Marine biologist, Dr of sunfishes, filmmaker, optimist, beach comber. Documentary director @Swimming_head & scientific advisor @BaskingIrish 🐡🐟🐠

[Natasha Phillips @sunfishresearch]

Delighted to share my new #sunfish paper🥳'The Ocean Sunfishes (family Molidea): Recommendations from the IUCN Molidae Review Panel' published in @PolicyMarine with our fab IUCN team🙌
Available free for 50 days, please share! https://t.co/lE9WAuG57s #365DaysWild #TeamFish #Mola

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

It’s #SharkWeek! Earlier this year we had a big encounter while filming with @Irishwildlife! Filmed by pole cam following @BaskingIrish Code of Conduct. Huge thanks to @GraceMarie_Carr & skipper Dave Edwards! #SciComm #Conservation #Explore

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

To celebrate our local sharks I’m chatting with @bbcradioulster at 12.30 today! All about sharks, filming & the International Basking Shark Conference! Held by our lovely group @BaskingIrish in August, check out the IBSG website or we will be filming highlights to share!

[Fair Seas @FairSeasIreland]

You're invited 🥰🌊🌱

We're hosting a film screening, a community workshop & a field trip to a #seagrass bed with @coastwatch_ire

Where: Kilmore Quay, Co. #Wexford
When: Friday 16 May 2025

Registration: https://t.co/QQfW4hieBn

#FairSeas
#BiodiversityWeek2025

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

Incredible new research on whale song! We’re delighted to share Cathy’s PhD research in a new short video 🐳🎶🎥

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

And it’s a wrap!🎬 We’ve been filming a new doc on bottom trawling with @GraceMarie_Carr from @Irishwildlife under the blazing Irish sun these last two weeks! So many incredible stories & local insights, coming soon…

[Skokholm Island @SkokholmIsland]

The Crab Bay Puffin Hide is pretty special this year. We have three pairs currently incubating behind the one-way glass, offering magical views of egg turning, nest tidying, incubation changeovers and sleeping Puffins.

[MA Sharks 🦈 @MA_Sharks]

This is the kind of morning commute I don’t mind. Basking shark traffic jam!

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

Delighted our film Bone Shark Island is an award ✨WINNER✨ We won the environmental category at Houston Underwater Film Festival!

Thanks to Kenix & @SHnationaltrust for their research, @m_fletcher8 for gorgeous extra footage & @TheFSBI for their generous support of this film.

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

The Irish coastline is shaped by the wild waves of the Celtic Sea🌊 Check out our NEW award-winning short film 'Fair Seas: The Celtic Sea' with @FairSeasIreland! Trailer https://t.co/wdEfzbAPD3 & screening across Ireland 🎣🐳🤿

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

A spectacular 'blizzard' of King and Common Eiders taking flight over the Barents Sea off the Varanger peninsula, Arctic Norway. An incredible sight!

[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @SCAR_Tweets]

The most detailed map yet of Antarctica’s hidden landscape has been unveiled.

Bedmap3 reveals towering mountains, deep canyons & the thickest ice ever recorded - providing a vital tool to study how the continent may respond to climate change.
https://t.co/LoZsbuEcT7

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

Excited to share our short film Bone Shark Island, made with @SHnationaltrust, has been selected for ✨Houston Underwater Film Festival✨ & is now showing on Sure TV!📺 Thanks to Kenix, Neil & @m_fletcher8, filming generously funded by @TheFSBI

[Swimming Head Productions @swimming_head]

What a wonderful start to the year! St Helena you’ve been incredible. Great to be filming again with @SHnationaltrust and @sthelenatourism 🌅

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

Still buzzing from our epic encounter with #Orcas this week. Here's bull '34' from the Northern Isles Community '27s' pod ploughing through Atlantic swells off the west Mainland of Shetland on Friday. 🖤🤍

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

ORCAS...

The icing on the cake of what has been an incredible week. This afternoon we followed the '64s' Orcas from land for a couple of hours as they hunted in Bressay Sound, Shetland. Amazing views with belly rolls, spy hops and tail lobs. 🖤🤍

[Hugh Harrop Wildlife @HughHarrop]

Wonderful to film these Harbour Porpoise (known here in Shetland as 'Neesicks') in glass-calm conditions off the east coast this week before #StormEowyn arrived. It's not very often you get to see their subtle 'puffy' blows as they surface.

@whalesorg @Seasaver @mcsuk @SeaWatchersUK @NatureScot @Mammal_Society @kazcustard @NLFerries @marcrileydj @Britnatureguide @ShetlandWild

[Natasha Phillips @sunfishresearch]

@jasondarby05 Thanks Jason, just sent a DM :)

[Emily G Cunningham MBE @EG_Cunningham]

Yay! The humpback whales are back in Cornwall 🐳🩵

@DanielMMoore_ and I published research on this:

They could be: stopping off on their migration (like a Service Station!) / Young’uns not making the full migration
👇🏻🐋

https://t.co/CkifNrH5di

@BBCCornwall @ExeterMarine

[SharkmanDan 🦈 @Shark_ManDan]

First humpback whale of the 2025 season today! @CornwallLive @BBCCornwall @ILoveCornwallUK

[Jonathan Amos @JCDAmos]

About 200 huge footprints, which were made 166 million years ago, criss-cross the limestone floor in Oxfordshire.
They record the comings and goings of a long-necked sauropod called Cetiosaurus and the smaller meat-eating Megalosaurus. https://t.co/KIN1snRELd