Dear MARMAM community, I am delighted to share our recent publication: 'Sperm whale hotspots off western Ireland and the importance of dynamic variables as shown by a multiscale Bayesian additive regression trees workflow' in Frontiers in Marine Science. We used data collected off western Ireland with towed hydrophone arrays (under the ObSERVE-Acoustic project) to apply a state-of-the-art Bayesian modelling framework (Bayesian Additive Regression Trees, aka BART) to predict sperm whale probability of occurrence and habitat favourability. We included a data-driven process to select the most appropriate spatiotemporal scales for a set of both static and dynamic variables of interest. We hope those findings will serve as evidence for conservation and management strategies as well as a solid baseline for future assessments. You can read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2026.1767540 We will be presenting this research as a poster at the ECS in Dundee next month, feel free to come for a chat! Enjoy the read! With our best wishes, Cynthia Barile, Simon Berrow, Jonathan Gordon, Rossa Meade, Morgane Pommier, Joanne O'Brien.