Dear colleagues, On behalf of my coauthors, I would like to announce that our recently published letter is now freely available to read online (for two months): "Ethics codes of the Society for Marine Mammalogy and its journal should be coordinated and revised" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12993 The letter is in response to the Yasunaga et al. (2022) whaling research paper that does not comply with the stated animal welfare standards of the Society. Best wishes Conor Ryan