🆕 #seabirds paper led by Alyssa Piauwasdy Leg-mounted GLS had no detectable effect on chick growth, fledging, or adult return rates in Wedge-tailed Shearwaters on Oʻahu. Year did. Chicks grew slower in El Niño — tagged or not. 🔗 doi.org/10.5751/JFO-... #geolocators #biologging #Hawaii

Journal of Field Ornithology: Geolocator devices did not affect chick growth or adult return rates in Wedge-tailed Shearwaters (<em>Ardenna pacifica</em>) despite interannual variation in chick develo...

Although biologging has transformed seabird ecology, bird-borne devices could alter the behaviors being studied, including parental care. We tested for effects of leg-mounted light-level geolocators (...

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Still time to sign up to our seabird pride talk! Sign up here: forms.gle/WYMaUgLnnq5A...

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us for our next panel discussion 'Being queer in Seabird Science'! 🏳️‍🌈 🗓️ Friday 7th August ⏲️ 09:30 - 11:00 (BST) 📍 Online Sign-up here to receive the joining link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📷 @scottishseabird.bsky.social

PSA: your avocado is trans. What an absolutely wonderfully fantastical world we live in!

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paper accepted! 🥳

Last night #AdriftLab were fortunate to attend a T’ɬakwagilogwa Cultural Event on Comorant Island in a remote corner of western Canada. Afterwards, one of the Elders invited us to a private event where we witnessed a Welcome Ceremony between two neighboring tribes.

New research reveals a substantial decline in the number of European Storm-petrels caught by researchers over the course of a 27-year study Read on for a summary Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social #seabird 🪶🧪

After a bit of too-and-fro, here's the dirt. The only way we'll see real changes is clearly the "sunlight approach" so with that.... Read about the misguided policy at Marine Environmental Research - and how the editor doubled down. adriftlab.org/news/equalit...

Equality is not equity: why we have withdrawn our manuscript from Marine Environmental Research

We are withdrawing a manuscript from the journal Marine Environmental Research, and we want to explain why, publicly, because the issue is bigger than one paper.

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Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

Journal gives us 3 weeks to revise a paper. We ask for a 1-month extension because a coauthor is away. They said no, the most they can give is 2 weeks. Otherwise it's considered withdrawn. What utter nonsense.

Als liefde voor vogels en andere passies samenkomen zijn wij daar groot fan van. Daarom tippen we jullie graag dit zomeruitje voor kinderen tot 99 jaar: Bij Pixlife Nature Xperience t/m 6 september te zien en beleven: Expositie 'Bird Bricks' 🧱🐦 Vogels en LEGO! Alle info: pixlife.nl/birdbricks/

📖 Published📖 Magnetic geolocation is a viable complementary tool for tracking small avian species, particularly in contexts where pressure-based methods cannot be used🐦️ 🌏️ 🧪 buff.ly/qjJvgZt

Time to bust out my art supplies!

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎨🐦 Calling all creative seabird enthusiasts! 🐦🎨 We’re launching 'Creative Seabird Pursuits', a newsletter feature celebrating seabird-inspired art, photography, writing, sculpture, cooking & more! Send your work to newsletter@seabirdgroup.org.uk (subject line 'Creative Seabirds') to be featured!

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

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********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

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Wingspan Pocket! This smaller, swifter, and streamlined version of Wingspan gives each player a single row of cards to create and activate every turn. There’s also a new type of power, green (ongoing) benefits. Join me at 10:00 Central on YouTube to chat about it: www.youtube.com/live/6JCCSCG...

We announced the location of The Seabird Group 2027 conference in our latest newsletter! (drumroll please... 🥁🥁🥁) Gdańsk, Poland! Hosted by @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social & team! We're really excited to put this together and stay tuned for updates! 🐧

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · last mo.

The big news is our next International Conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland in Sept 2027! With the lovely @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social and team as the local hosts. It's going to be amazing! Watch for further news after the (northern) field season... #seabirds #ornithology #Seabirds2027

I'm so looking forward to this! #Gdańsk is amazing, and @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social & team are awesome! Highly recommend!

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · last mo.

The big news is our next International Conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland in Sept 2027! With the lovely @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social and team as the local hosts. It's going to be amazing! Watch for further news after the (northern) field season... #seabirds #ornithology #Seabirds2027

Our June 2026 newsletter has arrived in your inbox! 💌 We learn about the importance of @biosecuritylife.bsky.social and rescuing grounded shearwaters as well as celebrate 40-years of @smp-seabirds.bsky.social! Plus the usual Seabirder Spotlight, paper releases and some exciting news! 🗞️ #seabirds

Happy to announce a postdoc position with me and Jakob Strand, to work on data from the revamped Danish beached bird survey organised by DOF BirdLife Denmark. How many seabirds end up on Danish beached, where do they come from, and why did they die? #seabirds ecos.au.dk/en/about-us/...

Postdoc in seabird ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Ecoscience - Arctic Ecosystem Ecology, Aarhus University

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Thrilled to share this! None of it would have been possible without the persistence and passion of so many researchers going back to the Arctic. This is exactly why we keep going — even when the results feel far away 🐦‍⬛❄️ More thanks in the comments 🙏

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · last mo.

25 years, 4 colonies across the Arctic: satellite snowmelt data & nest monitoring show that earlier snowmelt advances hatching in little auks — but fitness consequences are mixed. Will earlier breeding help in future? 📝 paper: buff.ly/G49YbQW 🎙️ podcast: buff.ly/LPMOT9w 🧊 blog: buff.ly/lMPDKkD

25 years, 4 colonies across the Arctic: satellite snowmelt data & nest monitoring show that earlier snowmelt advances hatching in little auks — but fitness consequences are mixed. Will earlier breeding help in future? 📝 paper: buff.ly/G49YbQW 🎙️ podcast: buff.ly/LPMOT9w 🧊 blog: buff.ly/lMPDKkD

Always grateful for proper research to confirm a hunch but you would expect that if you think less you would get worse at thinking

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is Mona Khalil, a Lebanese environmentalist who spent many years protecting endangered sea turtles. Earlier this month, Israel struck her home in Mansouri, Tyre and today, she passed away after succumbing to her injuries. This is who Israel is killing in Lebanon.

2026. Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists. A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/reso... by @britishecologicalsociety.org

Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological Society

A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.

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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

De regels die onze natuur beschermen staan onder druk. De Europese Commissie (@ec.europa.eu) kijkt hoe de natuurwetten vereenvoudigd kunnen worden. Lees: ze willen ze afzwakken. 👉 Onze directeur Karsten Schipperheijn schreef een opiniestuk in @volkskrant.nl. Lees het hier: tinyurl.com/3hsm85dc

Opinie: Hoeveel is onze natuur ons nog waard?

Terwijl Europa zich opmaakt voor een warme zomer, werkt Brussel achter de schermen aan het afzwakken van de wetten die onze vogels en natuur beschermen.

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I'm pretty sure I just got my first AI peer-review back. 😭

Hey @spavel.bsky.social I hope you don’t mind but we did the thing for real

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For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible

It has been an honour to work with the long-term data set from Kent Isl. After a survival paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2710), here is a mate-switching paper. Huge thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social on this one! A third one is under review. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Permanent and temporary mate switching in a long-lived seabird: insights from a 64-year study

In long-lived socially monogamous animals, pair bonds play a crucial role in breeding success. In many predominantly socially monogamous animals, howe…

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A new University of Reading study of 120+ seabird species, published in Nature Climate Change, found that during past periods of rapid warming, seabirds shrank their ranges and flew farther to survive, rather than reducing in size like some marine species. bit.ly/4wKJRCm