Ben Porter
@bardseyben.bsky.social
Passionate Welsh naturalist & photographer fighting for a wilder World. PhD student studying #seabirds Often found running in the mountains ⛰️ 👣 https://www.benporterwildlife.co.uk #StubbornOptimist | #GenerationRestoration
Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is one of a series of Ashworth's Rustic (Xestia ashworthii) caterpillar records that @bardseyben.bsky.social made around Cadair Idris. In Britain this moth is restricted to North Wales. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @sewbrec.org.uk @bispowys.bsky.social
Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
EOU Fledglings@eoufledglings.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
We funded 4 research projects this season 🏦 Here's a little more detail on our recent research grant awardees... (1/2) Izzy Burns @izzyburns.bsky.social is looking at nest microclimate in kittiwakes 🐣 Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social is asking whether storm petrels make good parents 👨👩👧
Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
Very excited to visit the west Wales village of Nantycaws this afternoon (the name can arguably be translated as “stream [of] the cheese”), and was delighted to discover that the name of the village chapel (established in 1809) is “Philadelphia”.
Week three of #fieldwork in the Føroyar…a summary of activities amidst classic Faroese weather, as the Storm Petrel season advances and the snowstorm of Fulmars begins along the basalt cliffs. bardseyben.substack.com/p/week-three...
Week three of fieldwork in Føroyar
Wrestling with nest cams, low fat Puffins and how to (try) surveying a Storm-petrel colony
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🌊 Proposal deadline for WSC4 extended to Aug 15 🐦 Help shape seabird science at “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate” 📍 Hobart, TAS | 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026 📝 Submit: WSCScience@worldseabirdunion.org 🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc #WSC4 #SeabirdScience
It's important to have a mentor. Let's make the #seabirds community a better one. ⬇️
The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12mo agoEarly career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦 Pls share! #seabirds
The reality of the UK government's despicable Palestine-related policies www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ella Baron on Palestine action, proscribed and approved – cartoon
Israeli officials say Benjamin Netanyahu is planning an offensive to fully occupy Gaza, but there are splits in the government
theguardian.com
🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
Our Scottish and Irish tagged Cuckoos have made it across the Sahara Desert in Africa! 😀 Follow their migrations at www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🌍 🪶
The #marineheatwave update for this week from @mercatorocean.bsky.social shows some pretty intense conditions off the Norwegian coast, and sustained abnormal #SST around the UK and Bay of Biscay. I wonder how such an extreme year in the #NorthAtlantic will affect #seabird productivity this year...
Mercator Ocean International@mercatorocean.bsky.social · last yr.Marine heatwaves continue to intensify across the global Ocean 🌊🌡️ Areas showing #MHW activity include: 🔵 #GulfOfMexico, around #Cuba, & #Florida 🔵 #SouthChinaSea 🔵 #BayOfBengal 🔵 Canadian coast 🔵 #Breton coast Read more in our bulletin: www.mercator-ocean.eu/bulletin/mar...
New #substack! Week two of #fieldwork in the Faroes for this year's Storm-petrel research season. Transects in vertical boulder scree, night-time ringing activities and some updates from the nestbox monitoring as the incubation gets underway... bardseyben.substack.com/p/like-a-fai...
Like a fairy being sick
Week two of Storm-petrel fieldwork in the Faroe Islands is underway, as summer's grasp begins to ebb and the nights draw in
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Great to see some climate realism that follows the science from Mr Corbyn. Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣
📢#StopRosebank Info Call: Aug 6, 7pm📢 On Sep 6, people across the UK will take action to stop the disastrous Rosebank oil field. Join us for an info call next week to hear from people planning actions in their area and learn how you can get stuck in 💪. actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
Stop Rosebank Day of Action: Info Call
📣 I’ve just signed up to the Stop Rosebank information call about the September 6 Day of Action! This is a key moment in the fight to stop Rosebank. Let's show the government that people across the U...
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Such awesome #seabirds - one of ~430 Storm-petrels ringed in the Nólsoy colony last night w/ @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @anneausems.bsky.social, plus one UK-ringed bird. No tapes used, just one 18-metre mist net - the colony is quite dense!
Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
Our local not-a-storm-petrel chick decided to store some of its food for later. That or someone needs to sew this #puffin youngster a bib. #FaroeIslands @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
New #substack! I'll be documenting this year's seabird #fieldwork in the Faroe Islands with some periodic updates on substack through the coming season, for anyone interested in following. Link below for a brief update from our first week back on Nólsoy... bardseyben.substack.com/p/back-in-th...
Back in the land of maybe
Faroes fieldwork for my PhD commences once more
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Half a million people signing up to a party that doesn’t even have a name let alone any policies yet but is just saying “we think things could be less shit” should be a clear signal to Starmer that the trajectory he’s taken Labour on isn’t going down well at all
We know for a fact that the smear machine will now go into overdrive… Corbyn is a huge threat to fascists and far right neolib elites! But the evidence is crystal clear: The “People are Desperate for Change”. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/new-corbyn...
New Corbyn party already bigger than Tories and Reform as 250,000 sign up in one day
The new party founded by @jeremycorbyn and @zarahsultana might not have a name, but it already has over 250,000 sign ups.
councilestatemedia.uk
Highly recommended! This interview with @laurieadkin.bsky.social by @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social is full of wisdom about the thorniest of topics that most people struggle to face uk to. It's full of insights that can only come from a lifetime of careful consideration when there are no easy answers
Episode 1.11: Environmental Political Economy
The EcoPolitics Podcast · Episode
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#ProudBlue Scotland is not having it. They are pissed about Trump’s visit. Way to go, Scotland! 👏👏👏👏 Trump is a WANKER!
The superb backdrop of Nólsoy’s huge Storm-petrel colony, hosting upwards of 250,000 pairs. Initial checks of our study #nestboxes show a slightly late season, with some birds incubating but many pairs yet to lay. Amidst the numerous #MarineHeatwaves in N Atlantic, I wonder how the season will be…
This article… … is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read. Please read and share.
In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
🚨 BREAKING NEWS! The International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared countries have a legal obligation to act on climate change. 🌍 Now it’s time for the Government to act, and lock the UK’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)—under the Paris Agreement—into law. 🐝 #CANBill
World Court says countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, protect climate
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, issued its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change, read out by the President of the Court, Judge...
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‘We have to draw the line’ ‘We have to change the system’. Imagine a leader of this country with actual integrity and humanity at their core.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · last yr.⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
"there is no money for the poor, but billions for war" Solidarity 💪💪💪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jeremy Corbyn launches new party to 'take on the rich and powerful'
The former Labour leader joins forces with fellow Independent MP Zarah Sultana to launch
bbc.co.uk
