Come and join a colony! Recruiting new guillemates now! 🐧🐦

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 14h ago

Our Guillemates 2026/27 mentoring is now open for sign-up! 🐧 Join a colony of peers at a similar career stage 🤝 Be matched with a mentor (or become one!) 🎤 Take part in population-wide talks 🔹 Mentee sign-up: forms.gle/HyxYdjYz6Lgt... 🔹 Mentor sign-up: forms.gle/AQUHoa5NKa5h...

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

Come and join us for our next panel discussion! Everyone is welcome!

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

As Pride Month comes to a close, we’re celebrating pride, visibility, and diversity — not just in June, but all year round. 🌈 The Seabird Group is committed to supporting our LGBTQ+ community every day. Grab your Pride merch here: seabirdgroup.teemill.com/collection/u... 📸 Justin Rivera, CC

We would be grateful if you could take part in our 2026 Diversity and Inclusion survey 💙 Within The Seabird Group, we're tracking our progress and working to build a more diverse, inclusive community 👥 It takes just 5-10 minutes to complete ⏲️ Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Enter our Seabird Photo Contest at #WSC2026—open to all in-person attendees! Submit your best seabird shot by 1 Aug (midnight UTC) for a chance at prizes & People’s Choice. Enter now: bit.ly/4d572zROpens a new window 🐦✨

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Our next ECR talk is all about seabird ringing! 🐦 Join us to learn how ringing works, opportunities to get involved, and how ringing data supports key research and conservation. 🗓️: Friday 20th March ⌚: 09:30- 11:00 (GMT) 📍: Online Signup here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📸: Will Brown

Studying overlap with fisheries can help highlight important areas for protection 🐧 Check out my little article! After spending so long learning to write for scientific audiences, it was an interesting experience learning how to write for the public but I highly recommend!

Can African penguins be brought back from the brink? Better designed no-fishing zones could help

A new court order seeks to protect African penguins, which are critically endangered.

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Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland

2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️ Are you: 📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work? 🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too) 💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food) Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Apply by 28 Feb 💌

Come and join us for another seabird careers Q&A session!!

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼 📆 Fri 12 December 🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK) 📍 Online Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀

As I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟 Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery

While spatial overlap is commonly used to quantify interactions, it may underestimate the true degree of competition between foraging predators and fishing vessels. Our alternative population-level m...

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📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

📢 PHD OPPORTUNITY Drivers of variation in population performance of a migratory bird Fully funded 3-year studentship with @dannihinchy.bsky.social at Liverpool John Moores University Deadline: 31 October Details: tinyurl.com/heay3yd3 #ornithology 🪶

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below #UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦 We are recruiting for 5 roles: Secretary 👩‍🏫 Assistant Journal Editor 📉 Social Media Lead 🤳 Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝 Website Officer 🧑‍💻 Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

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Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)! 📅 7–11 Sept 2026 📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Please share! We are still looking for more mentors for @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Guillemates! Are you a mid-career seabirder (or beyond) wanting to help support ECRs and can run 4 sessions throughout the year🐧🐥👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Sign up here: forms.gle/MuQLcdaZHtxU...

Guillemates 2025-26: Mentor

Sign up deadline: 19th September. The Guillemates is an initiative to create a support network for Seabirders. Individuals can sign up to be a part of the initiative for a year (with the option to sig...

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The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Early 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

Sign up for our next ECR talk where we will be discussing peer review with our panel! Friday 5th September 9.30 am BST!!

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The next in our series of ECR talks is coming up on Fri 5th September - this time on Peer Review 👀📃 The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨ Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Guillemates is back for another year! Sign up now! If you've got any questions, message me or send me an email at ecr@seabirdgroup.org.uk

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Early 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

Calling all Early Career Seabirders! What are some topics you would like more discussion on/support with? I am trying to compile a list of things that mentors could help ECRs with @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

🪶 Seabird scientists & managers! 🌊 Propose a symposium or workshop for #WSC4: "Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate." Submit a 1-page summary by 01 August 2025. 🔗 Details on our website bit.ly/4e6wQdc #Seabirds #ClimateChange #Ornithology #WSC2025

Deadline for proposing a symposium or workshop for #WSC4 is 1 Aug 2025! #seabirds 📆

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

The 4th World #Seabird Conference (happening next year in Hobart, Australia) is now taking submissions for potential symposia and workshops! Propose yours here - worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir.... The theme is Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate 🐧 @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social