Another busy spell on Isle of May as we prepare for the forthcoming season ahead as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

This is a wildly poorly informed article. Dinosaurs are a gateway to introduce children to biodiversity and the scientific method, as well as extinction and global change, @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the survival of migratory #seabirds (Arctic skuas) has decreased in the last decades, but is not related to large-scale ocean indices: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

High Court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for River Action in its fight against industrial-scale poultry production in Wye Valley - River Action UK Landmark court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for River Action in...

Huge victory for River Action with major implications as High Court declares farming manure as ‘waste’.
🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms.
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Good to see you here, Beth!!

Women working in science and nature As part of International Women’s Day 2025 we’re celebrating the achievements of seven of NatureScot’s fantastic women working in nature. These incredible women working in science,…

So lucky to work with such incredible and inspiring colleagues wp.me/p3iQac-6hM #IWD2025 #natureconservation #marinebiology #marineenergy

A misty #sundayswim this morning

A puffin standing amongst green vegetation and white flowers with a beakful of vegetation

A puffin with a beakful of nesting material

#SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

an elegant looking seabird with white body, light grey wings, black cap and yellow bill and legs (captured in flight with a small fish in its bill)

Little Tern. #seabirds #WildOz #SuperSeabirdSunday

Ridiculously rare footage for #SuperSeabirdSunday from late Feb. trip to Phillip Is. off Norfolk. 2nd only pop. of White-necked Petrels with one in company of Juan Fernandez Petrel, 10,000km from home islands. #Seabirds Amazing🪶

#photography #birds #seabirds #Razorbill #Auk

Common Guillemot on a pointed rock at Staple Island Northumberland 2024

Reaching the pinnacle

#seabirds #ukwildlife #photography

Mediterranean Gulls displaying in the sun at West Hayling this week. @rspbengland.bsky.social are just finishing the restoration of the lagoon islands here as part of LIFE on the edge & the Solent Seascape ambition to see seabird sites across the Solent thriving. More to come. #SuperSeabirdSunday

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is proof that some Puffins nest under boulders! #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Early release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰

"Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025).

Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

Cruising for data: Defining the seabird community from vessels of opportunity in Canada’s Eastern Arctic | http://marineornitho | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Hi, I’m Alex!

I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊

I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.

I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.

Better late than never, eh!

As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)

A bit late to the party but looking for a meta-free space!