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Exciting PhD on mouse lemur population genomics, based in Montpellier with Helena Teixeira ๐งฌ๐ด๐
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224
Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europeโs beaches - Dr Ruth Dunn explains why in the Conversation @lec-reefs.bsky.social @ruthedunn.bsky.social theconversation.com/thousands-of...
Excited to head to Oxford for this on Friday! ๐ฆ
Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups ๐๐๐
Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
+Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos!
#seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour
Go Lila! ๐
โจNew paper!โจ
An individualโbased model to quantify the nonโbreeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social
๐จ PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? ๐ฆ๐ Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Three weeks left to apply for our two PhD positions - come and join @lec-reefs.bsky.social to deliver applied research in restoration ecology and corporate sustainability! ๐ชธ๐๐ณ๐
Please do share amongst your networks, and I'm happy to meet with potential candidates to discuss the position further ๐
Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!
#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday
๐งต1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
Nominations for #WSC4 Keynote Speakers are open! โจ๐
Early-career voices encouraged!
๐WSC4 In-person & Hybrid: 7โ11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Tasmania
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#seabirds #ornithology
My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery ๐ง๐
Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
โ๏ธ WSC4 Travel Awards are here!
Supporting students, early-career researchers & conservation practitioners to attend the 4th World Seabird Conference.
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Apply 1 Oct 2025 โ 15 Jan 2026
More info on the Registration page.
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#WSC4 #Seabirds #Research
NEW PAPER in #ornithology summarizes why #seabirds are so important to the ecosystem of #islands and what knowledge gaps remain: buff.ly/rHuNnOr
ยฉ๏ธPhoto by Quentin dโOrchymont
New paper by @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social and @iomarinescience.bsky.social is out! ๐ฆ๐
#Genomics uncovers striking genetic #differentiation and taxonomic uncertainties in a tropical #seabird across the Western Indian Ocean. ๐งฌ
Learn more ๐ doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Seabirds act as powerful connectors between marine and terrestrial ecosystems - and protecting them can help tackle the crises of climate change, failing ocean health, and biodiversity loss, according to a new study published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity ๐ฆ
Schematic diagram of the influence of seabirds on temperate and tropical near-shore marine systems. Temperatre systems: - Nutrient enrichment and predation on herbivorous invertebrates can lead to increased algal production - Phytoplankton communities change, featuring more large-celled species - Intertidal organisms incorporate seabird-enriched material by grazing on detritus and biofilm in tidepools - Macroalgae biodiversity and primary production are boosted Tropical systems: - Mangrove leaf nutritional quality increases - Corals recover faster after bleaching events - Fish biomass increases across different trophic groups - Pelagic and benthic consumers' foraging behaviour shifts - Parrotfish grazing and bioerosion rates increase - Fish grow larger
New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems ๐ฆ๐๏ธ๐ชธ
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions โจ
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
@ruchakarkarey.bsky.social is in Vogue India! Great article about India's women marine defenders www.vogue.in/content/once...
Temporal Variation in Early-Life Conditions Impacts on Later-Life Levels of Infection in Sex Specific Ways | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology ๐ชถ
Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
A simple landscape illustration with a grey-green ocean, a dark grey rocky islet partly covered by orange lichen and a light grey overcast sky. On and around the islet are seabirds of several species, most pictured realistically in colour. The largest bird is a now-extinct great auk, depicted as a semi-translucent white ghost figure.
#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet
Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
Bird-borne cameras revealed that boobies might catch more fish in the air than in the sea.
www.iflscience.com/ride-on-boar...
You know this story is going to be a good time because my editor told me the first draft had too many instances of the word "poop" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s... ๐งช (featuring Leo Uesaka, @ruthedunn.bsky.socialโฌ and @movementecology.bsky.social)
I have a real shitshow of a science story here for all my friends: ๐งช www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...
Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby | doi.org/10.1016/j.an... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology ๐ชถ
A graphical abstract depicting the paper title, author list, and brief description of the paper. One images displays an adult common gullemot with one logger on each leg, next to a chick. The second image displays a close-up of a common guillemot's legs with both loggers shown. The text reads: An improved method to derive behavioural budgets and energetics from geolocator data in Common Guillemots Uria aalge Lila Buckingham, Maria Bogdanova, Francis Daunt, Robert Furness, Sophie Bennett, Ruth Dunn, David Jardine, Mark Newell, Ewan Weston & Jonathan Green We deployed two devices (time-depth recorder & geolocator) on 39 Common Guillemots for one non-breeding season. We allocated time to behaviours using 1) both devices (see Buckingham et al. 2023) and 2) only geolocators, following previous methods. We compared the behavioural budgets. We could not extract foraging behaviour (diving) when only using geolocator data. We devised an improved method for estimating behaviours and energetics in Common Guillemots using geolocator data. We also provide guidance for studies of other diving seabirds that rest at sea. Photos by Andrew Carter Seabird 37 (2025) Early Release
Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots.
doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
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Thank you, Sal! ๐คฉ
