Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social!

If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

#seabirds #puffins

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

The acceleration of the closure of small liberal arts colleges is such a gut punch. These are often the kinds of places that are life-changing experiences for students, providing opportunities for exploration, connection, and learning outcomes that aren't possible at larger universities.

Razorbill Alca torda with an unfamiliar plumage phenotype during banding and morphometric processing at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick, Canada

New paper alert: Plumage aberration on a Razorbill by Danial Oliker, Tony Diamond, and @heathermajor.bsky.social.
#seabirds #OpenAccess

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...

Somewhat urgent question: does anyone know if "biodiversity" is getting caught up in NSF AI filters because of the word "diversity?" In other words, is that safe language to use in a proposal right now, or no?

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

I tell my students that writing is an exercise in figuring out what you think; it's not a place to deposit what you've already worked out.

If you step on a frictionless surface, momentum takes over and you just slide; there's nothing to interact with, which means there's nowhere to stand.

a leach's storm petrel, a small dark seabird, flies over the ocean surface

Latest articles from the WJO: Mercury in secondary feathers of depredated versus living Leach’s Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

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...

For folks using #GitHub - quick instructions here to turn off allowing it to use your CoPilot use in its AI training.

I've never used it but still, might as well turn it off!

Researcher position in marine ecology/seabird ecology  (277350) | The Norwegian Polar Institute Job title: Researcher position in marine ecology/seabird ecology  (277350), Employer: The Norwegian Polar Institute, Deadline: Monday, April 7, 2025

#JobAlert 🪶

Come work with us!

3-year #research position with a focus on #seabird and prey interaction 🐟🪶🌏

📍Based in wonderful Tromsø, Norway ☃️

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

#PASTBIRD #PHDVACANCY #SuperSeabirdSunday

To counter “shifting baseline syndrome,” the project combines LEK from place names and oral histories, with field data and stable isotope and radiocarbon analyses of soils to reconstruct historical seabird colony distr. 🌍🧪🇫🇴🇩🇰

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

The ski industry is oddly quiet on climate change » Yale Climate Connections The problem is a major threat to the U.S. snowsports industry. But their actions fall short.

I'm a professional ski instructor as well as climate journalist.

Even as winters become warmer and shorter, the snowsports industry isn't taking a strong stand to protect our jobs.

The outdoor industry should form a huge lobby for climate action!

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/the-...

Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox

Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

Canada’s Reconciliation Panic - Macleans.ca Indigenous peoples are gaining territory and political and economic clout. Not everyone is ready for what that will mean.

"The panic now visible in British Columbia is not evidence that reconciliation has gone too far. It is evidence that reconciliation has begun to have material consequences." @khelsilem.bsky.social in @macleans.bsky.social: macleans.ca/politics/can...

NH Bird Atlas Coordinator NH Bird Atlas Coordinator $42,000 - $48,000 per year -- NH Audubon

JOB OPENING: NH Bird Atlas Coordinator: NH Bird Atlas Coordinator
$42,000 - $48,000 per year -- NH Audubon

World Heating Faster Than Expected, Scientists Sound Alarm in latest UN Report The global climate system continued its alarming trajectory in 2025, with multiple indicators reaching record or near-record extremes.

The global climate system remained on an alarming path in 2025, with multiple indicators at record or near-record extremes, underscoring the accelerating pace of climate change and its cascading impacts, finds new report by the @wmo-global.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2026/03/worl...

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆

Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆

Survey link is in our bio 🔗

If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧

An infographic showing a world map in the Spilhaus projection, with the six marine flyways (Altantic Ocean, North Indian Ocean, East Indian Ocean, West Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean). Text reads: 'Marine flyways are the major routes migratory seabirds regularly use to travel between their breeding and non-breeidng areas.'

🚨New Open Access Paper🚨

Using the marine flyways concept to accelerate ocean conservation published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social

OA paper➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#BLScience #seabirds

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I am imagining what it would feel like to be unburdened of the constant awareness, the constant vigilance, the the constant heartbreak of a culture that will not address its own failures, and which outsources the responsibility and the consequences to the survivors.

This is what we fight for.

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning - CAUT As the workshop facilitator demonstrated the latest update in AI technology, we realized that we had lost the arms race of teaching and learning.

AI may have already won the “arms race” in #HigherEd teaching and learning

But the real question is what we do next:

Will we respond with creativity and inclusion, or retreat into policies that quietly exclude the students who need access the most?
Our commentary

www.caut.ca/bulletin/cre...

Antarctic petrel on a rock with wings spread, ready to take off (bottom left), and a snow petrel in flight (top right).

🦤🌐🧪
GPS tracking shows spatial and habitat segregation between Antarctic and snow petrels breeding in sympatry in Antarctica, highlighting different dependencies on sea ice and potential vulnerability to climate change.
bit.ly/meps15067

An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
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Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD) - Local Ecological Knowledge, stable isotopes, seabird islands.

If you're wanting to do a PhD project with us, please apply by 1 April.

#phdvacancy

phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

A Reddish Egret spreads its wings over a laptop floating on a water surface

Waterbirds is hiring!

We're currently seeking a Social Media Communications Coordinator (paid position, 3-5 hrs/week!) to help grow communication with our society members & the world at large. Job advertisement & application instructions: waterbirds.org/wp-content/u...

#ornithology #waterbirds

This is not just any random report. This is a review of how the major federal fisheries on the U.S. west coast are assessed, basically how U.S. fisheries management should be altered so that it works better.