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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Haia! Wrth gwrs! Dwi ddim wedi bod ar famma lot blwyddyn yma ond just wedi weld neges ti!

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · 24/04/2026

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

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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This is good to see. Thanks for sharing!

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thanks a lot for the grant! Looking forward to addressing this questions in the #Faroes this season with Feliksa Żurawska. Will report back 😄 🌊

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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 👨‍👩‍👧

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thanks Alex. That's useful to know - seems to be that the Irish Sea colonies of many species are doing a lot better than their northern cousins...

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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”.

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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...

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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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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🌊 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

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Yeah, that would seem to align with the trend from previous years related to SST and food availability...😔

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Dr Ingrid Pollet @ingridpollet.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It's important to have a mentor. Let's make the #seabirds community a better one. ⬇️

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Interesting. Seems also to be mirrored by very poor productivity in Arctic skua colonies here this year & kittiwakes/arctic terns etc :(

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Yes, that would seem to be the case - a sporadic and insufficient supply of target food source (sand eels). Difficult to say at present if this is linked to the extreme marine heatwaves that have been experienced across the N Atlantic this year (and last year)

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🐝 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.

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Looking like a poor season for #Puffins in the #Faroes from local accounts and observations so far - lots of adults still feeding young chicks which should have fledged by this time of year, many dead chicks in the colony and very low numbers in general :( any others finding similar? #seabirds

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Our Scottish and Irish tagged Cuckoos have made it across the Sahara Desert in Africa! 😀 Follow their migrations at www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🌍 🪶

Image of a world map showing locations of BTO satellite-tagged Cuckoos. Nine are in Africa and three in Europe. Headshots of the two new Cuckoos to reach Africa, Sayaan and Cuach Cores, feature. A speaker graphic holds the wording: Cuckoo update. Another two survive the Sahara crossing.

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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...

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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...

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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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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great to see some climate realism that follows the science from Mr Corbyn. Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📢#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-...

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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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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

It's certainly a busy place to do any ringing - tapes are never used here! Makes for a much more peaceful night too 😆

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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.

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Anne Ausems (she/her) @anneausems.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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...

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Back in the land of maybe

Faroes fieldwork for my PhD commences once more

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Gorgeous! Dark barred Twin spot Carpet for the second moth?

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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...

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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.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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

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Episode 1.11: Environmental Political Economy

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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#ProudBlue Scotland is not having it. They are pissed about Trump’s visit. Way to go, Scotland! 👏👏👏👏 Trump is a WANKER!

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Ahhh shame :( hope the Petrel Station has more success! The chambers for the Nolsoy nestboxes are massive - they seem to really like them. Though only ~45 of 98 boxes with signs of use so far this season

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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…

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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.

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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

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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚨 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

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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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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

‘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.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

France is to recognise Palestine as a state, Macron has announced. The decision will be formalised at the UN General Assembly in September. “There is no alternative”.

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Nice! What stage are they at in the nests there? Ours have just laid eggs!

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

And so it begins! The Storm-petrel fieldwork season in the #Faroes kicks off for 2025, joining @anneausems.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social to carry out sampling for @seaghosts-biodv.bsky.social and further research for my PhD on European Storm-petrels.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

What this goes to show is that the ever-so-respectable, middle-of-the road, technocratic pillars of the British Establishment - Starmer, Cooper, Reeves and the rest - turn out, when you discover what they really want, to be just as batshit crazy as Trump or Orban.

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Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Congratulations Mya!! 🙌🏽 mega. Enjoy the rest of Birdfair!

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Huge news from the first landholding purchase made under the community buyout provisions of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. Restoration on a massive scale! I dream of communities doing the same for our Peak District grouse moors. 'Only' politics stands in our way.

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Highland estate as big as Glasgow to be revitalised - Woodland Trust

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James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My chat with Sarah Wilkinson of the now banned, Palestine Action is still online. Its sickening to think that things have gotten even worse since this interview 🇵🇸 youtu.be/MM2pkbR6Ub4?...

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#62 - Sarah Wilkinson - Palestine Action

YouTube video by The James Kennedy Podcast

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

📢 Yesterday Defra announced that toxic lead ammunition would be banned in Britain! BTO’s research helped forge this change.📝 The new ban will protect wildlife and the wider environment, with reduced levels of lead pollution in terrestrial and aquatic habitats.

A close up of a Pheasant looking straight on showing its green neck, red face and brown-copper body plumage. Image by Edmund Fellowes/BTO.

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