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Papa, Nat Geo Explorer, Seabirder, Newfoundlander, Penguin counter, data scientist.

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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's not every day that one gets to publish a paper with their Dad. Here it is! If you're interested in #Seabirds and community engagement, have a read. In this paper, we discuss how Newfoundlanders perceive hunting regulations. #Conservation #MarineEcology
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Was just thinking about this same question myself last night.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It's a piece of advice that extends across every aspect of our lives I think.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Protecting seabirds from interactions with drones when doing wildlife surveys is important! As part of this we have been trialing propeller guards for our M350 airframe. #Seabirds #UAVs #DataScience #Drones #OffshoreWind #OnshoreWind #Scotland
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#SEABIRD NEWS. Call for Symposia and workshops for #WSC4 IS OPEN! worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... Deadline is August 1! Reach out to WSCscience@worldseabirdunion.org for submissions or more information! #seabirds #climatechange #science #Hobart
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Call for Symposia and Workshops WSC4
Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate Call for Symposia and Workshops Menu Call for symposia and workshopsSymposia and Workshop Proposal Guidelines The call for symposia and workshops…
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We did the same. Fulmar were the biggest issue. We've got two seasons worth of observations from three UAV models. Compared image quality and also doing analysis on boat V drone perspectives.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Wind turbines affect local wind regime, esp. downwind from them. How that affects marine ecosystems, through wind-related features like upwelling, is something we are still learning. But aspects like surface primary productivity seem to be affected. 🧪🌊 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
 (a) Map showing the wind deficit (%) where Δu(x,y) (white arrows) is calculated for south-west wind. Maps of the wind field in (b) wind farm model and (c) reference baseline model.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We did this last year with a slightly different sensor on the M350. This year we've got a better camera and can fly 160 - 200m from the cliff and get amazing images. Paper to come soon.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Imagine #spying on #Seabirds from the skies with ultra high resolution from a distance well away from cliff faces. No disturbance, minimal risk of interaction with flying birds, and reproducible data! That's what we're doing right now with our new #UAVs! #Conservation #Drones #Scotland #SPAs
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Who doesn't love doing boat surveys for cliff nesting #Seabirds??? So lucky to have the greatest team to work with here!
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We're having the most fantastic time doing #UAV surveys for cliff nesting #Seabirds with our new #M350 drone. The images are incredible... Stay tuned for some amazing high resolution images. #Caithness #Scotland #conservation #monitoring #UAVs
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Love this wee #Penguin!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The perfect song lyrics don't exis.... 😳 #penguins
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In this edition of #airplanesgettingeatenbyjetways we've got a LATAM Airbus A320 getting chewed on by a jetway at punta arenas airport in Southern Chile.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Would love to be involved if possible!!
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We should definitely chat about it! Especially if you've got some ideas for research that we can help you out with :)
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Oh man, that was a fantastic trip wasn't it?? Remember our sad walk up to the wrong part of that island looking for gentoos?? Hope you can come back with Oceanites some time Dr LaRue!!
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
An early morning flight to Ushuaia leads to some whacky thoughts... in this edition of #PlanesGettingEatenByJetways we've got an Aerolineas argentinas 737... #Avgeek #penguincounting #penguins #earlymornings #Antarctica
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
One part of coming to #Antarctica is waiting in airports! Currently waiting for my partner in crime, Bertrand Charry to join me at Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires. Tomorrow morning we catch a flight to Ushuaia, Arg to get on board the Greg Mortimer for ten days. #PenguinCounting #Penguins #Seabirds
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Snickers @snickers.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Polyamory means wholly loving multiple people, not loving each one halfway. True polyamory thrives on commitment, communication, and genuine care for every partner involved. Don't settle for less than you deserve. 💜
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Oceanites has been counting #penguins since 1994 and maintains the largest source of publicly accessible #penguin census records in the world which can be accessed at www.penguinmap.com. This is our 31st season and we've got some amazing operational partners! #Antarctica #PenguinCounting
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Please follow and retweet this starterpack if you're mad about #seabirds 🐧🧪🌍 go.bsky.app/MPUTnm
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
So it begins... Follow along as I head off from Inverness, Scotland to the #Antarctic peninsula where I'll be once again counting #Penguins for Oceanites! First, a wee hop to London Heathrow before my long haul to Buenos Aires #PenguinCounters #Seabirds #Science #BestJob
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David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Being a peer-reviewer is critical to science. It's time for reviewing to be rewarded at the highest levels. 🧪 #academicsky
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The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing
Opinion | Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that.
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Alice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Obviously it's that time of year again everyone!! #MakeItSo #ShutUpWesley #Christmas #StarTrekTNG #Picard www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSn...
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Captain Picard sings "Let it Snow!"
YouTube video by James Covenant
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Sofia Bolumar @turriachedda.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We’re hiring — this is a great job! JOB: Director of Conservation (Ontario), @ncccnc.bsky.social ⭐️ Flexible location in Ontario ⭐️ Senior role ⭐️ Apply by 5 Jan 2025 ⭐️ www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar... #ConservationJobs
Screenshot of the top part of the job ad:

NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA

CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE CANADA

Director of Conservation
Full Time Salaried
Director
ON Home Office, Ontario, ON, CA
Salary Range: $121,174.00 To $136,342.00 Annually
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Jess Marsh @jessmarsh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
📣New paper📣 We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity 🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge C...
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates - Volume 2
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
For those #Seabird Lovers out there - don't forget to head over the @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social Youtube channel where you'll get to see all the past #SeabirdSession recordings! You'll also find all the past episodes of #SixtySecondSeabirds www.youtube.com/@WSeabirds/v...
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W Seabirds
This channel is dedicated to spreading news and videos about seabirds from around the world. The World Seabird Union is an organization comprised of the world's seabird organizations, and is a point o...
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We'll also be discussing Cerren Richard's paper on #seabird bycatch www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bycatch-threatened seabirds disproportionally contribute to community trait composition across the world
Human pressures in the ocean are restructuring biological communities, driving non-random extinctions, and disrupting marine ecosystem functioning. In…
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We've got two papers to discuss: The first is an update on 20 years of the Seabird tracking Database by Ana Carneiro www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database: 20 years of collaboration for marine conservation
The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) was established in 2004 to collate tracking data to address the incidental mortality of seabirds in fish…
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
NEWS!!! #SeabirdSessions are BACK!!! DEC 16, 2024 on ZOOM! An E-mail will go out to the E-list soon with more details! In the meantime, if you're NOT on the e-list and want including, do DM me! #Seabirds #Science #Conservation #SciComm #GrantsHat
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Outwitted by my 6 year old.... #parenting...
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is all too true... Ultimately the root of all of these problems stem from malicious or uncaring humans... It's incredibly difficult to not lose hope. #darkdays #climatechange #ecogrief #climateanxiety
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Does anyone else get as excited about new kitchenware as I do?.....
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If I had actioned every single idea I've had since I started my professional career, I'd need to clone myself 100 times over and build an empire the size of Google....
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a man with a beanie on says i got a couple of ideas
ALT: a man with a beanie on says i got a couple of ideas
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Yeay @altmetric.com you have formally made Bluesky a good space for academics.
A screenshot of the Altmetric Attention Score for a recent Policy Forum paper in Science that shows that Bluesky is now added as one of the places that counts toward the Attention Score.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Nice - was just debating how to do this!
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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🎉 Data is now loaded on the Seabird Tracking Database! www.seabirdtracking.org
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Home - Seabird Tracking Database
Seabird Tracking Database from BirdLife International is the premier platform for seabird researchers to share satellite tracking data with research and conservation communities​ worldwide.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
While Marriage can certainly be for the right reasons, it can often not be, and it's great to see that some cultures are starting to recognize that it shouldn't be forced upon anyone, nor should it be expected of us.
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
!!! WAHEEEYYY!!! Unbelievable news!! #SeabirdSessions is returning!! These are one-hour online events where we interview the authors of the latest #Seabird science (and sometimes listen to a bit of music). More news coming @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social #Seabirders
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This post is for my straight-presenting, #Bisexual friends out there - I see you! Being asked "Are you really Bi if you're married to someone of the opposite gender" is wildly infuriating... #LoveIsLove everyone xxx Stay #queer out there!
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Super deserved, M
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
What a privilege to receive an Australian Biosecurity Award for my research, science communication, and advocacy on HPAI. Grateful to Tiggy from Wildlife Health Australia for the nomination, and all collaborators and colleagues for making it possible! agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity-...
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Elizabeth Masden @masden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Want to learn about avian collision risk modelling? Read this new paper led by @aonghaisc.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1k5DiiZ5tG...
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#HumphriesPizzaNight... Oh yes... #pizza
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Grants Hat @grantshat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is brilliant. My sex hair hat is a fedora (not that I have piles of hair to worry about)
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