Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A new 15-year study finds plastic pollution isn’t just harming animals—it’s driving some species toward collapse. Seabirds with 1g of plastic have an 11% lower survival rate. Hard proof: plastic is pushing wildlife to the brink. Read more: bit.ly/4cs1s9q 01312
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/12/2024IBIS Special Issue | Citizen Science Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley.... @aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 099
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 210237
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪The NCCIH @thenccih.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“Indigenous and Northern led research groups receive more than $9M boost” - www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - #Research #HealthResearch #KnowledgeTranslationcbc.caIndigenous and Northern led research groups receive more than $9M boost13 Indigenous and Northern-led research groups are receiving new funding. ArcticNet is investing $9.3 million through its North-by-North program. CBC's Toby Otak has more. 002
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New research has shown that this googly-eyed scarecrow can help save threatened seabirds from getting caught in fishing nets by around two thirds! Full paper - conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fishtekmarine.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk #seabirds 🦑🐟🧪🌍🌐🦤🐧 01913
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪EJ Today News @ejtodaynews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Marine #HeatWave Kills #Seabirds Off #California. El Nino Could Kill More Julie Watson reports for @apnews.com apnews.com/article/seab...apnews.comA marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-offMany seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters. 025
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 19/05/2026Little auks are small Arctic #seabirds that need to find enough food to raise their chicks in a rapidly changing ocean. This #RSOS paper studied their feeding behaviour over seven breeding seasons in Svalbard using GPS tracking, ocean data, and diet samples: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 01210
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee.... 57627
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A fascinating story, with some gorgeous artwork, too. #Seabirdssmithsonianmag.comHow 'Seabird Sue' Blends Art and Science to Attract Birds Back to Lost HabitatFor the past decade, Sue Schubel has been making detailed decoys of terns, puffins and other seabirds to entice real ones to restored or new homes 1123
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Nonfiction science new releases for MAY*, 2026! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am planning to read INVISIBLE RAINBOWS, and THE CREATURES GUIDE TO CARING! *BIRDS UP CLOSE was April 28 #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience 1183
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Roll 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 06168
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Our new article in @aunz.theconversation.com on why #seabirds are increasingly washing up on beaches in #Australia theconversation.com/more-shearwa...theconversation.comMore shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It’s not due to ‘natural’ causesWhen we see shearwaters washed up dead on beaches, we might think strong winds or a failed migration are to blame. That’s not the case – it’s hotter oceans 01614
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Another hard year for the #birds & our team. In 2 weeks we removed 1.1 kg of #plastics from Australian #shearwater chicks (>8850 pieces). Balloons clips, clothes pegs, tiling spacers, strapping tape, drink lids, nurdles, toys, cutlery - the list goes on & on 😞 #SeabirdSaturday #PlasticPollution 22618
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Book review: Where the Earth meets the Sky. Book by @louiseblight.bsky.social, review by Rachel Buxton. #seabirds #penguins #Antarctica www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_... 192
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Please come along to our session on One Health in the Arctic virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75716/... #UArctic where I will give a presentation on "Traditional Hunting and Harvesting in the Faroe Islands: Cultural Heritage and Human Exposure to Environmental Contaminants" #seabirds #cetaceans 🧪🌍virtual.oxfordabstracts.comOA Virtual conferences 1159
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Ryan Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Canada still doesn’t have an official national bird. Bill S-221, now before the Senate, would recognize the Canada Jay. Found in every province and territory, resident through northern winters, food-storing, early-nesting, and wonderfully Canadian. www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en... 📷 Brett Forsyth 33414
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The best pun, I wish I thought of that! 😂❤️ 010
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026“A new programme to protect one the UK's most endangered #seabirds has been announced in Scarborough. “The 'Protecting Our Urban Kittiwakes' project is a joint venture between the RSPB and Northern Powergrid.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNew project to protect endangered seabirds in ScarboroughProtecting our Urban Kittiwakes is a joint venture between the RSPB and Northern Powergrid. 0104
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I thought that the #seabird world may appreciate my new office slippers. Custom-made wool felted slippers with black #guillemots, because there is never enough black #guillemot themed items out there but there should be! 😂❤️ So in love with these. 1130
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 23/04/2026New @adriftlab.bsky.social paper in Conservation Biology: we estimate 629,000+ seabirds died during Australia's 2023/24 marine heatwave. Fewer than 5,000 were counted on beaches, less than 1% of total mortality conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 📸: SIlke Stuckenbrock 24431
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺 Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland. 👇 Read all about it here 👇 seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2seabirdgroup.org.ukSeabird 38 - Seabird GroupThe Seabird Group was founded to promote and co-ordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. We organise conferences and publish the journal SEABIRD. 11414
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 19/04/2026The most exciting mail to arrive this week! As a result of the Pacific #Seabird Group charity auction, I was fortunate enough to take home Maria Mudd Ruth’s latest book on Pigeon #Guillemots, her book on Marbled #Murrelets, and an adorable trinket dish with those bright red #guillemot feet! ❤️ 071
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 19/04/202610 years ago today, I accepted my first #research job in an #entomology lab, focusing on #bee research. That summer, I knew I wanted a career in #science. Past Julia couldn’t have imagined where that opportunity would eventually lead her, but present Julia is so happy that she took that chance. 🥰❤️ 090
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 19/04/2026🧵 1/3 @adriftlab.bsky.social has never had government funding. What we have had - for nearly two decades - is a small group of deeply committed people, long-term datasets, and a community who makes it possible. Our website now celebrates that out loud. 🔗 adriftlab.orgadriftlab.orgMarine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift LabAdrift Lab is a research group focused on seabirds and marine plastics research. Our mission is to use insights gathered from our long-term research to inform marine and waste policy, and to drive pos... 1199
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds have increased tremendously over the past decades - and that #UAV monitoring can reveal the full extent of these colonies: buff.ly/ocefm59 01710
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Marie-Morgane Rouyer @mariemrouyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Great news from the Convention on Migratory Species @cms.int Marine #flyways are recognized for #seabirds. 🌊 🪶 www.seabirdtracking.org/special/mari... >30% seabird species are threatened and >50% are declining. Great example of #science informing #policy. #sciencepolicylnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 072
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026This research on how changes in #seaice can impact penguin distribution highlights the importance of #adaptivemanagement of #protectedareas. #climatechange #seabirds #conservation 050
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Great synthesis on threats to #seabirds in the #Atlantic. “Addressing invasive alien species on Tristan da Cunha & Gough and on the islands of the Canary Current are the interventions with the greatest potential to stimulate seabird population recovery across the Atlantic Ocean.“ Article below ⬇️ 010
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The 2025 Northern Ireland Seabird Report has now been published! Head to: www.bto.org/our-work/sci... to read about how Northern Ireland's breeding seabirds fared in 2025 #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @bto-ni.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social 02215
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Animal Conservation @animalconserv.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Diving ecology of Procellaria #petrels highlights the need to combine bird-scaring lines, weighted branch lines, and night setting in pelagic longline #fisheries zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #bycatch @wileyecology.bsky.social 067
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 19/03/2026We’re pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Seabird Monitoring Programme report, in partnership with JNCC, in association with the RSPB. Click here to read the report: www.bto.org/our-work/sci... Read on for key findings ⬇️ #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social 14322
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Marie-Morgane Rouyer @mariemrouyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026🚨New paper & dataset - Assessment of land-based threats to #Atlantic pelagic #seabirds 🌊 🪶 , led by @ioannis-kalaitz.bsky.social Highlights the most impactful threats & regions. Supports the #conservation of 49 #migratory species & implementation of mitigation measures doi.org/10.1111/csp2...doi.orgAssessment of land‐based threats to Atlantic pelagic seabirdsHighly mobile pelagic seabirds face numerous land-based threats during their breeding seasons, including invasive alien species, climate change, and diseases, which drive population declines. Using f... 12614
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I have a bunch of great skuas frozen whole in freezers, that I need to take apart due to lack of storage. I will take samples tomorrow, but get in touch if you want random reference material of a North Atlantic top predator #seabirds 🧪🌍 22012
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Matt Wood @woodmj.bsky.social · 13/03/2026📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1 Please share widely, informal email enquiries welcome @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 43536
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Interested in learning more? Read the full article in #ArcticScience here: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....cdnsciencepub.comBlack-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) readily consume Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in the Canadian Arctic: insights from stomach content and stable isotope analysesThe Arctic is undergoing rapid declines in sea ice and changes in Arctic ecosystems. The diet of one of the Arctic’s most abundant seabirds, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), has been use... 032
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Future work should include other methods, such as #regurgitates and #faecalsamples, to better understand #black-leggedkittiwake diet in Arctic Canada. Nevertheless, as #climatechange impacts increase, this study provides benchmark data for monitoring changes in this #sentinel #seabird and its prey. 100
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026After accounting for dietary discrimination, #δ13C and #δ15N #isotope values in kittiwake livers were at a lower #trophiclevel than Arctic cod. What does this mean? While kittiwakes do consume Arctic cod (as seen in stomachs), stomach analysis may underestimate soft tissue prey, such as #inverts. 100
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Based on #StomachContents alone, #prey did not differ between regions, where the dominant prey was Arctic #cod. However, only two soft-bodied #invertebrates were identified in stomachs, as most prey items were heavily digested. So what are we missing? #StableIsotopes can help answer this. 100
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The diet of one of the most abundant Arctic #seabirds, the black-legged #kittiwake, has been used as an #EcosystemIndicator in Europe, yet little is known about diet in #ArcticCanada. We examined the diet of kittiwakes near #Qikiqtarjuaq and #Mittimatalik, #Nunavut, using multiple methods. 122
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026🚨 #HotOffThePress in @cdnsciencepub.com "Black-legged #kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) readily consume #ArcticCod (Boreogadus saida) in the Canadian #Arctic: insights from #StomachContent and #StableIsotopeAnalyses" This is the last chapter of my #PhD to be published! A thread🧵of the main results: 1134
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026My favourite part about #blizzards in the #north: lighting a candle, cuddling up with a blanket and a good book, and listening to the winds as they rock these buildings on stilts. Nature is beautiful. 171
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 09/03/2026#seabirds 095
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026As a #seabird #biologist, I know all to well how difficult it can be to deploy tracking devices that last long enough on the #bird! This new study uses 3D-printed clamp systems to deploy tracking devices on #seabirds. Read the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comA novel non-permanent attachment method for bird-borne tracking devices using 3D-printed clamps - Journal of OrnithologyCollecting GPS positions on bird movements requires secure and efficient attachment methods that maintain animal welfare. For seabirds, one of the most threatened bird groups globally, non-permanent a... 0108
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ - @thecccuk.bsky.social finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comReaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits 25017
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/03/2026‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds - “Hundreds of millions of people can no longer safely go about their daily lives outside during hottest parts of the year” says @lukeaparsons.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study findsRising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions 15236
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the #women in my life. I’ve been so fortunate to have had incredible female role models throughout my career, from having a female supervisor in my undergrad, my masters, and my PhD, to now being surrounded by incredible women at work. I am so grateful. 👩🔬💪 060
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/03/2026A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍 18153
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026#ornithology arcticeider.comarcticeider.comArctic Eider SocietyA registered Canadian charity supporting Indigenous driven solutions for thriving communities through self-determination in research, education and stewardship. 0125
Reposted by Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 04/03/2026“A real dark situation to be in”: thousands of starving #seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decadePuffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food 0104
Julia Baak, Ph.D. ❄️🦆🧪 @juliaellenbaak.bsky.social · 07/03/2026#BlackGuillemots are widely distributed #seabirds, nesting under rocks along coastlines, which makes surveying an entire population challenging. This project is a great example of #CommunityBasedMonitoring that will support the assessment of #guillemot populations in the UK! 022