Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialMarie-Morgane Rouyer @mariemrouyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🚨 New paper in @consletters.bsky.social, one of the main outputs of my #PhD ! 🥳 You can read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1111/con4... Summary below 26228
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialThe Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026New postdoc alert! 👀🧪🏖️ 0712
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialSteffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Our project to save #vultures along the #flyway by working with partners in 14 countries has been shortlisted for the LIFE awards - help us win: buff.ly/GS08T3z 0147
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialMarine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 22/04/2026New paper: Foraging areas of breeding adult Sooty tern on Bird Island, Seychelles. By Jessica L. Neumann et. al. #seabirds #OpenAccess #MarineProtectedArea www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_... 0125
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialSteffen 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 @malcnicoll.bsky.socialRob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This looks like a great (bustard) job... www.countryside-jobs.com/job/may26/ec...countryside-jobs.comGreat Bustard Group: Ecologist - Monitoring Productivty advertised with CJSContract: Salary - up to £30,000pa Hours: 40 hours per week with flexible hours and days.Job Description: To work to the GBG Project Manager, monitoring Great Bustard productivity and habitat use in W... 003
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialRuth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Exciting PhD on mouse lemur population genomics, based in Montpellier with Helena Teixeira 🧬🌴👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224 005
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialConvention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 11/03/202626 kinds of gadfly petrels are being proposed for listing under CMS at #CMSCOP15. These birds are already threatened or near threatened, they move across 64 countries & territories and face serious pressures both on land and at sea. Read the proposal in EN, SP or FR: www.cms.int/document/302... 01010
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialKirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026We're looking for volunteers to join us on Mousa, Shetland this July! 🌊⛺🔊 Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more. And perhaps worth looking into @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social's 2026 Training Grants if you need financial support: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants 🔗seabirdgroup.org.ukGrants - 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. 076
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialAdrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirdsadriftlab.orgReport beached birds, beach-washed birds, seabird mass mortalitiesReport beached birds, seabirds, and mutton birds. Help us gather data on seabird mass mortality events as a citizen scientist. 7225188
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialKirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Seasonal field staff needed for @rspbscience.bsky.social projects in 2026 - advert live, closing date 11 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities! Get in touch if you’d like to know more about any of the #seabird roles 🌊🐦 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithologyapp.vacancy-filler.co.ukResearch Assistant and Senior Research Assistant - Seasonal Recruitment 2026 | RSPBWe are delighted to bring the details of our seasonal Research Assistants and Senior Research Assistants vacancies on a variety of projects within Great Britain in 2026.Full details of the roles curre... 02425
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialExeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2025What can strandings of cetaceans tell us about the impact of marine pollution? 🐬 This @zslofficial.bsky.social and CSIP event, brings together experts (including our @sarahenelms.bsky.social) to explore major forms of marine pollution in our waters. Free, online/in-person - lnkd.in/eEUiEbdH 🦑🐬🌊🌍🧪🌐 1158
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 13/08/2025New paper-size matters! Our team showed even though highly mobile, turtles, mantas & seabirds all protected by very large #MPA around Chagos Archipelago. Led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social, @ruthedunn.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...news.exeter.ac.ukChagos study highlights value of vast Marine Protected AreasLarge ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research shows. Scientists tracked sea turtles, manta rays and seabirds – all of whic... 186
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 11/08/2025Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby | doi.org/10.1016/j.an... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology 🪶 0137
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialRuth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Nice little thread on some of our recent red-footed booby work 💨👇 062
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialRuth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social 02716
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialLancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Using lightweight bird-borne cameras, scientists have captured unique footage of Indian Ocean seabirds speeding just above the waves to catch flying fish. Dr Ruth Dunn (@ruthedunn.bsky.social) of @lec-reefs.bsky.social is lead author of the study. 📰: tinyurl.com/yezeyxu2 14820
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialRuth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟 New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social 🧪🌍🪶 25031
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialDavid Jacoby @netlab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025#Angelsharks may be more vulnerable to #ClimateChange than we thought! Out today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... @lancasteruni.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @ulpgc.es @qmul.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de @lec-reefs.bsky.social 📸 @nuno_vasco_rodrigues 0135
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Our Indian Ocean marine science programme supports established researchers and has a major focus on training the next generation of ocean scientists. A big congratulations to all our recent PhD Graduates for 2024! #PhDGraduates #Doctor #MarineScience #MarineBiology #Scientists 032
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 25/06/2025In 2024 scientists from the Marine Science Programme published 39 papers, bringing the total number of published papers to 213 since 2017. Of the 39, five were published in journals with an “excellent” impact factor (>10) and a further 24 in journals with a “good” impact factor (>3) 011
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 13/06/2025Nest Site and Mate Fidelity in a Large Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus Breeding Colony | doi.org/10.5253/arde... | Ardea | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 0133
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Our Programme seeks to maximise visibility, accessibility & useability of all data collected by our project teams. We've partnered with the Harvard Data Repository to create a data collection that allows us to store & manage large quantities of data of all kinds dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/be... 001
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialProf David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.socialscience.orgGlobal tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targetsThe recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of thre... 09736
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialDavid Jacoby @netlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Herculean collation of >12K megafauna tracks, >100 species, reveals 75% overlap of critical habitats with shipping, fishing, pollution or warming. Protection targets not enough to safeguard megafauna. New paper in @science.org, led by @anammsequeira.bsky.social 👇 📸silvana-palacios,daniel-torobekov 22912
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialAna MM Sequeira @anammsequeira.bsky.social · 06/06/2025📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...sequeiralab.comMegaMove uncovers where protection is needed for marine megafaunaA new Science paper maps global hotspots for marine megafauna & finds that planned increased protection will be insufficient to cover most areas 13016
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialSteffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN 0208
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialmarineronan.bsky.social @marineronan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025New paper out! Understanding the relative importance of nutrient transfer pathways on coral reefs. Revealing work led by @ruthedunn.bsky.social and available #OpenAccess in Coral Reefs #ecology #coralReefs 022
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialBirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 06/05/2025📢New blog is out! Joshua Coste shares details about his research on Red-footed Booby homing behaviour in the Indian Ocean 🌊 ➡️ tinyurl.com/RFB-navigation Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social 01510
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialDr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgSeabirds in crisis: Plastic ingestion induces proteomic signatures of multiorgan failure and neurodegenerationPlastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver. 8238145
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialAlice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · 27/02/2025New open access paper! Led by Joshua Coste Results show tropical seabirds meet diurnal constraints by navigating efficiently back to low-lying reef atoll colonies doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Great work from Joshua's masters internship with @uniexecec.bsky.social and @iomarinescience.bsky.social 12312
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialDr Joanne Morten @joanne-morten.bsky.social · 17/02/2025So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of! 1216
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialMartin Beal @amigodeaves.bsky.social · 17/02/2025So cool to see this out! Also cool use of the Spilhaus projection here :) 041
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialBirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 17/02/2025🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5 411758
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialNick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Big paper drop by @reefjav.bsky.social ! Reef fish communities are undergoing substantial change on the Great Barrier Reef, with latitude and through time. Changing coral composition, not simply coral cover, a major driver. @lec-reefs.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEmergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature CommunicationsCoral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger... 06720
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialCasey Benkwitt @cbenkwitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 34317
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialThe Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/01/2025PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (Image: Richard Crossley) 16035
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialJennifer Appoo @jenniferappoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025A bit late but excited to share our new paper exploring how seabird nutrient inputs influence mangrove food webs! 🐦🌿 @entropie-marinelab.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social Open access: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 04315
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Congratulations to Dr Nicole Esteban (Swansea University) who was awarded the ZSL Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation this week! The award recognises her amazing research and the significant impact it has had on marine and freshwater conservation buff.ly/4fdY5kY 021
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialAlice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Postdoc 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 02624
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialIO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 06/12/2024New Science! 🦑 New #MarineBiology publication out this week led by Malc Nicoll looks at 'Sub-colony variation in foraging behaviour and at-sea distribution of a breeding tropical seabird and consequences for marine spatial planning' #openaccess Available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 011
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialJente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Promiscuous Petrels: Genetic Study Reveals Gene Flow on a Global Scale avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2017/11/11/p... A Molecular Ecology paper shows inter-oceanic gene flow among five petrel species on a global scale | #ornithologyavianhybrids.wordpress.comPromiscuous Petrels: Genetic Study Reveals Gene Flow on a Global ScaleA recent study, published in Molecular Ecology, shows inter-oceanic gene flow among five petrel species on a global scale. Petrels, the narrow-winged seabirds that graciously soar across the world&… 12012
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialLiam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024New paper alert! Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution! In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets. Link to paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...dx.doi.orgCompetition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine PredatorAnalysis of combined deployments of GPS loggers with cameras or temperature–depth recorders reveals that despite experiencing intraspecific competition for food, northern gannets engage in dynamic, c... 310330
Reposted by @malcnicoll.bsky.socialKirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗 #ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels 17849