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Marie-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
Paper presentation - Highly mobile seabirds reveal areas of conservation importance across the Atlantic Ocean
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New postdoc alert! 👀🧪🏖️
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our 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
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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New 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_...
A adult Sooty Tern in flight over the water. Photo: Adam Bowley. Macaulay Library ML 205391311
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW 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
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This looks like a great (bustard) job... www.countryside-jobs.com/job/may26/ec...
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Great Bustard Group: Ecologist - Monitoring Productivty advertised with CJS
Contract: 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...
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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Exciting PhD on mouse lemur population genomics, based in Montpellier with Helena Teixeira 🧬🌴👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/420224
Black and white photo of a mouse lemur and some DNA alongside text: "PhD Position | mouse lemur population genomics | Sept 2026 | ISEM IRD University of Montpellier France"
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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 11/03/2026
26 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...
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We'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 🔗
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Grants - Seabird Group
The Seabird Group was founded to promote and co-ordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. We organise conferences and publish the journal SEABIRD.
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Adrift 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 #OzBirds
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Report beached birds, beach-washed birds, seabird mass mortalities
Report beached birds, seabirds, and mutton birds. Help us gather data on seabird mass mortality events as a citizen scientist.
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Seasonal 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 #ornithology
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Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant - Seasonal Recruitment 2026 | RSPB
We 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...
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What 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 🦑🐬🌊🌍🧪🌐
an event poster. the main image is a black and white photograph of a stranded, deceased killer whale, laying on its side on the sand of a beach setting.  overlay text reads ' signals from the shore: what cetacean strandings reveal about pollution. weds 15th oct, huxley lecture theatre, zsl, 6-7.30pm, FREE.' there are logos for ZSL and CSIP at the top.
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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New 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...
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Chagos study highlights value of vast Marine Protected Areas
Large 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...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 11/08/2025
Homing navigation is optimized to diurnal constraints in a tropical seabird, the red-footed booby | doi.org/10.1016/j.an... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology 🪶
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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Nice little thread on some of our recent red-footed booby work 💨👇
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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New 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
Photos of a reef manta ray, red-footed booby, and a hawsbill turtles with biologging devices attached to them. The journal logo is also featured, alongside the article title and author list. Some text reads: "Tracking data reveal that very large marine protected areas offer protection for mobile marine megafauna including benthic foragers (turtles), pelagic planktivores (manta ray), and oceanic predators (seabirds)".
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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Using 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
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Ruth 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 🧪🌍🪶
Composite image of the Proceedings B journal title, the manuscript title and the author list, alongside an image of a red-footed booby flying amongst palm trees. Some text reads: "Winds shape the behavioural decisions of red-footed boobies, impacting their foraging commutes and feeding behaviour".
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David 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
@sharkconservationfund @canbiocanarias @saveourseasfoundation @oceantrackingnetwork @wwfnederland @nercscience @deutsche_elasmobrancier_ges
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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our 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
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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In 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)
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 13/06/2025
Nest Site and Mate Fidelity in a Large Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus Breeding Colony | doi.org/10.5253/arde... | Ardea | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Our 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...
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Prof David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
NEW 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.social
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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
The 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...
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David Jacoby @netlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Herculean 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
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Ana 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...
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MegaMove uncovers where protection is needed for marine megafauna
A new Science paper maps global hotspots for marine megafauna & finds that planned increased protection will be insufficient to cover most areas
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
NEW 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
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marineronan.bsky.social @marineronan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New 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
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BirdLife 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
Nesting Red-footed Booby
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our 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/...
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Seabirds in crisis: Plastic ingestion induces proteomic signatures of multiorgan failure and neurodegeneration
Plastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver.
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Alice Trevail @alicetrevail.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
New 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
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Dr Joanne Morten @joanne-morten.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!
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Martin Beal @amigodeaves.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
So cool to see this out! Also cool use of the Spilhaus projection here :)
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BirdLife 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
Infographic map showing the six marine flyways (Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway, Southern Ocean Flyway) in a spilhaus projection, and the general direction of travel by migratory seabirds
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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Big 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...
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Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications
Coral 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...
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Casey Benkwitt @cbenkwitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Check 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...
Diagram showing links between seabirds and various coral-reef monitoring outcomes.
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (Image: Richard Crossley)
Petrels flying over the sea in the Indian Ocean
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Jennifer Appoo @jenniferappoo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
A 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....
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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Congratulations 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
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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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IO Marine Science @iomarinescience.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New 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...
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Your 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 | #ornithology
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Promiscuous Petrels: Genetic Study Reveals Gene Flow on a Global Scale
A 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&…
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Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New 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...
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Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator
Analysis 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...
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
An 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
A Trinidade petrel flying over Round Island, Mauritius, with a geolocator clearly visible on it's left (lower) leg.
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