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Tasha Gownaris

@njg.bsky.social
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Marine ecologist in the environmental studies department at Gettysburg College. Interested in undergrad education and research, open educational resources, seabirds, trophic ecology, behavioral plasticity

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Dr Alice Hall @ahallmarine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉 Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688... @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social #AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New paper! Terns differ in how they respond to changes in prey availability in the Gulf of Maine, with implications for the growth of their chicks. Isotopes + provisioning watches show that terns face trade-offs between prey quality & foraging distance. dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this. A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
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Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In 1981, just 4 years after Project Puffin began, adult puffins returned to Eastern Egg Island—with fish in their beaks 🐟 A sign chicks had hatched! Today, hundreds thrive there—thanks to Dr. Stephen Kress, their dedicated protector. 🐧 🎥 youtu.be/ELBvPTvA8NA?...
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How researchers restored a thriving habitat for Atlantic puffins in Maine
Atlantic puffins face an increasingly precarious foothold due in part to a loss of habitat and to troubles tied to warming ocean waters and climate change. But an effort off the coast of Maine…
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
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Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Bluesky #bird people- if you haven’t seen it yet, you have to watch #Listers. It’s birds, it’s free, it’s funny, it has awesome bird footage, and it’s decidedly not kid friendly. What more could you want? youtu.be/JjWExJQed2Y?...
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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Calling all isotope ecologists. IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
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IsoEcol 2026 – 14th International Conference on the Application of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Sometimes we need to find clever vessels for weighing tiny #seabird chicks!
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Elaine Freezer @elainefreezer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Sharing a couple of my photos and sketches from monitoring Common Terns this year for #SeabirdSeptember Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿 #CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
Three images going clockwise - watercolour Sketch of a juvenile Common Tern, watercolour sketch of chick, photo of adult Tern.
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Anne Ausems (she/her) @anneausems.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A recent #linocut of a cupcake #stormpetrel chick! #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Tis the season for bird migration! Eastern migration will likely pick up Monday/Tuesday night as Erin’s influence moves out and north winds take over. #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds
NEXRAD radar map showing bird migration in the central states from north to south. BirdCast map showing 272 million birds in flight at 12:10am EDT on August 24, 2025.
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Do I know anyone on here who might find it useful to predict hatching dates from birds eggs? Please reach out if you're open to help me develop ovotime.com to include more species, and to expand with more detailed #oology features! #phenology #seabirds #ornithology 🌍🧪
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Ovotime
Ovotime is a tool for predicting the hatching time of skua eggs based on their mass, length, breadth, and density.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve
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Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve
Seamounts have been likened to ‘oases’ of life in the comparative deserts of the open ocean. This integrated study of tropical seamounts suggests that high faunal biomass is sustained by exogenous…
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Giulia Masoero @giumasoero.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience? Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀 @eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social #ornithology
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Come study with us! ⬇️ @adriftlab.bsky.social
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Please check out the attached advertisement for a #masters project at @dalhousieu.bsky.social on Leach's storm-petrels! #MSc #biology #gradstudies #gradschool #birds #seabirds #research
A screenshot of an ad for a master's position at Dalhousie university. Contact Glenn Crossin glenn.crossin@dal.ca
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Emily Runnells @e-runnells.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
So exciting that our paper on #puffin wing molt is out! We're learning more about oceanic life history, and how to protect this beloved species beyond the breeding colony, bit by bit. #stableisotopes, #seabirds, #ornithology - worth a read. Thank you #gulls, for the feather samples.
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Motivated by Sanchez et al. 2025 & BioGraphI sesh at #ESA2025 - I want to share the diversity in our field with my #ecology students after asking them what identifies they associate w/the field. #Ecologists please consider sharing 3 (single words) aspects of your identify on this menti (anonymous!)
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Extended deadline until tomorrow!
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 13/08/2025
Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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Michael Pollard @kmichaelpollard.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests | Science | AAAS 🧪
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
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Tasha Gownaris @njg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!
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