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Morten Frederiksen

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Seabird researcher at Aarhus University. Endlessly fascinated by the diversity of life

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Revisiting the Sandwich Tern outbreaks - mortality biased towards older individuals (40% mortality) vs young individuals (5-10%). = removed most experienced individuals from the population. No sex bias observed. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Long-awaited good news! For the first time, the European shag has bred in Denmark. This is an extension of the rapidly growing population on the Swedish west coast. News story unfortunately only in Danish www.dof.dk/nyheder/1792... #seabirds
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Ornitologisk sensation: topskarv har ynglet for første gang nogensinde i Danmark
For første gang har topskarven fået unger på vingerne i Danmark. Et ynglepar har fået to unger på Hirsholmene i det nordlige Kattegat.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My colleague David Boertmann has just published this wonderful book. Available from international distributors. en.unipress.dk/udgivelser/b... #seabirds #birds #Greenland
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Birds of Greenland Aarhus University Press
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
How do fulmars respond to drones: #seabirds 🌍🧪
Figure showing observational distance and behavioural observations
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Drones, AI, thermal imaging and 3D modelling is proving a real game changer for monitoring cliff nesting seabirds Circumventing Blind Angles and Disturbance: Evaluating UAS for Monitoring Cliff-Nesting Seabirds www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/10... @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's a rare thing these days - a "thought paper" that may state the obvious but does indeed make one think. This is one of them. It's light on the ethics, but that's not central to the point. Worth a read for anyone at any career stage.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The big news is our next International Conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland in Sept 2027! With the lovely @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social and team as the local hosts. It's going to be amazing! Watch for further news after the (northern) field season... #seabirds #ornithology #Seabirds2027
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy to announce a postdoc position with me and Jakob Strand, to work on data from the revamped Danish beached bird survey organised by DOF BirdLife Denmark. How many seabirds end up on Danish beached, where do they come from, and why did they die? #seabirds ecos.au.dk/en/about-us/...
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Postdoc in seabird ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Ecoscience - Arctic Ecosystem Ecology, Aarhus University
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
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 authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New PhD course in Decision-making and Adaptive Management at Aarhus University, taught by leading experts Fred Johnson and Jesper Madsen. Deadline for registration 15 June. phd.tech.au.dk/for-phd-stud...
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Decision-Making and Adaptive Management for Conservation
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thrilled to be part of this! Excellent work by @tashgillies.bsky.social and many others
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Big congrats to Johan Castenschiold for successfully defending his PhD thesis yesterday at Aarhus University! It was a pleasure to supervise with @sjurdur.bsky.social . Also thanks to @masden.bsky.social and Jonas Hentati-Sundberg for excellent questions!
Front cover of the thesis, entitled 'Eyes in the sky'. Photo of a magnificent bird cliff in the Faroes
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Talkin' Birds Radio Show @talkinbirdsradio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A brief story about a seabird asking for help at a hospital, of all places! We did not know that cormorants could read German, but apparently this one figured out that a hospital is where you go when you're injured. #birds #seabirds
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Injured seabird desperately pecks at hospital door for help
An injured seabird sought help by pecking on a German hospital’s emergency room door. The black cormorant had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it showed up Sunday at a hospital in the nort...
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Doing research on #Arctic #seabirds? Consider submitting an abstract to the session 'Safeguarding seabird populations in a rapidly changing Arctic' at www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 26-29 May 2026
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe? Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables? Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Demography of marine birds in the Northeast Atlantic: Informed parameter values for population modelling
We developed matrix population models for 54 regional populations of 25 marine bird species in the north-east Atlantic, based on 30 years of monitoring data. In Step 1, we parameterised the models wi...
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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By @bennett-sophie.bsky.social et al. www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_... #seabirds #OpenAccess #biologging
Data and predictions from non-linear least squares models of the relationship between the number of days with location data and
the distance between centroids derived from global location sensor loggers and platform terminal transmitters deployed on Black-browed
Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
1/ New study! #Seabirds are among the most threatened groups of birds globally, and a new study looked at how emerging technologies can be optimally harnessed in seabird monitoring. ➡️ www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring #Ornithology
Guillemots together on the top of a rock face. Wording above reads: New Study. Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring. www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📡 New insights for seabird monitoring New tech could reshape how we track seabird populations in a changing world. ✍️ New Editor’s Choice in #IJMS www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... 👉 Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/ices... 📸 @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New paper alert! How can new technologies improve seabid population monitoring? Output from a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference in Coimbra last year. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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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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Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Dana Octopus-Squid (Taningia danae)
Dana Octopus-Squid from Golfo de México (Golfo de América) on August 24, 2025 at 06:43 PM by Daniel Godínez
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just received copies of our forthcoming book on the seabirds of Greenland - in three languages! Official publication date 1 September. www.carstenegevang.com/seabirdbook #seabirds
Copies of the forthcoming book on the seabirds of Greenland, in English, Danish and Greenlandic
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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Special Issue of #BirdStudy is now published: The impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on birds: part 1 10 papers (5 #OpenAccess) plus Editorial on the impacts of #birdflu #HPAI outbreak in Europe, Canada, Antarctica: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7... #ornithology #ukbirding #seabirds
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025
The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 28/02/2025
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x #scicomm 🧪🪶
Three photos are shown. A) The Rokin nest, a colourful plastic-filled nest inside a metal pipe. B) The Eurasian coots swimming side by side through the Rokin canal, Amsterdam C) A whole list of vintage plastics ranging from 2022-1991. Photos: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I was asked for my view on the new paper from Jim Hansen "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations & the Public Well-Informed?" My full quote is at: climateuncensored.com/has-global-w... Jim's paper is at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Has Global Warming Accelerated – a short response to Hansen et al - Climate Uncensored
I was asked by Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News for my thoughts on James Hansen and colleagues’ recent paper  Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇
A playful illustrated title reads “How different birds would act on a first date." A disclaimer underneath states: “Not approved by RSPB fact-checkers.” The image features a cute Coal Tit perched sweetly on a blue flower. The background is a romantic shade of pink.
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Svenja Tidau @svenjatidau.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🧪 open letter by @scurry.bsky.social calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship 2 fellows have resigned…
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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird and she recently laid a new egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii. The announcement came via the United States Fish & Wildlife Service's social media on 3 December. #Seabirds www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...
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World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays Egg At Age 74
Wisdom the albatross returned to Midway Atoll with a new mate and her first egg in years. The long-lived seabird is still alive and is estimated to be 74 years old.
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The Waterbird Society @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...
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Wisdom was sighted near her usual nest site on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024. Her new mate is now incubating their egg!
The oldest known banded bird in the wild, a Mōlī or Laysan albatross known as Wisdom and who is at least 74 years old, has once again mystified biologists. Being able to reproduce and develop an eg…
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
How do the two sibling species of murres/guillemots coexist in their zone of overlap? Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun explored this in our recent paper. #seabirds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Drivers of Interspecific Spatial Segregation in Two Closely‐Related Seabird Species at a Pan‐Atlantic Scale
Aim Ecologically similar species living in sympatry are expected to segregate to reduce the effects of competition where resources are limiting. Segregation from heterospecifics commonly occurs in s...
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our recent review paper outlines how climate change affects migration of Arctic fish, #seabirds and marine mammals. There's still much we don't know ... www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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Frontiers | A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine vertebrates in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems
Climate change is impacting marine ecosystems throughout the circumpolar Arctic, altering seasonal habitats and the food bases for fishes, seabirds, and mari...
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I guess it's time to reintroduce myself, with all the new people here. I'm Morten, professor of seabird ecology at Aarhus University. The key theme in my research is understanding the causes of population change. I mainly work on #seabirds in the Arctic and North Atlantic.
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Morten Frederiksen @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
This colour-ringed juvenile kittiwake was observed yesterday in Northern Jutland, Denmark. Can anybody help identify its origin? #seabirds
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