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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ

@seabirdsentinel.bsky.social
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Métis Nation (Treaty 7) ♾ 🇨🇦#IndigenousScientist with #TangaroaBlue. Co-team lead at Adriftlab@bsky.social 🐦🏝, research on #PlasticPollution, #seabirds, #bushfires, and #islands. Passionate about #WomenInSTEM, #LGBTSTEM, #SciComm #ecogrief & #dachshunds

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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Shout out to my Australian colleagues who are coping with end-of-semester marking, exam prep, and myriad requests. Folks will need an extra dose of kindness and patience over coming weeks 💙
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My beloved Razorbills 💔
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The world is tough ATM. In case you need some cheer, meet Chippie (“Chipolata’) the #dachshund puppy
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Duane Froese @tephrafan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our new paper in GRL: "permafrost detachment slides." Entire frozen hillsides in NWT are failing from the base of permafrost creating the largest permafrost landslides in northern Canada. Thaw is driven by past wildfires and warming. Led by Joe Young. OA 👇 doi.org/10.1029/2026... #permafrost
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Permafrost Detachment Slides: A Distinct High‐Magnitude Permafrost Mass Wasting Process
PDSs fail through bottom-up thaw and detach the entire permafrost profile, fundamentally different from top-down thaw-driven mass wasting Climate warming and wildfire drive heat to the permafrost...
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Important to confront toxicity with evidence, not more toxicity #academia
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Involved in #conservation #translocation? This new paper is for you ⬇️
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exposure to #plastic is increasing rapidly, but few consequences have been described in detail. Does this mean we’re worrying about nothing? Nope! Our #NewPaper highlights the bio-mechanical consequences of #PlasticIngestion on the stomach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really proud of this paper. It reflects 16 years of effort of kind, compassionate humans who - despite minimal funding and overwhelming #ecogrief - did not give up 💪 #seabirds #plastics #TimeSeries
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UMaine is hiring a director of our new PFAS lab: fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... If you've got a PhD in analytical or environmental chemistry and 5+ years of PFAS research experience, check it out!
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Assistant or Associate Extension Professor, PFAS and Environmental Contaminants Analytical Specialist, and PFAS Lab Director
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is seeking an accomplished scientist and collaborative leader to establish and grow the University's PFAS analytical and Extension program. This is a uniq...
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Record-breaking amounts of plastic are being found in seabirds. A 16-year study of sable shearwaters on Australia’s Lord Howe Island has found a sharp rise in the amount of plastic in their stomachs.
Photograph of a dead sable shearwater on a black background next to a mosaic of varied coloured plastic fragments.
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Survey for HPAI in Australia’s Antarctic Territory in summer 2025- 26 - no HPAI detected and no signs of mass mortalities. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Following two incursions of HPAI into NSW, detailed follow up on all potential human exposures and interventions offered. No human cases detected. 👉 ojs.cdi.cdc.gov.au/index.php/cd...
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Over the past 12 months, I’ve been forced to spend far too much of my time (unpaid) fighting for Indigenous people to be meaningfully included in activities undertaken by Western scientists Today was yet another example! (see photo)
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Recently submitted an #IndigenousScience paper documenting chemicals in #TraditionalFoods with implications for human health. Desk reject, according to the Editor it’s “routine analyses...not helpful for global researchers….doesn’t offer any new scientific insights” #academia 🤦‍♀️👎
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🪽 1/2 New paper by @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social et al. provides much-needed data population-level effects spanning 15 y of mark-recapture data to estimate plastics’ impact on the demography of Sable Shearwaters. Ingestion of >1 g of plastic is common ... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ingested plastics reduce recruitment and survival of an Australian seabird | PNAS
Plastics research lags 30 y behind many other environmental crises, with population-level impacts alluded to but not yet demonstrated for any wild ...
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
While #AdriftLab's research primarily focuses on the effects of #PlasticPollution, sometimes our projects dont go according to plan. Adapting to changing situations is an important skill in science, and so...that's precisely what we did for our newest project
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is the result of 15 years of work. None of it supported by a big grant. Each field season happened on a shoestring (especially the early years) because we knew (we KNEW) something was happening. And the shearwaters' story had to be told.
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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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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An effective #GlobalPlasticsTreaty must include bans on toxic chemicals and unnecessary products. Sadly, these measures have been removed from the newest draft
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
European summers aren't what they used to be! Grey curve is the climate of 1950-90. Every coloured line is a summer since 1991. Every one since 2005 sits beyond the 95th percentile of the curve. This isn't a shifting #climate. It's already a new one! 🤯🥵 Plot inspired by Barriopedro et al. 2011
Distribution of European summer temperature anomalies, June to August, over 25°W-40°E, 35-70°N, land only, the region used by Barriopedro et al., relative to 1961-1990, from ERA5. Grey bars show the 41 summers from 1950 to 1990, with a normal curve fitted through them, centred near zero. Coloured vertical lines show every summer from 1991 to 2025, shaded yellow through dark red by year, and almost all of them fall to the right of the grey distribution. The ten warmest are labelled, with 2024 furthest right at 2.74°C and 2022 next at 2.54°C. A dotted line marks the 95th percentile of the 1950-1990 distribution at 0.76°C.

Both run long, which is fine, since alt text has no practical limit and screen reader users benefit from the detail.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For years I searched for an Indigenous tattoo artist. Finally found one on Vancouver Island who kindly agreed to create a design featuring my favorite #seabird, the #Razorbill (and my Cree heritage) 💕
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Putter Tiatragul @puttert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Megan Head at ANU is advertising this amazing postdoc position on thermal tolerance in insects. Canberra is a great place to live and work. Don't listen to the haters! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms:  Full time, Fixed term (up to 2 years) (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hour...
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
HUGE new paper just ACCEPTED. Incredibly proud of this one and excited about the genuine impact it will have on the #GlobalPlasticTreaty negotiations 🎉💪♻️ #ExcessivePackaging #PollutionIsADesignChoice #SlackFilling
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Over the past week (while on holiday), my husband and I collected #plastic debris from 11 beaches on #vancouverisland. In total, we removed 1546 items (54 kg) which were sorted and entered into a database. Today my Aunty joined me on the beach for a last clean up before flying home 💙
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We traveled 4 hr to another remote corner of #VancouverIsland with the specific goal of visiting #AvatarGrove. This area was closed to public access in 2022 and sadly, hasn’t been reopened. After much searching, we found the spot.
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Four cases in less than as many months. 2 against a Cwlth minister, 1 against Cwlth, and 1 against a coal company. All raise one question: how much longer can Australia keep approving fossil fuel projects & expansions without properly accounting for the harm caused? thepoint.com.au/opinions/270...
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Three major climate cases are converging on the Commonwealth this fortnight. Its legal exposure will only grow
As climate impacts escalate, so will the government's liability — until politicians address the harm they’re causing.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Heartbroken to hear of the loss of Bill Montevecchi. I first met Bill in 2003 when he agreed to be a member of my PhD committee. Over the next 4 years, he showed great patience and kindness. His approach to science is the model upon which Adrift Lab is based www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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World-renowned seabird biologist Bill Montevecchi has died | CBC News
Seabird biologist and Memorial University professor emeritus Bill Montevecchi died early Saturday morning. He was 80 years-old.
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
NEW PAPER: Sable Shearwaters are long-lived migratory #seabirds that spend much of their lives at sea. Across their life cycle, they experience very different physiological demands. Read the paper (free) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Life‐stage variation in Sable Shearwater (<fi>Ardenna carneipes</fi>) physiology assessed using proteomics
Life-stage transitions in seabirds involve substantial shifts in physiological demands, yet the molecular mechanisms underpinning these changes remain poorly resolved. Here we applied untargeted data....
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scienceforall.bsky.social @scienceforall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Science is being politicised, defunded & drowned in disinformation. Citizen science is one of our strongest defences — keeping knowledge in public hands. Our paper is out today: 10 recommendations to strengthen it. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #CitizenScience #Science
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
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Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is honestly the best worst thing
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 19/06/2026
Between 1984 and 2025, coverage of sports and entertainment received 36 times the coverage that climate change did. Learn more from a new report, “From Silence to Whisper: Climate Change in U.S. News Media, 1984–2025,” released this week: buff.ly/Rzf1jFf
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
(To be clear: I asked for anonymous responses so students could speak candidly & I could share comments.) A number of students wrote of their hate for AI, their disdain for friends who use it to do all their work, & then they said they "only" use it summarize readings or do research. 4/
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In April, our team recovered a white plastic coin that read “Republic of Play Money”. It was produced in the Philippines in 1991. Thus, it spent ~35 years in the ocean before being ingested by an adult #shearwater while foraging in the #TasmanSea
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
“At the moment, the government is short-changing future generations, and will leave them with a degraded environment, uninsurable homes, and without many of the amazing nature experiences and benefits we have today” - me
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Spent the weekend restoring a ~100 year old lead-light window so it can be used in our new #offgrid house #Monstera #Restoration
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Near the end of their career, someone I knew who’d worked for decades in sustainability told me “I wanted to save the world, but the world didn’t want to be saved.” I’ve heard similar laments from people near or after the end of their career working on the environment. I think about this a lot. 🧵
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Our newest article identifies a robust #biomarker that can be used to detect the harm caused by exposure to #IngestedPlastic while #seabirds are still alive
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In May, Sable Shearwaters should look like the bird on the right (fully grown, ready to fledge 💙). Sadly, many look like the bird on the left: adorable fluffball, but very thin and full of plastic #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Took the dogs on another wilderness adventure. 3” stumps for legs didn’t stop 12 year-old Vienna Sausage from making it to the top of Mt Arthur (1180 m) 🏔️ 💪 #Dachshund #Tasmania
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Beautiful article on self-reflection and how to be an effective, supportive research mentor 💚 www.science.org/content/arti...
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When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived
This professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes
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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Colony 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....
PHOTO CREDIT FRANCESCO VENTURA. (One of the best seabird researchers working now -- check out Francesco's work!). In front center left, a prebreeding Black-Browed Albatross visits the breeding colony on Steeple Jason.
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#Lego too. Inside the birds and strewn about the colonies. #SeabirdSaturday
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Big thanks to my amazing team. Together, we are stronger.
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🔥#NewPaper🔥 We document lightning-ignited #bushfires on islands from the sub-Antarctic to tropics. These islands are of global biodiversity importance; without intervention, fires burn large portions of islands, with consequences for flora/fauna, including #seabirds doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Redirecting
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Our new article in @aunz.theconversation.com on why #seabirds are increasingly washing up on beaches in #Australia theconversation.com/more-shearwa...
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More shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It’s not due to ‘natural’ causes
When 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
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
And we now have our blog up! Read more about the 2023/24 marine heatwave and it's impact on Australia's seabirds: adriftlab.org/news/when-be... #ornithology #seabids #WildOz
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When Beaches Become Graveyards: Counting the True Cost of Australia’s Marine Heatwave
When thousands of seabirds wash up dead on beaches, the instinct is to count what you can see. But what washes ashore is only ever the beginning of the story. A new study from Adrift Lab researchers…
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Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨Seabirds are in real trouble!🚨 In 2023, a marine heatwave in Australia wiped out 5% of all short-tailed shearwaters. And it's not just one bad year - these events are getting more common as the planet heats up. Find out what's happening 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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Over 600,000 seabirds killed in single marine heatwave | Natural History Museum
Ocean temperatures are rising around the world – and marine wildlife are feeling the heat.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Roll 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
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
New paper with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social in ES&T: We know Sable Shearwaters show measurable harm from plastic ingestion but this isn't just a story about one species. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1021/acs....
The head of a Sable Shearwater being held, illuminated with a headtorch light
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