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Dr. Taylor Brown

@tbrownbirds.bsky.social
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Ornithologist 🐦 | birder 🦆| advocate for community science 🔭 | she/her | taylorbrown.org

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Conservation Job Board @conservationjobs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
JOB OPENING: Facilities Manager: Facilities Manager $27.90 per hour -- NatureBridge
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Facilities Manager
Facilities Manager $27.90 per hour -- NatureBridge
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Did you know that we have our very own library and members can request to borrow books, journal articles, etc free of charge? Details here! -->
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Josselyn Van Tyne Memorial Library
The Wilson Ornithological Society’s library was founded in 1930.
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Another roundup of conservation-related jobs in Canada. Share and comment to help others find opportunities, and to advocate for pay transparency. #ConservationJobs www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...
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#conservationjobs #hiring | Aerin Jacob
Another roundup of conservation-related jobs in Canada. Share and comment to help others find opportunities, and to advocate for transparency. #ConservationJobs -- Multiple (and more soon), Nature Co...
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do you still include a cover letter when submitting a manuscript, even if it's optional? Comment with yes/no, which field(s) you're in, and roughly what career stage you're at. I want to see something 😋
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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New paper alert: Plumage aberration on a Razorbill by Danial Oliker, Tony Diamond, and @heathermajor.bsky.social. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
Razorbill Alca torda with an unfamiliar plumage phenotype during banding and morphometric processing at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick, Canada
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hello! I'm glad this is making the rounds, as sometimes it feels as if we're pretending the so-called hallucination problem has gone away. It hasn't. It won't. But more importantly, this poses a particularly pernicious harm for education that I think is not well understood. So, a short thread...
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Danijela Popović @popovicdani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚨PhD opportunity! Study brown bears in the Balkans using ancient DNA 🧬🐻 Interested in paleogenomics & conservation? Apply! @lpcg.bsky.social 🔗 Details here: www.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #PhD #AncientDNA #Paleogenomics #ConservationGenomics #WildlifeConservation
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Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde @albrechts-h.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group. We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad. laurentian.ca/about/career...
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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hi all - sorry I've been absent from this platform as of late! Everything seems to be busy - even my hobbies are stressing me out 🤣 What's new and exciting in the bird and wider biological world? Tell me all the most fascinating recent findings! 🤩 I'm behind on the literature. #Science #birds
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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A nice write-up on the research of former PhD student @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on light attraction in Atlantic puffins fledglings (pufflings!) www.trentu.ca/news/story/2...
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The Puffin Conundrum: Young Atlantic Puffins Need Darkness, But Are Attracted to Light
New research by Environmental & Life Sciences Ph.D. graduate offers key insight for helping Newfoundland’s beloved provincial bird avoid the risks of getting stranded
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Asher Cutter @asherdcutter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/
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Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Robin Heinen @robinheinennl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Paper no. 9 by Jiaqing Cai et al. investigates the impacts of ALAN on earthworm behaviour. This work shows how ALAN decreases surface activity of earthworms, and leads to a marked shift in litter accumulation zones in the soil under ALAN, compared to unlit soils www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Brightened nights, altered earth: Artificial light reshapes activity rhythms in an earthworm and soil processes
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a global environmental disruptor, impacting natural dark-light cycles, with effects reported on the activity rhyth…
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Centre for Research on Ecology, Cognition and Behaviour of Birds @ecobird.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition! Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds. 📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026 🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme More info & how to apply ↓ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Postdoctoral fellow
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Where do my scientist friends find writing contracts to pursue? Just looking for options / opportunities to make a little extra money writing about science, whether for a lay audience (magazines, websites, etc.) or actual scientific papers / reports. Thanks 😁
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a black cat wearing glasses and a pen
Alt: a black cat wearing glasses and writing with a pen
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Does anyone have a good-quality photo of a Common Yellowthroat in the field, which they would be willing to submit (without monetary compensation) as cover photo accompanying a paper in Canadian Field-Naturalist? You would receive credit for the photo of course. Let me know! 😄
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a cartoon truck says oh wow a warbler in front of a pink fence
Alt: a cartoon truck says oh wow a warbler in front of a pink fence
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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐 Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀 Live the shrimp-le life: cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au #rstats #ecology 🧪🌏
The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.
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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨ How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍 Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim... Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Taylor stands with her back to a pebble beach with calm waves. She is holding a young puffin in front of her, toward the camera, with both hands. She is smiling and looking down at the puffin.
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Fancy working with killer whales? We have two exciting opportunities to support the work of Professor @darrencroft.bsky.social and team. 👉 Graduate Research Assistant - lnkd.in/egy9Knka 👉 Postdoctoral Research Associate - lnkd.in/eXyP7fZ4 Deadlines 22nd/19th Oct. 🦑🦤🌍🌊🐬🌐
text overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text reads 'we're hiring, graduate research assistant and postdoctoral research associate. Logo are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of yorktext overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines the graduate research assistant position, which is part time (14 hours), fixed term until 0ct 2028, based at the university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of yorktext overlaying background of two killer whales swimming, taken by a drone. text outlines postdoctoral research associate position, which is full-time fixed term until 31st oct 2028, starting salary £34.6k, location is university of exeter. Logos are along the bottom of the image for: center for whale research, UKRI, university of Exeter and university of york
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”
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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Selection on metabolism and memory in a moving Chickadee hybrid zone avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/08/17/s... #ornithology
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Selection on metabolism and memory in a moving Chickadee hybrid zone
Genetic study confirms experimental work on black-capped and Carolina chickadee.
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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thanks @airamrodriguez.bsky.social for featuring our study on ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/new-pub...! Storm-petrels avoid light after stranding - and we can develop post-stranding mortality mitigation strategies that take advantage of this. Ta-da... Hide boxes! @garyburness.bsky.social
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New publication: Safe haven-type shelters mitigate light-induced mortality
Strandings of procellariiform (tube-nosed) seabirds can be greatly reduced by decreasing emissions of artificial light at night, but in many affected locations (e.g., cities, industrial sites) it is.....
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Airam Rodríguez @airamrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New post at ecolightsforseabirds website! Pufflings navigating the lit night About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin... #ornithology #seabirds
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Pufflings navigating the lit night
Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#JobAlert! Resource Conservation Manager II with Parks Canada in #Yukon. PM-05. Indeterminate, full time. $96-104k/year + isolated post allowance. A degree and/OR recent and significant experience req'd. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... Closes Sep 2, 2025. #biology #conservation #jobs
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Resource Conservation Manager II
Closing date: 2 September 2025 - 23:59, Pacific Time
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#JobAlert! Manager of Resource Conservation with Parks Canada in Fort Smith, NT. PM-06. Term Sept 2025 to Nov 2026. $113-129k + isolated post allowance. Some education and/OR experience req'd. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... Closes Sept 1 2025. #jobs #biology #conservation #wildlife
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Manager, Resource Conservation
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
#JobAlert! Resource Conservation Manager II position with Parks Canada in Inuvik, NT. Indeterminate! $113-129k/year + isolated post allowance. "A degree" + experience required. Closes Sept 7. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... #jobs #conservation #canada #arctic #biology #ecology
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Resource Conservation Manager III
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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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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A little late but better than never - I am finally #PhDone!! I defended at the end of May, submitted my final thesis at the beginning of June, and am now just working full-time at LGL Limited and enjoying summer 😁 I'm always open to research collaborations though!! #PhD #gradschool #academia
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What scientists need to know about sharing—and protecting—their published work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #OpenScience
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What scientists need to know about sharing—and protecting—their published work
With research papers becoming increasingly free to read and use, understanding open-access licenses is key
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just putting this out there since I want to increase my side hustling... I've created and revamped several websites for labs and individuals and businesses, and I can do so for you and your lab too! Get in touch if you need help with your lab or personal website 🙂 mine is taylorbrown.org!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You guys are doing it again. Yes, NOAA is important because of the National Weather Service, but that is not all they do and you should stop saying it is. I wrote this for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read it and adjust your messaging accordingly. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 blog.ucs.org/science-blog...
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Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service)
Far too much of the media coverage supporting NOAA only mentions one of many things they do: here are 10 more.
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Feeling so sad for Jagmeet Singh today. Collateral damage in the election & in the political fight between US / Canada. If anything we need more, not less, NDP influence but I see this as a direct result of our electoral system whereby folks vote strategically as opposed to voting for their values.
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Good feeling: reading a cool paper that says something neat and cites reference #4... You go look at reference #4 and it's your own paper 😍 I think I've leveled up!
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homer simpson is standing in front of a stone wall and says woohoo !!
Alt: homer simpson is standing in front of a stone wall and says woohoo !!
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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 10/03/2025
Potential effects of HPAI on occupancy rates, breeding success, age and turnover of breeding Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus in southern Scotland | www.tandfonline.com/... | Bird Study | #ornithology 🪶
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Potential effects of HPAI on occupancy rates, breeding success, age and turnover of breeding Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus in southern Scotland
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) occurs in wild raptors in Scotland, but the extent of its impact on their populations is not well known. We expand on published comparisons of the parameter...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A lot of people are asking why a Trump administration would want to create this chaos. I wrote this in the Guardian almost 12 years ago! We are not just talking about currency exchange here ofc, but for all hedging it holds true: There is less profit in stability, than in chaos. We must grasp this.
Money itself has become the thing most traded. It is critical to understand the size and nature of this behemoth industry in order to dispel the myth that as a country (and globally) we are united in a process of restoring economic stability. We are not. The money is made in predicting the peaks and troughs. No peaks and troughs, no profit.

The welfare of this enormous gravy train depends, in large part, on instability. The idea that we are rebalancing the economy is an illusion. It is impossible to create stable, balanced economies when vast interests within them have every incentive to drag them into instability and imbalance. We need to get this, urgently. We're building our financial megastructures, these days, entirely out of mud. And that is precisely as dangerous as it sounds.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The last month has seen shock & sorrow in the US research community, with grant freezes & cuts, mass firings of government scientists, & much more. Now many are fighting back. @heidiledford.bsky.social reports for @nature.com on the rise of scientist-activists: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back
Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#SlavaUkrainii
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#Puffin strandings in towns as a result of artificial light, and experimental tests ascertaining preferred light types 💡 Article available in @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Animal Behaviour - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (Photo: Ruedi Häberli) @tbrownbirds.bsky.social
An Atlantic puffin portrait in low-light conditions
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AquaPLAN @aquaplan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Like to have a say on future actions & strategies to manage human-generated noise & light in European aquatic environments? 💡🔊🌊🌍 Calling all European • Shipping • Offshore renewable energy • NGOs • Policymakers/govt all levels 📣 Please participate in our AquaPLAN Survey! 📣 tinyurl.com/37r24a6d
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AquaPLAN Survey: Perceptions of human-generated noise and light in marine and freshwater environments - AquaPLAN
Funded by the EU Horizon Europe Programme (along with UKRI), AquaPLAN is a €2.6 million, 4-year project that aims to quantify the combined impacts of Light and Noise Pollution (LNP) on aquatic biodive...
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Happy to announce the 3rd paper of my PhD is now published! We tested behavioural responses of fledgling Leach's Storm-Petrels to artificial light & found they were largely photophobic, leading us to test & confirm the utility of hide boxes to protect them after stranding! doi.org/10.1093/orni...
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Under cover of darkness: Refuge from artificial light at night may mitigate risks to stranded seabirds
Abstract. Artificial light at night is an anthropogenic pollutant that has wide-ranging effects on wildlife. Fledgling seabirds of order Procellariiformes
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/02/2025
I’m so excited to announce that my new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is available for preorder! It's a humorous dictionary of real birding terms and goofy definitions, plus a ton of silly illustrations. It's out May 6 but you can preorder it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
The cover of a book called The Birding Dictionary: A Tongue-in-cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds. Written and illustrated by Rosemary Mosco.A hand holding the same book.A book excerpt: snood /ˈsnüd/ noun: The naked, erectile lump of flesh on a turkey’s forehead. It can stick up like a hideously gnarled unicorn horn or droop down like a meaty teardrop, and it changes color from salami-red to corpse-blue depending on a turkey’s arousal and anxiety levels. Female turkeys prefer males with longer snoods. This word and its definition are best invoked when you’re in a dull conversation and you’d like to bring it to an abrupt end."
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Dr. Taylor Brown @tbrownbirds.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Shorebird nerds! If you know a thing or two about shorebird (any spp) migratory stopovers / habitat use in Newfoundland, please get in touch! I have questions :)
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Noonan Lab @noonanlab.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This slow-rolling destruction of the American research enterprise is happening under the radar. Many of our colleagues - including leadership- aren't even aware it's happening, because it's being reported anecdotally on social media (mostly here). Amplify this bsky.app/profile/eliz...
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
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Matt @mattferrel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I think about this a lot. Also don’t know if he’s dumb or lying and it doesn’t really matter
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