📃New paper in Ecology letters 🐦
I’m delighted to share the publication of the first paper from my #postdoc with @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social looking at life-history trade-offs and #senescence in black-browed #albatrosses from Kerguelen and Bird Island
doi.org/10.1111/ele.70384
This hand-painted #shearwater was sent to an #AdriftLab team member with a note about #kindness and #gratitude.
A reminder that whatever your talent, it has the greatest impact when used for good. Who knows, your small gesture might just be the kindness that someone desperately needed 💙
Life-history theory predicts a trade-off between allocation of resources to reproduction or self-maintenance, yet how environmental variability shapes this trade-off remains poorly understood. We sho...doi.org
For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible
Adrift Lab (Marine Science)
Great to see our Pride t-shirt out in the wild with @lucy-wright.bsky.social ! 🏳️🌈😍🐧
It has been an honour to work with the long-term data set from Kent Isl. After a survival paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2710), here is a mate-switching paper. Huge thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social on this one! A third one is under review.
#seabirds #OpenAccess
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies.
We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from.
#biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai
Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887
1/ The latest Winter Gull Survey revealed that over the two decades since the last count, the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has decreased from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million! 📉 #Ornithology #Seabirds
📖 Read the report www.bto.org/WinGSReport
In long-lived socially monogamous animals, pair bonds play a crucial role in breeding success. In many predominantly socially monogamous animals, howe…
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas
⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026
🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybrid
Come join our fantastic team!
Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
Proud to wear my @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social gannet t-shirt today at Bury St Edmunds Pride.
With LGBTQ+ rights diminishing in the UK and elsewhere Pride seems particularly important just now.
Love is love, people are people, be kind. It's not complicated.
We are looking for a Marine Sites Science Officer to support the implementation and progression of BirdLife’s Marine Programme.
The 2026 SMP Newsletter is here!
Read it (and sign up to receive future editions) here:
www.bto.org/our-work/sci... to find out about the SMP's 40th anniversary, latest developments, the science of seabird poo, and more! #birds #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
