As it's breeding time for giant petrels on Bird Island, meet the oldest female giant petrel on the island ⬇️

She hatched there in 1989, making her an impressive 36 years old.

This season, she decided to build her nest next to the path, where the team greet her every day as they go past 🪶

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Last week HRH King Charles III learned about all the amazing research happening at #AdriftLab & the remarkable #birds we’re so lucky to work with. King Charles shares our teams’ passion for environmental #conservation. We’re hoping for a dinner invite soon 😉 #WPY60 @nhm-london.bsky.social

Last week @alixdejersey.bsky.social attended the #AUSoMicS Conference & presented her STUNNING poster on #plastics & #proteomics: it got heaps of great feedback-check it out!👇
#SublethalEffects #seabirds #phdlife
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While undertaking fieldwork on #LordHoweIsland this month, the #AdriftLab team completed 21 #cleanups of four beaches. In total, we removed 2943 #plastics weighing 33kg (carried on our bicycles). All debris was sorted & uploaded to Australia’s national database #AMDI
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All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social

Because of the massive increase in #IngestedPlastic this year (number, mass and size of particles) were finding intact items inside our baby #seabirds. This means we’re able to get information on brands…including THIS! ⬇️ #SoyFish #PollutionIsADesignChoice #shearwaters
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New paper in @science.org -- neurodegeneration similar to Alzheimer’s in seabird chicks following plastic ingestion

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seabirds in crisis: plastic ingestion produces dementia-like symptoms and signals of multiorgan failure: from @alixdejersey.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social @adriftlab.bsky.social

👉news www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

👉paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

World-first analysis of seabirds who’ve eaten plastic reveals slow, insidious health impacts
theconversation.com/world-first-...

Neal came into the field with us and witnessed the sampling process for our latest paper. His feature does an incredible job at bringing the human to our work. Encapsulating ecogrief and implications beyond.

Proud to share our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper published in Science Advances! We explored the sub-lethal impacts of plastic ingestion on birds using tools from medical research rarely applied in wildlife conservation.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#NewPaper alert - congrats to @alixdejersey.bsky.social for publishing the second paper from her #PhD (this one is actually a bonus) doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
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