Ellie Honan
@elliehonan.bsky.social
PhD on snow petrels with geogdurham.bsky.social and @bas.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu ❄️ | seabird movement & diet | fatty acids & stable isotopes 🪶🐟🦐 | R | marine predators | polar ECR training & support with @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social 🐧🐻❄️ | 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧
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Ellie Honan
@elliehonan.bsky.social
· Jun 6
The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here:
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
Reposted by Ellie Honan
Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence.
Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.
Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.
In memory of the Christmas Island shrew
It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its…
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October 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence.
Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.
Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.
❄️ Back from a fantastic and sobering 2-day meeting at @royalsociety.org where we discussed climatic tipping points in Antarctica. I was there presenting on @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social and the role of ECRs in this crucial decade for polar science. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
❄️ Back from a fantastic and sobering 2-day meeting at @royalsociety.org where we discussed climatic tipping points in Antarctica. I was there presenting on @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social and the role of ECRs in this crucial decade for polar science. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...
An ideal 15 minute break from thesis writing - taking part in the @bas.ac.uk BioBlitz #BigButterflyCount with @savebutterflies.bsky.social - leis na hacmhainní i nGaeilge!
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
An ideal 15 minute break from thesis writing - taking part in the @bas.ac.uk BioBlitz #BigButterflyCount with @savebutterflies.bsky.social - leis na hacmhainní i nGaeilge!
This was a great way to start a Tuesday - thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social and looking forward to the rest of the talks in the series 💻🌿
📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣
We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:
”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”
5th Aug @ 9am BST
bit.ly/44SzlwG
We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for:
”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts”
5th Aug @ 9am BST
bit.ly/44SzlwG
August 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This was a great way to start a Tuesday - thanks to @jamesaorr.bsky.social and looking forward to the rest of the talks in the series 💻🌿
Great network for seabird PhDs!
Hello! We're now on #Bluesky! PhULMaR is a PhD lab group for those around the British and Irish Isles studying birds that use the #marine #environment. Currently headed by @bardseyben.bsky.social @dianepavat.bsky.social, we meet online on the last Friday of each month. Get in touch to join!
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Great network for seabird PhDs!
Reposted by Ellie Honan
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @mikebentley.bsky.social who has been awarded an OBE for his services to Antarctic Science! Mike has not only made an outstanding contribution to polar science, he is also a fantastic colleague and we are all delighted for him! ❄️🥳
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own @mikebentley.bsky.social who has been awarded an OBE for his services to Antarctic Science! Mike has not only made an outstanding contribution to polar science, he is also a fantastic colleague and we are all delighted for him! ❄️🥳
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here:
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
June 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here:
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/
Reposted by Ellie Honan
What do sea-ice associated seabirds do during a season with little sea ice? Results from GPS tracking on snow petrels is now published, led by @elliehonan.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk details here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/ 🧪🐙
www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
What do sea-ice associated seabirds do during a season with little sea ice? Results from GPS tracking on snow petrels is now published, led by @elliehonan.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk details here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/ 🧪🐙