Alex
@a-robbins.bsky.social
Landlocked marine ornithologist with a focus on marine energy | Nature, camping, hiking, aerial, axe-throwing | @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social European Rep
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Alex
@a-robbins.bsky.social
· Mar 6
Hi, I’m Alex!
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
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Another busy spell on Isle of May as we prepare for the forthcoming season ahead as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Another busy spell on Isle of May as we prepare for the forthcoming season ahead as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
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This is a wildly poorly informed article. Dinosaurs are a gateway to introduce children to biodiversity and the scientific method, as well as extinction and global change, @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada
Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is a wildly poorly informed article. Dinosaurs are a gateway to introduce children to biodiversity and the scientific method, as well as extinction and global change, @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the survival of migratory #seabirds (Arctic skuas) has decreased in the last decades, but is not related to large-scale ocean indices: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
March 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the survival of migratory #seabirds (Arctic skuas) has decreased in the last decades, but is not related to large-scale ocean indices: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
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Huge victory for River Action with major implications as High Court declares farming manure as ‘waste’.
🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms.
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms.
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
High Court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for River Action in its fight against industrial-scale poultry production in Wye Valley - River Action UK
Landmark court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for River Action in...
riveractionuk.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Huge victory for River Action with major implications as High Court declares farming manure as ‘waste’.
🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms.
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms.
riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
So lucky to work with such incredible and inspiring colleagues wp.me/p3iQac-6hM #IWD2025 #natureconservation #marinebiology #marineenergy
Women working in science and nature
As part of International Women’s Day 2025 we’re celebrating the achievements of seven of NatureScot’s fantastic women working in nature. These incredible women working in science,…
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March 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So lucky to work with such incredible and inspiring colleagues wp.me/p3iQac-6hM #IWD2025 #natureconservation #marinebiology #marineenergy
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March 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Ridiculously rare footage for #SuperSeabirdSunday from late Feb. trip to Phillip Is. off Norfolk. 2nd only pop. of White-necked Petrels with one in company of Juan Fernandez Petrel, 10,000km from home islands. #Seabirds Amazing🪶
March 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ridiculously rare footage for #SuperSeabirdSunday from late Feb. trip to Phillip Is. off Norfolk. 2nd only pop. of White-necked Petrels with one in company of Juan Fernandez Petrel, 10,000km from home islands. #Seabirds Amazing🪶
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March 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Mediterranean Gulls displaying in the sun at West Hayling this week. @rspbengland.bsky.social are just finishing the restoration of the lagoon islands here as part of LIFE on the edge & the Solent Seascape ambition to see seabird sites across the Solent thriving. More to come. #SuperSeabirdSunday
March 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Mediterranean Gulls displaying in the sun at West Hayling this week. @rspbengland.bsky.social are just finishing the restoration of the lagoon islands here as part of LIFE on the edge & the Solent Seascape ambition to see seabird sites across the Solent thriving. More to come. #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is proof that some Puffins nest under boulders! #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
March 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is proof that some Puffins nest under boulders! #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Absurd we still need to go through this
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Early release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰
"Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025).
Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
"Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025).
Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
March 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Early release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰
"Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025).
Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
"Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025).
Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
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Cruising for data: Defining the seabird community from vessels of opportunity in Canada’s Eastern Arctic | http://marineornitho... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Cruising for data: Defining the seabird community from vessels of opportunity in Canada’s Eastern Arctic | http://marineornitho... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Hi, I’m Alex!
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
March 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hi, I’m Alex!
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
I advise on impacts of #marineenergy developments on our marine & coastal environments, with a focus on marine birds 🌊
I studied for my PhD at Uni of Glasgow looking at how #seabirds use high energy tidal streams.
I’m based in the Highlands, Scotland.
Better late than never, eh!
Some late arrivals but finally managed to fill up this starterpack of seabird scientists and enthusiasts - feel free to follow all of us with one click! #seabirds 🌍🐧🧪 go.bsky.app/MPUTnm
March 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Better late than never, eh!
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As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
March 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)
A bit late to the party but looking for a meta-free space!
March 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A bit late to the party but looking for a meta-free space!