Harry Marshall
@harryhmarshall.bsky.social
Principal Conservation Scientist at the RSPB | UKOTs and International | Island Restoration | Science Capacity Building | All views my own
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I continued my 'Buy Surrey, Back Britain' campaign in Ashtead at the wonderful Word on the Street Bookshop. 📚
It's vital that we support our independent businesses on The Street who really are the beating heart of our community.
Do check them out: buff.ly/cSLcFS6
#LocalChampion #Ashtead
It's vital that we support our independent businesses on The Street who really are the beating heart of our community.
Do check them out: buff.ly/cSLcFS6
#LocalChampion #Ashtead
June 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I continued my 'Buy Surrey, Back Britain' campaign in Ashtead at the wonderful Word on the Street Bookshop. 📚
It's vital that we support our independent businesses on The Street who really are the beating heart of our community.
Do check them out: buff.ly/cSLcFS6
#LocalChampion #Ashtead
It's vital that we support our independent businesses on The Street who really are the beating heart of our community.
Do check them out: buff.ly/cSLcFS6
#LocalChampion #Ashtead
This PhD placement opportunity is still open. Please do repost or send on to anyone who might be interested!
3-month PhD student #placement opportunity to review the #evidence for the use of #genedrive as a tool for the eradication of invasive non-native species. Ideally based in #Cambridge to maximise the students's in-person interactions but other locations considered.
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Gene drive evidence placement | Harry Marshall
3-month PhD student #placement opportunity to review the #evidence for the use of gene drive as a tool for the eradication of invasive non-native species…
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April 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This PhD placement opportunity is still open. Please do repost or send on to anyone who might be interested!
Two great #job opportunities to join the @rspb.bsky.social International Science team working in the Greater Gola Landscape in Sierra Leone
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Technical Advisor Research and Monitoring -Kenema, Sierra Leone | RSPB
The Greater Gola Landscape, covering 350,000 ha and straddling the Sierra Leone/ Liberia border, is the largest remaining block of Upper Guinea Forest. In Sierra Leone.The Gola Programme is implemente...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Two great #job opportunities to join the @rspb.bsky.social International Science team working in the Greater Gola Landscape in Sierra Leone
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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🚨Europe’s biodiversity is at a critical crossroads. A key aim of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 is to reverse nature loss with a connected system of protected areas.
But making this reality isn’t simple.
But making this reality isn’t simple.
March 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🚨Europe’s biodiversity is at a critical crossroads. A key aim of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 is to reverse nature loss with a connected system of protected areas.
But making this reality isn’t simple.
But making this reality isn’t simple.
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A tanker and cargo ship tragically collided off the Yorkshire coast yesterday.
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
March 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A tanker and cargo ship tragically collided off the Yorkshire coast yesterday.
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
Our first thoughts are with the crew and emergency responders. We are deeply concerned about the potential impact of pollution on seabirds and marine life.
Read more: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
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HUGE IN FLIGHT BIRD FOOTAGE VICTORY: Belted kingfisher in close proximity(under 50 feet!), in flight, AND video of it sticking the landing.
You don't get much better than this!
#birds
You don't get much better than this!
#birds
March 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
HUGE IN FLIGHT BIRD FOOTAGE VICTORY: Belted kingfisher in close proximity(under 50 feet!), in flight, AND video of it sticking the landing.
You don't get much better than this!
#birds
You don't get much better than this!
#birds
3-month PhD student #placement opportunity to review the #evidence for the use of #genedrive as a tool for the eradication of invasive non-native species. Ideally based in #Cambridge to maximise the students's in-person interactions but other locations considered.
www.linkedin.com/posts/harryh...
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Gene drive evidence placement | Harry Marshall
3-month PhD student #placement opportunity to review the #evidence for the use of gene drive as a tool for the eradication of invasive non-native species…
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March 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
3-month PhD student #placement opportunity to review the #evidence for the use of #genedrive as a tool for the eradication of invasive non-native species. Ideally based in #Cambridge to maximise the students's in-person interactions but other locations considered.
www.linkedin.com/posts/harryh...
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A recent @springernature.com study by Rabeschini et al. indicate agricultural land use as the major cause of biodiversity decline in the Cerrado, the second largest ecoregion in South America and the world’s most biodiverse savanna. 🌍🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Choosing fit-for-purpose biodiversity impact indicators for agriculture in the Brazilian Cerrado ecoregion - Nature Communications
Land use change has important impacts on biodiversity. Here, the authors calculate agriculture’s impact on the Brazilian Cerrado’s diversity with three methods, finding consistent magnitude of impacts...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A recent @springernature.com study by Rabeschini et al. indicate agricultural land use as the major cause of biodiversity decline in the Cerrado, the second largest ecoregion in South America and the world’s most biodiverse savanna. 🌍🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Endangered Polynesian storm petrels have returned to Kamaka Island in French Polynesia for the first time in more than 100 years, after conservationists used drones to remove the invasive rats eating the birds’ eggs and chicks. 🪺🐦
Read more:
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Endangered seabirds return to Pacific island after century-long absence
Small seabirds skim the open ocean at night, patting their legs on the surface as they hunt for small fish. Now, for the first time in more than 100 years, endangered Polynesian storm petrels (Nesofre...
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December 14, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Endangered Polynesian storm petrels have returned to Kamaka Island in French Polynesia for the first time in more than 100 years, after conservationists used drones to remove the invasive rats eating the birds’ eggs and chicks. 🪺🐦
Read more:
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Lessons from extinction?
Graeme Buchanan reflects upon the sad demise of the Slender-billed Curlew.
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#UKbirding
Graeme Buchanan reflects upon the sad demise of the Slender-billed Curlew.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#UKbirding
December 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Lessons from extinction?
Graeme Buchanan reflects upon the sad demise of the Slender-billed Curlew.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#UKbirding
Graeme Buchanan reflects upon the sad demise of the Slender-billed Curlew.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#UKbirding
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Big news! 🎉 My first PhD chapter has been published in @PLOSBiology, and it just made the cover! 🐦🌍 Perfect time to dive into the key findings from our global study on sexual selection in birds. 🧵👇
📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
December 13, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Big news! 🎉 My first PhD chapter has been published in @PLOSBiology, and it just made the cover! 🐦🌍 Perfect time to dive into the key findings from our global study on sexual selection in birds. 🧵👇
📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
📖 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Page charges? Gone!
Publication date = date published online!
THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology.
Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!
Publication date = date published online!
THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology.
Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!
December 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Page charges? Gone!
Publication date = date published online!
THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology.
Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!
Publication date = date published online!
THANK YOU @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social for breaking down barriers to publishing in the #WilsonJournalOfOrnithology.
Today's announcement is the realization of a long-term plan I've been advocating for years!
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We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025.
🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist?
🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands?
🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions?
For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...
🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist?
🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands?
🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions?
For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...
December 11, 2024 at 2:12 PM
We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025.
🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist?
🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands?
🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions?
For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...
🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist?
🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands?
🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions?
For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRm...
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JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
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#exetercec
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December 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share!
#exetercec
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#exetercec
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Seasonal field staff needed for @rspb.bsky.social projects in 2025 - advert live, closing date 12 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities across the UK!
Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology
Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology
Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant - Seasonal Recruitment 2025 | RSPB
We are delighted to bring the details of our seasonal Research Assistants and Senior Research Assistants vacancies on a variety of projects within Great Britain in 2025.
Full details of the roles curr...
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December 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Seasonal field staff needed for @rspb.bsky.social projects in 2025 - advert live, closing date 12 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities across the UK!
Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology
Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology
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📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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December 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM
📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Paper alert 🚨🐦⬛📣
Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona
@jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social
@odeigg.bsky.social
SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona
@jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social
@odeigg.bsky.social
SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Characterization of plastic ingestion in urban gull chicks and its implications for their use as pollution sentinels in coastal cities
The increase of plastic pollution represents a significant ecological threat, particularly in human-impacted environments. However, the effects of pla…
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December 11, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Paper alert 🚨🐦⬛📣
Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona
@jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social
@odeigg.bsky.social
SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona
@jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social
@odeigg.bsky.social
SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stop everything! 👀
The one and only #BigGardenBirdwatch is back for January 2025... and registration is now open!
Who's ready to join the count? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bgbw&sourcecode=WEBSCM0058 👈
The one and only #BigGardenBirdwatch is back for January 2025... and registration is now open!
Who's ready to join the count? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bgbw&sourcecode=WEBSCM0058 👈
December 11, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Stop everything! 👀
The one and only #BigGardenBirdwatch is back for January 2025... and registration is now open!
Who's ready to join the count? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bgbw&sourcecode=WEBSCM0058 👈
The one and only #BigGardenBirdwatch is back for January 2025... and registration is now open!
Who's ready to join the count? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bgbw&sourcecode=WEBSCM0058 👈
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Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 10, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Can you help? 📢 We're seeking volunteers to take part in the final Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) on 19 January 2025! Monitoring overwintering populations of gulls in the UK is vital to gain a better understanding of potential declines.❄️ Sign up ➡️ app.bto.org/wings/public... #UKBirding #Ornithology
December 9, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Can you help? 📢 We're seeking volunteers to take part in the final Winter Gull Survey (WinGS) on 19 January 2025! Monitoring overwintering populations of gulls in the UK is vital to gain a better understanding of potential declines.❄️ Sign up ➡️ app.bto.org/wings/public... #UKBirding #Ornithology
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🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨
Topic: The impact of anthropogenic noise on fitness-related behaviours, gene expression profiles, and gut microbiome in birds 🦅🦆🐓
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Learn more: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Topic: The impact of anthropogenic noise on fitness-related behaviours, gene expression profiles, and gut microbiome in birds 🦅🦆🐓
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Learn more: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
www.uni-bielefeld.de
December 9, 2024 at 12:45 PM
🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨
Topic: The impact of anthropogenic noise on fitness-related behaviours, gene expression profiles, and gut microbiome in birds 🦅🦆🐓
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Learn more: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Topic: The impact of anthropogenic noise on fitness-related behaviours, gene expression profiles, and gut microbiome in birds 🦅🦆🐓
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Learn more: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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There's still time to register your interest to become the Royal Society's Artist in Residence, an opportunity for a creative individual to produce new work in response to our collections and the scientific research of our community. Express your interest here: royalsociety.org/about-us/wor...
December 10, 2024 at 1:44 PM
There's still time to register your interest to become the Royal Society's Artist in Residence, an opportunity for a creative individual to produce new work in response to our collections and the scientific research of our community. Express your interest here: royalsociety.org/about-us/wor...
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Thanks to collaboration with farmers, crofters and communities, Corncrake Calling has made a difference for this enigmatic species in Scotland through creating habitat, engaging thousands of people, and advocating for policies to support nature 💪
#CrexCrex
#CrexCrex
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Thanks to collaboration with farmers, crofters and communities, Corncrake Calling has made a difference for this enigmatic species in Scotland through creating habitat, engaging thousands of people, and advocating for policies to support nature 💪
#CrexCrex
#CrexCrex
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Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree…
December 9, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Delighted that our Horizon Scan 2025 paper listing 15 future issues is now published online here and is available open access. Many thanks to Pew and the RSPB for funding. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social
SWBio-funded PhD position on
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone.
#EcoEvo
#WildlifeDisease
#PhD
December 9, 2024 at 12:40 PM
⚠️ Only two days left ⚠️ to apply for 👇 PhD position with @btschirren.bsky.social on autoimmune disease in wild rodent populations @uniexecec.bsky.social