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Javed Riaz
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Quantitative Ecologist | Southern Ocean Ecosystem Program | Australian Antarctic Division

Studying seabird and seal foraging behavior, habitat use and fishery interactions 🐧 🦭🇦🇶
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🐧 Penguins! 🦐 Krill foraging! 🎧 Acoustic data! 🤿 Diving bouts!

Our August #ASABEditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Bout time for krill: contrasting Adélie penguin foraging behaviour during years of high and low krill availability”

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123260
August 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

We put decades of effort in collecting this massive dataset on movement and diving behaviour of northern elephant seals and now we make it available! 🦭🦑🌎
Check it out here 👉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Two decades of three-dimensional movement data from adult female northern elephant seals
www.nature.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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1️⃣ A new multi-disciplinary study identifies eight potentially cascading ‘tipping points’ that span physical, biological, chemical, and governance systems and highlight #Antarctica’s critical role in global #climate stability.
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 AM
South American fur #seals tagged in the Falkland Islands 🦭 Females, males and pups showing extensive use of the Patagonian Shelf and providing valuable insights into their movements throughout the year 📊 🧪 🌎

#MovementEcology #SAERI
December 16, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Save the date! The next BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting is taking place on the 2nd-3rd of September 2025 in Norwich. More details to come in the new year! 🌍🧪👩‍🔬
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean!

With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project

📍University of La Reunion
Apply by Jan 15th

#jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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SEATRACK got a new website with better functionality and better access to documents: seatrack.net Click yourself through and learn more about the non-breeding distribution of north-Atlantic seabirds!
seapop.no/en/2024/12/n...
Home - SEATRACK
SEATRACKSeabird tracking The SEATRACK programme aims to map the non-breeding distribution of seabirds breeding throughout the North Atlantic and understand how changes in environmental conditions and ...
seatrack.net
December 13, 2024 at 9:35 AM
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New paper from Exeter Marine researchers finds that Montserrat's nesting sea turtles migrate and feed in multiple countries, highlighting the need for conservation without borders! 🐢

Well done team!

Read in full: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...
🦑🦤🧪🌐🌍

#AcademiaSky #ExeterCEC @mcsuk.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 9:34 AM
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🐧BirdLife needs seabird tracking data!

We're looking for Humboldt Current region data for assessing fisheries bycatch risk🎣
seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...

This project with Global Fishing Watch is funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social.

@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
Humboldt Current seabird tracking data call for fisheries bycatch risk assessment - Seabird Tracking Database
The BirdLife team are collating seabird tracking data for the Humboldt Current region and adjacent High Seas to assess fisheries bycatch risk as part of an
seabirdtracking.org
December 10, 2024 at 2:11 PM
🚨 New research! 🚨 Seal-fishery interactions in the #Falklands Islands have surged since 2017 🦭 Using 5 years of observer data 👀, we found fur #seals interact with 1/3 of trawls, mostly in high-yield & productive areas 🦑

📊 Graphical abstract & @icesmarine.bsky.social link: tinyurl.com/5fcrkju7
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December 5, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#fisheries #oceanography #movementecology
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 AM
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The #Falkland Isl are a high-use, critical habitat for southern right #whales! 🐳 Our new paper w Falklands Conservation studies local #whale habitat use & long-range movements @bas.ac.uk @hslesser.bsky.social #MarMam

Ten whales were satellite tagged in July 2022 1/3

www.int-res.com/articles/esr...
December 3, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Our new paper outlines methods to ID albatross and petrel species using DNA from feathers. This provides tools to determine which #seabirds species are threatened by fisheries bycatch
#ConservationGenetics 🧬🧪🌏🦑
Here's a news story on our research:
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2024/us...
Using DNA to identify seabird bycatch – Australian Antarctic Program (News 2024)
Scientists have used DNA technology to help identify threatened albatross, petrel and shearwater species caught as bycatch by fishing vessels.
www.antarctica.gov.au
December 2, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
And they’re off! Marine predator chaos over the Patagonian Shelf...and some fur seal pups going rogue and doing their own thing - venturing out towards South Georgia 🦭🐧

Such an amazing dataset to be working with! 📊👏

#FalklandIslands #animalmovement #penguin #seal #seabird
December 1, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Hi folks! 👋 I’m Javed Riaz, a marine ecologist at the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute. My research focuses on using different kinds of animal tracking data to learn more about foraging behaviours, habitat use, and how wild populations interact with their environment 🐧
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 PM