Tasha Gownaris
@njg.bsky.social
Marine ecologist in the environmental studies department at Gettysburg College. Interested in undergrad education and research, open educational resources, seabirds, trophic ecology, behavioral plasticity
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New paper! Terns differ in how they respond to changes in prey availability in the Gulf of Maine, with implications for the growth of their chicks. Isotopes + provisioning watches show that terns face trade-offs between prey quality & foraging distance.
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
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So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
New paper! Terns differ in how they respond to changes in prey availability in the Gulf of Maine, with implications for the growth of their chicks. Isotopes + provisioning watches show that terns face trade-offs between prey quality & foraging distance.
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New paper! Terns differ in how they respond to changes in prey availability in the Gulf of Maine, with implications for the growth of their chicks. Isotopes + provisioning watches show that terns face trade-offs between prey quality & foraging distance.
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
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❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
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Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
mymodernmet.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩🔬
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In 1981, just 4 years after Project Puffin began, adult puffins returned to Eastern Egg Island—with fish in their beaks 🐟 A sign chicks had hatched!
Today, hundreds thrive there—thanks to Dr. Stephen Kress, their dedicated protector. 🐧
🎥 youtu.be/ELBvPTvA8NA?...
Today, hundreds thrive there—thanks to Dr. Stephen Kress, their dedicated protector. 🐧
🎥 youtu.be/ELBvPTvA8NA?...
How researchers restored a thriving habitat for Atlantic puffins in Maine
Atlantic puffins face an increasingly precarious foothold due in part to a loss of habitat and to troubles tied to warming ocean waters and climate change. But an effort off the coast of Maine…
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In 1981, just 4 years after Project Puffin began, adult puffins returned to Eastern Egg Island—with fish in their beaks 🐟 A sign chicks had hatched!
Today, hundreds thrive there—thanks to Dr. Stephen Kress, their dedicated protector. 🐧
🎥 youtu.be/ELBvPTvA8NA?...
Today, hundreds thrive there—thanks to Dr. Stephen Kress, their dedicated protector. 🐧
🎥 youtu.be/ELBvPTvA8NA?...
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A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏
⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
academic.oup.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏
⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
Bluesky #bird people- if you haven’t seen it yet, you have to watch #Listers. It’s birds, it’s free, it’s funny, it has awesome bird footage, and it’s decidedly not kid friendly. What more could you want? youtu.be/JjWExJQed2Y?...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Bluesky #bird people- if you haven’t seen it yet, you have to watch #Listers. It’s birds, it’s free, it’s funny, it has awesome bird footage, and it’s decidedly not kid friendly. What more could you want? youtu.be/JjWExJQed2Y?...
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Calling all isotope ecologists.
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 – 14th International Conference on the Application of Stable Isotope Techniques in Ecological Studies
www.isoecol.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Calling all isotope ecologists.
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
IsoEcol 2026 will be held between October 12-17th, 2026 at the University of Hong Kong
See www.isoecol.com/2026/ for more
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Sharing a couple of my photos and sketches from monitoring Common Terns this year for #SeabirdSeptember
Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿
#CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿
#CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sharing a couple of my photos and sketches from monitoring Common Terns this year for #SeabirdSeptember
Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿
#CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
Summer wouldn't be summer without Seabirds 🌊🐧🪿
#CommonTerns #Seabirds #UKBirding
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social
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September 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Tis the season for bird migration! Eastern migration will likely pick up Monday/Tuesday night as Erin’s influence moves out and north winds take over. #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds
August 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Tis the season for bird migration! Eastern migration will likely pick up Monday/Tuesday night as Erin’s influence moves out and north winds take over. #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds
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Do I know anyone on here who might find it useful to predict hatching dates from birds eggs? Please reach out if you're open to help me develop ovotime.com to include more species, and to expand with more detailed #oology features! #phenology #seabirds #ornithology 🌍🧪
Ovotime
Ovotime is a tool for predicting the hatching time of skua eggs based on their mass, length, breadth, and density.
ovotime.com
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Do I know anyone on here who might find it useful to predict hatching dates from birds eggs? Please reach out if you're open to help me develop ovotime.com to include more species, and to expand with more detailed #oology features! #phenology #seabirds #ornithology 🌍🧪
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Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve
Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve
Seamounts have been likened to ‘oases’ of life in the comparative deserts of the open ocean. This integrated study of tropical seamounts suggests that high faunal biomass is sustained by exogenous…
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August 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve
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Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience?
Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀
@eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
#ornithology
Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀
@eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
#ornithology
August 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Are you at the #EOU2025 and interested in #OpenScience?
Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀
@eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
#ornithology
Matthieu Paquet and I are hosting this roundtable to chat about the topic with you 😀
@eounion.bsky.social @sortee.bsky.social
#ornithology
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Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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Come study with us! ⬇️
@adriftlab.bsky.social
@adriftlab.bsky.social
With the new academic year not too far off, if any university folks in the UK have a student that might like an EDI related research project in ecology/conservation/zoology that would also make a nice paper, drop me a line
August 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Come study with us! ⬇️
@adriftlab.bsky.social
@adriftlab.bsky.social
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Please check out the attached advertisement for a #masters project at @dalhousieu.bsky.social on Leach's storm-petrels! #MSc #biology #gradstudies #gradschool #birds #seabirds #research
August 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Please check out the attached advertisement for a #masters project at @dalhousieu.bsky.social on Leach's storm-petrels! #MSc #biology #gradstudies #gradschool #birds #seabirds #research
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So exciting that our paper on #puffin wing molt is out! We're learning more about oceanic life history, and how to protect this beloved species beyond the breeding colony, bit by bit. #stableisotopes, #seabirds, #ornithology - worth a read. Thank you #gulls, for the feather samples.
Stable isotopes reveal synchronous primary flight feather moult pattern of Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
March 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
So exciting that our paper on #puffin wing molt is out! We're learning more about oceanic life history, and how to protect this beloved species beyond the breeding colony, bit by bit. #stableisotopes, #seabirds, #ornithology - worth a read. Thank you #gulls, for the feather samples.
Motivated by Sanchez et al. 2025 & BioGraphI sesh at #ESA2025 - I want to share the diversity in our field with my #ecology students after asking them what identifies they associate w/the field. #Ecologists please consider sharing 3 (single words) aspects of your identify on this menti (anonymous!)
August 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Motivated by Sanchez et al. 2025 & BioGraphI sesh at #ESA2025 - I want to share the diversity in our field with my #ecology students after asking them what identifies they associate w/the field. #Ecologists please consider sharing 3 (single words) aspects of your identify on this menti (anonymous!)
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Extended deadline until tomorrow!
🐦 Seabirds are sentinels of ocean health. Join us at WSC 4: Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate 🌊🌍
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 🗓️ 7–11 Sept 2026
📝 Proposals due 15 Aug 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience #ClimateChange
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 🗓️ 7–11 Sept 2026
📝 Proposals due 15 Aug 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience #ClimateChange
August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Extended deadline until tomorrow!
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Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
August 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests | Science | AAAS 🧪
‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests | Science | AAAS 🧪
@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
August 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!
August 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!