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Owen Davies
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MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecology and Conservation- University of Exeter
Currently seeking to understand the habitat use of Crabeater and Weddell seals in Antarctica 🦭🇦🇶
Love hiking, drumming and heavy metal
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ucs.org
We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:
Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It
President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...
secure.ucsusa.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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cellarchlab.com
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profterryhughes.bsky.social Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · Feb 18
Another mass coral bleaching and mortality event is unfolding across 500km of the northern Great Barrier Reef.

Silence from reef agencies.

coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/bl...
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
You asked, we listened.

UK-based early/mid level marine roles, hand-picked for our community.

Screenshot your favourite or save this post for later!

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February 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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aerinj.bsky.social
Terrific list of conservation-related funding opportunities, made by @society4conbio.bsky.social:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please share!

#ConservationFunding #Conservation
Award, Fellowship and Grants Opportunities
Award, Fellowship and Grant Opportunities Below is a list of some of the ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. Use the hyperlinks to ju...
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January 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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snugasabugbear.bsky.social
Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Please read this thread. It could make a difference to your health.
Before I went away, I had a strange, persistent tingling in the soles of my feet. When I looked it up, there were some benign explanations, and some alarming ones. I resolved to see the doctor when I returned. 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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drmichellelarue.bsky.social
A Magellanic penguin is today's #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, which live in burrows in proximity to sheep (at least they were in the Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas)... a fact that, upon observation, caused me to do a double take.
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A black and white Magellanic penguin stands on the grass on a cloudy day
January 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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erwanrivault.com
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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richardkbroughton.bsky.social
New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.

Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Great Skua in Shetland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonxie_aka_Great_Skua_(Stercorarius_skua),_Hermaness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6509392.jpg
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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exetermarine.bsky.social
Looking for a new challenge in 2025? 🌟

Here are a few UK-based marine job opportunities you could apply for this month. 🌊

Don’t forget to screenshot your favourite one! To apply, visit the website noted in the bottom left corner.

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January 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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nellekulick.bsky.social
🚨Field research position alert: spread the word!🚨 Join our team in studying the behavior, health, and ecology of wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica 🇨🇷🐒🌴

See full position description: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

Learn more about the Santa Rosa Primate Project: www.santarosaprimates.org
A capuchin monkey standing on the ground in a lush tropical forest with her head partially turned and looking upwards. There is a juvenile capuchin investigating a stick in the background.
January 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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drmichellelarue.bsky.social
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of… little penguins! Well, they are little penguin chicks. Little little penguins, as it were. Anyway, they are a few weeks old right now, and we’re pretty docile when we opened up their home to inspect today.
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Two downy little penguin chicks in a nest box. They are amazingly adorable.
January 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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drmichellelarue.bsky.social
The #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD is of 10 emperor penguin tracks - an update on our research! This is where the birds have gone since November: >1000 km, in some cases, from where they started. What's even better is three of the birds seem to have found each other after all that way.
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A map of the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean with multiple, colored tracks that show where emperor penguins have been swimming since mid-November (they have moved from left to right, from Cape Crozier and into the Amundsen Sea).
January 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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luishuckstadt.bsky.social
Happy New Year! And what a better way to celebrate than by admiring how cool these tracks of grey seal pups’ movements are! 🦭🦑🌎 More pups will be tagged soon! @exetermarine.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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oceanauk.bsky.social
🌊 If passed, the #CANBill will enshrine vital nature & climate goals into law, protecting our seas & marine life 🪸🐋 This is CRITICAL. Protecting nature = protecting our future. ✊

✍️ Ask your MP to support and vote for the Climate & Nature Bill 🌍

👉 action.zerohour.uk
zero-hour.bsky.social Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · Dec 28
📣 After almost five years of campaigning, the Climate and Nature Bill now has a chance to progress through Parliament.

✍️ Can you email your MP, and ask them to support—and vote for—the #CANBill at its pivotal Second Reading on 24 January?

📧 action.zerohour.uk
December 30, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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drmichellelarue.bsky.social
Changing it up a bit for the #penguinpicoftheday #PPOTD, with a brushtail penguin (in genus Pygoscelis), specifically a chinstrap penguin who is asking "look at me, love me, won't you?!"

Also. Look at that chick. Need I say more.
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A chinstrap penguin is stretched out with its head in the air and it's flippers outward. Other penguins, including a dirty chick, are surrounding it, completely unbothered. The ocean is in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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bas.ac.uk
Do you have what it takes to be a professional penguin bum lifter? 🐧 That's a technical term.

We know what the people want this festive season: penguins.

Or in this case a glorious ICEWORLD interview with BAS penguin experts Derren Fox & Peter Fretwell 🪶

🎧 Find it wherever you get podcasts!
December 23, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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romangoergen.bsky.social
Another #conservation success story. 🧪🌍 #wildlife
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
This Once-Rare Lizard Bounced Back From the Brink of Extinction After 'Painstaking' Restoration Efforts in the Caribbean
In 2018, fewer than 100 Sombrero ground lizards remained on Sombrero Island—but now, more than 1,600 of the critically endangered reptiles are scampering around the limestone landscape
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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sophiavolzke.bsky.social
Neil the Seal showing off his big boy nose! We managed to document three consecutive years of development. 🦭🧪🦑
Neil is now four years young and still visits his home turf in Tassie to molt. #WildOz #Neiltheseal
*Photos taken opportunistically at a safe distance to not disturb the celebrity
Scientific illustration, including drawings of male Southern elephant seals. Side profiles of a seals head and face are documented across six developmental stages: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 8+ years old. Drawings referenced to be by Richard M Laws in 1953. Each drawing shows a progressively larger nose (proboscis) of the individual. Ages 2, 3 and 4 are accompanied by a corresponding photograph of Neil the Seal, with side profiles of his face and growth from 2022, 2023 and 2024. Close up side profile of a male elephant seal with a wide gaping open mouth. The subject is jawing, showing a big nose and small teeth.
December 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.

Go on girl. 😍
A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads: "SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male." This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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sebastianrvh.bsky.social
This sent me on a deep dive of other animals/organisms that have scientific names based on pop culture and I wanted to share some of my favs in the thread below (are they still called threads here?) 👇 🧪
November 13, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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davidbflower.bsky.social
NASA beams cat video from deep space with laser. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...
Nasa beams cat video from deep space with laser
The ultra HD footage of Taters the cat was sent as the agency tries to improve space communications.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2023 at 7:28 AM
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llewcid.bsky.social
Look at this accidentally excellent photo I took of a sea turtle judging you
A sea turtle swimming over the tunnel in the sealife centre, the photo is taken underneath it
December 16, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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ruthedunn.bsky.social
#NewPaper providing a framework that YOU can use to estimate the amount of energy that any population of marine bird (e.g. #seabirds, ducks, & divers) uses day-to-day.

It was a pleasure to co-lead this with my PhD pal Jamie Duckworth 🐦

Out now in JEB: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Image reads: Journal of Experimental Biology, A framework to unlock marine bird energetics. A myriad of BMR multipliers -> An easy-to-follow framework -> Exciting new energetic insights. We compiled BMR multipliers for you to combine with your data, using our framework to calculate the energy expenditure of any bird. In the background is a figure illustrating the different marine bird families, their ecological guilds, and whether BMR multiplier data are available. There's also an illustration of a great auk eating a fish.
December 18, 2023 at 10:56 AM
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stellerarts.com
Wake up nerds, new JWST image of Uranus!

Sorry if this is morbid, but I really hope I’m alive by the time we get some Juno-style images of the icy giants Neptune & Uranus 🤩

📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI 🔭🧪
Zoomed out view of Uranus and its rings shining brightly in light blue. The planet is surrounded by stars and galaxies. Close up view of Uranus and its moons shining in bright light blue. Several moons of Uranus are highlighted around the planet.
December 18, 2023 at 6:18 PM