Matt Wood
@woodmj.bsky.social
Seabirds, ecology, islands. University of Gloucestershire. Long-term seabird studies on Skomer Island, Wales
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Have you signed up for the World Seabird Conference yet? 7-11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Australia 🐦🦘
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have you signed up for the World Seabird Conference yet? 7-11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Australia 🐦🦘
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
Registration is open now, with abstracts accepted until 15 Jan 👩🏫🌊
A fantastic opportunity for #seabirders! Runs every 5 years. Accessible, inclusive, global 🌍 #WSC4
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...
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Thermal imaging opens multiple windows into wild animal physiology!
Our new systematic review surveys links between body surface temperatures and four key physiological processes to identify approaches likely to push the technique to it's full potential.
buff.ly/p4s37I5
#biology #physiology
Our new systematic review surveys links between body surface temperatures and four key physiological processes to identify approaches likely to push the technique to it's full potential.
buff.ly/p4s37I5
#biology #physiology
October 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thermal imaging opens multiple windows into wild animal physiology!
Our new systematic review surveys links between body surface temperatures and four key physiological processes to identify approaches likely to push the technique to it's full potential.
buff.ly/p4s37I5
#biology #physiology
Our new systematic review surveys links between body surface temperatures and four key physiological processes to identify approaches likely to push the technique to it's full potential.
buff.ly/p4s37I5
#biology #physiology
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After decades of absence, the nocturnal calls of shearwaters once more echo from burrows on Northern Ireland's seabird island. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...
Manx Shearwater Breeding Confirmed on Rathlin Island
After decades of absence, the nocturnal calls of shearwaters once more echo from burrows on Northern Ireland’s seabird island.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
After decades of absence, the nocturnal calls of shearwaters once more echo from burrows on Northern Ireland's seabird island. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶
Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶
September 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶
Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶
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Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣
Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣
Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
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📢Abstract call for the 15th MASTS Annual Science Meeting - NOW OPEN.
Abstracts for talks and e-posters are now invited for our general science sessions or one of our five special sessions, and are open to everyone.
Deadline for all abstracts: 29th August.
🌊All the info: masts.ac.uk/annual-scien...
Abstracts for talks and e-posters are now invited for our general science sessions or one of our five special sessions, and are open to everyone.
Deadline for all abstracts: 29th August.
🌊All the info: masts.ac.uk/annual-scien...
August 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
📢Abstract call for the 15th MASTS Annual Science Meeting - NOW OPEN.
Abstracts for talks and e-posters are now invited for our general science sessions or one of our five special sessions, and are open to everyone.
Deadline for all abstracts: 29th August.
🌊All the info: masts.ac.uk/annual-scien...
Abstracts for talks and e-posters are now invited for our general science sessions or one of our five special sessions, and are open to everyone.
Deadline for all abstracts: 29th August.
🌊All the info: masts.ac.uk/annual-scien...
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Really pleased to have contributed to this epic survey of >59,000 pairs of gannets! The St Kilda colony was less impacted by HPAI than other colonies, perhaps because steep cliffs reduced disease transmission. Flatter areas of the colony suffered greater losses.
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
Results from the 2023 #StKilda Gannet census are to be published in the December issue of #ScottishBirds, revealing relative stability in what is once again the world's largest colony, despite fears that #HPAI may have had a greater impact on the population
#NTSSeabirds
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
#NTSSeabirds
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
A bird’s-eye view of the gannet colony at St Kilda
The first drone census at St Kilda has revealed the islands are now home to the world’s largest gannet colony.
www.nts.org.uk
August 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Really pleased to have contributed to this epic survey of >59,000 pairs of gannets! The St Kilda colony was less impacted by HPAI than other colonies, perhaps because steep cliffs reduced disease transmission. Flatter areas of the colony suffered greater losses.
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
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PhULMaR continues! Peer support and networking, collaboration and data sharing group for PhD and MRes #seabirds and marine #ornithology students in the British and Irish Isles 📢🐣 Please share with students and colleagues 🙏🏻
Hello! We're now on #Bluesky! PhULMaR is a PhD lab group for those around the British and Irish Isles studying birds that use the #marine #environment. Currently headed by @bardseyben.bsky.social @dianepavat.bsky.social, we meet online on the last Friday of each month. Get in touch to join!
July 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
PhULMaR continues! Peer support and networking, collaboration and data sharing group for PhD and MRes #seabirds and marine #ornithology students in the British and Irish Isles 📢🐣 Please share with students and colleagues 🙏🏻
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Some of the many hundreds of Kittiwakes raising families in the heart of Scarborough at present. Red listed in the UK, with an increasingly vulnerable population internationally too, Black-legged Kittiwakes are a familiar sight in a small number of coastal towns. #SuperSeabirdSunday #ReMeMaRe 1/..
July 13, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Some of the many hundreds of Kittiwakes raising families in the heart of Scarborough at present. Red listed in the UK, with an increasingly vulnerable population internationally too, Black-legged Kittiwakes are a familiar sight in a small number of coastal towns. #SuperSeabirdSunday #ReMeMaRe 1/..
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![Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid4vie3df7ltmh7capumhhqcpbejyr7ya7y762fasdeq46ud3gyva@jpeg)
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🚨 Behold a second impressive paper from @kerrys189.bsky.social to celebrate her just-finished PhD. A rising 🌟!
This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management.
🧪🌐🪶
This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management.
🧪🌐🪶
New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...
www.nature.com
June 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚨 Behold a second impressive paper from @kerrys189.bsky.social to celebrate her just-finished PhD. A rising 🌟!
This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management.
🧪🌐🪶
This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management.
🧪🌐🪶
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🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN
Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶
🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶
🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
June 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN
Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶
🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶
🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award
Deadline: 15 September 2025
Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
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🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜
I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!
📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027
🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe
Please share widely!
#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!
📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027
🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe
Please share widely!
#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
June 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜
I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!
📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027
🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe
Please share widely!
#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!
📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027
🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe
Please share widely!
#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
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Job alert: We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable marine ornithologist to join the JNCC Marine Species Team. More info here: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
June 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Job alert: We are looking for an enthusiastic and adaptable marine ornithologist to join the JNCC Marine Species Team. More info here: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
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A nice article on urban gulls' eating habits that doesn't paint them in a negative light. With some commentary from me, @alice-risely.bsky.social and others.
www.wsj.com/articles/sci...
www.wsj.com/articles/sci...
Scientists Can’t Get Enough of Watching Seagulls Steal Your Food
Birds’ ability to seamlessly swap marine food for a Big Mac—and outwit humans to get it—is a source of fascination
www.wsj.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A nice article on urban gulls' eating habits that doesn't paint them in a negative light. With some commentary from me, @alice-risely.bsky.social and others.
www.wsj.com/articles/sci...
www.wsj.com/articles/sci...
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📖SMPnews is out now - Issue 3 | Spring 2025🌱
This newsletter is for anyone interested in #seabirds, #wildlife, #CitizenScience or simply enjoys a good read! Thank you to everyone who contributed.👏
🔭 Check it out at www.bto.org/smp-news 👀
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
This newsletter is for anyone interested in #seabirds, #wildlife, #CitizenScience or simply enjoys a good read! Thank you to everyone who contributed.👏
🔭 Check it out at www.bto.org/smp-news 👀
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📖SMPnews is out now - Issue 3 | Spring 2025🌱
This newsletter is for anyone interested in #seabirds, #wildlife, #CitizenScience or simply enjoys a good read! Thank you to everyone who contributed.👏
🔭 Check it out at www.bto.org/smp-news 👀
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
This newsletter is for anyone interested in #seabirds, #wildlife, #CitizenScience or simply enjoys a good read! Thank you to everyone who contributed.👏
🔭 Check it out at www.bto.org/smp-news 👀
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Am super excited that our new paper is out, it looks at how reproductive role can constrain foraging and restrict evening diving opportunities for males during the pre-laying period in Manx shearwaters🥚
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pre-laying sex differences in reproductive roles can constrain foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird - Marine Biology
Sex differences in foraging behaviour can arise in monomorphic species when reproductive roles differ. How these differences shape foraging behaviour during the pre-laying period—an understudied repro...
link.springer.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Am super excited that our new paper is out, it looks at how reproductive role can constrain foraging and restrict evening diving opportunities for males during the pre-laying period in Manx shearwaters🥚
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Single whimbrel calling high over Woodchester just now #glosbirds
May 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Single whimbrel calling high over Woodchester just now #glosbirds
Continuous stream of thousands of Manx shearwaters heading west past St Govans Head this afternoon, headed back to the 450,000ish breeding burrows on @skokholmisland.bsky.social & @skomerisland.bsky.social Bonus points for spotting the kittiwake! #seabirds #ornithology
May 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Continuous stream of thousands of Manx shearwaters heading west past St Govans Head this afternoon, headed back to the 450,000ish breeding burrows on @skokholmisland.bsky.social & @skomerisland.bsky.social Bonus points for spotting the kittiwake! #seabirds #ornithology
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We are pleased to announce the we will be running another Student week for 18-24 year olds from 9th to 16th August this year.
The week is funded by West Midland Bird Club, British Birds and West Midlands Bird Club.
See tinyurl.com/Bardsey-stud...
The week is funded by West Midland Bird Club, British Birds and West Midlands Bird Club.
See tinyurl.com/Bardsey-stud...
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We are pleased to announce the we will be running another Student week for 18-24 year olds from 9th to 16th August this year.
The week is funded by West Midland Bird Club, British Birds and West Midlands Bird Club.
See tinyurl.com/Bardsey-stud...
The week is funded by West Midland Bird Club, British Birds and West Midlands Bird Club.
See tinyurl.com/Bardsey-stud...
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Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛
(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)
#Seabirds #IrishSea
(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)
#Seabirds #IrishSea
April 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Look out #seabird world… here’s the awesome Dr Edney!!! Superb thesis, been a privilege to play a small part as supervisor
Very very happy to have passed my PhD earlier this week!
Thank you to my examiners @sheldonbirds.bsky.social & Richard Phillips, my supervisors Tom Hart, @gannetguy.bsky.social, @ellingbry.bsky.social, @woodmj.bsky.social, & Katrina Davis, and everyone else who helped me along the way! 📷 🐣
Thank you to my examiners @sheldonbirds.bsky.social & Richard Phillips, my supervisors Tom Hart, @gannetguy.bsky.social, @ellingbry.bsky.social, @woodmj.bsky.social, & Katrina Davis, and everyone else who helped me along the way! 📷 🐣
March 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Look out #seabird world… here’s the awesome Dr Edney!!! Superb thesis, been a privilege to play a small part as supervisor
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There is also a nice accompanying gallery article in the @theguardian.com highlighting the photos submitted to project - unfortunately not credited to the Gulls Eating Stuff project though!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat? – in pictures
Gulls are known for being ravenous – check out a selection of things they like
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
There is also a nice accompanying gallery article in the @theguardian.com highlighting the photos submitted to project - unfortunately not credited to the Gulls Eating Stuff project though!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
March 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.