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Another SPECTACULAR #AdriftLab #WritingRetreat, this time with the brilliant and hilarious @amycsteel.bsky.social. In 4 days we finished TWO new papers on #bushfires and #cyclones. So much love for this collaborative and efficient approach to writing!!
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October 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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As if Alix doesn’t have enough papers (5 data chapters + 9 bonus papers - yes, that’s 16 in 3 years!), soon we’ll gather for another of our famous #WritingRetreats to smash out 2 new papers. Can’t wait to drink tea, eat 🍰, laugh & write for 5 days with our talented team 😍 #AdriftLab #seabirds
October 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Acknowledgements: the beautiful folks at Living Ocean & Global Surf Industries #ArtForOceans
#MarineConservation #EcoArt #seabirds #AdriftLab #philanthropy #fundraising #surfing

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October 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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#ornithology friends in south-eastern #Australia: please be on the look-out for #seabirds on beaches. Sadly, they will probably start washing up in ~2 weeks… #CitizenScience #BeachedBirds #AdriftLab #OzBirds
adriftlab.bsky.social Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · Sep 28
Multiple species of #shearwater have begun arriving in Australian waters after completing their southward migration. We need your help recording if/when #seabirds start washing up on your local beaches #citizenscience
September 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Grateful for support of territory governments, local partners, Blue Belt Programme & the Pitkern community! Stay tuned for gorgeous #birds, fabulous teamwork & stunning islands #ProtectWhatYouLove #MarineScience #AdriftLab #OperationGarnet #UKOT #HendersonIsland #OenoAtoll #SeabirdSaturday
September 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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New #AdriftLab paper celebrates what can be achieved through #LongTermMonitoring & #banding studies (send us a DM if you'd like a PDF) #NewPaper #seabirds #shearwaters #BreedingEcology #demography doi.org/10.1080/0158...
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Age at first return of Sable Shearwaters (Ardenna carneipes)
Long-term datasets are fundamental to the accurate estimation of demographic parameters for long-lived species. This is particularly the case for declining species where there is an imperative to i...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Over the weekend, the #AdriftLab team returned to Larapuna to remove 1000s of sea spurge & #MarineDebris. We covered 15 km of beach & submitted data to 5 different #CitizenScience programs
#ProtectWhatYouLove #volunteering
#InvasiveWeeds #AMDI
August 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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⭐#NewPaper alert⭐ Dr Megan Grant's last chapter of her #AdriftLab #PhD thesis focuses on the key role #seabirds play in transporting nutrients from the ocean to their breeding sites (in this case, #LordHoweIsland)

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Seabirds Enhance Primary Producer and Consumer Isotope Signals on a Sub‐Tropical Island
Many seabird populations are decline, this means fewer marine-derived nutrients are being deposited on islands. On Lord Howe Island, soil collected from active shearwater colonies contained elevated ....
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July 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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In 2017, #AdriftLab published a paper on #plastic accumulating on a remote island. A few days later we discovered it had been featured in a skit about the #kardashians on #saturdaynightlive 😳🤩 Check it out via the link below! ⬇️
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July 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Last week HRH King Charles III learned about all the amazing research happening at #AdriftLab & the remarkable #birds we’re so lucky to work with. King Charles shares our teams’ passion for environmental #conservation. We’re hoping for a dinner invite soon 😉 #WPY60 @nhm-london.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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New research from #AdriftLab found:
🪹 100% of sampled #GreatBowerbird bowers contain plastic decorations
🐦 Most bowers had >250 debris items
♻️ Common items: lids, clothes pegs & tile spacers
📿 #entanglement in ribbons & wire is a concern
🏞️ Bowers in a #NationalPark still had high debris loads
July 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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🚨EAST COAST #TASMANIA🚨 If you live in this area, we need your help checking for #BeachedBirds
Send us your data (date, location, photos) via DM or email (AdriftLab@gmail.com)
Currently getting reports of Australian #Gannets - photos essential to confirm species ID
#CitizenScience #Birds #seabirds
July 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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#NewPaper from #AdriftLab
🔹 #shearwaters exposed to #Mercury & #PCBs have significantly reduced #thyroid #hormone levels
🔹Worrying bc thyroid hormones regulate vital functions (eg. development & growth) & are part of the mechanism underlying migration #seabirds
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June 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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While undertaking fieldwork on #LordHoweIsland this month, the #AdriftLab team completed 21 #cleanups of four beaches. In total, we removed 2943 #plastics weighing 33kg (carried on our bicycles). All debris was sorted & uploaded to Australia’s national database #AMDI
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May 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Few people get to see these gorgeous, charismatic birds & this is something our #AdriftLab team struggles with. You can’t care about what you don’t know about, so…how do we (a small, poorly funded team) share the magic of these birds with the world? Thankfully, there are photographers like Ingrid 🙏
adriftlab.bsky.social Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · May 16
Take a moment to see the beauty in the eye of this young #shearwater, only moments before it took its first-ever flight into the Big Blue (and flew 15,000 km to Japan!) 💙

📸 credit: the amazing & generous @ingridpollet.bsky.social

#EndangeredSpeciesDay #seabirds #ProtectWhatYouLove #ForTheOceans
May 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Alarming and heartbreaking that the amount of plastic being found in shearwaters on Lord Howe Island is just getting worse!
#plasticpollution #environment #AdriftLab #morethanhuman
On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...
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May 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Thank you for featuring the hard work of our #AdriftLab research team 🐦🏝️💙♻️
May 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Building on the successes of our 2024 DucieBird project, #AdriftLab are thrilled we've been selected for the 2025 expedition: from Mangareva to #Pitcairn, #HendersonIsland & #OenoAtoll in the #SouthPacific
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April 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Quite a few #LittlePenguins still washing up in northern TAS and (especially) SW Victoria. ⭐️Please report to us what you’re seeing⭐️
(Email 📧➡️ adriftlab@gmail.com)

(#shearwater “season” is starting soon meaning young #muttonbirds could start washing up too)
April 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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The embargo lifts on a HUGE #NewPaper tomorrow - stay tuned for amazing #AdriftLab #SciComm delivered by @alixdejersey.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

#GoodScienceGoodPeople #seabirds #PlasticPollution #OzBirds
March 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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VICTORIA & TASMANIA friends: #LittlePenguins have started washing up on beaches again - please send #AdriftLab your data and photos!
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March 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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This lovely little paper originated from one of our famous #AdriftLab #WritingRetreat which we held on #LordHoweIsland last October. Over a one-week period, we wrote and analysed the data together in between eating cake, drinking tea, cracking (bad) jokes & catching #seabirds
March 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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If you live in SE Australia, please watch for beach-washed #seabirds & send your observations to #AdriftLab ⬇️
adriftlab.bsky.social Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · Feb 26
Two #seabirds with metal leg bands were reported to #AdriftLab this week during #BeachedBird surveys (these are ongoing, please keep sending us data!). The #CitizenScientists took excellent photos which ensured we could read the full number & report it to the banding office #ABBBS
February 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Two #seabirds with metal leg bands were reported to #AdriftLab this week during #BeachedBird surveys (these are ongoing, please keep sending us data!). The #CitizenScientists took excellent photos which ensured we could read the full number & report it to the banding office #ABBBS
February 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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You can’t do amazing #Bushfire #Science without the #AdriftLab mascot (Vienna Sausage #dachshund)
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February 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM