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Anne Ausems
@anneausems.bsky.social
· Nov 26
Since many more people have come to #Bluesky lately, I though it might be fun to share my publications on here, as well! (And as I'm still ECR, it's a reasonable number). Most are on #StormPetrels, but I do have some cool ones on #Whimbrel as well, and even a co-authorship on #PiedFlycatcher. #bird
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Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...
The MARCIS tool has been launched
This bulletin was first published by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on January 15th, 2026 One hundred and fifty years ago, seabirds lived in a very different coastal environment from the…
seapop.no
January 19, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...
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WSC4 Abstract Submissions – Now Open
Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12).
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#WSC4
Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12).
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January 14, 2026 at 4:24 PM
WSC4 Abstract Submissions – Now Open
Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12).
Submitting an abstract is easy via our Abstract Portal.
Check out our website for full guidelines and submission details.
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#WSC4
Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12).
Submitting an abstract is easy via our Abstract Portal.
Check out our website for full guidelines and submission details.
🔗 bit.ly/4qRZd44
#WSC4
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As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛
❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb
Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb
Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
![A trail camera in a tree branch, in front of a bright blue sky.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛
❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb
Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb
Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
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Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃
We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!
We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋
For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb
We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!
We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋
For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃
We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!
We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋
For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb
We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!
We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋
For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb
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2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
January 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)
💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)
Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌
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Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that's a wrap! The last of the European #stormie chicks that we monitored on #Nólsoy #FaroeIslands has fledged. This field season was a huge success, with 55 eggs laid, 47 chicks hatched, and 34 chicks fledged!
December 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
And that's a wrap! The last of the European #stormie chicks that we monitored on #Nólsoy #FaroeIslands has fledged. This field season was a huge success, with 55 eggs laid, 47 chicks hatched, and 34 chicks fledged!
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Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
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New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨
"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
We only have 5 days left before the last of our team leaves the #FaroeIslands, but these chicks still have some growing to do!
One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We only have 5 days left before the last of our team leaves the #FaroeIslands, but these chicks still have some growing to do!
One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
Seems like our ScienceBricks to monitor attendance of burrow nesting seabirds should help with at least some of these challenges! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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
doi.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Seems like our ScienceBricks to monitor attendance of burrow nesting seabirds should help with at least some of these challenges! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
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Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
September 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We are well supervised by the local sheep while weighing our cupcake chicks! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We are well supervised by the local sheep while weighing our cupcake chicks! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
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New post at ecolightsforseabirds website!
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds
Pufflings navigating the lit night
Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New post at ecolightsforseabirds website!
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds
Although most breeding #seabird fieldwork in the North Atlantic has come to an end, we're still in the thick of it with 12/56 eggs hatched! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @felixazurawska.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Although most breeding #seabird fieldwork in the North Atlantic has come to an end, we're still in the thick of it with 12/56 eggs hatched! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @felixazurawska.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
I'd like to say I made a new friend today but this -very fat- #fulmar chick didn't really love being picked up from the road and released back to the ocean where it belongs... My hands will forever smell. @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @annaznoj.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I'd like to say I made a new friend today but this -very fat- #fulmar chick didn't really love being picked up from the road and released back to the ocean where it belongs... My hands will forever smell. @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @annaznoj.bsky.social
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May 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!
August 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!
We've got some strong legged #stormpetrel chicks this year! Photo by @jasonwalczak.bsky.social. @bardseyben.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We've got some strong legged #stormpetrel chicks this year! Photo by @jasonwalczak.bsky.social. @bardseyben.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
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🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!
Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing ⚡
New assemble() for building plots 🎨
Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪
Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨
👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing ⚡
New assemble() for building plots 🎨
Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪
Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨
👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
gavinsimpson.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!
Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing ⚡
New assemble() for building plots 🎨
Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪
Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨
👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...
Experimental parallel processing ⚡
New assemble() for building plots 🎨
Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪
Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨
👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/
#Rstats
My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!
August 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!
Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social