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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 21h

Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis - an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD Opportunity: with me, @dmevans.bsky.social, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor and Luis Fabio Silveiro. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 11d

Angle Shades from last night's moth trap

Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 14d

doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Frontiers | The abundance, diversity, and assemblage structure of the macrobenthos at the South Georgia shelf methane seeps

A quarter of all marine methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is estimated to be hosted in Southern Ocean sediments. Climate change-induced ocean warming and ice...

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 15d

We're excited to announce the launch of the Stable Isotope Ecology course on the GAEA platform. Learn more and register for this and other courses at www.gaea.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social vimeo.com/757190807?fl...

Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro

This is "Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 21

How does urbanisation affect isotopic niche in blue tit adults and nestlings? See the latest work by Ana Navarro, Davide Dominoni @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and colleagues - doi.org/10.1080/1025... #stableisotopeecology

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 21

How does urbanisation affect isotopic niche in blue tit adults and nestlings? See the latest work by Ana Navarro, Davide Dominoni @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and colleagues - doi.org/10.1080/1025... #stableisotopeecology

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ana Navarro’s latest paper: Stable isotope ecology, shifting bird niches in the Atlantic Forest, and the indispensable role of museum collections. doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Community macroecological patterns and interspecific interactions in guild level regulate avian isotopic niche over time

Abstract. Understanding how ecological patterns shift across space and time is key to comprehend how biological communities respond to environmental change

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Abigail Lowe @abigaillowe.bsky.social · Aug 7

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 11

For UK-based ecologists submitting a #stableisotopeecology application to the National Environmental Isotope Facility, please get in touch with your ideas - www.stableisotopelab.com/people The next deadline will be 8th October 2025. More details see www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Aug 10

Royal Terns, Ilha Comprida, Brazil... #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 21

Least pygmy owl predating a spot-breasted antvireo. Legado das Águas

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 15

In her new paper, Ana Navarro shows how the birds of Brazil's Atlantic Forest have changed their diet and habitat use over time, using the stable isotope analysis of museum feathers. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Historical anthropogenic stressors affect bird ecology and feather development in neotropical forests

Fragmentation and habitat loss driven by agricultural expansion have significantly affected bird ecology. Additionally, the growing use of agrochemicals impacts ecosystems and avian communities. Tool....

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 13

I think in Lanarkshire we're very far from that stage
However it wouldve been nice this afternoon if Glasgow airport had turned theirs on!

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Jul 8

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC at the Radiocarbon Meeting in Krakow

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 4

A great start for my trap in March/April because of the warm spell, but June has been cold and wet so it's averaging out

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 1

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · Jul 1

A nice summary of a couple of projects that have used specimens from Birmingham's natural science collection www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/stories/birm...

Birmingham Museums’ natural science collection helps research to protect wildlife species under threat | Birmingham Museums

The collection of ca 250,000 specimens is the largest resource of its type in the West Midlands.Small samples from the bottom of the toes of taxidermied ni

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jun 7

Please do!

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Was a little late into work this morning getting a few snaps of the woodpeckers in the garden

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · May 25

Lovely - possibly an oak beauty?

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Stable Isotope Ecology (CER, Kyoto Univ.) @stableisotopeecol.bsky.social · May 10

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis

Rationale Increasing demand for fish and seafood means that the traceability of marine products is becoming ever more important for consumers, producers and regulators. Highly complex and globalised.....

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Apr 18

2025. #DEI. You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD. Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD

Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart.

www.nature.com

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · May 1

Applications for our travel and training grant are now open for two weeks!

Against a green background, the text on the left reads, 'BES travel and training grants. This grant supports the training and development of PhD students and postgraduate research assistants. Grants of up to £500 are available.' Then, a dotted line is used as a spacer, and underneath the text reads, 'Applications are now open'.

On the right side of the infographic is an image of two individuals cycling in Guinea.

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today, GAEA launches their Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology. This course has been developed by Dr Derek Fabel of the @isotopesuk.bsky.social NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility at SUERC. The course is free to any academic email address, any problems use the contact form. www.gaea.ac.uk/about-the-co...

About the Cosmogenic Nuclide Course - GAEA - Geo-Biosciences Advanced E-Learning Academy

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David Thieltges @davidwthieltges.bsky.social · Apr 15

Interested in #parasites and #isotopes? New database and paper lead by Amandine Sabadel just out! All data based on the same standardised protocol and collected in a large global collaborative effort:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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