KateSearle
@odocokate.bsky.social
Animal population ecologist - mostly studying drivers of change in seabirds these days
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Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣.
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
Seabirds are more likely to ‘divorce’ in bad weather
Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a new study involving the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
ceh.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣.
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪
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A kittiwake ringed as a chick by @ukceh.bsky.social on the Isle of May in 2023 has been reported from Greenland. Our tracking studies over the years have revealed that many of the Isle of May kittiwakes pass Greenland on route to wintering off Newfoundland @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
On the move! An Isle of May Kittiwake has just been recovered from Peamiut, Greenland, some 1,710 miles away as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A kittiwake ringed as a chick by @ukceh.bsky.social on the Isle of May in 2023 has been reported from Greenland. Our tracking studies over the years have revealed that many of the Isle of May kittiwakes pass Greenland on route to wintering off Newfoundland @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
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Great to attend the Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates APPG event at the House of Lords yesterday.
Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝
Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Great to attend the Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates APPG event at the House of Lords yesterday.
Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝
Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝
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Read the blog by UKCEH molecular ecologists on the Springer Nature Research Communities website:
https://f.mtr.cool/uaqahjasfy
https://f.mtr.cool/hlpsglwcqi
@amycthorpe.bsky.social
@susheelbusi.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/uaqahjasfy
https://f.mtr.cool/hlpsglwcqi
@amycthorpe.bsky.social
@susheelbusi.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Read the blog by UKCEH molecular ecologists on the Springer Nature Research Communities website:
https://f.mtr.cool/uaqahjasfy
https://f.mtr.cool/hlpsglwcqi
@amycthorpe.bsky.social
@susheelbusi.bsky.social
https://f.mtr.cool/uaqahjasfy
https://f.mtr.cool/hlpsglwcqi
@amycthorpe.bsky.social
@susheelbusi.bsky.social
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Weekend reads: Catch up with UKCEH news via our latest newsletter!
🏞️ Insights from historic land use maps
✨ New science director
🔎 Studies on soils, seabirds etc
📈 Long-term lakes data
and more!
https://mailings.ceh.ac.uk/historic-land-use-sustainability-research-ukceh
#EnvironmentalScience
🏞️ Insights from historic land use maps
✨ New science director
🔎 Studies on soils, seabirds etc
📈 Long-term lakes data
and more!
https://mailings.ceh.ac.uk/historic-land-use-sustainability-research-ukceh
#EnvironmentalScience
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Weekend reads: Catch up with UKCEH news via our latest newsletter!
🏞️ Insights from historic land use maps
✨ New science director
🔎 Studies on soils, seabirds etc
📈 Long-term lakes data
and more!
https://mailings.ceh.ac.uk/historic-land-use-sustainability-research-ukceh
#EnvironmentalScience
🏞️ Insights from historic land use maps
✨ New science director
🔎 Studies on soils, seabirds etc
📈 Long-term lakes data
and more!
https://mailings.ceh.ac.uk/historic-land-use-sustainability-research-ukceh
#EnvironmentalScience
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New UKCEH research shows satellite imagery reveals vegetation stress months before unpredictable 'flash droughts'. That early warning could give farmers, water managers and health authorities time to act: https://f.mtr.cool/usfdpaviie
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New UKCEH research shows satellite imagery reveals vegetation stress months before unpredictable 'flash droughts'. That early warning could give farmers, water managers and health authorities time to act: https://f.mtr.cool/usfdpaviie
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Just launched, spmapper is a new marine spatial planning tool from UKCEH! By estimating where and how much seabirds eat, spmapper can help with siting new offshore windfarms and protection areas. nerc-ceh.github.io/spmapper-pkg...
spmapper
A spatial planning tool to indicate the foraging value of marine areas to breeding seabirds.
nerc-ceh.github.io
September 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Just launched, spmapper is a new marine spatial planning tool from UKCEH! By estimating where and how much seabirds eat, spmapper can help with siting new offshore windfarms and protection areas. nerc-ceh.github.io/spmapper-pkg...
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We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts.
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
August 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts.
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐
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New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The #EU collectively failed to deliver #GoodEnvironmentalStatus in its seas. Bold, binding action across all sectors—strong #MPAs, pollution controls, fishing reform—is urgently needed to halt biodiversity loss and restore European Seas.
#MarineEcology #MarineConservation #MSFD #GES4SEAS 🌐🌍🧪🌊🦈🐬🐋
#MarineEcology #MarineConservation #MSFD #GES4SEAS 🌐🌍🧪🌊🦈🐬🐋
August 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The #EU collectively failed to deliver #GoodEnvironmentalStatus in its seas. Bold, binding action across all sectors—strong #MPAs, pollution controls, fishing reform—is urgently needed to halt biodiversity loss and restore European Seas.
#MarineEcology #MarineConservation #MSFD #GES4SEAS 🌐🌍🧪🌊🦈🐬🐋
#MarineEcology #MarineConservation #MSFD #GES4SEAS 🌐🌍🧪🌊🦈🐬🐋
Seal tracks - Embleton
July 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Seal tracks - Embleton
Northumberland gorse out-gorsed itself this year
July 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Northumberland gorse out-gorsed itself this year
Pavement crack flowers
July 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Pavement crack flowers
Slow worm on Dartmoor - sun basking
July 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Slow worm on Dartmoor - sun basking
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New paper on avian flu in seabirds from an Edinburgh Uni PhD student published! Edinburgh University has been working on the Isle of May with UKCEH and other partners to investigate the effects of this virus among seabirds. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks
doi.org
July 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New paper on avian flu in seabirds from an Edinburgh Uni PhD student published! Edinburgh University has been working on the Isle of May with UKCEH and other partners to investigate the effects of this virus among seabirds. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Epic day yesterday with watches, puffin fledgling rescue, puffin chick weighing, kittiwake logger deployment and puffin netting from 5am to 9.30pm. Similar vein today with everyone out for 5am with mire kittiwake watches and concurrent puffin netting. We'll have a fair bit of seabird data by the end
July 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Epic day yesterday with watches, puffin fledgling rescue, puffin chick weighing, kittiwake logger deployment and puffin netting from 5am to 9.30pm. Similar vein today with everyone out for 5am with mire kittiwake watches and concurrent puffin netting. We'll have a fair bit of seabird data by the end
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🙋 Know a 15-19yr old interested in ocean work experience?
We're looking forward to co-hosting this Virtual Work Experience Week with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social! 🤜🤛
🪸🧑🔬🌡️ Together, we offer a wide range of career pathways for students to discover!
👉 Students must apply by 14th July
📤Do share!
We're looking forward to co-hosting this Virtual Work Experience Week with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social! 🤜🤛
🪸🧑🔬🌡️ Together, we offer a wide range of career pathways for students to discover!
👉 Students must apply by 14th July
📤Do share!
📢 Big news! For the first time, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the National Oceanography Centre (@noc.ac.uk) are teaming up to offer a Virtual #WorkExperience Week – and applications are now open! 👇 pml.ac.uk/event/pml-x-...
PML x NOC Virtual Work Experience Week
Big news! For the first time, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are teaming up with Creative Tuition Collective to offer a Virtual Work Experience Week – an
pml.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🙋 Know a 15-19yr old interested in ocean work experience?
We're looking forward to co-hosting this Virtual Work Experience Week with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social! 🤜🤛
🪸🧑🔬🌡️ Together, we offer a wide range of career pathways for students to discover!
👉 Students must apply by 14th July
📤Do share!
We're looking forward to co-hosting this Virtual Work Experience Week with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social! 🤜🤛
🪸🧑🔬🌡️ Together, we offer a wide range of career pathways for students to discover!
👉 Students must apply by 14th July
📤Do share!
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New opportunity | Postgraduate Researcher Representative
📆Deadline: 31 July
Are you passionate about climate change and ecology?
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps to join our committee. It’s a chance to shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to the community!
📆Deadline: 31 July
Are you passionate about climate change and ecology?
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps to join our committee. It’s a chance to shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to the community!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New opportunity | Postgraduate Researcher Representative
📆Deadline: 31 July
Are you passionate about climate change and ecology?
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps to join our committee. It’s a chance to shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to the community!
📆Deadline: 31 July
Are you passionate about climate change and ecology?
We are looking for two PGR/PhD student reps to join our committee. It’s a chance to shape events, support early career researchers, and contribute to the community!
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🌊 We're Hiring!
Join the Marine Biological Association and help tell the story of cutting-edge marine science from our stunning location beside Plymouth's National Marine Park! 🐠📍
If you love the ocean, & storytelling this is your chance!
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/social-m...
📅 Apply by 04/08/2025
Join the Marine Biological Association and help tell the story of cutting-edge marine science from our stunning location beside Plymouth's National Marine Park! 🐠📍
If you love the ocean, & storytelling this is your chance!
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/social-m...
📅 Apply by 04/08/2025
July 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🌊 We're Hiring!
Join the Marine Biological Association and help tell the story of cutting-edge marine science from our stunning location beside Plymouth's National Marine Park! 🐠📍
If you love the ocean, & storytelling this is your chance!
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/social-m...
📅 Apply by 04/08/2025
Join the Marine Biological Association and help tell the story of cutting-edge marine science from our stunning location beside Plymouth's National Marine Park! 🐠📍
If you love the ocean, & storytelling this is your chance!
🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/social-m...
📅 Apply by 04/08/2025
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the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
the journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities
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Odd plumaged puffin. White nape feathers and washed out bill
June 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Odd plumaged puffin. White nape feathers and washed out bill
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The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
This federal program helps track America's ecosystems. Trump's budget would gut it
The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
n.pr
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Ecosystems Mission Area helps researchers track everything from birds and bees to floods and fires. Trump wants to cut it by about 90%, gutting a key federal ecological program.
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Our base for today. From 0300-2330 we are conducting a guillemot & Razorbill feeding watch, following diet and feeding rate
June 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our base for today. From 0300-2330 we are conducting a guillemot & Razorbill feeding watch, following diet and feeding rate