Congratulations to David Borchers of University of St Andrews who is the recipient of our 2024 Barnett Award for environmental statistics, for the development of new and accessible methodologies in wildlife monitoring & conservation

🇨🇱 Esta mañana la Embajadora Louise de Sousa 🇬🇧 se reunió con el nuevo Director de INACH, Gino Casassa. También participó de la reunión el representante de British Antarctic Survey 🐧 PhD. Peter Convey y el UK Delegate en SCAR 2024. Ministerio del Medio Ambiente Ministerio de Ciencia Instituto Milenio BASE

Really enjoyed chatting about my work as part of the ANTSIE project at the SCAR Open Science Conference this week It’s been inspiring to meet so many people working to understand Antarctica and the Southern Ocean #PeaceThroughScience #SCAR2024 #AntarcticScience

PC regression is a subject I have spent some time thinking about. I will start this 🧵by the usual scientific inquiry: WHYY?!?! Where the all-caps represent my utter frustration on this subject. 1/rant

The XXXVIII SCAR Delegates Meeting is currently taking place in Punta Arenas, Chile. Our Delegates meet every two years to discuss past accomplishments & future plans & budget, make decisions on which research areas to cover and more.

BREAKING: The UK gov't has rightly recognised that approving the Rosebank oil field without taking into account the full extent of its climate impacts was unlawful. It has conceded that argument in our & Greenpeace's legal challenge against the field. So what does that mean? 🧵

#Bass It sounds like the Bass it smells like the Bass ! Still huge gaps , solo birds, new pairs bonding, but to see succesful breeding apart from total joy😍 assures the regeneration of the colony Scottish Seabird Centre

The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting

If you are interested in the science and #conservation of animal migration, come join our webinar for the launch of the Atlas of Ungulate Migration next Wednesday! Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration Time: Sept. 4th at 16:00–17:00 CEST | Beijing 22:00–23:00 CST. Zoom link: un-org-unep.zoom.us/j/93137687470

JOB 📢: Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution or Behavioural Ecology Durham BioSciences Durham University. Deadline 31 Oct 2024 More info: durham.taleo.net/careersection/… CEG Durham Durham BEER centre BES careers SCB #HiringNow EcologyJobs EcologyJobs ASAB

I’m seeing a lot of anger and disappointment in badger circles today that the badger cull is ending, but not ending fast enough. Apologies for the long thread 🧵, but tet me explain why I think the news is the best it could be 1/25

So, please, wildlife colleagues: rise to the occasion and offer farmers help, not condemnation. There is no solution to badger culling until farmers have a solution to TB. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem 🦡💉🐄 25/25

September 1st marks twenty years since the establishment of the Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty in Buenos Aires. 🇦🇶 To commemorate the occasion, the Secretariat created a webpage outlining its work and history: ats.aq/20 ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/4dG3gKL

Massive week for Wild Microbiome Lab last week. First up a new paper in Science Magazine led by Dr MariaCTelloRamos(@mariatelloramos.bsky.social) with evidence consistent with architectural traditions in nest construction in the ever-amazing white browed sparrow weavers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Explaining complicated processes clearly, Ella Benninghaus examines links between temporally varying physical variables and seabird productivity at #CoimbraSeabirds Excellent work and delighted to see UKCEHseabirds data from #IsleOfMay used here. The Seabird Group NatureScot

📢Breaking: UN Launches First-Ever Live Map of Large Mammal Migrations International team of +80 scientists developed interactive migration atlas of iconic land migrations from Serengeti wildebeest to the saiga of the Central Asian steppe. Learn more: cms.int/en/news/un-lau…

"Toileting and menstruation during seabird fieldwork." Eleanor Honan and Lila Buckingham explore the importance of addressing toileting and menstruation challenges during remote seabird fieldwork, focusing on accessibility and sustainability. #CoimbraSeabirds

Introducing our new and improved Guillemates - The Seabird Group mentoring scheme!! If you would like to be a mentor please sign up here: forms.gle/39MrFsmJyKy7dC… If you would like to be a mentee please sign up here: forms.gle/Mezfyj6WoPfgwy…

#CoimbraSeabirds is all wrapped up - a huge thanks to the organisers & The Seabird Group for inviting me to speak about toileting and menstruation during fieldwork. I'm so grateful to all those who engaged so positively during & after the talk! Thanks Paul W for pictures

Huge thanks to Ellie Ellie Honan for her inspiring & informative talk about toileting & menstruation during #seabird fieldwork at #CoimbraSeabirds. Whether you menstruate and/or manage people that do - this is definitely a talk to catch up on once uploaded to our YouTube channel!