Big congrats to Johan Castenschiold for successfully defending his PhD thesis yesterday at Aarhus University! It was a pleasure to supervise with @sjurdur.bsky.social . Also thanks to @masden.bsky.social and Jonas Hentati-Sundberg for excellent questions!

A brief story about a seabird asking for help at a hospital, of all places! We did not know that cormorants could read German, but apparently this one figured out that a hospital is where you go when you're injured. #birds #seabirds

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Doing research on #Arctic #seabirds? Consider submitting an abstract to the session 'Safeguarding seabird populations in a rapidly changing Arctic' at www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 26-29 May 2026

Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe? Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables? Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped

New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By @bennett-sophie.bsky.social et al. www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_... #seabirds #OpenAccess #biologging

1/ New study! #Seabirds are among the most threatened groups of birds globally, and a new study looked at how emerging technologies can be optimally harnessed in seabird monitoring. ➡️ www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring #Ornithology

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

📡 New insights for seabird monitoring New tech could reshape how we track seabird populations in a changing world. ✍️ New Editor’s Choice in #IJMS www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... 👉 Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/ices... 📸 @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social

New paper alert! How can new technologies improve seabid population monitoring? Output from a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference in Coimbra last year. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Just received copies of our forthcoming book on the seabirds of Greenland - in three languages! Official publication date 1 September. www.carstenegevang.com/seabirdbook #seabirds

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Who wants some nightmare fuel? 😅. Caught this Gull swallowing a crab at just the right moment. #ukwildlife #seabirds #birds #birdphotography #photography #nature

Special Issue of #BirdStudy is now published: The impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on birds: part 1 10 papers (5 #OpenAccess) plus Editorial on the impacts of #birdflu #HPAI outbreak in Europe, Canada, Antarctica: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7... #ornithology #ukbirding #seabirds

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x #scicomm 🧪🪶

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

I was asked for my view on the new paper from Jim Hansen "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations & the Public Well-Informed?" My full quote is at: climateuncensored.com/has-global-w... Jim's paper is at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

🧪 open letter by @scurry.bsky.social calling on the @royalsociety.org to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship 2 fellows have resigned…

Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird and she recently laid a new egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii. The announcement came via the United States Fish & Wildlife Service's social media on 3 December. #Seabirds www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...

We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...

👋I am an ECR #seabirds researcher! Currently a SUPER DTP #PhD student @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social studying kittiwake pop connectivity. Previously penguins, shearwaters. Active in science #outreach and #STEM, linking researchers, industry, educators, learners at www.ukstem.uk. PhULMaR info to follow.

How do the two sibling species of murres/guillemots coexist in their zone of overlap? Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun explored this in our recent paper. #seabirds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent review paper outlines how climate change affects migration of Arctic fish, #seabirds and marine mammals. There's still much we don't know ... www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

I guess it's time to reintroduce myself, with all the new people here. I'm Morten, professor of seabird ecology at Aarhus University. The key theme in my research is understanding the causes of population change. I mainly work on #seabirds in the Arctic and North Atlantic.

This colour-ringed juvenile kittiwake was observed yesterday in Northern Jutland, Denmark. Can anybody help identify its origin? #seabirds