Congratulation to Corey Liu for her first PhD publication Who’s Coming Home? Shorter Early-Life Telomeres Predict Return to the Natal Colony in an Arctic Seabird in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...) @ecophycebc.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

📃New paper in Ecology letters 🐦 I’m delighted to share the publication of the first paper from my #postdoc with @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social looking at life-history trade-offs and #senescence in black-browed #albatrosses from Kerguelen and Bird Island doi.org/10.1111/ele.70384

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

New paper by Hina, Akiko, Fred, Yan et al.: Video evidence of pteropod predation highlights diet flexibility in Adélie penguins. Marine Biology (2026) 173:69 doi.org/10.1007/s002... #penguins #seabirds #ecology @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

🧪what environmental conditions ⬆️ #bycatch risk Antipodean #albatross ? Wong et al (2026) ID #hotspots for juvenile & female bycatch - dynamic #fisheries management tools made plain for RFMOs? #seabirds #satellitetracking www.bmis-bycatch.org/references/f...

🦭 Every year, thousands of elephant seals leave subantarctic islands and disappear into the vast Southern Ocean for months at a time. Read more ▶️ antarctic.org.au/how-elephant...

#Communiqué 🗞️ Une étude révèle un constat préoccupant : sur les côtes du Golfe de Gascogne, entre 1997 et 2019, la longévité des femelles dauphins 🐬 a diminué de sept ans, sous l’effet d’une mortalité accrue liée aux activités humaines en mer. 👉 cnrs.fr/fr/presse/go...

New paper by Benjamin Dupuis Energetics link long-term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #penguins #ecology @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data. Info and application at emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details #postdoc #seabirds #Genomics

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

Où sont passés les phoques à capuchon, sur la banquise qui fond ? par Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot theconversation.com/sur-la-banqu... #ecology #ClimateChange @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

My first PhD chapter got published in @nordicoikos.bsky.social! We show that sooty albatross populations are impacted very differently by global changes. 👉 Take a look here: doi.org/10.1002/oik.... @predateursmarins.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social #seabirds #Demography #ecology

With my colleague Christophe Guinet we offer a 6-months position for a master student about sexual selection in southern elephant seals. Here for more details: www.linkedin.com/posts/corali... @predateursmarins.bsky.social @ecophycebc.bsky.social @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

Do I know anyone on here who might find it useful to predict hatching dates from birds eggs? Please reach out if you're open to help me develop ovotime.com to include more species, and to expand with more detailed #oology features! #phenology #seabirds #ornithology 🌍🧪

DraLeo Uesaka's work on seabird pooping: Periodic excretion patterns of seabirds in flight #seabirds #ecology @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

Albatross research by Camille Schatz: Inter-population variation in demographic responses to environmental changes: insights from four seabird populations nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #seabirds #Demography #ecology @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

New paper: contrasting Adélie penguin foraging behaviour during years of high and low krill availability authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTzlmjMA3... #penguins #seabirds #ecology @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social

@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.

Out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution Van de Walle et al. Toward a unified approach to modelling adaptation among demographers and evolutionary ecologists. dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041... #ecology #evolution #Demography @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution Chimienti et al. Reviewing seas of data: Integrating image-based bio-logging and artificial intelligence to enhance marine conservation dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041... #ecology #seabirds #ai #biologging @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

New paper: Habitat availability is insufficient to explain regional variations in white stork breeding habitat preference. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social #ecology #birds #stork #statistics

New paper Experimental manipulation of corticosterone advances departure dates esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

💻 Recrutement en thèse au CEBC / La Rochelle Université ! 🎓 Dynamique spatio-temporelle des oiseaux sentinelles du littoral 🦅 Espèces étudiées : cigogne, sternes, goélands,... 📊 Analyses GPS/accélérométrie, R, SSF/HSF, GLMM 📅 Candidature avant le 25/06/2025 🔗 www.univ-larochelle.fr/luniversite/...

"As H5N1 continues to march across the Southern Ocean, there are concerns that #Antarctic seals are now also spreading the virus, adding a new layer of complexity and putting the deep south’s mammalian population at greater risk." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

"Untangling the complexities of larval Antarctic krill overwintering success under climate change" led by Zephyr Sylvester is out : doi.org/10.1093/ices... @scar-antarctic.bsky.social

New paper in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. Major and trace nutrient concentrations in sub-Antarctic forage fish around the Kerguelen Islands: All are not equal for nutrient recycling by top predators www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ecology #Kerguelen

New paper in Animal Behaviour. Energy expenditure of Adélie penguins during the breeding season: females pay the cost in years of low food availability doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #seabirds #Antarctic #penguins #ecology @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Common terns are assortatively mated with respect to their levels of #mercury #pollution, and transfer mercury to their eggs. Another amazing body of work from Justine's PhD thesis has turned into a paper. To be found in Environmental Research and open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

New paper by Ewen Le Scornec et al. Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of juvenile survival in emperor penguins link.springer.com/article/10.1... #penguins #seabirds #ecology #Demography #Antarctic @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @univ-larochelle.fr

Nature or Nurture? Adélie penguin siblings often have very contrasted growth trajectories in Antarctica but they share similar telomere length.❄️🐧 Strong heritability of this aging processes ✔️ In CBPA: doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111818 #IPEV @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @predateursmarins.bsky.social

Thèse ouverte avec Timothée Bonnet au CEBC www.univ-larochelle.fr/wp-content/u... Stratégies de migration et d’utilisation des habitats chez une espèce sentinelle des écosystèmes littoraux atlantiques (cigogne blanche)

Thèse ouverte avec Jérôme Spitz au CEBC: www.univ-larochelle.fr/wp-content/u... Abondance et distribution de la mégafaune marine de Polynésie française : Quelles stratégies d’identification des zones importantes de biodiversité.

"New" paper out in Journal of Biogeogrpahy by Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun. The drivers of interspecific spatial segregation in two guillemot species at the scale of the North Atlantic/Arctic. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

New paper out on identifying global seabird migration flyways using tracking data. Led by Joanne Morten, involved several members of the Marine Predators team as co-authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #seabirds #biologging #ecology

New paper out in Proc B by Julien Collet, with Pierre Pistorius' team in South Africa, on cape gannets. Discusses the implications for how individual specialization is generally studied in ecology. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Voici le compte de l'équipe Prédateurs Marins du Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé ! Suivez nous pour connaître nos derniers résultats, offres d'emplois et actualités. Également sur Mastodon à ecoevo.social/@MarineMegaf...