Very pleased to be a part of this research contribution into the ongoing impact of HPAI on seabirds; led by @sue-lewis.bsky.social alongside fellow authors from @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

🪹 | Seabirds that survived recent bird flu outbreaks have continued to reproduce, although overall breeding performance remains notably low, according to a new study. The study has looked at breeding success in Northern Gannets at two locations during 2023. 🔗 orlo.uk/44CaS 📸 Dave Pressland

We've been reflecting on a brilliant week at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference in Edinburgh. Thanks for all the excellent sessions and discussions. 👏 Read more about our week here: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/... #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

We would love to hear your thoughts on our new set of maths teaching resources, developed in partnership with @mathsweek.scot Please share widely! @amstatnews.bsky.social @scottheald72.bsky.social @kateywhyte.bsky.social @altealorenzo.bsky.social #MathsWeekScot

Our PhD candidate, @philippawright.bsky.social, at #CWW2025 (Wind energy &vWildlife impacts) on the #PrePARED project:🐟Fish for thought: The nutritional quality of prey species with a developing offshore wind landscape @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Learn more about PrePARED here: owecprepared.org

Very proud to supervise the brilliant work @philippawright.bsky.social is doing as part of her PhD. 🌟 If you're at CWW, and are interested in the nutritional quality of fish 🐟 around offshore wind farms, reach out to Philippa! @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @smruc.bsky.social @bioss.bsky.social

We're incredibly proud of our Samuel Connolly and Tess Vernon for winning 1st prize(!) for best poster at the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference! 🏆 🎉 #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 Read the news here: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

📣 Join us for our next Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣 This time, Dr Rémi Fay will present in collaboration with @bes-parasitesgroup.bsky.social : "Modeling the dynamics of brucellosis in an wild Alpine ibex population." 9th Sep @ 10am BST bit.ly/3HWpEol

Travelling back from an excellent couple of days in Norwich at the #BESMove2025 conference! 🐾🌍🦢 Thanks to @besmovesig.bsky.social and everyone who attended for another great meeting. 👋 @bioss.bsky.social

We're heading to the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference this week in Edinburgh! 📊 Our team are contributing to the exciting programme by leading 11 sessions, giving 11 talks, and presenting 2 posters.🎤🗣️ Hopefully see you there! #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

Very happy to share that our paper presenting a framework for optimal movement decisions in complex landscapes has just been published in TREE @stephharris.bsky.social @jacobnabe.bsky.social tinyurl.com/d45s36y5

BioSS researcher Dr Ana Couto worked with a team of international scientists who tracked over 100 marine species of large vertebrates to identify the most critical locations for conservation in the global ocean. 🌍🌊 Read more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #conservation #marinebiology

Only two weeks to get your abstracts in for #ASABWinter2025 ⏰ Come join us in Edinburgh this December! 🏰 ❄️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 More info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots. doi.org/10.61350/sbj... @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

#BOU2026 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 💡 "Birds and People: Challenges and Opportunities of Coexistence" BOU invites submissions for talks, posters, and #bluesky presentations. Deadline 📅 1st September Submit your abstract: bou.org.uk/event/bir...#BOU2026#bluesky#ornithology #abstracts

Great to welcome @jamiehepburn.bsky.social MSP, Minister for Parliamentary Business, to @hutton.ac.uk in Invergowrie yesterday! 🌍 The Minister met with our scientists to explore how BioSS applies statistics and mathematical modelling to inform policy and tackle real-world challenges.

📣 PrePARED WEBINAR 📣 The Predators & Prey Around Renewable Energy Developments (#PrePARED) project is hosting a webinar on the Challenges & Solutions for Offshore Wind Farm Cumulative Effects Assessments for Marine Mammals. 🗓️ Tue 15 Jul, 12-12:30 (BST) events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c2565c...

📆Deadline extended📆 If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️ Deadline: 14th July #FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

Final week to submit your abstract to the 2025 BES Movement Ecology SIG. @britishecologicalsociety.org the meeting will be held in Norwich 2-3 September @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Some of the BTO Scotland team are busy catching various seabirds that breed along the Aberdeenshire coast just now. The birds are fitted with tags which let us know where they feed and the routes they take to and from the colonies.

📣Announcing the launch of SealMAP: Seal Mapping & Analysis Platform. This SMRU app allows you to explore & download the latest grey & harbour seal distribution maps for Scotland. You can also get estimates of density for your area of interest. Happy mapping! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/shiny/smru/s... 🦭🗺️

Our Iain McKendrick is at the Royal Highland Show 2025 to launch a new public information film. It warns about the risks from bringing animal and plant products into Scotland. 🧀🥩✈️ 🎦Watch here: www.epicscotland.org/resources/an... @epicscotland.bsky.social @planthealthscot.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

If you're at the Royal Highland Show today, don't miss the screening of this new @epicscotland.bsky.social animation! 🧳'Think before you pack and don't bring it back' 🧳

🌊🚤Excited to share our latest paper, showing the types of vessels overlapping and interacting with marine mammals around Scotland, highlighting how to reduce your disturbance (check out the @naturescot.bsky.social Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code)🐳🚢 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Back to the office today after a bumper couple of days.😅 Grateful to attend the Special Committee on Seals (SCOS) Science Day @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 🌊, and then give an invited talk at the Centre for Statistics Annual Conference @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📊. Thanks all for having me! 😊

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas @sosbangor.bsky.social

🚨PhD studentship opportunity!🚨 We are looking for a PhD student to develop research in computational statistics and modelling to enhance salmon health and robustness. 🐟 📆Deadline: 30th June 2025 Find out more: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ph... #PhD #FindAPhD #Statistics #Mathematics #AnimalHealth

Reminder: Submit proposals for the 2025 SORTEE Conference by June 2nd. The online event will be October 15-16. Details and submissions at https://www.sortee.org/upcoming. Join for free! #conference

Earlier this month our colleagues Helen Kettle and Oli Ward enjoyed the Conference on Models in Population Dynamics, Ecology, and Evolution 2025 in Bilbao www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨Calling all UK-based researchers (of any discipline) and public engagement professionals! Help us better understand the factors affecting public engagement by taking part in The Royal Society's survey👇 www.research.net/r/RS_public_...

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

I am looking for a short video of multi (two or more) species of seabirds in a foraging interaction. The footage must be taken from above, ideally from a drone. The footage is for developing statistical techniques and would not be published. Can anyone help?

Join #PrePAREDProject to learn more about one of the project's most recent reports, looking at the similarity of different offshore wind farm sites in the UK.🌊 #offshorewind #marinerenewables #marinebiology

Out now: A new predictive method: Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals. With @jasonmatth.bsky.social, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social and others. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our Dr David Ewing (@daveewing.bsky.social) was featured on BBC News Scotland yesterday, with an interview on TV and radio about mosquitoes & vector-borne disease risk in Scotland. 🦟 Read more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/... Listen to David's radio interview [52:30]: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

*Job Opportunity* #Seabird #Ecologist with @n-t-s.bsky.social. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #ornithology #biosecurity #seabirdersaturday www.nts.org.uk/volunteering-jobs/job-search/highlands-islands

I have created a Movement Ecology feed here on Bluesky! 🌍🐾 bsky.app/profile/did:... Currently, it tracks posts with the #movementecology, #animalmovement, #animalmigration, and #wildlifetracking tags from contributors. 🔹 Want to be added? Message me or reply here! #Ecology #WildlifeResearch

“Our review provides a framework to better understand & predict animal movements & distributions in human-modified environments. Exciting opportunities now available to advance the movement ecology field into a more predictive science..” 🦁 buff.ly/uB9RyET

⚓ NEW PUBLICATION! Thrilled that the first paper of the Scottish Vessel Project is now published in Marine Policy showing how AIS data only represents ~40% of coastal vessel traffic around Scotland. 🚤 Why is this important? Read below: 👇⛴ 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Want to link animal health to movement behaviour? Take a look at our new paper, led by Courtney Shuert: tinyurl.com/2s44wuyu

Fanny Dupont, Marianne Marcoux, Nigel Hussey, Marie Auger-M\'eth\'e Improved order selection method for hidden Markov models: a case study with movement data https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18826

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene 🐾🌍 📖 doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🧠 Really enjoyed working with the great team @besmovesig.bsky.social on this one 🧪🦑🦉🌊

Delighted to share our new review paper on "Understanding and predicting animal movements and distributions in the Anthropocene" 🎉🐾🦌🐧🦅🌍 #AnimalMovement #MovementEcology @besmovesig.bsky.social

Register now for our annual meeting! Join us at the University of East Anglia on the 2nd and 3rd of September. This year's theme is Understanding Migration, but contributions in all areas of movement ecology are welcome. Abstract deadline: 30th June 🧪🌍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besmove202...

I've had some great interactions with young people on the online chats hosted by @imascientist.org.uk. 👩‍💻 (Small snippet below of a conversation I had last week!) Highly recommend this scheme as an accessible and flexible way to engage with schools, as and when suits you. 👍

It was lovely to visit the SOI @uniofstandrews.bsky.social again, and share our ongoing work on marine predators, prey, and offshore renewables. Thanks for coming. 😊 @bioss.bsky.social

🚨NEW VACANCY!🚨 We are recruiting for an Administrative Assistant based in either Edinburgh, Dundee or Aberdeen. This is a #permanentjob with a lot of #worklifebalance flexibility. 📅Deadline: 9 April 👉More info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/bi... 📝Apply: bioss.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...