Living with an invisible #disability: cracked ribs (again!). Why? Because I coughed 😮‍💨

Handsome boy 💕 #FarleyMowat #dachshund

Today we planted a Red Lantern (Banksia caleyi) inside one of our big stumps. Looking forward to this one reaching 3m (hopefully it brings in the cockatoos!) #revegetation #LandForWildlife

UK-based colleagues: a full time Editorial job currently advertised at Oryx #phdjobs #conservation www.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/u...

Are you in TASMANIA? This is for you ⬇️

In November, #AdriftLab gathered for one of our famous #WritingRetreats. This one was a little different, with 2 team members about to relocate after being promoted into exciting research positions in NZ & NY. So, while we wrote & shared ideas, we also prepared for the inevitable separation

We are in the north where the #drought is 10/10. It has barely rained in 2 months; no rain forecast for the next 30 days. Today is 32°C (extreme heat by #Tasmania standards) #ClimateEmergency

🎶🐦💙Please take a moment to enjoy the magic of these birds (sound on, munch munch) 🎶🐦💙 First night at the bush block; fortunate to be welcomed by a flock of endangered Loarra #BlackCockatoos who were pulling grubs (breakfast) from a tree we recently felled (for bushfire protection purposes)

SO MUCH bird song at 9:30PM 🐦🎶💙 #sunset

Beach-washed #tropicbird north of Sydney. Likely died due to insufficient prey associated with the #MarineHeatwave #SuperSeabirdSunday 📸 credit: Robbi Newman, Light & Vision

First night sleeping in our forest #dachshund

Worried… #Australia #Heatwave

Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).

Please share this with folks in SE Australia 🙏🐦

Peace in our world (as the rest falls apart) #dachshund

PLEASE support a science-based future #Bushfire #ClimateEmergency #Heatwave While this image shows the situation in #Victoria today, it’s not much better in NSW

I am recruiting postbacs for my parakeet sociality and cognition project, ideally to start in Feb/Mar this year. Help spreading the word would be appreciated! More information and application link available here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

Several parts of Australia are likely to face the worst heatwaves since the 2019/2020 bushfires. Volunteers and underpaid frontline workers will step up to help communities. Meanwhile, in just one year, the Australian government gave $14.9 billion in subsidies to fossil fuel producers and users.

NYE vibes

Vale Prof Emma Johnston, Australian #MarineScience has lost a powerhouse 💔

Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most. The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led. Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.

New research shows how some animals in the wild manage to sleep in risky environments. From thousands of 4-second “microsleeps” to half-brain naps midair, scientists can now reveal some unusual animal sleep habits. Learn more: bit.ly/4qnGCMZ

The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪

Apologies for the sad photo, but we need your help. Right now, #seabirds are washing up on beaches in SE Australia (particularly around #Newcastle)

Stealth Corrections are corrections that are not marked at all, not traceable, unless you compare an old copy of the paper to the current version. See this paper by @deadneanderthals.bsky.social et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Trying to submit a new paper to Nature 🎉 but the lab mascot has needs 🙄

Bigggg #AdriftLab science Friday: submitted one paper, sent feedback to a co-author, and got another paper ready to submit to NATURE!!

Live in SE #Australia? We need your help recording #BeachWashedBirds ⬇️

Just received a draft manuscript from the amazing @ingridpollet.bsky.social and I **could not** be more excited about #AdriftLab ’s new research - ahhhh, so innovative‼️ 🤯 #seabirds #plastic #SublethalEffects

In this way, writing papers is truly collaborative (and our students feel genuinely supported) #WritingRetreat

I've decided to make a series of paintings of conservation success stories, starting with this here żubr/ wisent/ European bison. They were almost driven to extinction in the early XX century, and the current population is descended from about 17 animals, thanks to the efforts of prof. Jan Sztolcman

We're drowning in plastic: Plastic pollution will more than double by 2040 without action. But Pew's new report (launched today) shows that we have the solutions to dramatically reduce it. The question is whether we'll act in time. [🧵 1/3]

#MarineHeatwaves can disrupt organism development by altering the time between life stages. Even moderate but prolonged heat can shift the timing of key life stages, risking failed reproduction and population decline. @sosbangor.bsky.social @awi.de#MarineHeatwaves

🆕'Breaking the Plastic Wave' report is out, concluding that without ambituous systemic measures #plastic pollution will double until 2040 equivalent to dumping nearly a 🛻 garbage truck worth of plastic waste every second since, growing twice as fast as waste management. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Our new renewable energy sensitivity maps for Australia show where birds are most sensitive to energy infrastructure on land and at sea.🌏 Produced in collaboration with @birdlifeoz.bsky.social. Many thanks to Australian bird experts who gave data & feedback! www.seabirdtracking.org/avian-sensit...

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise www.abc.net.au/news/science... CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP: 1982-83 = 0.17 2024-25 = 0.03 ... Scientific extinction event imminent?

This might be my favorite PowerPoint slide I've seen recently.

Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/

As an Editor-in-Chief trying to support inundated staff (many of whom are US based), this is NOT an acceptable email to send to authors requesting an update after 7 months of silence. Especially when the reason “that guy” didn’t turn his review in is bc the Editor forgot to email him 😮‍💨

Are you looking for a #postdoc? with #seabirds or #raptors? at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social & @csic.es? Please send me an email and consider applying for a #JldC fellowship #ornithology Requirements: completed PhD within the last 2 years & competitive CV. www.infosubvenciones.es/bdnstrans/GE...

PhD vacancy ‘Birds as Vectors of Plastics, Heavy Metals, and Pesticides in Scottish Wetlands’ with @drneiljames.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ornithology #birds #PhD #Caithness

Are you collecting blood from #OzBirds for research? If so, we’d love to hear from you ⬇️

New paper: not only does wind *not* kill seabirds, it helps them diversify and thrive You mean “the wind” isn’t a “natural” source of mass mortality for seabirds?! Someone should tell the Australian government (and a heap of NGOs who *really* should know better) 😮‍💨🤦‍♀️

Friday morning vibes #dachshund

Another SPECTACULAR #AdriftLab #WritingRetreat, this time with the brilliant and hilarious @amycsteel.bsky.social. In 4 days we finished TWO new papers on #bushfires and #cyclones. So much love for this collaborative and efficient approach to writing!! @adriftlab.bsky.social

Fantastic thread 🧵 on our newest paper, just in time for #SeabirdSaturday

Have you ever wondered about the disparities in #seabirds species at conferences? Are we talking about all the species? Wonder no more. We (@thelabandfield.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social) have the answer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reviewer 2: can you include a #GraphicalAbstract Our response: GA’s are optional with this journal Reviewer 2 (again): can you include a GA No 🤬

Farley the #dachshund meeting our 2 new family members 🐥🐥 #BackyardChickens