We have a new Prime Minister

Final countdown for Abstract Submissions! Submit your abstracts for your presentations for the STEMinar! Deadline 31 July! Find all the registration forms here: sites.google.com/view/lgbtqst...

Join us for our next panel discussion 'Being queer in Seabird Science'! 🏳️‍🌈 🗓️ Friday 7th August ⏲️ 09:30 - 11:00 (BST) 📍 Online Sign-up here to receive the joining link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📷 @scottishseabird.bsky.social

Journal gives us 3 weeks to revise a paper. We ask for a 1-month extension because a coauthor is away. They said no, the most they can give is 2 weeks. Otherwise it's considered withdrawn. What utter nonsense.

Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

not even bothering to read it tbh

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

The editor in chief of Science, everyone! 🙃

My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

are you even a queer Canadian millennial if you didn't have a formative experience in Le Chateau between 1997-2023

The John Spedan Lewis Emerging Leader Award is for initiatives that have had a notable positive impact for the UK natural environment. It's presented in collaboration with John Lewis Partnership Foundation’s Nature Fund. Download the form to nominate a deserving nature leader.

I’ve been meaning to post about this one because it’s very cool- OPT is not just restoring the physical structure, but adding a modern, potable water outlet for bottle refills. Listed status isn’t just about preserving the ‘old’, but preserving the *use*, and this is a great example!

If I were a nominally progressive political party and my policies on LGBT rights were being condemned by *establishment Christian organisations* as cruel, inhumane and regressive, I would probably ask myself what the hell I was doing @andyburnham.bsky.social

Mixed feelings that one of Mandy Barker's amazing photos from our collaboration in 2019 is featured in the Guardian's "Emergencies on Planet Earth" photo essay. Mandy and her photos are amazing. Very sad story that is only getting worse. @adriftlab.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

New map projection just dropped

SWIFTS! And a fox! (no swift fox)

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

News | ‘Breaking point’: Report highlights collections storage crisis 🗃️ National Lottery Heritage Fund research finds majority of museum stores are full

Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

The third picture here shows a healthy Sable Shearwater chick, not the one that had consumed 246 pieces of plastic. Picture copyright: Dr Jennifer Lavers at @adriftlab.bsky.social

For those not familiar with Lord Howe Island, it’s a small island in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. The island is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is home to about 44,000 Sable Shearwaters, which nest in burrows.

Having so much plastic in their stomachs can be a death sentence for the shearwaters, as it leaves no room for food. “The adult shearwaters fish plastic out of the ocean and unknowingly feed it to their chicks,” explained Dr Lavers.

“The plastics in its stomach accounted for 5% of the chick's overall body mass.” Research by scientists at @adriftlab.bsky.social has revealed that Sable Shearwaters are among the most plastic-contaminated species in the world.

“The chick had failed to fledge (ie was not able to depart the island) and was very emaciated,” said Dr Jennifer Lavers, who has been studying shearwaters on Lord Howe Island with colleague Dr Alex Bond, Principal Curator in Charge of Birds at Britain’s Natural History Museum, for two decades.

The brick isn’t Lego - in fact we're not sure what brand it is - but it was among 246 pieces of plastic the ~90-day-old chick had consumed.

This plastic toy building brick was found in the stomach of a Sable Shearwater chick on Lord Howe, a remote island located off the east coast of Australia. It was discovered by scientists at @adriftlab.bsky.social, a research group focused on seabirds and marine plastics.

🌡️ Hotter and drier conditions pose a challenge for Southern Ground-Hornbill populations. A 17-year study found that high temperatures delayed laying dates and reduced nestling mass, while drought reduced breeding probability. doi.org/10.1086/739305 #AfricanOrnithology

This is a great read about why the "Ocean Cleanup" project didn't work as well as hoped. There are so many parallels with other well-intentioned efforts -- including in the climate space -- that don't pan out because folks ignored the science.... therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

As someone who has worked on dinosaurs for several years on a PhD stipend, I'm surprised to see all the major news outlets printing, unchallenged, that the going rate for working on dinosaurs for several years is $50 million

$50 million would cover 900 years of salary for an average museum curator in the UK.

I think GS Miller of Peterboro, New York, shot just about every Horned Grebe he saw in 1888 because boy howdy do we have a few.

News just in: H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) has arrived in NZ. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/h5-b... We encourage you to look out for groups of sick/dead birds and report these to the MPI hotline ☎️ 0800 80 99 66. To keep safe and support detection: www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity-...

And there it is. HPAI in NZ. 🌎🧪🦉🦑 www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Brown Booby is approaching almost annual in the UK now!

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

here we go agaaaaaaaain www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Lmao why do people never ever learn that retreating and apologising never works when you're dealing with terfs

And here it is, our final episode 😭😭😭 m.youtube.com/watch?is=v0D... We filmed this on the hottest day of the year (so far) so apologies for the sweatiness! Thanks everyone for listening! We had fun and learned loads :)

As necessary as it is to put faces and voices to the victims of Fascism, this is too little, too late, and too partial. It comes with neither reparations nor a true reckoning with the murderous ideology that brought this about, and the very real people behind it. www.science.org/content/arti...

Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Terribly sad news this morning. The loss of Bill Montevecch to the seabird community will be greatly felt 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

YES. I will never shut up about this: Knowing the signs and symptoms of heat-related illness (including heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke) CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE. www.noaa.gov/stories/heat... www.who.int/news-room/fa...

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Devastating. I met Bill for the first time in 2006 and he was always one of the kindest, caring souls who mentored an entire generation of seabird scientists working in Newfoundland. We worked together, caught birds together, and learned together. He leaves a huge legacy.

Very sad news www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...