Newly arrived Black-tailed Godwits at Caldy (thanks Richard Smith). Check out the sites these birds might also visit ⤵️ Blog about connectivity contains link to Shiny App, where you can make a Black-tailed Godwit map for your site: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

Meteorologists say that in the next decade, summer daytime temperatures above 28°C could persist for more than a month in the UK, with spikes as high as 46.6°C possible under today’s climate conditions.

Bubble-trail encounters from #krill #fishing vessels show that #Antarctic Voluntary Restriction Zones for the #krillfishing industry has displaced fishing into areas where the penguin encounter rate is higher/the same #CCAMLR www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Harbour seal population on the west coast of Scotland was thought to have been stable, but fell by 20% between 2018 and 2023 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. Apart from the overwhelmingly largest cause of population declines - habitat loss and destruction - what are the other big killers of birds? A reason to consider keeping cats inside.🪶🌎

Some critters found while gardening today: European common frog, palmate newt, wood mouse

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Willow gloves fungus news #fungi www.bbc.com/news/article...

Based on interviews and archive work (Bergen/Oslo, April 2024), Peter Wilson, @sbenjamins.bsky.social and I reviewed minke #whaling around Ireland in @injournal.bsky.social Vol 41. Funded by Percey Sladen Memorial Fund & Society for Nautical Research www.researchgate.net/publication/...

BREAKING: At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza this morning, sources at local hospitals tell our team. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m4ewkf

If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be *far too slow* for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short 🧵 (1/16)

In the latest Irish Naturalists Journal issue, @andyfoote.bsky.social and I reported that "#DopeyDick" the killer whale that swam into #Derry City (Nov 1977) was a West Coast Community whale; probably "Comet". Minimum age 53y, but last documented 10y ago. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wonderful example of non-invasive research from land, showing that harbour porpoises have a strong preference for coastal waters (<500m from the shore) in parts of Northern Ireland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

BREAKING: At least 34 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning, medical sources tell our team on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/pe4duy

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

MEP Lynn Boylan has been speaking out about Gaza from the start, including about the lack of Irish government and EU actions and what was needed of both. She gave this powerful speech today in the European Parliament. 💔

Departing Aberdeen Harbour is always fun for the bottlenose dolphin action. This afternoon we saw them eating salmon. A grey seal also had a fine lunch of salmon!

It has been such an honour to sail around Ireland with U.N. Elder, Mary Robinson. Quoting Archbishop Desmund Tutu, she said she is "Not an optimist, but a prisoner of hope" #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis

Here are some macaroni penguins (and a lone gentoo) with a humpback whale bearing down on them off Cooper Island, South Georgia... for #SuperSeabirdSunday

Whimbrel watchers in Ireland and UK ... Recent paper by Icelandic researchers show that breeding numbers in the South Iceland heartland are falling. Not as rapidly as Dunlin but still a worry. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper by Aldís Pálsdóttir et al #ornithology

I had no idea that we have water shrews in #Mull. Neighbour's cat killed two in under an hour. #shrew #watershrew

plot twist 😂 watch my comedy special BIOLOGY! at the link in bio

On Compost. "...what matters is not the individual ingredients but the fertile new thing they can become." A beautiful article on why we should cherish our 'waste' @frasermacdonald.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New #seabird paper by @gannetguy.bsky.social et al. finds "...discrete areas of co-occurring prey consumption by seabirds and fishing effort..." academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

10 years ago today, my work was cited by an expert IWC panel to demonstrate that Japan's proposed new scientific whaling program was not scientifically justified because non-lethal alternatives had been proven to work. Proud moment (which I'd forgotten about until FB reminded me) #whaling

Finally found a reference for the population control attempts on killer whales by the US military, at the request of the Icelandic Government in the 1950s (Naval Aviation News, 1956). #whaling

These beautiful and honest essay was published recently by my dear friend Rose Skelton. #queerfamily #spermdonation #mushrooms #love & #friendship. newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/f...

Barnacle geese or pink-footed? I am leaning towards the former, as i think pink footed have more of a flutes or whistling call? Migrating north over Mull today with a nice tail wind #migration

Schizophyllum commune 🍄📷

Antarctic minke whale drive-by in Lazarev Bay

I may have to get into underwater photography simply for Posting - for example, I legit saw a real Penis Starfish today while diving in Sulawesi:

I want to see a malleider duck

if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

Commerson's dolphins: contender for the smallest marine dolphin in the world. These spent hours swimming into our prop-wash while the ship held position off Saunders Island, Falkland

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

SPRING NEWS. I saw my first sand martin over the Mishnish Lochs, Mull the day after the Equinox (last Friday). #birds #wildlife #seasons #theresagrandstretch

I found the beautiful yellow specklebelly in Mull today (Pseudocyphellaria citrina). Like a sheet of hammered copper, studded with golden stars. A rare treasure. #fungifriends #lichen #temperaterainforest

Excited to report that @andrewfoote.bsky.social and I have a new note in the next issue of Irish Naturalists Journal irishnaturalistsjournal.org (please subscribe!). We believe that Dopey Dick (Derry 1977) was Comet (Hebrides & Ireland 1992-2014), now presumed dead #WestCoastCommunity #killerwhale.

The genocide continues. It is so utterly heart-breaking

(1/) If you are looking for an adventure, why not consider signing up for an Upland Rovers square? You can sign up for a single visit, and there are vacant squares in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Scan the QR code or click here for more details: www.bto.org/our-science/...

London friends, I'm doing two events in your city this week and would love to see some of you at them if you can make it.

book talks 📢📢📢 19/03 Housmans London: tinyurl.com/tta5dmur 21/03 SOAS London: tinyurl.com/y7bkzy36 24/03 Topping St Andrews: tinyurl.com/48szxjxf 28/03 Tigre de Papel Lisbon: tinyurl.com/mrx3kpuu 03/04 Lighthouse Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/mrxbsnaj 24/06 Rhodes House Oxford: tinyurl.com/ycx93naj

Keeping animals in unnaturally high densities is putting us all at risk. #eatplants

Colleagues have told me that cloudy eyes is a suspected symptom of HPAI in Antarctic fur seals. I saw several adults and pups with both or single cloudy eyes in South Georgia last week. This one was at Maiviken @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social

This is a heavy read 😟