I was one of 295 marine scientists urging to leave no one behind in the UN ocean decade. The Ocean needs everyone. Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🐟🧪

Antarctic marine ecosystems, despite being remote from industrial pollution, face significant mercury contamination threats to biodiversity. A study investigated mercury levels in the blood of brown and south polar skuas in the South Shetland Islands. tinyurl.com/3tcss2x8

"Politicians need to listen to the scientists and stop listening to the oligarchs” - Former Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King bylinetimes.com/2025/05/19/c... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @smartyfish.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social

Huge! The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Boulder can sue Exxon and Suncor for climate damages, marking a significant step in holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change. We need more of this. A lot more.

"It’s not species being revived, it’s a few of their characteristics being borrowed. It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat." Rich Grenyer on 'deextinction' in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

New publication: Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg-Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster, by @hanslinssen.bsky.social and others. #climatechange #avianmigration #seabirds #waterfowl #articecosystems doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶

Some feel-good news: Wisdom the Laysan albatross has, at the lovely age of 74, laid another egg. ❤️