Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪

On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us! walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

Thrilled to share our new paper, led by @jonscibulski.bsky.social, on the rich 16kyr-long history of human-ocean interactions along the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Inspired by the late Richard Cooke MBE and beautifully illustrated by his son, @cookedillustrations.com #PaleoSky

I had an amazing time presenting my preliminary PhD research on pelican palaeoecology at the @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich! Saw fascinating presentations, learned a lot, and met many inspiring people working to bridge the gap between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation!

Come to my talk about pelican palaeoecology tomorrow at 14:30!

WOW it was a joy to co-organise (with the lovely @juliettewaterman.bsky.social & @aukwardlucia.bsky.social ) the ICAZ Stable Isotope Working Group conference this year with the fun (and important) theme "Back to the Future"! HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in-person or online you're all amazing

The greatest threat to ocean biodiversity in the past 50 yrs—more than climate change or plastic pollution—is unsustainable fishing. So countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas. But in the US, 47 is undoing marine protection. A marine biologist explains, No pay wall.

Join us at 7:30pm 19 May at Park House for @pintofscience.uk #Pint25 to hear about: 🕷️Why spiders deserve saving - even if they scare you! 🦴How the buried secrets of sickness can aid modern environmental health issues 🧪And a special panel of women in STEM Get your tickets here! 🔗 rdg.ac/42spFXl

I’m excited to co-coordinate and contribute to this year's @pintofscience.uk 🧪 festival in Reading! We've organized three nights of science talks in Park House on the University of Reading campus from 7-9:30pm May 19-21. #Pint25 Book tickets here: lnkd.in/gA3K_uQ7

Today I visited the collections at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to sample historical cormorants for stable isotope analysis, which will allow me to contextualize the data I have generated for extinct pelicans in England and determine their past ecology/diet to inform a potential reintroduction.

Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)

🔬 Exciting news! Join us on 8 May for the Battarbee Lecture 2025, featuring @meljleng.bsky.social on the power of stable isotopes in environmental science. 🔗 Register now! #UCLGeography #ScienceTalks

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes. vimeo.com/1067017318?s... 1/3

This week I learned about stable isotope ecology in Siracusa, Sicily alongside PhD students from around the world doing exciting and important research to better understand ecological systems and change through space and time.

You now have until Feb 15 to submit your abstract!! Registration is free for students :)

Said hi to my favorite pelican pals at the @londonzoo.bsky.social

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology issues statement on the recent Executive Orders and their impact on the SVP community.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

After dodging the various crystal and witchcraft shops and homeopathic offerings of Glastonbury, we headed up to the Tor for some spectacular views over the levels. It was a time for reflecting on the huge changes that have happened to this landscape over the last two thousand or so years.

We also stopped off at Meare Fish House, the only surviving monastic fishery building in England. The lakes in early times produced large amounts of valuable fish for trading, so much so that in the 14th century Glastonbury Abbey built the house for fish-salting and drying.

This might seem like a somewhat underwhelming humpy field now, but it was once the site of Glastonbury Lake Village (avalonmarshes.org/heritage/gla...). During the excavation of this important Iron Age site, many pelican bones were discovered!

A fabulously sunny (but v. cold!) day yesterday exploring the Somerset Levels with Prof. Sam Turvey and @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. Despite the short winter day, we managed to fit in a lot of pelican and freshwater ecosystem talk and visited some important historical sites....

I am running for nature at Kew Gardens on March 29. I am running for my future. A future I hope is full of birdsong, fish splash, and hoove beats. I am running for the Great Auk and Slender-Billed Curlew, both birds we failed to save. I run for hope. & I run fast because we are running out of time.

Reposting my rewilding in UK & IRL starter pack for anyone who may be new here. Like, share or suggest people who should be on it. go.bsky.app/A7v5ZUQ

Ecologists, paleontologists, conservation paleobiologists - submit your abstracts by February 1st to attend the next CPB interdisciplinary meeting!

On way to Cambridge for the Rewilding Conference! Especially looking forward to the talks using historical and palaeo ecology to guide species reintroductions! #RewildingFutures #CitizenZoo2025 #RewildingConference2025 #RewildWithUS

This week I visited Liverpool to present my undergraduate research from Middlebury College at the British Ecological Society Conference #bes2024!

Come learn about Great Auks 🐧 at the #BES2024 Thursday poster session!

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

A starter pack on the business of Freshwater Conservation. If you know of effective folks or groups working at the interface of policy-practice-science to improve the health of rivers, lakes or wetlands, let me know. I'm keen to grow the list. go.bsky.app/PuVuWgK

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

Recent sociocultural dynamics have allowed much greater levels of human + #megafauna #coexistence in Europe than seen in earlier Holocene times 🐺🫎🐻👨‍👦 - happy to see our study out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Anthropocene #wildlife

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Had an amazing time learning about ongoing species conservation projects at the ZSL Science and Conservation Conference today, and lots of fun at the pub quiz with my fellow zoology nerds #ZSL

Please let me know if you’re interested in joining the conservation palaeobiology community!!

Hope to see you there! As a member of the CPN student panel, I am also organizing social events to facilitate networking between students, postdocs, and professionals interested in conservation palaeobiology!

It's happening - closing plenary of #Cop29 Stream here unfccc.int/event/closin... Guardian live blog here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This week I joined the Climate Action Studio in The Walker Institute at @uniofreading.bsky.social to engage with #COP29 (the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference) virtually.

Learning how to clean & drill pelican bones from the Iron Age before starting isotope analysis! #FossilFriday #birds #palaeontology

New petition launched on the UK government website. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please take a look, and if you agree sign it and then let others know. It's time to stop the wildlife crime. @markavery.bsky.social

On beef and climate: it IS the cow. AND the how. AND the how much. 🧪

soo excited to share my latest paper & illustration~ a sturgeon meta analysis evaluating thermal tolerance where we asked can sturgeon handle climate warming? Unfortunately we found that physiological impacts across life stages limits ecological success 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🐠🌎🐡 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tonight at ZSL, Dr. Sam Turvey highlighted that the success or failure of species recovery comes down to utilizing evidence-based data to make quick and informed decisions. I look forward to generating evidence-based data to support sturgeon and pelican species #zsltalks #conservation #palaeontology

If we want to seriously consider reintroducing sturgeon to their historical home in the Severn, urgent action needs to be taken to clean up British waterways.

London parakeet greets me on my morning commute to ZSL through Regent’s Park! 🦜 #birds

There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.

The Slender-billed Curlew is gone. A paper published today concluded that there is a 99.6% chance that the species is extinct, likely dying off around the time of the last irrefutable sighting in 1995. Read Curlew Action's response to this news: buff.ly/40SqglT%E2%8...

I spent my day looking at bird bones in Tring :) pleased to see there is much more security now since the feather thief scandal (great book, highly recommend)