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Luke Halpin
@seabirdresearch.bsky.social
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PhD (Seabird Ecology). Thalassophile 🌊 Nemophilist 🌲 Cyclist 🚴 Research & conservation of seabirds. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 #queerinSTEM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Subject Editor: Avian Conservation & Ecology https://ace-eco.org, Northwestern Naturalist, Australian Field Ornithology
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 11h
Good evening #Vancouver
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 16h
Population genetic diversity, structure and relatedness in the cryptic Pilbara Olive Python. Zoë Hamilton The Biodiversity Conference
Pilbara Olive python illustration @terngirl.
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 1d
🎃 Halloween costumes 👻 to scare scientists!!!
Cartoon by @twisteddoodles showing Halloween costumes to scare scientists.
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 2d
Partnerships between Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation & DBCA have uncovered diversity of native bees in Walyarta Conservation Park. Sugarbag bee identified as high value to Nyangumarta people. 36 taxa recorded, 9 undescribed. Melaleuca spp. critical host. The Biodiversity Conference 2025.
Essington's Austral-Stingless Bee Austroplebeia essingtoni illustration by @terngirl
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 2d
Dorian Moro & Wiluna Martu Rangers. A site was identified by rangers in healthy spinifex. Ground searches found scats, active burrows & tracks. Remote cameras confirmed tjakurra, the first for Matuwa Kurrawa NP / IPA. Surveys have identified 116 active burrows. Biodiversity Conference 2025.
Great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei, illustration by @terngirl
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 2d
Great overview of the Yagarrajalajalan Nagula Buru Project which is tagging green sea turtles and dugongs to identify and map how turtles, dugongs and humans all use Yawuru Saltwater Country (around Broome in Western Australia). www.yagarrajalajalan-nagula-buru.org TheBiodiversity Conference 2025
Great Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 17h
In spring, over a billion Bogong moths travel from all over SE Australia to a place they have never been before, Alpine caves, to spend the summer in aestivation. In Autumn the same individual returns to its breeding ground & dies. How do they do it? Prof Eric Warrant. The Biodiversity Conference.
Bogong moth illustration by @terngirl
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 12h
Securing the future of the Critically Endangered Margaret River Hairy Marron #crayfish Kim William DBCA The Biodiversity Conference
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 15h
@judydunlop.bsky.social tells us about the TOAD CONTAINMENT ZONE to prevent cane toads from reaching the Pilbara. The Biodiversity Conference
The toad containment zone illustration @terngirl
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 2d
Nice one! We had a good haul of boletes and chanterelles last week which a Czech friend turned into a delicious sour mushroom soup.
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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 9d
Light lunch

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
Common guillemot with a sandeel for a chick. Inner Farne Island UK, 2024
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CEBC Predateurs Marins team @predateursmarins.bsky.social · 6d
Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data.

Info and application at
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details

#postdoc #seabirds #Genomics
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Dr Ingrid Pollet @ingridpollet.bsky.social · 6d
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...
Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences
Seabirds are among the most threatened bird groups globally, yet research effort is unevenly distributed among species, with some taxa receiving exten…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · 22d
Good evening from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · Sep 15
Good news everybody! The Independent Planning Commission just REFUSED the bid to restart Redbank Power Station, noting unacceptable negative impacts on native flora and fauna. Common
Sense prevails!
www.ipcn.nsw.gov.au/cases/restar...
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 14
Good morning!
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 11
Good morning from #BritishColumbia if you zoom in you can see the dorsal of a bull transient killer whale
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 11
Good evening from Hartley Bay #BritishColumbia
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 9
Central coast of British Columbia 👍🏼
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 9
Cracker of a waterfall on the #britishcolumbia central coast 🇨🇦
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 9
Good morning!
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 8
Estuary goodness on the #britishcolumbia central coast
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Sep 8
Steller sea lions in the beautiful Pacific Northwest #britishcolumbia #Canada
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Dr Dave @ecosystemunraveller.com · Aug 11
In Singleton to address the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding a proposal to clear half a million hectares of woodlands in Western NSW, intended as biomass feedstock for Redbank Power Station. In my professional opinion this will push embattled outback flora and fauna closer to extinction
Cream brick building with ‘Singleton Council Civic Centre’ on one wall, and a bronze sculpture of a bearded chap with a wide brimmed hat. No relation.
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Luke Halpin @seabirdresearch.bsky.social · Aug 10
Not advised. This plant is super invasive.