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Ruth Dunn @ruthedunn.bsky.social · 6d

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸

We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨

"The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Schematic diagram of the influence of seabirds on temperate and tropical near-shore marine systems.
Temperatre systems:
- Nutrient enrichment and predation on herbivorous invertebrates can lead to increased algal production
- Phytoplankton communities change, featuring more large-celled species
- Intertidal organisms incorporate seabird-enriched material by grazing on detritus and biofilm in tidepools
- Macroalgae biodiversity and primary production are boosted
Tropical systems:
- Mangrove leaf nutritional quality increases
- Corals recover faster after bleaching events
- Fish biomass increases across different trophic groups
- Pelagic and benthic consumers' foraging behaviour shifts
- Parrotfish grazing and bioerosion rates increase
- Fish grow larger

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · 22d

Fun is the most important part, tho

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · 23d

We only have 5 days left before the last of our team leaves the #FaroeIslands, but these chicks still have some growing to do!

Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · 25d

One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

Older European storm petrel chick in the hand

Young European storm petrel chick in a silicone muffin tin, weighing exactly 7g.

An older European storm petrel chick in the same silicone muffin tin (mostly obscured) weighing 38.50g.

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · 25d

Neither of these chicks will likely fledge before we have to head out, after having spent almost 90 days in the Faroe Islands! The young chick on these photos is 5 - 7 days old (we don't check daily) while the older one is 45 - 46 days old. We also still have two eggs remaining!

Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · 25d

One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 24

Seems like our ScienceBricks to monitor attendance of burrow nesting seabirds should help with at least some of these challenges! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social

Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social · Sep 23

🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨

Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣

Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

doi.org

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 22

You could be here enjoying the drizzle.

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Jonathan A. Green @jon-seabirds.bsky.social · Sep 15

Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 14

A recent #linocut of a cupcake #stormpetrel chick! #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 13

We are well supervised by the local sheep while weighing our cupcake chicks! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 9

That's a much more intricate version of The Stick that we use here (until @jasonwalczak.bsky.social's Science Bricks are perfected and deployed across the colony, ofc.)!

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Airam Rodríguez @airamrodriguez.bsky.social · Sep 6

New post at ecolightsforseabirds website!
Pufflings navigating the lit night
About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin
ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin...
#ornithology
#seabirds

Pufflings navigating the lit night

Each year in Newfoundland, Canada, fledgling Atlantic Puffins (“pufflings”; Fratercula arctica ) become stranded in coastal towns during their nocturnal first flights from breeding colonies on...

ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yes!

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 3

Easy to weigh them in, easy to pack (they fold!), and easy to wipe clean. And very, very cute.

Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 2

You're a fashion icon, @robthomasbirds.bsky.social!

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Sep 2

Although most breeding #seabird fieldwork in the North Atlantic has come to an end, we're still in the thick of it with 12/56 eggs hatched! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @felixazurawska.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 31

I'd like to say I made a new friend today but this -very fat- #fulmar chick didn't really love being picked up from the road and released back to the ocean where it belongs... My hands will forever smell. @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @annaznoj.bsky.social

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · May 7

A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza

Drawings of a few things cooler than AI such as owls, clouds, Stars, dreams, birds, snails, a child's drawing, peanut butter and jelly a hug, the ocean and a cool rock

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 16

My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!

Advertisement for a Graduate student assistantship: the phyiological and movement ecology of Storm Petrels at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia - please message me to share the pdf file with the whole description.

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 27

We've got some strong legged #stormpetrel chicks this year! Photo by @jasonwalczak.bsky.social. @bardseyben.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

An R package for working with generalized additive models

Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

gavinsimpson.github.io

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 16

My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 15

If you really want to spend more time than necessary, @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social can introduce you to the concept of building your CV in R.

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Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 14

It did try to nom @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

Anne Ausems @anneausems.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social

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