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Joshua Wilson
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PhD Student at the University of Southampton and the British Antarctic Survey studying the movement ecology of Southern Ocean predators.

All things tracking, stats, coding, and most importantly, penguins 🐧
Pinned
Excited to announce that my first paper has been published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social

We used Bewick's and Whooper Swan tracks to quantify how often swans roosted outside protected areas, and identify environmental drivers of this behaviour.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ornithology
Using satellite tracking to assess the use of protected areas and alternative roosts by Whooper and Bewick's Swans
Protected areas are one of the major tools used in the conservation of biodiversity, but animals are unlikely always to remain within these human-made boundaries. Understanding when and why species c....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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We are hiring: #PhD fellow in Ecosystem-based management and marine connectivity🐋🧪🛰️

Want to work with tracking data from migratory species to identify ecological corridors and help inform biodiversity conservation priorities?
Apply by Dec 7th!
@bioprotectproject.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ytfmfhfc
PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: PhD Fellow in Ecology/Ecosystem-Based Management (289259), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Sunday, December 7, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟

Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery
While spatial overlap is commonly used to quantify interactions, it may underestimate the true degree of competition between foraging predators and fishing vessels. Our alternative population-level m...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.

Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.

Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation promoting the amazing work of @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social across global #flyways: buff.ly/NNQNpRs
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🚨 Fully funded PhD alert 🚨

Want to use big data to tackle to help biodiversity loss?

Apply for a PhD quantifying how human pressures are affecting the resilience and extinction risk of vertebrate populations 🌍🦴

📍University of Bristol 🎓 Starts Sept 2026

🔗 tinyurl.com/cfdzrsj9
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 7th January 2026 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/the...
The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomic technology open up the possibility to u...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Are you involved in ecological forecasting in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Our goal: make EU forecasting more connected and identify both immediate and long-term forecasting potential.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🐋 Registration Deadline Extended 🦭

We've extended the deadline for registration until the 21st November, so there's still time to sign up if you thought you'd missed it! Head to our website or scan the QR code in the poster to get to the form. Hope to see you all in January!
🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below

#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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We’re looking for an enthusiastic #PhD candidate to explore the resilience of sea turtle populations in a changing climate, supervised by Leo Clarke and myself. Interested in sea #turtles, #marine #biology, #conservation & #fieldwork in Cape Verde. Funded by ACCE+ NERC DLA tinyurl.com/dm573yrm
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Vaquitas "hanging on" is a fair description. Describing this as a modest increase is not following the science.

From the survey report summary - "There is too much uncertainty in visual estimates to make strong conclusions about a trend in vaquita numbers..."
more quotes to come
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November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Hot off the press at Remote Sensing in Ecology & Conservation is Alexandra Strang’s latest paper!

Alexandra discovered there’s a caveat in using imagery to detect change at Adélie penguin colonies: Small population change is undetectable 🧪🌎🦑🦉

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Ground‐truthing of satellite imagery to assess seabird colony size: A test using Adélie penguins
Adélie penguin colony size can be estimated from space using very high-resolution (VHR; 0.3–0.6 m resolution) satellite imagery due to the contrast between their guano stain and the surrounding terra...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Reminder that registration closes this week! Follow the link in the thread to sign up 🧵
🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below

#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
An optimistic overview of the past 10 years - good to remind ourselves that progress can and is being made on climate change. Really clean infographics and this one sums everything up best for me
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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1/ Crabeater seals are the most abundant top predator in the Southern Ocean and probably the most numerous large wild mammals on earth. Because they live almost their entire lives amongst floating sea ice around #Antarctica, it’s difficult to count them – total population is an estimated 15 million.
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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HPAI H5N1 likely linked to elephant seal mortality on sub-Antarctic Heard Island
Scientists fear bird flu outbreak after elephant seal deaths on Heard Island
Scientists suspect a deadly strain of bird flu, H5N1, has infected wildlife on Heard Island after observing a high mortality rate in elephant seals on the Australian territory in the sub-Antarctic.
www.abc.net.au
October 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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📢 Paper alert!

A new study led by Miriam Gimeno reveals how cumulative extreme events are threatening penguin habitats across the Southern Hemisphere.
🧊 Published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social
🔗 https://short.do/SEwQ74

#ClimateChange #Penguins

@icmcsic.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social

🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns

📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

#seabirds #ecotoxicology

@univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK)

Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation.

👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

#PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange
@sosbangor.bsky.social
COFUND PhD position - Marine Ecology / Conservation
La Rochelle Université is recruiting a PhD candidate on a 3-year fixed-term contract. Title of the thesis project: Disentangling the influence of natural and man-made threats on prey-predator interact...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
October 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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New paper out! 🚨
We describe pre- & post-nursing behaviors in humpback whale mother–calf pairs from a unique dual-tag dataset: one tag on the mother, one on the calf.
It’s a rare look underwater at interactions we can’t see from the surface. 🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Descriptive Breakdown of Pre‐ and Post‐Nursing Behavioral Sequences in Humpback Whale Mother‐Calf Pairs on a Calving Ground
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below

#UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)!

📅 7–11 Sept 2026
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event

Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...

#WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM