This is fabulous! (and reminds me of a talk I gave on soaring and morphology where I said auks weren't going to be soaring any time soon - just goes to show that if the air is rising fast enough...). Wonder if guillemots ever manage it

Whoop whoop! Fingers crossed all goes well. Can't wait to see your data

Back from monitoring seabirds on Isle of Canna. Thankfully no sign of birds currently being affected by bird flu, but following last summer's outbreak razorbill down 32%, guillemot down 58% and fulmar down 68%. Shag, kittiwake and puffin OK.

The Isle of May kittiwakes currently being hammered by Avian Influenza. Mortality was low until the last fortnight creating a thoroughly depressing situation. We aren't yet seeing mass mortality at the nests, as also noted in 2022. 1/2

I'm absolutely delighted Manos - this is richly deserved and they couldn't have awarded it to a nicer person. Huge congratulations! 🙌

IMPORTANT news: 14 guillemots and 4 razorbills from the current mortality have all come back negative for #HPAIV from APHA This supports the idea that this mortality is related to prey availability. Is this the extreme marine heatwave's effects? #aukwreck #heatwave

New paper out! Free-ranging dog (FRD) populations are increasing and are becoming a huge problem for wildlife conservation and people in several regions of the world, especially the Global South. FRDs are killing people and wildlife. In this perspective.. rdcu.be/dmQot

Fantastic PhD opportunity to work within a very supportive group

AND your much deserved Marsh award David Sims! Along with many other awards to incredible & inspiring scientists and conservationists. What an honour to be alongside them all. Thank you ZSL for a lovely evening

Thank you to the fantastic Chris Bryant for an uplifting, warm & wide-ranging talk on strangers & neighbours Swansea University tonight. Thank you 🙏

What a pleasure to explore data from red-billed choughs and visualize their behaviour as they are reintroduced to Dover by the team Wildwood Kent

Thanks so much for putting this out there. It is so important that we talk about good supervision, and what that looks like, as well as the bad, which often gets more press

Two wks to apply for this PhD Swansea Research w @KonsWells & I, plus wonderful int. collaborators

Ping Martina Scacco now on @mscacco.bsky.social

Made possible by the collaboration with the fantastic Sergio Lambertucci, his team & Mark Holton

Interested in joining SLAM or any of the other fab Biosciences teams from abroad as a Newton Fellow? Let us know. EOIs in by 14th Feb royalsociety.org/-/media/grants…

Fireworks being let off round our way tonight. I wonder why #greenshoots

Such a delight to be part of this and so good to see it out. Congratulations Kim and the rest of the team!