Exciting 3-y postdoc opportunity University of Helsinki ‼️ I am seeking a postdoc with expertise in molecular and/or experimental food web ecology to study coastal food web responses to marine heatwaves ➡️Postdoc: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Tv%C3%A4rm… Please share this post‼️

The production plants for plastics emit toxic air pollutants; air pollution is known to worsen neurocognitive & behavioral outcomes in children and to contribute to cognitive decline & dementias such as those associated with Parkinson & Alzheimer disease psychiatrictimes.com/view/the-plast…

As teams grow, new #PhD graduates are less likely to land tenure-track jobs and more likely to leave science—especially women and international researchers. scim.ag/8fm Science Careers

Forgotten epidemic: with over 280 million birds dead how is the avian flu outbreak evolving? theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Let's replace racist & derogatory names of #birds, ok? Dr Alex Bond & Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ make the case in new BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13…, suggesting Sable [🚫Flesh-footed] Shearwater. I suggest Crowberry [🚫Eskimo] Curlew, following 🇸🇪 change! #BirdNamesForBirds

This paper had been weighing heavy on my heart for years. Grateful to Dr Alex Bond for helping make it happen; the Harris to my Wanless 💙 Adrift Lab is #GoodScienceGoodPeople Pease read this important paper➡️ doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13…

A recent paper on plastic emissions assumes that waste trade is negligible, because it only looks at one category of plastic waste trade. apnews.com/article/plasti… I have thoughts. (Spoiler: that assumption and the underlying data is inaccurate)

EARLY VIEW in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 A feathered past: Colonial influences on bird naming practices, and a new common name for Ardenna carneipes (Gould 1844) | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Dr Alex Bond Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ Adrift Lab | #ornithology

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Our new research out today in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews reveals how the fossil fuel industry has strategically invested in universities for decades to block transformative climate action. w/ Sofia Hiltner, Emily Eaton Noel Healy Andrew Scerri Geoffrey Supran THREAD

Dear #seabird folks! Do you have recordings of #Alcid chick calls you'd be happy to share for a phylogenetic/bioacoustics project? We're looking for collaborators in a sweet little project 💙 Write me!

Brilliant article, thank you Science at the Natural History Museum for covering this in such a sensitive & comprehensive way 🐦💙

Solar and battery microgrid saves Lord Howe Island $1.5m in diesel fuel costs in two years reneweconomy.com.au/solar-and-batt…

A raven was hanging around yesterday morning trying to find a way to steal Vienna’s bone (breakfast). She wasn’t having it. This morning the raven won. Bye bone! 🐶 🦴 🐦‍⬛

The colossal squid has the biggest beak of any living cephalopod. This one in the collections at NIWA is one of the biggest I've ever seen, but was taken from the stomach of a toothfish! Many mysteries left to uncover in the deep sea... #TeamColossal #BestSquid #Squidtember

Are you working on research into social/ecological transformations? Keen to know how to conduct robust systematic reviews? Join our 5-day international school in Almería (25-29/11/24)! evidencesynthesisschool.github.io

The potential for a plastic recycling facility to release microplastic... In a "state-of-the-Art" recycling plant, 6% of received plastic gets released as #microplastics . sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #plasticstreaty

NEW PAPER! A feathered past: Colonial influences on bird naming practices, and a new common name for Ardenna carneipes (Gould 1844) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Why does A. carneipes need a new English common name? well... #BirdNamesForBirds 🧵

A bit late for #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, but hey, today is when it decided to flower 🌺 Meet Marianthus paralius (no common name), an endangered and highly range-restricted plant (that now has a little insurance population in my native garden)

Species common names - Dr Alex Bond & Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ take up the challenge to tackle historical and cultural bias in how we describe birds doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13…