Got a new macro lens for Christmas! Watch out slime mold and #fungi, I am now privy to all of your minutest details!

So excited to try more artivem ! And they’re all named after birds! The Blue Jay (blueberry coffee mead) was my favorite, but maybe the Golden-crowned Sparrow will be my new fav!

Some talk about the carbon cycle and others talk about the plastic cycle. Dr. Alice (Xia) Zhu points out that they are linked, and that plastic may be another branch of the carbon cycle. Check it out! -w/U of T Trash Team 🦝 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

To celebrate today, I present you an R color palette inspired by the amazing women of the 2021 inauguration! #rstats #ggplot2 #rladies #RStudioConf #SPSP2021

We're back in the Paris Climate Agreement.

dear ocean science tweeps, especially postdocs and junior career folx: would you be interested in giving a seminar about your research to the fine folks at Bigelow Laboratory? Hit me up if you’d like to chat about finding an opportunity.

* clears throat* I just want to preemptively say ahead of Valentine's Day: *stands on soap box* YOU CAN TELL SOMEONE YOU LOVE THEM WITHOUT A BALLOON! Please don't make me pull VDay balloons out of the Everglades in a few months, it's depressing *steps off soap box*. That is all

I swear, the manuscript submission process feels like it takes just as long as writing the manuscript itself!

New month, new #SeabirdShowOff! Linda S. Takahashi's goal is to make all of the #seabirds she's ringed/banded out of clay & we LOVE them! "So far, I've made many common guillemots/murres (they are close to my heart as I studied them for my masters degree) and a few Arctic terns."

NEW PAPER! On the remote Henderson Island in the South Pacific, microplastic density has increased 10x between 2015 & 2019. There are >4 BILLION micro- & nano-plastics in the top 5 cm of sand of this one 2.25 km long beach. authors.elsevier.com/c/1cvwE,ash~Qpe #PlasticPollution

Over the past 2 weeks, the #AdriftLab IMAS team have shared beautiful images & stories from #LordHoweIsland. A gorgeous place filled with amazing wildlife and fabulous people. But, we are also exhausted and heartbroken by the other side of this story... (a 🧵)

Stunning words by the incredible Keely about #AdriftLab’s recent #seabird #plastics field season on #LordHoweIsland. The final words of the article...just wow! islandmag.com/read/315s-159e…

#AdriftLab is on #LordHoweIsland. 2021 is year TEN of our #seabird capture-mark-recapture project. Excited to see which 🐦 banded as chicks 4+ years ago have safely returned to their breeding colony 🏝

Just a few Knot this morning…

⭐️👀LOOK 👀⭐️ The baby #shearwaters we tagged with solar-powered GPS tracking devices are making their FIRST EVER voyages out into the big blue! 💙🐦🌊 Some were exposed to #plastic, a few lucky ones weren’t - now we wait to see if they migrate in different ways, so exciting! 🤩

#PlasticPollution is NOT a distraction. We can (and MUST) tackle multiple environmental pressures at the same time. It’s not a competition, it’s reality folks (and it’s awful, let’s do something, fast!)

Over on the #BOUdiversityblog: Three things that influenced Linda S. Takahashi's flight into #ornithology bou.org.uk/blog-takahashi… #theBOUblog

I have now invited 11 researchers to review one manuscript, and no one has agreed. So, would you or someone you know have time for this? The topic is waders and their interactions with avian predators. Please, RT this to relevant people. Thank you! 🙂🐦 #ornithology