@thelabandfield.bsky.social
Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him. [🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳] 📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK https://linktr.ee/albnd
Inside you there are two dunnarts
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
🔭 Lost, and also Found!
The Search for Lost Birds has released its 2026 Lost Birds List update.
5 species rediscovered in 2025 & 6 species added for 2026.
Read more:
bit.ly/4bFcuIo
Re:wild
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
Illustration from © Cornell Lab
@birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
Voting is open for BTO & Marsh Awards! 🎉 Vote now & celebrate an inspiring ornithologist ➡️ www.bto.org/medals-a...
The Marsh Charitable Trust are supported by the Marsh Charitable Trust & presented by BTO at the Society of Wildlife Artists Natural Eye exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries.
Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
(this will become un-redacted tomorrow!)
Important and interesting new Forum paper in IBIS on policies for use of Generative-AI in our ornithological journals, and how use should be reported.
Looking for a small grant for systematics work? Check us out! systass.org/linnesys/
Deadline is MARCH 27 at 23:59 GMT+1
All you need is to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social
Caveat, legally, we cannot fund anyone in these countries:
tinyurl.com/wemwtfrz
26 kinds of gadfly petrels are being proposed for listing under CMS at #CMSCOP15.
These birds are already threatened or near threatened, they move across 64 countries & territories and face serious pressures both on land and at sea.
Read the proposal in EN, SP or FR: www.cms.int/document/302...
Mildly salty, perhaps named Ariel? Tour coffee wants to be where the people are?
Mermaid coffee?
The HMRC implications are also not insignificant
As a service?
Folks, the use of AI to write reviews is a clear violation of peer review ethics + it endangers the authors' intellectual property rights. Don't do it.
Ok now I want that
The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.
🦜🏔️ How did vibrant Amazonian parrot feathers end up in a desert tomb on the Pacific coast of Peru 1,000 years ago? Our new paper on @natcomms.nature.com reveals they didn't just trade feathers, pre-Inca societies transported live macaws and parrots across the Andes!👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The details in this thread are another deeply undesirable turn in the state of uk academia.
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fairly certain the puffins are agnostic at best
Stephen no
Account link pls
I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.
Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!
#Satire
🔊 JOB VACANCY
Would you like to work at the heart of a global ornithological membership society?
BOU are seeking a Journal and Engagement Manager to play a central role in delivering our mission
⏰ Apply by 14 April
bou.org.uk/vacancy-j...
#ornithology 🪶
If stable isotopes are part of your research, they should be one of your strengths — not something you “sort of” understand.
That’s why I built this course.
Gavin no
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
Schizophyllum commune (splitgill) in St Leonard’s Forest near Horsham, growing on a lump of dead beech.
