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Photos of a reef manta ray, red-footed booby, and a hawsbill turtles with biologging devices attached to them. The journal logo is also featured, alongside the article title and author list. Some text reads: "Tracking data reveal that very large marine protected areas offer protection for mobile marine megafauna including benthic foragers (turtles), pelagic planktivores (manta ray), and oceanic predators (seabirds)".

New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

@jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social

Learn about freshwater ecology & stream assessment at a great online training session coming up Thursday 7th August from 7-8pm with An Taisce's Climate Ambassador Programme

Explore your own local waterway to see if it's in good health or needs help

Scan QR to register

#freshwaterecology

🚨New Paper!🚨

Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️

Have a read:
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@uccresearch.bsky.social @dublinairport.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social @thonoir.bsky.social

Little-to-no industrial fishing occurs in fully and highly protected marine areas There is a widespread perception that illegal fishing is common in marine protected areas (MPAs) due to strong incentives for poaching and the high cost of monitoring and enforcement. Using artificial...

Were the marine protected areas placed there because there was little to no fishing, or is there little to no fishing because there is a marine protected area?

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

1️⃣ Like a heartbeat driving one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth, Antarctic sea ice is central to the global climate system and vital for unique ecosystems.

Curlew (Numenius arquata), Machrie Moor, Isle of Arran, by gailhampshire https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Curlew_Numenius_arquata_(38427600324).jpg

Recent Curlew & other wader #ornithology papers in #BirdStudy

Marsh Harrier predation of waders & their chicks is low: doi.org/10.1080/0006...

Testing 2 survey methods to assess Curlew breeding success: doi.org/10.1080/0006...

Surveying Whimbrel adult & brood abundance: doi.org/10.1080/0006...

Basically made from a camera lens, a battery that fires two white ring LED flashes once a minute, and a UV light. A raspberry pi makes the whole thing work, and images are stored on a memory stick. digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/ Will let you know how it goes in the morning!

A new pre-print outlining 15 case-studies of natural colonisation of woodland over multiple decades in uplands & lowlands in England & Scotland: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology studying foraging distribution of coastal #seabirds in #France: buff.ly/qBWQMVZ

Tracks of 24 juvenile Spoonbills tagged in June 2025 in the Dutch Wadden Sea.

Tracks of adult Spoonbills in the Wadden Sea, including 14 individuals tagged in the 2025 breeding season.

Thanks to meticulous data management by @arnevaneerden.bsky.social, the 2025 Spoonbill cohort is now visible on globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...

Among them 24 juveniles (left) from 6 Wadden Sea islands. Follow along & discover how they establish routines in coming months! #ornithology

Satellite-based analysis of an unverified mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in 2021 - Coral Reefs The Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, has experienced more frequent heat stress events since the region’s first recorded mass coral bleaching event in 1998. Seven confirmed mass coral bleaching eve...

Coral bleaching has been happening on thr Great Barrier Reef almost annually, we just haven't had the means of detecting it...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico Additional data from an adjacent ancient lake support a 23,000-year-old age for human tracks in New Mexico.

new and independent support for the LGM age of human footprints at White Sands www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Clutch Size and Breeding Ecology of Multi-Brooded European Stonechats Saxicola rubicola in Acidic Inland Heathlands and Calcareous Coastal Dunes | doi.org/10.5253/arde... | Ardea | #ornithology 🪶

Cornwall seagull sips man's coffee before stealing his mug Darren Pardoe was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town before the encounter.

Seagull drinks coffee, steals mug of man installing anti-bird spikes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Think seagrass is just seaweed? Think again. 🌱 It’s a flowering plant that captures carbon, supports marine life & cleans our seas.

Want to know more? Join our FREE webinar this September!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1407810311...

🧪 🌎 @projectseagrass.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

🦇*Scoping Surveys for Arborists course*

The course will give you awareness of bat ecology, behaviour and legal knowledge you need to carry out tree works with bats in mind.

📅 2 and 9 July 2025, over two afternoons (1:30pm - 5:30pm)
📍Online
💰 £145

Book here: www.bats.org.uk/events/scopi...

A photo of the Hindsgavl Dagger by Arnold Mikkelsen for the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. It is knapped from flint which appears a burnt orange colour in the photo, displayed against a black background. The Hindsgavl Dagger is a type of late Neolithic flint blade known as a ‘fishtail’ dagger. It has a leaf-shaped body and a distinctive fishtail-shaped hilt. There is zig-zag knapping on the hilt which is said to mimic the stitched seam on leather handles of bronze daggers. The Hindsgavl Dagger is famous in Denmark and features on the Danish 100 Krone bank note. Dimensions: 29.5 cm in length. The blade is less than 1cm thick.

The exquisite Hindsgavl Dagger. A masterpiece of flint knapping from Late Neolithic Denmark, c. 1900-1700 BC.

Found in 1876 by a young boy out walking with his mother on the Danish island of Fænø.

📷 National Museum of Denmark.

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

LLMs meet RStudio.

With the gander and ellmer R packages, you can now chat directly with Databricks LLMs inside RStudio.

Ask for code, get an answer, iterate with ease, all in the IDE you already use.

See a full tutorial on the Posit blog: posit.co/blog/natural...

Six-decade research bias towards fancy and familiar bird species | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Fencing project won't protect Doonbeg hotel sand dunes A wildlife inspector said the destruction of sand dunes at a beach beside Donald Trump's luxury Irish hotel was unlikely to be halted by a simple fencing project.

Maybe not having a golf course and hotel on the dune system would help.

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Six months postpartum, breastfeeding en route and no elite bib - yet Stephanie Case STILL WINS Britain's biggest ultramarathon Canadian human rights lawyer claims a fairytale victory just six months after the birth of her daughter Pepper.

Running is absolutely Not My Thing.

But I want to send all love and admiration to my friend and former colleague Stephanie Case who just won the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia *while breast-feeding*.

We can’t all do this kind of thing. But I’m glad that some of us can.

run247.com/running-news...

Low contribution of livestock in the grey wolf diet in the area with high availability of free-ranging cattle and horses - European Journal of Wildlife Research The recovery of the wolf (Canis lupus) population in Europe is progressing, and predators settle in vast forests as well as in areas intensively used for agriculture, where interactions between wolves...

“Low contribution of livestock in the grey wolf diet in the area with high availability of free-ranging cattle and horses”
Interesting findings for reintroductions 🐺

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🦇 Bats do not make nests, but choose various places throughout the year to roost. Bats roost in houses, both new and old but some species prefer hollow trees, or caves. In buildings they often shelter behind hanging tiles and boarding or in roof spaces.

Learn more here: buff.ly/tOo8EW3

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael MEPs vote to allow wolf culling and hunting in Europe The European Parliament voted to weaken wolves’ protected status.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael MEPs, representing one of the most biodiversity-wrecked nations on Earth, have voted to wage further war on nature across Europe, targeting wolves and gutting biodiversity protections.

If you look very, very closely, there's a female Wood Warbler looking out at you from her nest (bill, black eye-stripe, pale supercilium visible). She's incubating 6 eggs.

A moorhen has built her nest in the middle of a pond. Below her is a sandpiper, while a swallow flies overhead and a willow warbler sings from the branches.

‘The moorhen builds her nest of reeds and sticks’

(What to Look for in Spring, 1961)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Ran into this fantastic open access resource while doing it!

📊 Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF...

🔗 matthewbjane.quarto.pub/guide-to-eff...

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Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation.

Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday