Lucy Wright

Small ornithological research grants Closing date for applications (for 2026 awards): 31 October 2025The BOU Small Ornithological Research Grants scheme offers awards of up to £2,000 to support small projects on any aspect of ornithology.The scheme is open to BOU members only. An exception is made for those

💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰

Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries.

Find out more now:
Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c...

DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛

#ornithology 🪶

Conservation Scientist (Fixed-Term) | RSPB We are seeking a Conservation Scientist to join the RSPB’s UK Marine Science team in an exciting fixed-term role for 12 months. The role provides a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of res...

Want to join our friendly and supportive #marine #science team @rspbscience.bsky.social? #conservationjobs for a scientist to provide scientific advice and contribute to applied #research affecting real world decisions about marine development and #seabird #conservation. shorturl.at/kdthM

Live Tracking Montane Spine Challenger South | MRT 2025 - Live Event Tracking

If you want to track her progress, she is dot number 916 (purple) here: live.opentracking.co.uk/spinechallso...

CRO Winter Spine MRT Challenge 2025 Help Jude, Eleri and Craig raise money to support The Cave Rescue Organisation

The amazing @heyjooode.bsky.social is now ~90 miles into the 108-mile Pennine Spine race, which started on Saturday morning in the snow (>50% of participants have already dropped out), raising money for mountain rescue equipment. To give her a fundraising boost see www.justgiving.com/page/cro-win...

CEOs from BTO, RSPB, JNCC and WWT standing by a Christmas tree.

As the year ends, it was great to see four CEOs from BTO, RSPB, JNCC and WWT find the time to reflect on 2024 and share their ambitions to do even more, together, for nature in the coming year ahead! 🐦🌍 #Ornithology

@btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
@jncc-ceo.bsky.social

‘Blob’ heat wave killed millions of seabirds—and they haven’t bounced back Historic 2016 event may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem

Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem
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#ornithology #seabirds

There's still room in this seabirder starterpack go.bsky.app/MPUTnm - please reskeet and let me know if you'd like to be included on this starterpack

That is an absolutely beautiful Barwit photo!

🔈 ANNOUNCING!

BOU Summer Placement Scheme

Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements

Applications open Jan 2025

More details: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

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PhD opportunity with a brilliant team of supervisors including my fab colleague @heyjooode.bsky.social for someone who likes seabirds and data science - whoever gets this will develop a very employable skillset!

We are seeking a PhD student in marine biology The Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) in Iceland is seeking a PhD student in Marine Biology for a funded full-time position for 4 years with

The Marine & Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland seeks a PhD student (funded 4 yr position) to research bycatch of #marinemammals & #seabirds in Icelandic fisheries (with some cross over with us here at SLU on EU projects on bycatch of sensitive species). 🐟🧪🦑🌎

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Hi I would love to be included please (even though I only just got here and only just learnt what a starter pack is!). Thank you for setting this up, very useful.

Two fieldworkers sit on a clifftop amongst the grass and wildflowers watching seabirds with a telescope and binoculars. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the sea is shimmering turquoise, and all is good!

JOB VACANCIES!
We're seeking 3 Conservation Scientists to join our friendly team of #seabirders at the RSPB. We're an inclusive team where everyone is welcome.

DEADLINE: Friday 3rd January.

#conservationjobs #ornithology #seabirds #science

Details: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Welcome to my Bluesky account.

For my first post I'd like to share this wonderful article written by Paul del Giorgio and shared with me earlier this week by @odocokate.bsky.social, who described it as a "scientific hug". I think this should be required reading for all scientists.
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