Anne Ausems
Seabird Biologist
- Reposted by Anne Ausems#Seabird Journal issue #37 is complete and has been sent out to those who requested a physical copy 😊 Remember to check your mailboxes! It is also available to read online here ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37 #science #seabirds
- Reposted by Anne AusemsMarine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...
- Reposted by Anne AusemsWSC4 Abstract Submissions – Now Open Abstract submissions for WSC4 are currently open and have been extended until 23 January 2026 (23:59 UTC-12). Submitting an abstract is easy via our Abstract Portal. Check out our website for full guidelines and submission details. 🔗 bit.ly/4qRZd44 #WSC4
- Reposted by Anne AusemsAs well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛 ❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments) 👥: All welcome to apply 💲: Up to £500 📅: Deadline 28 Feb Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
- Reposted by Anne AusemsSeabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃 We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training! We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋 For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Deadline: 28 Feb
- Reposted by Anne Ausems2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️ Are you: 📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work? 🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too) 💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food) Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Apply by 28 Feb 💌
- Reposted by Anne AusemsHey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
- And that's a wrap! The last of the European #stormie chicks that we monitored on #Nólsoy #FaroeIslands has fledged. This field season was a huge success, with 55 eggs laid, 47 chicks hatched, and 34 chicks fledged!
- Reposted by Anne AusemsEarly-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
- Reposted by Anne AusemsNew in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...
- We only have 5 days left before the last of our team leaves the #FaroeIslands, but these chicks still have some growing to do!
- One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
- One of the challenges of working with European #stormpetrels on the #FaroeIslands is that they don't really synchronise anything... These two chicks were weighed 5 minutes apart! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
- Neither of these chicks will likely fledge before we have to head out, after having spent almost 90 days in the Faroe Islands! The young chick on these photos is 5 - 7 days old (we don't check daily) while the older one is 45 - 46 days old. We also still have two eggs remaining!
- Seems like our ScienceBricks to monitor attendance of burrow nesting seabirds should help with at least some of these challenges! @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
- 🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨 Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣 Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology doi.org/10.1093/ices...
- Reposted by Anne AusemsDelighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- We are well supervised by the local sheep while weighing our cupcake chicks! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anne AusemsNew post at ecolightsforseabirds website! Pufflings navigating the lit night About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin... #ornithology #seabirds
- Although most breeding #seabird fieldwork in the North Atlantic has come to an end, we're still in the thick of it with 12/56 eggs hatched! #SeabirdSeptember @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @felixazurawska.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
- I'd like to say I made a new friend today but this -very fat- #fulmar chick didn't really love being picked up from the road and released back to the ocean where it belongs... My hands will forever smell. @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @annaznoj.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anne AusemsA few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza
- We've got some strong legged #stormpetrel chicks this year! Photo by @jasonwalczak.bsky.social. @bardseyben.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anne Ausems🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats
- My current lab at #Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia is looking for a new master student to look at Leach's #stormpetrel #geolocation data and #carryover effects. And 🌟I🌟 will be a co-supervisor!
- Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Anne AusemsBut the ai crap is fine. Right gotcha.
- The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. jrnl.ie/6788643
- @ellalillyy.bsky.social can you please follow me? I have a question about one of your art designs, so I would like to send you a dm. :)
- "Why did you stop sampling after [last year of the clearly stated study period]?" - Reviewer 2 Because the study ended?
- Our local not-a-storm-petrel chick decided to store some of its food for later. That or someone needs to sew this #puffin youngster a bib. #FaroeIslands @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
- Reposted by Anne AusemsThe superb backdrop of Nólsoy’s huge Storm-petrel colony, hosting upwards of 250,000 pairs. Initial checks of our study #nestboxes show a slightly late season, with some birds incubating but many pairs yet to lay. Amidst the numerous #MarineHeatwaves in N Atlantic, I wonder how the season will be…
- Reposted by Anne AusemsAnd so it begins! The Storm-petrel fieldwork season in the #Faroes kicks off for 2025, joining @anneausems.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social to carry out sampling for @seaghosts-biodv.bsky.social and further research for my PhD on European Storm-petrels.
- Reposted by Anne AusemsTalk about a long-term study! The dataset for our fresh-off-the-press survival paper on Leach's storm-petrel was started before most of the authors were even born! #seabirds #itsnevertoolatetostartalongtermstudy doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
- Reposted by Anne Ausems🦆 My new R package {avilistr} is live on CRAN! 🎉 The first unified global bird taxonomy (11,131 species) is now accessible to #rstats users. I built it this weekend after Cornell Lab's AviList release last week! 🪿 Blog: www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/avilist... 💻 GitHub: github.com/dalyanalytic...
- Reposted by Anne AusemsOur review paper about same sex partnerships in birds is out today🏳️🌈🐦: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... It has been so fun working with @tashgillies.bsky.social and I can't wait to do more projects together Yay to the gay birds!!! Illustration : @bertillemohring.bsky.social
- 100% in agreement, here
- On #WorldOceanDay, let us all take a moment to contemplate and admire the Best Oceanic Bird In The World*, the European Storm-Petrel. * I will not be taking questions at this time.
- Can anyone explain to me why the Kendall cor.test in #R sometimes gives me a T value (always an integer) and sometimes a z-score? #rstats #statistics
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- Reposted by Anne AusemsPhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology
- Reposted by Anne AusemsThe 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
- Reposted by Anne AusemsOut this week: a short review co-authored with @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social on same-sex partnerships in birds! 🐦🌈 Borne out of a shared frustration: why are these partnerships often ignored or actively removed from our datasets? 1/n doi.org/10.1002/jav....
- Reposted by Anne AusemsTake a moment to see the beauty in the eye of this young #shearwater, only moments before it took its first-ever flight into the Big Blue (and flew 15,000 km to Japan!) 💙 📸 credit: the amazing & generous @ingridpollet.bsky.social #EndangeredSpeciesDay #seabirds #ProtectWhatYouLove #ForTheOceans
- Paper under review! Not desk-rejected! I take this as a win. 🥳
- Throwback to the time I had to take all of my field gear out to the #FaroeIslands. I'm so glad we can borrow/store a lot of the stuff locally now.
- About to submit a paper that I've worked on on-and-off for a few years and the portal won't let me publish for free*! 😭 *my current employer has an agreement but the drop down menu is empty
- Reposted by Anne Ausemsas some of you may be aware, we have been dealing with considerable transphobia (among other issues) in our department at the uni of aberdeen. we are sharing this letter publicly to raise awareness and ask for your support. please sign and share 💕🏳️⚧️ tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia #LGBTQinSTEM
