Jacqui Glencross
Research associate at Heriot Watt University
PhD on African penguins at the University of St Andrews
ECR rep for The Seabird Group
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- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossAnother new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross2026 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 💌
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- Come and join us for another seabird careers Q&A session!!
- Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼 📆 Fri 12 December 🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK) 📍 Online Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossAs I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossStudying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
- My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟 Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross📢 PHD OPPORTUNITY Drivers of variation in population performance of a migratory bird Fully funded 3-year studentship with @dannihinchy.bsky.social at Liverpool John Moores University Deadline: 31 October Details: tinyurl.com/heay3yd3 #ornithology 🪶
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossHi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross🐬 Registration is now OPEN for the UKIRSC 2026 Marine Mammal Conference hosted @plymuni.bsky.social 🎓A FREE event bringing together students from across the UK & Ireland to share research, connect, and learn from leading marine mammal scientists. 👇Link below #UKIRSC2026 #MarineMammals
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossWe have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨👨👧👩👩👦 We are recruiting for 5 roles: Secretary 👩🏫 Assistant Journal Editor 📉 Social Media Lead 🤳 Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝 Website Officer 🧑💻 Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossA great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossRegistration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)! 📅 7–11 Sept 2026 📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossFully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
- Please share! We are still looking for more mentors for @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Guillemates! Are you a mid-career seabirder (or beyond) wanting to help support ECRs and can run 4 sessions throughout the year🐧🐥👨👩👧👦 Sign up here: forms.gle/MuQLcdaZHtxU...
- Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦 Pls share! #seabirds
- Sign up for our next ECR talk where we will be discussing peer review with our panel! Friday 5th September 9.30 am BST!!
- The next in our series of ECR talks is coming up on Fri 5th September - this time on Peer Review 👀📃 The panel will be our own @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @ingridpollet.bsky.social, @tashgillies.bsky.social & Dr. Richard Sherley ✒️✨ Time: 9.30 am (BST). Sign up now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- The Guillemates is back for another year! Sign up now! If you've got any questions, message me or send me an email at ecr@seabirdgroup.org.uk
- Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor? Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧 Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb... Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA... Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦 Pls share! #seabirds
- Calling all Early Career Seabirders! What are some topics you would like more discussion on/support with? I am trying to compile a list of things that mentors could help ECRs with @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social
- Imposter syndrome? Where to find job opportunities/funding to attend conferences?
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross🪶 Seabird scientists & managers! 🌊 Propose a symposium or workshop for #WSC4: "Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate." Submit a 1-page summary by 01 August 2025. 🔗 Details on our website bit.ly/4e6wQdc #Seabirds #ClimateChange #Ornithology #WSC2025
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- The 4th World #Seabird Conference (happening next year in Hobart, Australia) is now taking submissions for potential symposia and workshops! Propose yours here - worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir.... The theme is Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate 🐧 @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacqui Glencross🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
- Trying to keep the gulls away from my @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social #seabirdpride top! Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️🌈🐦
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossListen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛 (Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑) #Seabirds #IrishSea
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossOur Seabird Pride 2025 T-Shirt is now live! 🌟 Seabird pride will take place on the 21st of June so follow the link below to grab one! 🏳️🌈🐧 seabirdgroup.teemill.com/product/gann...
- Thank you to everyone who came along to our @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social ECR talk this morning! And thank you to our wonderful panel! 🐦🐧🦆
- We had an excellent discussion this morning on #seabird careers (skills, advice, hurdles) for our 2nd ECR talk. 🐧 A huge thanks to our panel: Ana Carneiro, Maria Dias, David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social & Jon Green @jon-seabirds.bsky.social! 🙏 rep @jacquiglencross.bsky.social for facilitating!
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossGreat news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧 South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙 Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossWe're pleased to announce our shortlist for the 2024 Georgina Mace Prize! Our award for early career researchers 🏆 See the full list below! 👇 buff.ly/EgrKGrx 🌎🧪
- Introducing Dr Glencross! Viva done ✅ 3 hours of penguin chat with my wonderful examiners 🐧🐧
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossNew open access paper! Led by Joshua Coste Results show tropical seabirds meet diurnal constraints by navigating efficiently back to low-lying reef atoll colonies doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Great work from Joshua's masters internship with @uniexecec.bsky.social and @iomarinescience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossThe Indian Seabird Group's first talk of 2025 is now on YouTube. Dr. Suresh Kumar and Rajdeep Mitra present their research on the ecology of nesting seabirds on the Lakshadweep Islands.
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossGot some artistic skills? Enter our Seabird Pride t-shirt competition! 🕊️🏳️🌈🎽 Details below ⬇️ #SeabirdPride2025
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossThe next round of our Research Grants are open now for applications! If you have something you'd like funded why not apply? It could be for ringing studies, productivity assessments, seawatching projects, tracking studies, or others 🕊️💍🥚🌊 Details -> www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants (closes 28th Feb).
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossAre you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)
- PhD thesis submitted! 🎉
- Early Career #Seabirders - have you recently published a #seabird paper? @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social newsletter features a list of recent ECR papers! Get in touch with me with your citation and a short description if you'd like to be featured: ecr@seabirdgroup.org.uk
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossPlease report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. 📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae... 📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report #Ornithology #UKBirding
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossPlease join us in welcoming our new lovely members to Seabird ExComm 🐧🤝. A big thank you to all those who participated in voting, and we look forward to our next chapter with the new team! ⭐ Alice Edney ⭐ Eryn Shinnie ⭐ Debs Allbrook ⭐ Trina Siddiqi-Davies ⭐ Ingrid Pollet
- Reposted by Jacqui GlencrossTo all our fab Executive Committee members who have reached their end of term in their current roles, we wish you all the very best in your future endeavours and thank you for all your hard work for seabirds 🕊️🙏 ⭐ Ian Cleasby ⭐ Ruth Dunn ⭐ Kirsty Franklin ⭐ Lila Buckingham ⭐ Trina Siddiqi-Davies
- Thanks to everyone who came to our @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social ECR talk!
- Really encouraging to have an emphasis on kindness & wellbeing in @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social ECR discussion on the Future of Seabird Research this morning. Thanks @jacquiglencross.bsky.social for pulling it all together & to the panel for insightful discussion! #seabirds
