We all know where great #science starts - either on the #pub or on the … #bats #shrews #rodents #biodiversity #museum #collections

Light trap, photo: Emily Stragapede #moths #insects

Beautiful china-mark, photo: Magnus Gelang #moths

Common minnow, photo: Emily Stragapede #fishes

Field vole, photo: Oskar Gran #rodents

Soprano pipistrelle, photo: Oskar Gran #bats

From the field: Collecting trip last week with Gothenburg Natural History Museum to Lurö archipelago, lake Vänern. More photos in comments #museum #collections #biodiversity #fieldwork

Completely mad that the Smithsonian is going to stop supporting the Biodiversity Heritage Library on 1 January 2026. Every old ass taxonomic description, dating back to the 17th or 18th century even, I have read and still read is through here.

Someone please give it a new home.

Another side of #museum #collection work - active collecting 🤓🐀🦎🪰🦋

And… do you know the other species? 😉

Contributions to the #collections! Nice with asp, it’s not common in west Sweden! #fish #museum #cyprinidae

The backbone of #biodiversity data. #museum #collections #bats

It’s fun to combine conservation work and farming! #biodiversity #conservation #fire #farming

𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝

This study highlights that rodents and bats are underfunded, compared to larger charismatic mammals....
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Some #bat #hibernation sites in southern #Sweden from last days…

#bats #hibernation #mines

It’s something special about Northern bats (E. nilssonii). I love them 😍

Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration Scientists use ultra-light sensors connected “like cell phones” across Europe to study how bats migrate over the continent

Just when we thought we couldn’t love #bats any more, there’s this: storm-surfing bats! 🦇😀❤️New research shows migrating bats hitch rides on stormy tailwinds to save energy, covering hundreds of kms in a single night! 🦇 @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @unikonstanz.bsky.social

Did check a small natural cave (Tjuvakistan ”thiefs coffin”) close to my home in southern Sweden during lunchbreak today. Brown long-eared bat and Herald moths was found hibernating. #bats #moths #caves #hibernation

I take a Christmas brake, only Vespertilio is awake…
(I heard them singing yesterday when I left the museum) 🦇❄️🎅🏻